Author: Eages
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Leadership In A Changing World – Interview With Mr Lim Siong Guan
This is an exclusive interview with Mr Lim Siong Guan, the Group President of Government of Singapore Investment Corporation on the role of leaders in a changing world. Hi Mr Lim, can you share with us how you define leadership? Leadership to me is making things happen which on their own would not happen. That means the…
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Getting Back Up From Billion-Dollar Failures – Interview with Tan Sri Chan Ah Chye
We sat down with three prominent Asian leaders who shared personal and organizational challenges. Read this inspiring story of how one of them, a top property developer, found God in the midst of a financial crisis which changed his approach to work and life. Dr John Ng, Moderator: Leadership has its struggles. Every leader faces…
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Leading Together For 45 years – Interview with Eagles Founders
Leading Organization for 45 Years – Peter Chao, John Ng and Michael Tan What were your greatest moments in the 45 years serving together in the leadership of Eagles Communications? John Ng: For me, the greatest moment for 45 years is: initially, everything was about Peter Chao; he led the organisation, he was such a…
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Committed Friendship
Sydney Smith reminds us that “life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.” Meaningful relationships certainly contribute to a person’s well being and heighten personal fulfillment. In his research, Alan Loy McGinnis found that “friendship is the springboard to every other love. People with…
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Love What You Do
Loving what we do is the radical call to savor joy in small things everyday. When we do small things with great love, we spread contagious joy everywhere.
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Relational Leadership – Interview with Dr Walt Wright
This is an exclusive interview with Dr Walt Wright, the former executive director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership in Pasadena, California on Relational Leadership. Hi Dr Walt, as a professor of leadership and a practitioner in various leadership positions, how do you define leadership? The formal definition of leadership that shows up in the…
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Creating an Energized Organization: Re-Energizing Our People
To energize their teams, leaders need to create and nurture a culture of learning and openness.
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Leading With Authority
Leaders with authority serve willingly with gratitude and self-giving spirit. They themselves are examples for people to follow and model after.
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Let Go Of Control
Letting go of control is the first and most essential task of pursuing a life of extraordinary leadership. Let’s stop imposing complete order on everything.
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Develop Fruity Thinking
The way we think, i.e. talk to ourselves in our head, significantly impacts upon what we do in our actions, and it is our actions that determine the results we achieve in life.
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Changing Tomorrow Today: Navigating Change in a Turbulent World
Change leaders are not risk-takers, but opportunity shapers. And in Asia today, there is no shortage of opportunities.
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How To Survive And Thrive After A Setback
It’s said the difference between people who succeed and people who fail is how they handle setbacks. We will all suffer setbacks, but whilst one person learns from the experience, the other can be crushed by it.
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Leading From Being
The most intimate context that influences a leader is his self-perception. This is the “Being” lens that will inform his decisions and direction.
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Managing Your Financial Health – Interview with Dr Wong Hong Meng
We all know that money is not everything but everything needs money and if you look at the Scriptures there are a lot of passages about money and possession. God knows that we are going to have problems with money. And if we don’t manage our money adequately well, we will have problems with all…
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Be Willing To Be Wrong
Focus, determination and confidence are all traits to be admired as strengths. Yet I also believe they could be the reasons for a person’s downfall.
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Talent Management: How Do We Scout For Potential?
Leaders cannot do everything alone, and have to depend on others to execute the work, they need to spot the potential in others and to develop them.
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Creation Care vs. Creation Scare
As Christians we are to be good stewards of creation. The way we view God, human beings and creation will determine how we relate to people, businesses and environmental challenges.
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Managing High Performing Team – Interview with Mr Lawrence Leong
This is an exclusive interview with Mr Lawrence Leong, the former Managing Director of the very first F1 Night Race in Singapore on the topic “Managing High Performing Team”.
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Understand Factors Affecting Conflict (Part 2)
Conflicts are dominated by certain major factors that create or aggravate a situation. We need to confront these factors squarely, one at a time.
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Going Through Change? What Every Manager Needs To Know.
With change comes uncertainty and anxiety. Despite our insatiable appetite for new things, we also cling to the comfort and security of the familiar.
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Every Person Matters
When we see that every person is created by God as a unique individual, we begin to respect and value the diversity in others.
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The Leader’s Family: How Do We Manage Work-Family Tension?
“You can’t regain your children’s childhood; no amount of professional success can compensate for the loss of that family time. At the end of the day, if you aren’t a success at home as well, success at work probably won’t count for much.” Michael Jenkins – Managing Director of Center for Creative Leadership The family is in…
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Finding the Right Fit: Why Do People Quit Their Jobs?
Retaining talent to fulfill the job’s requirement is indeed a great challenge for organizations today. It often boils down to the elusive concept of “Fit”
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Integrity In Leadership
The biblical virtue of integrity has to do with consistency between what is inside and what is outside.
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Work As Worship
There should be no spiritual distinction between serving in the marketplace or doing ministry, as we should treat everything we do as worship to our King.
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Becoming A Change Leader – Interview With Dr Scott Cormode
The most powerful kind of leadership is when you inspire values that are inside of somebody to come out with vigor and excitement to change the world.
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Energy Management: Managing Our Energy, Not Our Time
It is energy management, not time management that we need.
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Quit Being Afraid Of What Others Think
When you are willing to quit caring what others think, you take a giant step to discover the Holy Spirit’s power to break into your life and birth that which is new and beautiful.
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Do What You Love
To be great at something, you have to love what you do. And to love what you do, you have to do what you love.
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Engaging The Team: Why Are People Not Engaged?
Companies with high levels of employee commitment achieved significant gains in financial performance and consistently outperform those with low scores.