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Asia snapshot 2015 #2
1. Asia Snapshot 2015
A mashup of research, trends and
interesting people in Asia.
Issue #2 Published at
www.CallumLaing.com
“Connecting Leaders”
2. My usual disclaimers apply: This is not intended to be a comprehensive guide and the hard
work of finding this data was done by other people who deserve all the credit. I have
merely cherry picked the stuff that stood out for me and made me say ‘ooh’.
“Welcome to the second edition of Asia Snapshots.
I hope you find it interesting and perhaps it will spark some ideas of
how you could get more involved in this amazing region.
If you’re new to this report, then it is intended for anyone looking to
do business in Asia. It is quite literally a mashup of other peoples
research, interspersed with highlighting some cool individuals that
I’ve come across along the way.”
- Callum
@laingcallum”
4. “Be bold and yet be meticulous
in everything you do”
Jerome Lim, Director of Ming Fa Fishball
“Believe in yourself. If you
don’t, no one else will.”
Christine Edwards, Founder of Honeycombers
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?
9. Padmini Pandya, Strategic Business
Planning of SapientNitro
What’s the best piece of advice you ever
received? “Get out of your own way.”
Adrien Choux, Founder of The Chinese Timekeeper
Who inspires you? “Guy Laliberte (founder of
Cirque du Soleil). Visionary, passionate,
philanthropist and a great poker player … quite an
inspiration!”
15. “Doing business is about developing trust,
especially in Asia. Think ‘how can I help’ without
expectation of return”
Sam Lau, Founder of Total Loyalty
“’Nothing in life comes easy’.
It reminds me that I must always work
hard, be determined and persistent.”
Jia En Teo, Co-Founder of Roomorama
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?
19. The number of Chinese women in senior management
positions has recently doubled, with 51% of those jobs
held by females, making China a standout in Asia.
Some 550 publicly-traded companies, or about 21%,
have women on their boards.
China has two of only four companies in the world
with all-female boards.
.
http://fortune.com/2015/01/15/
the-number-of-chinese-women-in-top-corporate-jobs-is-exploding
“Half of the world’s self-
made female billionaires
are Chinese”
21. “That the failures I had were in fact the
best things that ever happened to me.”
Mouna Aouri Langendorf, Founder of Woomentum
What have you just learnt recently that blew
you away?
“There is no point doing what you are doing
without an end game. Choose where you want
to be, what you want to do and work out a way
to get there.”
Charlie Brazier, Founder of BW Furniture
26. “Never take ‘No’ for an answer.”
Talenia Phua Gajardo, CEO of The Artling
“Communication is about what other
people understand, not what you say.
Build outcomes, not outputs.”
Simon Kemp, Regional Managing Partner of We Are Social
What’s the best piece of advice you ever
received?
28. “Singapore remains
one of the best
places to do
business, not just in
ASEAN but the
World.”
www.economistinsights.com/business-strategy/analysis/redrawing-asean-map
29. Singapore ranks 2nd in Global
competitiveness
global-indices.insead.edu/documents/INSEADGTCIreport2014.pdf
“Globally, CEO’s always think their country
is the hardest to recruit quality talent…”
31. Mobile Internet in India 16x slower
than Singapore
https://www.techinasia.com/
mobile-internet-16-times-faster-singapore-than-india/
“Mobile penetration in India is currently at 75%”
32. BNP Paribas http://goo.gl/aeb6rd
“India leading the way in female entrepreneurs,
but according to Nasscom only 1 in 17 Indian
tech companies are started by woman.”
33. However, in terms of new wealth it is actually
India’s neighbours that stole the glory.
Pakistan and Sri Lanka were in the top 5 gainers
of ultra high networth individuals gaining 34
and 25% respectively.
www.wealthx.com
34. “If you care for others, your consciousness
expands and you’re happy. If you care only for
yourself, your consciousness contracts and
you’re miserable.”
Jack Sim, Founder of World Toilet Organization
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?
“’Enjoy what you do’.
It is easier to say, ‘Do what you enjoy’ but
we should remember that we can choose to
enjoy anything we do as well.”
Masami Soto, Founder of Buy One Give One
35. www.wealthx.com
Pakistan and Sri Lanka were in the top 5 gainers
of ultra high networth individuals gaining 34 and
25% respectiviely. China actually declind
37. Forbes counted a record 1,645 billionaires with
a total net worth of US$6.4 trillion, up from
1,426 last year.
16 are in Singapore
And there are 35 million millionaires around
the world. Give or take…
40. What have you recently learnt that blew you away?
“Did you know that Bukit Timah’s Nature Reserve in
Singapore has more species of trees than the entire
North American continent? Talk about a green dot!”
Habiba Raffa, Founder of Ayelli
What’s the best piece of advice you ever
received?
“People remember generosity.
Be generous, be kind, be direct, be
remembered.”
Howard Lo, Founder of Standing Sushi Bar
44. “I hope you enjoyed this. Please feel free to share it with anyone
you think would be interested.
We’ll be back later in the year to share what’s new”
- Callum
@laingcallum
linkedin.com/in/callumlaing