Share Over the last two years the insurance industry is finding it tough competing for the “better” brains among the Gen-X and Gen-Y university graduates. Development over the last 8 months was not at all encouraging, especially when the minimum entry pay for fresh graduates is not picking up fast enough to match those offered by the other sectors, like banking, retail, property development and construction, to name a few. From the many interviews...
Share ↑ Grab this Headline Animator The last two weeks were rather hectic, the real fact was, we were not getting our operational efficiency anything nearer to our objectives. My team members were arguing over what ought be the main focus given the seemingly unpleasant results attained todate. As I filter out the many contentions and arguments, there really are two main areas or paths towards getting the desired results: Work through the...
If you are in any leadership capacity within any organizational structure, it behooves you to have at least a cursory understanding of Organization Behavior tenets. In other places it may be referred to Industrial Psychology or other such terms, but they all refer to how an organization behaves both in a macro and micro level. How people react individually within company settings, how people interact with one another, and how the company as a...
Share Last week I made a presentation in regards the topic on making underwriting-sense of the industry’s motor insurance portfolio… in which I mentioned this commonly used phrase, “It is difficult to teach old dogs new tricks!” with a view to answer various objections from members of the marketing & underwriting fraternity and the agency channels. The usual objection to changes and the adoption of new methodology in getting a more efficient results would...
Share My journey in IT projects was revived in 2003 after almost 2 decades of abstention. Whilst a much younger me participated as a technician, the receiver of directions, my recent self had involuntarily become the leader of the User Group, the deliverer of requirements to the techies. All projects commence with the end in sight. And it begins, like all constructions of mega buildings, with the placement of a single stone. Hackneyed, no doubt, but fact. It should be noted that...
Share Move over McDonald’s, you have lost another round of court battle over the prefix of “Mac” and “Mc”. McCurry it is…. ……after a long drawn battle since the case was filed in 2001. The Federal court’s unanimous view is that McDonald’s plea to carry the case forward has no merit, therefore dismissed the application with costs. McDonald’s would have to pay RM10,000 (US$2,860) to McCurry, a popular eatery at the edge of Kuala Lumpur’s...
Share Happy Merdeka or Independence Day (52nd) for Malaysia. This year’s slogan is about living the 1Malaysia concept but can we? Or have we not been doing this for more than 52 years? Since independence we went through much commotions from the highs of communism, the 1964′s Singapore riot, May 13th 1969′s racial riot, 1986′s Sabah riot, the 1987′s Ops Lalang, Al-Arqam movement, the 1998′s Reformasi, the continual expansion of Islamic terrorism and Hindraf...
Share Over the weekend while having some discussion on the subject of english with my Korean friend, YB Lee from Korean Re, he stressed to me, while having a strong grasp of English Language is important but it is still not the most important. The most important is the ability to communicate the objectives or the important pointers to the other party successfully. He told me a story of “GLOBISH” meaning global english. In...
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