Career

Do not believe anything ever again, time to slow down, and no more executive roles after your fifties.

Herd instinct, selling stories, living by IFRS 16 and learning how to think.

You could be professionally correct, but being correct does not mean that it is the right thing to do.

If you are not careful in protecting your dreams, someone else will show up and make you build their dreams for them.

Once you reach the onset of the forties, it will take just 10 years to recover everything that you had earned in the last 16 years.

If someone older with a mediocre income can learn English as a second language, what excuses do we have for not picking up a new skill?

During the initial years of starting IJK, we contemplated the option of moving me from Singapore to...

I have never been much of a waterfront-living type of person, but the view of the Victoria harbour can be quite addictive. Quiet mornings...

Ownership is usually a bust unless your company is being fast-tracked to sell for big bucks.

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

It was 2011. The government debt crisis in the EU had reached a stage that required the bailout of several countries long thought to be...

For many, it is that time of the year again for festivities and holidays. However, it is also the time of the year for many companies to...

[Adapted from something I saw off the Internet recently.]

The Lamborghini brand sixty years ago was not known as the luxury car brand it is commonly associated with today. They were actually...

Management is: Get it done, follow-up, discipline, planning, analysis, facts, facts, facts. It’s [getting] the right people in the room,...

Reaffirming point #36 in my forty takeaways last year: Most of the people around me keep trying to tell me what's good for me or how I...

The last few weeks had been a huge tailspin for me. I relate it to a multitude of challenges compounded upon each other - first, the...

This is true for many investment banks. And people pay for complexity. But it's an odd world: Founders chasing publicity on social media,...

“Rome wasn’t built in a day but they were laying bricks every hour.” "The problem is that it can be really easy to overestimate the...

in starting up any business or career, one needs to first understand your role within the firm - are you a small gear or a large gear...