Grayling has announced that it will pilot a reduced work week in its Singapore office from August till the end of the year. In doing so, it becomes the first globally networked PR firm in Singapore to attempt to raise productivity…
How many people can boast about working in a jail, pulling a business out of Myanmar at the height of a military coup and negotiating a US$20 billion merger? Crispina Robert and Adrian Tan speak to Jorgen Rostrup, executive vice-president…
Singtel Group’s chief people & sustainability officer Aileen Tan was a young management executive in charge of a small team and followed the book on what it meant to be a boss. It didn’t go well. She shares the leadership…
NUS President Tan Eng Chye takes the seat on this episode of The Leader’s Chair. He shares what the future of university education looks like, why he invites staff for morning walks and how he deals with difficult situations. Listen…
I’ve been writing for a long time, but I still get stuck sometimes. It happens when I have more things to write than ideas to write about. Maybe you know the feeling. You sit down at your computer, ready to…
In the season closing episode of ‘The Leader’s Chair’, DBS Bank CEO Piyush Gupta sits down with Crispina Robert and me to talk about why he calls himself “the accidental banker”, how experiencing failure changed his leadership style and what…
She is the CEO of the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO) and a mother of three children under 16. Koh Yan Ping juggles all her roles without a live-in helper. She talks about how she does it, what she…
Many years ago, during my tenure as a manager in the realm of recruitment, I vividly recalled engaging in a discourse with my supervisor regarding our respective endeavours in running. I was still deeply engrossed in pursuing this physical activity…