It is common throughout Asia to hear leaders say they want a flat organization, whether they really do or not, because it is the trendy thing to say these days. It is true that it can be useful to flatten out your firm’s hierarchy, with fewer levels of oversight between the worker bees and the […]

Good leaders understand the importance of professional development for their employees, and they know that if there is a slowdown in their workload, that offers an opportunity to step back and fill that empty time with training and education. Understanding that, however, and making it happen, are two very different things. A manager at a […]

In the near future you are going to have new graduates showing up on your doorstep ready for work. Many of them may have worked at a job before but often in a different field and typically not on any sort of career path, and a lot of them have never had a job. So, […]

At dinner this weekend a Singaporean friend asked, “What’s the biggest difference you see between Singapore and the US?” Without even thinking about it, I said “”Singaporean teens don’t get part-time jobs.” I was thinking about this recently because I actually DID meet a local teen working at a coffee shop, and it seemed so […]