Last year was significant on many levels. Before a pandemic paralyzed the world, businesses were faced with another major disruption: that of the increasing pressure, need, and expectation for digital integration and transformation across all industries and geographies. The sweeping impact of COVID-19 only exacerbated the need for greater digital efficiency and connectivity in order… [Read the full article]
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How Combating Your “Inner Heat” May Keep You Healthy In Today’s Environment
All across the world, societies, countries, and communities are being impacted by a global pandemic that has sought to destroy economic markets and the health of many individuals it comes in contact with. While many experts are rushing to create a vaccine that will allow our communities to return to a normal state of affairs,… [Read the full article]
Why You Should Focus on Customer Satisfaction
For the past seven years, one airport has consistently claimed the title of “World’s Best Airport” by UK-based international air transport agency, Skytrax. Changi Airport, operated in Singapore serves as one of Southeast Asia’s largest transit hubs and one of the busiest in the world, serving over 50 million visitors each year. The honor is… [Read the full article]
The Five Words to End Sexism in the Boardroom
A dear friend and trust colleague once told me she never offers to take notes in meetings. When her supervisor once asked her to, she said no. She turned it around and said, “In my experience, it’s always women who are asked to take notes, and until we start refusing, it will stay that way…. [Read the full article]
Manifesting Your Own Destiny: Overcoming Anything to Become Who You Want to Be
It may sound trite, but you really can become anything you want to – even if it seems impossible. I know this because I’ve watched my father become the successful tycoon he is today from the most unlikely of beginnings. After all, one of our family’s core values is “Maintain A ‘Nothing Is Impossible’ Spirit.”… [Read the full article]
The Importance of Women Leaders as Role Models
I’ve previously discussed the increasing influence of women in the business world and even in Vietnam’s business environment. The inclusion of women within the highest roles of government, business and cultural organizations is both important and extremely beneficial. Across the world, more and more women are gaining the opportunity to pursue their dreams, whether as… [Read the full article]
Embrace Your Successes and More Importantly, Your Failures
Embrace you successes, and more importantly, your failures. They are antonyms, and yet you generally can’t have one without the other. This symbiotic relationship between seemingly opposite experiences is as necessary and certain as the sun setting before it rises again. As Winston Churchill once said, “success consists of going from failure to failure without… [Read the full article]
The Importance of On the Job Experience and Continued Learning
Today, I’m pleased to be leading THP by managing its communications and procurement. But it hasn’t always been that way. In fact, it’s taken decades of learning at every level of the company to adequately understand how THP operates, why it operates the way it does, who we serve and what we serve. Sure, growing… [Read the full article]
Making the Leap to Compete Globally
For many years THP operated successfully at a local level, leveraging the natural skills of its employees to deliver what was wanted in our immediate communities. However, to grow, my father realized procedurally things would need to evolve. Through further education, my parents learned about International Standard for Organization (ISO) and immediately they knew THP… [Read the full article]
Seeking Out Win-Win Partnerships
Since the turn of the century, THP has become one of Vietnam’s leading private-sector companies. It has successfully ridden the wave of rising domestic consumption at home and taken its first steps to export abroad. This fast growth should continue, given that disposable incomes are still on a very sharp upward curve. GDP per capita… [Read the full article]