Leadership & Management
Leadership & Management
From Presence to Performance: Rethinking HR in the Always-On Workplace
Digital connectivity has fundamentally reshaped workplace expectations, contributed to widespread employee burnout, and challenged traditional human resources practices. Born in the early 1980s, I have witnessed technology’s evolution from dial-up internet speeds of 28–56 kilobits per second to today’s gigabit connections — a transformation that represents not merely technical progress but a fundamental shift in […]
From Platform to Public Square: Rethinking Digital Engagement
In Asia, the role of social media as the main catalyst for civic engagement is declining. What can community builders do to help people connect?…
Closing the Gender Gap: Why Government Policy and Representation Matter
Women hold up half the sky, China’s Mao Zedong famously said. But while the revolutionary leader put in place laws and policies that banned polygamy…
Business Ethics in AI: A Wake-Up Call for the Industry
Artificial Intelligence has been evolving for decades, mainly behind the scenes. However, the breakthrough and widespread availability of generative AI technologies like ChatGPT and Dall-E…
Sustaining gains in teacher education: Strengthening teacher quality in the Philippines
This article discusses the national impact of a global challenge in higher education, particularly in teacher education, from the institutional perspective of a country’s leader…
My Story of SEAMEO RIHED’s Harmonisation of Higher Education in Southeast Asia
The story of SEAMEO RIHED and the conception of the proposal for the harmonisation of higher education in Southeast Asia to create a common space…
Catalysing Consensus on Common Higher Education Space
A Changed LandscapeThe seven-year period since the adoption of the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Higher Education on 21 November 2015 has seen the landscape of…
Partnership in Higher Education: Key to the Sustainable Development of the Southeast Asian Region
2022 is witnessing a period of enhanced regional cooperation and partnership to co-create a shared vision of an inclusive space of collective intelligence in higher…
Developing Responsible Leadership for Sustainability: A Categorical Imperative
To say that we live in ‘turbulent’ times is the understatement of our century. To say that we live in a volatile, uncertain, complex and…
Managing Ourselves and Our Society: A Rebalancing Act An Interview with Prof Henry Mintzberg
It has been many years since we worked together to start up an executive management programme in China. Has management education changed in the last…
