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One major thing we are learning about the office is that empathy goes a long way towards productivity, team work, and long term leadership. It’s about time to humanise the workplace. Mark Bilton, a leadership advisor and the managing director of Thought Patrol, sheds some light on the expectations of leadership, how important empathy is in the workplace, and the main challenges for leaders moving forward.

CYPHER LEARNING specializes in providing learning platforms for organizations around the world. They have three distinctive products catering to all major e-learning sectors; NEO for schools and universities, MATRIX for businesses, and INDIE for Entrepreneurs. We speak to the company’s founder Graham Glass about developing next generation platforms that engage users, their rapid expansion across continents and what's next in the e-learning game.

Member states of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) are gearing up for the Conference of Parties (COP 26) in November. 2021 marks the starting point for ambitious carbon emission plans that countries promised to implement under the Paris Agreement, but many details remain unresolved. Ahead of Earth Day on 22 April, we speak to an independent consultant and researcher on climate change issues Hilary Chiew on expectations for the UN summit and Malaysia’s commitment to address climate change.

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Following the Maybank Virtual AGM technical glitch, Devanesan Evanson from Minority Shareholders Watch Group (MSWG) weighs in on the current issues, solutions and platforms we can adopt to ensure a more transparent and fair AGM takes place across the diverse business community.

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Malaysia is no stranger to the complexities and the perils of “dirty money”, but we are far from the only country implicated in what investigations reporter and author Tom Burgis calls a "global kleptocracy." In his latest book, Burgis highlights the interconnectivity of global corruption and what it means for economies and democracies around the world.

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Professor Datuk Dr. Denison Jayasooria discusses with us the effectiveness of different strategies and forms of assistance to combat the multi-dimensional challenges in urban poverty as economies reopen and growth becomes unevenly distributed.

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Dr Pradeep Taneja touches on the multiple challenges faced by India, from its economic impact to implications on its poor as well as its role of being the global factory for vaccines versus how its own vaccination is being rolled out

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With work from home themes the big winner last year, will this trend continue in 2021? And with the 5G rollout expected to intensify over the next few years, how can one profit? Sammeer Sharma, Managing Director and Head of Wealth Management at Standard Chartered Malaysia helps us make sense of the options.

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Markets continue to inch higher, breaking records but does this rally still have legs since valuations are peakish? Stephen Innes, Chief Global Market Strategist at Axi tells us his asset allocation strategy while explaining the recent news that the US Treasury has put 11 countries on the monitoring list for their currency practices.

We get you out of bed, to your first cup of coffee or to your first destination of your day with thought-provoking discussions on ideas, people and events shaping all our lives.

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