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Steward Leadership: A Win-Win-Win Model For The Post-Pandemic Business Landscape, Rajeev Peshawaria, Yancy Toh May 2021

Steward Leadership: A Win-Win-Win Model For The Post-Pandemic Business Landscape, Rajeev Peshawaria, Yancy Toh

Asian Management Insights

Five decades after its publication, Friedman’s doctrine about the purpose of business remains a subject of vigorous debate.


Helping Organisations Excel, One Breath At A Time: A Meditation Toolkit For Business Leaders, Theodore C. Masters-Waage, Eva K. Peters, Jochen Reb May 2021

Helping Organisations Excel, One Breath At A Time: A Meditation Toolkit For Business Leaders, Theodore C. Masters-Waage, Eva K. Peters, Jochen Reb

Asian Management Insights

Interest in meditation has risen dramatically in recent years, as these practices move beyond ancient monasteries to take root in big cities as well.


Inclusive Hiring: How To Recognise Talent, Chandrasekhar Sripada Nov 2019

Inclusive Hiring: How To Recognise Talent, Chandrasekhar Sripada

Asian Management Insights

Organisations must learn to detect, discern and develop untapped talent through inclusive hiring practices.


Managing Across Borders In Asia, Richard R. Smith, Suee Chieh Tan May 2019

Managing Across Borders In Asia, Richard R. Smith, Suee Chieh Tan

Asian Management Insights

Across many countries in Asia, we are witnessing local leaders rise to the level of country leader or managing director in their home country. However, when it comes to taking on regional roles in global fi rms, many of these leaders are unable to work effectively across borders. In other words, there were some skills or factors that allowed them to be successful in one country, but were not transferable to others.


Responsible Leadership, Flocy Joseph May 2019

Responsible Leadership, Flocy Joseph

Asian Management Insights

An array of scandals has rocked the world in recent times, such as financial malpractices (Arthur Andersen, Lehman Brothers, the LIBOR scam), unethical practices (FIFA mismanagement), and environmental damages (Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Volkswagen emission controls). All of which the critics of capitalism are not unhappy to report and embellish in great detail. The competing goals of a quest for power, meeting ethical standards, maintaining profitability, securing dwindling resources, and adapting to global environmental change have created an increasingly complex business canvas for leaders to navigate. The acceleration of environmental and social challenges exert pressure on corporate leaders to …


Asia: Embracing Disruption Confidently With Farsighted Policies And Progressive Ideas, Amit Gupta May 2018

Asia: Embracing Disruption Confidently With Farsighted Policies And Progressive Ideas, Amit Gupta

Asian Management Insights

Farsighted policies and progressive ideas will stand Asia in good stead as it embraces disruption with confi dence.


Team Of Rivals: Co-Opetition For Technology Start-Ups, Snehal Shah, Ashish Kumar Jha Nov 2017

Team Of Rivals: Co-Opetition For Technology Start-Ups, Snehal Shah, Ashish Kumar Jha

Asian Management Insights

A business environment characterised by cloud computing, driverless cars and artificial intelligence has prompted a fundamental shift in the way we think of existing business models. Market sizes have transcended geographic boundaries and New Age firms typically target much larger populations than new firms did a decade ago. Today, meaningful value is derived when a company is an active participant in shaping the environment to one’s own strategic advantage.


Exposed And Under Pressure: Why Mid-Level Leaders Aren’T Prepared For Challenges, Saumya Sindhwani, Jerry Connor, Howard Thomas Nov 2017

Exposed And Under Pressure: Why Mid-Level Leaders Aren’T Prepared For Challenges, Saumya Sindhwani, Jerry Connor, Howard Thomas

Asian Management Insights

Why mid-level leaders aren’t prepared for today’s challenges.


Skills 4.0: How Ceos Shape The Future Of Work In Asia, Florian Kohlbacher May 2017

Skills 4.0: How Ceos Shape The Future Of Work In Asia, Florian Kohlbacher

Asian Management Insights

Companies need to ensure that they are ready to embrace disruptions and fend off potential skills gaps and talent shortages.


Building Negotiation Capital, Michael Benoliel May 2017

Building Negotiation Capital, Michael Benoliel

Asian Management Insights

Today, unlike the marketing or supply chain tasks, the negotiation task remains unstructured, sporadic, often improvised, and rarely analysed critically in the post-deal stage.