Jim Khong - insights and suggestion for a better world

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This blog contains my ideas from all facets of my life: my very contrarian ideas on management and business transformation developed under Jimeu Consultants; very fascinating facts from Malaysian socio-political history; my insights into the geopolitics and everyday living of the world around us as well as exploring the traditions of the Church.

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Mar 2120 min read

Religion and Philosophy

Catholic Soundbite 08 - Lent & Easter

To continue from the post on the Liturgical Calendar , which covered Advent-Christmas, I would like to move on to Lent-Easter. ...

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Mar 1822 min read

About Malaysia

16 The Englishmen who founded the MCA

Chinese people have been in south-east Asia for two thousand years since the Han Dynasty and some settled largely as traders, fisherman...

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Feb 2915 min read

About Malaysia

15 - Races working together

The first five months of 1948 was a rather good period for Umno. The Federation of Malaya was set up on February 1 with a constitution...

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Catholic Soundbite 07- Advent & Christmas

Feb 711 min read

Religion and Philosophy

Catholic Soundbite 07- Advent & Christmas

The liturgical calendar, in which the Church festivals are set out, has come to us after centuries of evolution. You can be sure in...

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Authentic musical performances and where it take us

Feb 46 min read

Living

Authentic musical performances and where it take us

Music lives in a context I remember once taking a hostel-mate for a sung mass at the Catholic Westminster Cathedral. He was Northern...

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Jan 1812 min read

Living

Globalisation of food

People tend to think of globalisation as something that happened only recently but in truth globalisation has been ongoing since...

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Catholic Soundbites 06 - the Church Building

Jan 1410 min read

Religion and Philosophy

Catholic Soundbites 06 - the Church Building

The church building is something that we tend to take for granted. Many of the objects in the church has a story behind it. In more...

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Jan 1219 min read

About Malaysia

14 - Education system in Malaya

The position of the education minister has historically been especially important in Malaysian politics. Each and every successor to the...

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Dec 27, 20235 min read

Management

Pitfalls in hiring a new CEO

Many years ago, I brought a project to a senior manager to try and persuade him to take it on. I told him that this was the project was...

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Singapore and the negative parts of its corporate culture

Dec 17, 20238 min read

History and Current Affairs

Singapore and the negative parts of its corporate culture

So far, I have been discussing the interesting aspects that made Singapore such an economic and political success worthy of emulation...

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Catholic Soundbites 05 - Cardinals and Papal Elections

Dec 14, 202317 min read

Religion and Philosophy

Catholic Soundbites 05 - Cardinals and Papal Elections

An earlier post on the Pope begs another another post on what happens when a Pope dies and a new one elected. I have been involved with...

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013 - Opposition to the Anglo-Umno front and the Hartal

Dec 12, 202313 min read

About Malaysia

013 - Opposition to the Anglo-Umno front and the Hartal

Non-Malay response to Malayan Union In contrast to the widespread, spontaneous and highly impassioned Malay opposition to the Malayan...

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Nov 30, 20237 min read

Management

Case Study 2 - The Project Management Dashboard

I was invited for dinner one day by a young man in the construction industry for some advice on his business. On arrival at the dinner...

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Nov 15, 202311 min read

Religion and Philosophy

Catholic Soundbites 04 - the Pope

With this current Pope Francis, it may be time to share some soundbites about the Papacy. Again, I do not expect anyone to memorise all...

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012 Onn Jaafar - a visionary but a deeply flawed man

Nov 3, 202312 min read

About Malaysia

012 Onn Jaafar - a visionary but a deeply flawed man

Much has been made in history about being the right person at the right place at the right time. However, most of us are pretty much...

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Oct 22, 20239 min read

Religion and Philosophy

Catholic Soundbites 03 - Bishops

There have been many aspects of the Catholic Church, that has always fascinated me ever since I was a boy. The decades of reading and...

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Oct 17, 20237 min read

History and Current Affairs

Singapore and its social engineering

As with any other tourist cities, Singapore offers T-shirts that say "My mother went to Singapore and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”. ...

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Oct 12, 20234 min read

Management

Case Study 1 - The young man

At the beginning of the pandemic, I met a prospective client on the phone: a young man who has been quite successful in his business...

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Sep 22, 202210 min read

Religion and Philosophy

Catholic Soundbites 02 - Priests

There have been many aspects of the Catholic Church, that has always fascinated me ever since I was a boy. The decades of reading and...

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Sep 22, 20229 min read

About Malaysia

011 Malayan Union - the Malay response

One of the British Military Administration's first instructions from London was to announce the Malayan Union proposals. The response...

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