In my life I have lived in Singapore and Johore Bahru (Malaysia), so saw first-hand the transformation of that region following independence from Britain. The prosperity of Singapore has many parents. If it came down to one person, however, that person was undoubtedly Lee Kwan Yew (1923 – 2015). In this filmed interview, Lee discussed …
In The Bug in Our Thinking, Dr. Hugh Willbourn laments the spread of literacy. You might wonder how the spread of literacy can be seen as a bad thing, so I should explain that it is because it has led to the abstraction of information from its context. This in turn leads to problems being …
Sometimes when I present a course, I cover emotional intelligence (EI). At times, and with particular audiences, I sense discomfort though it isn’t always clear why. What has emotional intelligence got to do with leadership in tough circumstances? Facilitating at a shipyard in South Australia, I learned that the previous foreman’s EI skills drew on …
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