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The Asian Century

April 13, 2020 By Mable-Ann Chang

Kriengsak Chareonwongsak, past member of the Thai Parliament and founder of the first future studies research institute in South-East Asia, explores leadership building in ASEAN.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Conversations, Globalization, Q&A, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: ASEAN, Asian Century

The Future of Machine Learning

March 23, 2020 By Manting Chen

Terrence J. Sejnowski, a pioneer in computational neuroscience explains how machine learning has already fundamentally transformed the nature of human life.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Q&A, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: AI, Deep Learning

The Key to Successful Scaling

March 16, 2020 By Mable-Ann Chang, Manting Chen

Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, looks at how companies can achieve rapid growth and the best way to manage the process.

Filed Under: All Articles, Q&A, Technology, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Blitzscaling, LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman

Kishore Mahbubani: the West Needs to Rethink its Strategic Goals for Asia

December 5, 2018 By Dominic Morgan

Few thinkers can speak about global governance with as much authority as Kishore Mahbubani. A former President of the United Nations Security Council, Permanent Secretary of Singapore’s Foreign Ministry and Dean of the renowned Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, he has been named “the muse of the Asian century”. In his latest book, due next year, Mahbubani plans to tackle the rising tensions between the US and China. As he explains, the US should embrace a more minimalist and strategic approach to foreign policy to maximize its interests in an era of Asian dominance.

Filed Under: China, Conversations, Economy, International Trade, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: China-US, International Trade

Daniel Kahneman Interview: Less-Than-Rational Actors

September 11, 2017 By Tom Nunlist

Before Daniel Kahneman, few if any psychologists influenced the field of economics. But the Nobel laureate reversed the assumption underpinning most economic theories: people always make rational choices. “People are rational, except they are myopic,” says Kahneman. As a result of his work, which pioneered the ideas of behavioral economics, individuals learned how to modify their less-than-perfect decisions and organizations learned to take human limitations into consideration in decision-making. In this interview, Kahneman talks about the history of his research, how he, who began as a psychologist, ended up influencing economics, and why his work generated so much impact.

Filed Under: All Articles, Economics, Opinion, Q&A, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: behavioral economics, chioce architecture, human behaviour, psychology and economics, the assumption of rationality

Clayton Christensen on Innovation: Finding the Jobs to Be Done

April 26, 2017 By Tom Nunlist

“Innovation” is difficult, yet the word itself is so overly used that the meaning of it has become hollow. Some people consider being “innovative” as being “lucky.” Yet for Clay Christensen, a business professor at Harvard, innovation is about finding the “jobs that need to be done” in our lives. In this interview with CKGSB Knowledge, he argues that companies should not take the task as akin to gambling. Instead, companies should adopt a more focused, process-oriented approach of finding the “jobs” that customers need to do in their lives, and then create products that make those jobs easier.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Conversations, Innovation, Q&A, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Consumers, Innovation

Talent Management, an Interview with Edward E. Lawler III

January 25, 2017 By John Christian

Business has changed, specifically the relationship between management and employees. Once upon a time, companies offered careers—long-term, stable employment wherein the employee filled a narrowly-defined role. In past generations, it was common to spend an entire working lifetime at a single company, but now most millennials are ‘less loyal’ to employers, they go where their talents are valued. Edward E. Lawler III, Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Southern California, expounds on the new model, which he terms “talent management”, a new paradigm focuses on the critical needs of a business, and finding the right people that can fulfill them.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Employment, Q&A, Talent, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Finding Employees, Interviews, Q&A, The Thinker Interview

Roger Martin on the Lost Art of Strategy

September 21, 2016 By Tom Nunlist

Companies today are less enthusiastic about corporate strategy. Strategy as a way of thinking has become “a lost discipline”, as phrased by Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and where he still teaches. In this interview, he points out that having an “emergent strategy” does not mean “don’t have a strategy” and we should get away from strategy as planning. He also explains “integrative thinking” and “design thinking” and how to use them in daily lives and help decision-making.

Filed Under: All Articles, Conversations, Q&A, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Business Strategy, Conversation, Interviews, Q&A

Dan Ariely’s Advice for Decision Making: Understanding our Minds

August 1, 2016 By Tom Nunlist 

Dan Ariely interview on decision making

We make decisions every day. Most of them are small: Should I buy that shirt? Others demand more thought: Is marriage right for me? The common thread running between all of them is that we are unequipped to make sense of any of it. The world in which the human race came of age—one of ferocious predators and unforgiving nature—is no longer the world we live in. For the risks we face now, we are out of date. Dan Ariely, author of bestsellers like Predictably Irrational, has built a career mapping the peculiarities of our innermost decision-making foibles, and offers insight in guarding against them.

Filed Under: All Articles, Management, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Decision-making

Sydney Finkelstein And The Superboss Playbook

April 20, 2016 By Chris Russell

Throughout our careers, we encounter a range of management styles, with mixed results. But what is it that distinguishes a regular boss from a truly great boss? Why is it that some help us to reach new heights, while others make us feel constrained? These are deceptively simple questions with many complex answers, the latest of which comes from Sydney Finkelstein. In his new book Superbosses, Finkelstein takes as his guide figures from disparate industries, including jazz musician Miles Davis and newspaper editor Gene Roberts, and examines the traits of those who have spawned extensive networks of talent, the titular superbosses, and ultimately brought greater success to themselves.

Filed Under: All Articles, Conversations, Management, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Leadership, Management, Talent, The Thinker Interview

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