Clayton J.C Tan | July 13, 2010
The Star carried the news “Talent Corp to woo back 70,000 Malaysians” emphasizing that this is one of the key focus of the 10th Malaysian Plan. While I see this as a very positive move by the government. I would also like to raise my concerns and hope that the government will execute this with [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | April 12, 2010
Have you ever asked yourself that question? What’s your brand identity? How do people recognize you? How does people in the industry relate to you? What do they talk about you? This is exactly the point I’m getting at - What’s the brand that represents YOU?
While many may not realize, from the day we begin [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | April 5, 2010
I’ve had quite some SMS exchanges with a friend last week on the topic “What’s the use of a consultant?”. I once heard someone saying “Consultants are people who borrows your watch, then tell you the time”. Especially in an Asian environment, the consulting industry have not gain as much acceptance as they are in [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | February 4, 2010
There was an interesting article in Economist recently titled “Fighting Corruption in India: A zero contribution“. I found the article very interesting, especially the unique way that’s used to fight corruption. However, I’m seriously skeptical about the possibility of it working accross different cultures, especially here in Malaysia (It does keeps me wondering though whether [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | January 19, 2010
Isn’t this a very familiar topic? Didn’t all HR magazines at one time or another posted something similiar before? Wasn’t “Build” the undisputed winner? Afterall, most sucessful companies today had a strong management trainee program and many senior leaders in these organizations with home-grown.
I’ve once been part of a graduate development program, also once managing [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | February 5, 2009
First Class Honours, CGPA 4.0, graduated from Harvard University, MBA from MIT Sloan, Masters of Finance from Wharton University … and the list goes on. These are some “prestigious achievements” that anyone filtering CVs are unlikely to miss when they see one. The candidate is sure to get some attention from recruiters.
During the good times, [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | January 27, 2009
An article in The Star entitled “Ties with China enter new level” on the 23rd of January seems to have brought quite some hope for Malaysia’s economy considering the strong ties with China. However, a portion of the article got most of my attention:
Ong also hopes to create another unprecedented move – to get a [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | December 31, 2008
Looking into newspapers on the 27th December 2008 (there’s no papers on the 26th), there were much reported on the Christmas celebrations; not only the happy side but also the ugly side of these celebrations. What did the papers reported on?
Two rowdy teenagers caught by police.
Tons of rubbish (especially the cans of sprays) all over [...]
