Across Asia, alarm bells keep ringing about low levels of employee engagement. Organizations worry that employees may not be giving their best performance, may be likely to leave, or may be negatively affecting the employment brand or the relationship with clients. Employee engagement is a big concern for leaders in many countries throughout the region. […]

As Daniel Pink showed us in Drive, internal motivation can be far more powerful than the external kind. Yes, people want to get paid a fair wage, but beyond a certain point the money has far less influence thank other things do on on engagement, performance, and retention. Multiple studies across Asia have found that […]

A couple weeks ago I ran the Sundown Marathon in Singapore. I last ran that race in 2014, and had figured I probably wouldn’t run it again. Only about 6 weeks beforehand, though, I decided to go run 42.195km through Singapore, starting at 1am. Why would I do that? For the last ten years I […]

A lot of leaders seem to have trouble making decisions (which is unfortunate, when you consider that’s pretty much what they get paid to do). One reason people don’t like to make decisions is that they see a decision as a point of no return, and they hesitate to block off all other options unless […]

In Kuala Lumpur last week our team met with a software developer who recently had a strange experience: His office — the Malaysia branch of a large multinational — has a workforce of about 15 people. They recently completed an anonymous climate survey that examined how people felt about their workplace. This office ranked lowest […]