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Beyond The Age of Innocence

Beyond the Age of Innocence by Kishore Mahbubani A couple of weeks ago, I meet Kishore, the former ambassador of Singapore to the UN and currently the Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for some work related matter. I remember fondly of his previous book Can Asians Think so after the meeting, […]

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Communities Dominate Brands

Communities Dominate Brands by Tomi T. Ahonen & Alan Moore Actually I have not buy this book yet but I have it on my Amazon wishlist. I met up with Tomi1 last Friday who is in town to give some talks on 3G. We spend a couple of hours debating on various technology development; I […]

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Blink

Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (the author of The Tipping Point) Absolutely love the book. And I can relate to the many stories cited by Malcolm especially about intuition – sometimes people asked me how I know what technology to focus – I don’t know how but I just […]

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Confessions of a Civil Servant

Confessions of a Civil Servant : Lessons in Changing America’s Government and Military – by Bob Stone I got a pleasant surprise this morning: Bob Stone emailed me to tell me his book is available in paperback. (PDF is also available on his website but hey, please go buy the book!) Actually I blog this […]

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The Daily Drucker

The Daily Drucker – by Peter F. Drucker I am a great fan of Peter Drucker. His articles on business, creativity, innovation, management are not only ahead of his times but also rightly on the mark. He invented numerous terms we used daily, like cost-centre (altho he regret it), management-by-walking-around, knowledge worker and knowledge economy. […]

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Can Asians Think?

Can Asians Think? by Kishore Mahbubani Kishore wrote this book when he is serving as Singapore ambassador to United Nation. While it is a bit outdated, it is an incredible book on the subtle political in the foreign policies within Asia and with the West. For example, how (nuclear) energy plays an important political balance […]

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The Future of Ideas

The Future of Ideas – Lawrence Lessig I “found” this book in my bookshelf. Yes, “found” because I didn’t remember receiving the book which is autographed by Lessig. I think Lessig send me this book because I made a donation to Creative Commons a couple of months ago when he made an appeal on his […]

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