Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Startups Strategy IKEA’s Best Selling Product Is Not Furniture September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Dave Chappelle has a moment in his Netflix special, Equanimity, where he gives the punchline to a joke at the very beginning — and still guarantees a laugh when you finally hear the joke. It got me thinking. Spoilers or not, some stories are so good, even if you know the ending, you’ll still want to […]
Technology During COVID-19: VPN May Be The Largest Security Risk Management? July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked A virtual private network (VPN) can be your most significant security risk during this COVID 19 pandemic. This has been proven beyond reasonable doubts from many research. Early this year, many companies laid off most of their employees, but some who were privileged enough to remain were given the alternative of working from home. These […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews Daniel Sim, Co-Founder of Born Poor, Die Rich June 22, 2020June 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Daniel Helps People Create Passive Income Through Property Investments What’s your story?Growing up, the lack of money was often a source of tension. I did well in school and spent 10 years in the public sector, serving as the Assistant Director of Organisational Development (OD) in the Prime Minister’s Office. However, I was working long […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews Victor Chua, Strategy & Operations at Fairmarch May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Victor is Empowering Communities to Maximize Their Contributions to Society What’s your story?I went to Beijing to pursue an MBA at Tsinghua university after working as an engineer for 10 years. The plan was simple: study, do internships, graduate and get a job in a big company. However, spending time in a bustling city, like […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews Gregory Van, CEO & Founding Partner at Endowus May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Greg Builds Systems that Allow People to Take Ownership of Their Financial Wellbeing What’s your story?I got my first job in financial services when I was 14 years old. It was an internship at HSBC Asset Management in Hong Kong. My job was to create spreadsheets. Subsequently, I had internships working for the hedge fund […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews Chloe Cortinovis, Managing Director at Bienvenue Factory March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Tools for Smart Omni Channel Retail Strategies What’s your story?I have been practicing music since the age of six, reaching some of the highest levels in my field. Music has had a major influence on both my professional and personal life! It not only taught me discipline but also diligence and perseverance. I have been […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Startups Strategy Technology Reasons Why Talented People Have Failed in Their Careers November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The following are excerpts from interviews with people whose work we respect and who would like to remain anonymous. How have you seen talented people fail in their work? Not spending enough time on their mental health Burning out. As a way of preventing burnout, try to figure out as best you can whether that […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Startups Strategy Technology Some Reflections on Collective Technologies May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I’ve been thinking about collectives in technology for a while. Collectives in the sense of organisation, and collective in the sense of shared, social value, distinct from individual benefits. In tech, that simultaneously means products and services which serve shared needs, not just individual ones; Doteveryone’s research into digital attitudes last year showed that people were increasingly feeling that […]
Business & Economics Entrepreneurship Startups Strategy Technology What I Learnt from Scaling one of Asia’s Fastest Growing Startups May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I joined iPrice in the summer of 2016. At the time, a very promising regional affiliate player with an encouraging initial traction and around 1M monthly users. I left at the end of last year, after a terrific journey which saw us becoming the leading meta-search e-commerce aggregator in SEA, growing our userbase to over 15M monthly […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Interviews Startups Working Smart & Working Hard March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Some of the best parts of my time at Mozilla were the moments of brilliant humility. We had assholes, to be sure, but there would be these moments… 20 people sitting around a conference table during an all hands. Each of them brilliant. Brilliant like I’ve rarely met before or since. The people in that room could reinvent […]
Discord And Microsoft: How Do You Create Momentum? The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is talking to Discord about acquiring the social audio company created in 2015, that has more than 250 million users and has so far focused primarily on creating communities of video game fans. The trigger for these talks has been the surprise success of Clubhouse, which is even smaller than Discord, but […] Written by Enrique Dans March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Shawn Lee – Business Lead at Monocoque This article was originally published here: Shawn Lee – Business Lead at Monocoque Shawn Lee’s commitment to good design stems from the belief that there are still too many businesses that under-value it. What’s your story? My story hasn’t changed all that much since the last interview with Callum. I would say there are additions […] Written by Callum Laing March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conservation In The Time Of Pandemic As I write, we don’t yet know the full socioeconomic impact of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic on people and places around the world. But we know from conversations we’ve had with colleagues and partners globally that cultural heritage places and the many people who rely on them for their livelihoods have been, and continue to […] Written by Getty's Blog March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Platforms Are The Future Of Intelligence As we organize human work and learning at fantastic scales, let’s strive for something inspiring. Through our relationship with machines, humans are building a new, synthetic intelligence. Organizations are the home for this part-human, part-machine intelligence. The topic to which we now turn is the role organizations play in coordinating the immense scale of work and […] Written by Gideon Rosenblatt March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Progress Made Us Weak Until the majority of humans fell to the transformative impacts of the Machine Age some hundred or so years ago, when power generation, electricity, the automobile, factories, and telecommunications all conspired to dramatically alter how we lived and interacted, a common set of governing principles underpinned life on Earth for more than ten thousand years. […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked