ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Sue McLean, Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster. (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Sue McLean, Of Counsel of Morrison & Foerster. Sue McLean is an Of Counsel lawyer in the London office of international […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Sandra Yeow, Managing Director/Founder at Nucleo Consulting Pte Ltd. (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Sandra Yeow, Managing Director and Founder of Nucleo Consulting Pte Ltd. As an entrepreneur, author and performer, She believe in creating value in […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
INTERVIEWS Women on Top in Tech – Rosaline Chow Koo, Founder/CEO at CXA Group. (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Rosaline Chow Koo, Founder and CEO of CXA Group. CXA’s vision is to unlock wellness in the workplace without firms spending more, […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Madame Curie, Emma Watson, Maya Angelou, Mother Teresas, Audrey Hepburn and Me: What it means to be a Women Icon. Recently, I had attended BERG’s Women Icons Summit & Awards. This award ceremony was held to honor the accomplishments & contributions of women in different spheres of life. It is important that success stories of Women Icons should be publicly recognized so that such women not only become role models for future generations but also […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Working with Funds by Cole Sirucek, Co-founder and CEO of DocDoc & Ajit Prabhu, Chairman and CEO, QuEST Global Services Notes from the Singaporean Private Equity Tech Conference 2017. As Founders, learning how to work with funds and investors is a skill we need to acquire. This is what I learnt from two veterans in the field. 1) It’s better to ask for Private Equity after you have developed your core value proposition and proof […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Sabrine Assem, Co-Founder/CEO of Untap Technologies (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is our interview with Sabrine Assem, an Egyptian entrepreneur based in Cairo, who focused on empowering people with innovation. Sabrine is the CEO & […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Women on Top in Tech – Nikita Acharya, CEO/Co-founder at Urbangirl (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Nikita Acharya, CEO/Co-founder of Urbangirl. Urbangirl aim to create a culture among Nepalese business industries where customers come first. Having served over 60,000+ […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Women on Top in Tech – Anupama Vjai , General Manager at Schneider Electric India Private Ltd (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Anupama Vjai, General Manager & Director for Monitoring Operations of Schneider Electric India Private Ltd. Previously, she worked as a Program […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
INTERVIEWS Women on Top in Tech – Benedetta Arese Lucini, Co-Founder at Oval Money. (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Benedetta Arese Lucini, Co-Founder of Oval Money. Oval is the first solution that allows the digital natives of the on-demand economy, to […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
INTERVIEWS TECHNOLOGY Women on Top in Tech – Cris Topfner-Rigby, Advisory Board Member of Women in Payments (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Today’s interview is with Cris Topfner-Rigby. Cris Topfner-Rigby has over 20 years experience in the financial services and retail industries, having held a variety of roles […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Roots Of “Wabi-Sabi” Key Takeaway: Wabi-sabi is a traditional Japanese aesthetic that emphasizes the beauty of something imperfect or unfinished. It is derived from the classical Japanese verb “wabu,” which means to languish or be miserable. Wabi-cha, which literally means miserable tea, is a more severe and austere style of presentation. Wabi-style tea may reach its pinnacle in […] Written by Paul Atkins March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Democratising Finance Through Artificial Intelligence Key Takeaway: Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing investment by making professional financial insight and portfolio management accessible to everyone. AI-powered robo-advisers, such as Betterment and Vanguard, are democratizing investment and providing tailored advice to a new generation of investors. With 31% of gen Zs and 20% of millennials using robo-advisers, the financial industry is adapting […] Written by Heather He March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why MH370 Is Still A Mystery Key Takeaway: Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared less than an hour after take-off in March 2014, leaving a massive mystery. The plane’s flight path was a mystery, with intermittent satellite location information suggesting it was flown south on a different path. The search involved over 300 flights, surface and submersible vehicle surveys, and was one […] Written by Jamie Pringle March 12, 2024March 12, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Future Of Spacesuits Key Takeaway: The Polaris Dawn mission, which includes the first spacewalk organized by a private company, has been delayed due to complications with the design and development of a suitable spacesuit. Moon suits are a key element of Nasa’s Artemis lunar programme that have yet to be delivered. Spacesuits are no longer expected to be […] Written by Yang Gao March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why We Will Never Master The Financial Markets Key Takeaways: Stock market enthusiasts often claim to predict financial market trends with great accuracy, but this is not possible due to the uncertainty and unpredictable nature of the environments in which we make daily decisions. Human cognition tends to favor a reductionist approach to information processing, sometimes called “tunneling,” which can lead to biased […] Written by Benoît Béchard March 8, 2024March 8, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Is There Life On Europa? Key Takeaway: The Juno mission has sampled Jupiter’s atmosphere for the first time, revealing that Europa’s icy surface produces less oxygen than previously thought. Europa has an ocean below its icy surface with twice the amount of water as Earth’s oceans and an ocean floor in contact with rock, enabling chemical water-rock interactions that produce […] Written by Andrew Coates March 7, 2024March 7, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Halo Effect Key Takeaway: A recent study suggests that the “halo effect” is more complicated than previously thought, as attractive people may receive more help from strangers, higher wages, and more job opportunities. This can lead to more favorable treatment in life, such as lighter prison sentences. However, in court, jurors show biases, and more attractive defendants […] Written by Robin Kramer March 6, 2024March 6, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education Key Takeaways: The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. In his writing, Flynn illustrates study after study, spanning nations and decades, in which modern educational gift of abstraction — a transcendent sign of intelligence, as we saw in Raven’s Matrices — has been […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022October 19, 2022 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
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked