‘You Can’t Lead with Your Feet on the Desk’ is one book business leaders, especially those with extensive overseas operations, ought to read. Its main thrust is pure and simple. You need to “ditch your desk”, as the author stressed, and go out and build relationships with your employees (or associates as he called them...

Fear of speaking has been rated one of the top fears together with death and snakes in most polls. All of us would have made more than one speech in our working lives. Be it a work presentation, a toast, an acceptance speech or even officiating at an event as a master of ceremony. Did...

Leadership style and other related issues are addressed in ‘Discover Your Leadership Style’, a highly readable book by business developer and leadership-cum-HR coach Mark Chew. In the book, the author – also formerly a sportsman, team manager and military officer – quotes iconic leaders and provides vivid illustra- tions to explain the characteristics of a...

Since 1998, Group President and CEO of CapitaLand Limited, Liew Mun Leong, has taken up the “hobby” of writing e-mails to his colleagues on Sunday afternoons. The topics vary from interesting thoughts, work encounters, travel anecdotes, and musings drawn from books, news articles and even TV shows! Using a conversational style of writing, Liew Mun...

Managerial Decision Making and Leadership by Caroline Wang By: Ernie Calucag As companies expand across the globe in pursuit of new markets and sources of supply, corporate decision-making processes are growing increasingly complex. Given today’s high-pressure business conditions, the modern organisation’s arsenal must include knowledgeable and decisive executives. Business leaders must act confidently, knowing that...

Back in 1997, J.W. (Bill) Marriott, Chairman and CEO of Marriot- tInternational, wrote a book titled ‘The Spirit to Serve’. The book traces the history of Marriott International from its humble beginnings as a small root beer stand in Washington D.C. to the international giant that it is today. More importantly, the book outlines Marriott’s...

(by Roger Tan, Vice President / Head of Reserach , SIAS Research) No More Excuses to be Cheated On an early morning on 11 December 2008, “two FBI agents knocked on his (Bernie Madoff’s) front door and asked him if there was an innocent explanation. He shook his head, saying, “There is no innocent explanation”....

Dare to Challenge, written by Mr Leong Chan Teik, chronicles the ongoing crusade for the rights of retail investors by Securities Investors Association (Singapore), better known as SIAS. The organisation’s fight for justice began in the late 1990s, when Mr David Gerald founded SIAS to champion the rights of Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) investors...

Five things you should know about Ashraf Laidi’s book called Currency Trading and Intermarket Analysis Why do you need this book? Well, in a nutshell, it offers comprehensive tools to manoeuvre through the macroeconomic and financial markets. It helps the reader to understand the flows in commodity, equity and bond markets into currency dynamics. It...