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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Feb 8, 20228 min read

About Malaysia

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...

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Jan 26, 20224 min read

About Malaysia

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...

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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 1 Origins

Jan 19, 202211 min read

History and Current Affairs

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...

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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 2 Chinese hegemony or Western colonials

Jan 19, 20228 min read

History and Current Affairs

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...

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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 3 Weight of history

Jan 19, 202214 min read

History and Current Affairs

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...

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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 4 Challenges

Jan 19, 202214 min read

History and Current Affairs

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...

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Impact of culture & history on China's foreign policy - Part 5 Test of legitimacy

Jan 18, 202215 min read

History and Current Affairs

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...

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Jan 18, 20227 min read

History and Current Affairs

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...

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Evolutionary psychology in our daily lives

Jan 18, 202214 min read

Living

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...

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001 How Malay became a nationality rather than just a race

Jan 15, 20225 min read

About Malaysia

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,...

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Jan 14, 20225 min read

History and Current Affairs

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...

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Jan 14, 20228 min read

Religion and Philosophy

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....

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Jan 14, 20222 min read

Religion and Philosophy

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...

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Jan 14, 20227 min read

Religion and Philosophy

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...

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Jan 14, 20225 min read

Management

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...

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Jan 14, 20225 min read

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...

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Jan 14, 20225 min read

Management

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...

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Jan 14, 20225 min read

Management

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...

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The CEO's definition of Corporate Governance

Jan 14, 20224 min read

Management

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...

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Jan 13, 20225 min read

Management

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...

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