Lessons from 3 days in boot-camp
| October 4, 2011 | Posted by Dax under Articles |
Winding through hills wrapped in endless paddy fields, the coach occasionally perched precariously on the edges as it manoeuvred the steep single-lane gravel road leading towards boot-camp. The group of us were transported to Service Quality Centre (SQC) on the outskirts of Jakarta for what was to be a team-building and self-awareness… more
Digital Magazines on the iPad
| June 27, 2011 | Articles |
Digital magazines have come of age since I first subscribed to Fortune on Amazon Kindle back in 2008. Back in those days, the content was simply text extracted from the print version and channelled through the digital reading device in boring black-and-white format. The arrival of Apple’s iPad, to borrow their phrase,… more
Social capital and the electronic rolodex
| January 27, 2011 | Articles |
I once worked for an elderly gentleman who had two massive rolodexes on his desk. They were not the modern flip-chart types but metal boxes that resembled filing cabinets. Being a veteran in the banking industry, he had built an extensive network that was physically represented in those two rolodexes. There were… more
Talent management and development
| January 23, 2011 | Articles |
Having just completed the first week of orientations and HR ‘brain-washing’, I’ve gained new thoughts on the less talked-about aspect of organizational matters – talent management and development. Coincidentally, as I was thinking about this topic this week, Mr Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Manpower gave… more
Business publications in Singapore
| January 22, 2011 | Articles |
I’ve been inspired to do a quick writeup on business publications in Singapore because my favorite local business magazine Pulses met an untimely demise in December 2010 after a good run of about 3 years. I’ve been an avid follower since it was launched in 2007 but then I took a 2… more
Assessment Center Interviews
| January 12, 2011 | Articles |
Interviews are never easy. Even landing one is half-the-battle won. I’ve had countless interviews through the years – for internships, full time jobs, business school and even one for volunteer work. I’ve always enjoyed them, particularly behavioral types, and less so the “how do you do an LBO” type for I-banking. The… more
The case for bricks (and motar)
| December 10, 2010 | Articles |
Apple has overtaken Microsoft as the largest technology company by market capitalization, amounting to 293 billion compared to MSFT’s 231 billion (Google is at a distant 189 billion). As a software behemoth from the eighties, Microsoft gained dominance through its Windows operating systems and Office suite of productivity applications, which were all… more
Chinese IPOs on NYSE
| December 9, 2010 | Articles |
It would seem like the dot.com bubble is descending on us again after a decade. The 2 Chinese IPOs that went for listing on NYSE today skyrocketed on opening, with one ending more than 100% above their initial price. The two companies are youku.com and dangdang.com. How well do investors in the… more
Creative alternative investments
| December 9, 2010 | Articles |
There is growing popularity in an area of alternative investment, if one can even call it that, which is the funding of divorce proceedings, or “divorce funding”. The idea is straightforward. Find someone who is going through a divorce and who is too poor to pay for protracted legal fees to get… more
Investing in Mongolia?
| December 8, 2010 | Articles |
Wild horses galloping on grassland expanding into the horizon. Nomads herding cattle as they head towards their ‘gers’ (round Mongolian tents). That’s the image that most people will have of Mongolia where Genghis Khan once ruled and conquered lands as far west as Turkey. This is the real Mongolia, the independent country.… more
Hello world!
| December 7, 2010 | Articles |
After 10 years of hibernation, daxchow.com is finally live online. Since I registered this domain 10 years ago, I have never thought of putting up a personal website as I had been busy with my other commercially-driven websites. Now that the other assets have been retired, I decided to put up some… more