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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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003 Migration into Malaya
It should be remembered that the British did not enter Asia to colonise - not initially at least. The vehicle for the British entry into...
Feb 8, 20228 min read
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002 Malaysian Number Plates
Many of us are not aware of how much of our history from the British colonial days is alive with us today beyond the legacy of colonial...
Jan 26, 20224 min read
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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 1 Origins
China's recent rise has made many uncomfortable with its direction as a world power. The experience called China and its thinking are so...
Jan 19, 202211 min read
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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 2 Chinese hegemony or Western colonials
China's recent rise has made many uncomfortable with its direction as a world power. The experience called China and its thinking are so...
Jan 19, 20228 min read
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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 3 Weight of history
China's recent rise has made many uncomfortable with its direction as a world power. The experience called China and its thinking are so...
Jan 19, 202214 min read
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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 4 Challenges
China's recent rise has made many uncomfortable with its direction as a world power. The experience called China and its thinking are so...
Jan 19, 202214 min read
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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 5 Test of legitimacy
China's recent rise has made many uncomfortable with its direction as a world power. The experience called China and its thinking are so...
Jan 18, 202215 min read
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Judging past heroes and tyrants
How do we judge peoples of the past - is the past or the present more relevant? Much has been said about what we do with statues of in...
Jan 18, 20227 min read
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Evolutionary psychology in our daily lives
Some of the things we do in our daily lives seem to have evolved from our distant past. Understand how our minds work and you are better...
Jan 18, 202214 min read
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001 How Malay became a nationality rather than just a race
Why our constitution defines a Malay the way it does The law One interesting feature of our constitution is the definition of a Malay,...
Jan 15, 20225 min read
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Currents of history
People often ask me how I maintain my optimism in face of setbacks and a despairing world. Call me over-analytical but here is what I...
Jan 14, 20225 min read
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What God is not
In the Western world, we are used to visualising God as someone old with white flowing beard, moustached and hair, looking wise or stern....
Jan 14, 20228 min read
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To love is opposite of being in love
Conditioned by Hollywood, we tend to equate loving to being in love. I would contrarily argue that they are different. Nay, more than...
Jan 14, 20222 min read
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What is truth?
We keeping hearing that we are in the post-truth society. It seems a certainty but 'truth' is never defined. I would like to explore...
Jan 14, 20227 min read
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Family in the workspace
One thing that constantly annoy me has been the expectation that because we are professionals, we stop becoming a father or a mother or a...
Jan 14, 20225 min read
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Words that should make subordinates shudder
Here are four phrases that may be accepted by tyro subordinates as complimentary or encouraging but may send shivers down the spines of...
Jan 14, 20225 min read
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A true black swan event
Black swan events are very much in management articles of late what with the pandemic and all. But sometimes, articles on black swan...
Jan 14, 20225 min read
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What's your discount rate?
All project managers or investment analyst have been there: We prepare a financial model as part of a business case to justify a project...
Jan 14, 20225 min read
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The CEO's definition of Corporate Governance
Corporate governance seems to be something CEOs find they need to live with, the necessary evil of getting listed, the cost of running a...
Jan 14, 20224 min read
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Running meetings - what you do after
I think there have been many articles about how to run meetings, and other than just a few tips on how to prepare for it and some on...
Jan 13, 20225 min read
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