March is a transition month in Vietnam as the country moves from spring to summer. And globally, it is a month that also has two important transition related dates if the world is to meet the Paris Agreement’s net-zero targets. March 18 is Global Recycling Day and March 22 is World Water Day. THP takes… [Read the full article]
Category: Management
Why governance is so important for family-owned businesses
Family: what do you come up with if you play word association? I hope the answer involves words like love, security and commitment. It is good to feel all three when operating a family-owned business too. But the key issue is to make sure that the love family members have for each other does not… [Read the full article]
Women: being the Number 1 version of ourselves
One of my favourite days of the years is International Women’s Day on March 8, or Ngày Quốc Tế Phụ Nữ as we call it here in Vietnam. It’s an opportunity to celebrate women the world over and not least the most important ones in my life: my mother, my sister and all my female friends… [Read the full article]
Why the pendulum is swinging back to family-owned companies
For the past couple of years, I’ve used this blog as a platform to examine how THP conceptualises value creation and outline the different processes we’ve put in place to achieve it. I’ve talked a lot about core values, as we view these as the foundation stone for both our short- and long-term success. One… [Read the full article]
Why education is about more than getting a college degree?
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford. All three men were titans of America’s Industrial revolution. Today, they still rank among the richest humans to have ever walked the planet. But what I find interesting is that none of them started their corporate lives after leaving college with formal qualifications. They all worked their… [Read the full article]
Why Vietnamese consumers think healthy products are the cat’s whiskers
It is Tết Nguyên Đán, the lunar New Year here in Vietnam and in 2023 we are ushering in the year of the water cat (we have a different tradition to China, which is celebrating the year of the rabbit). A cat feels like an apt analogy for how Vietnamese consumer habits are changing. In… [Read the full article]
Why supply chain management is in focus
Creating an efficient supply chain is the bedrock of any successful manufacturing company. Just ask Apple CEO Tim Cook, who reportedly won the top job at the tech company (after founder Steve Jobs passed away) because of his success building up a smooth running supply chain, focused on Chinese suppliers. So supply chains are always… [Read the full article]
How a big clean generates even bigger rewards
Few people in life enjoy cleaning and de-cluttering with the exception of some well-known gurus like the Japanese consultant Marie Kondo. And yet we all know how cathartic it can be. It’s a principle that rings true for both our home and work lives. So what explains this disconnect: we avoid cleaning and throwing things… [Read the full article]
2022 in Review: A Year of Transition
Every year, the world’s leading dictionaries and many global publishers come up with a “word of the year”. For me, there is one very clear one to describe 2022: transition. Last year was the one when the world acclimatized to living with Covid-19. Even the last country to hold out – China – had opted… [Read the full article]
Why Kindness Matters
It’s that time of year when many of us are preparing to switch off from work and spend time with our loved ones. In many cultures, it is a time to give and receive gifts. But the greatest gift of all – and the one, which our loved ones are most likely to value –… [Read the full article]
