Listen to your dentist, he knows the drill: How to hone enduring skills and stay relevant in a broken world
WHEN New
York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman was asked at the PCMA Convening
Leaders 2021 conference which skill he felt had served him best in his career,
he said, “Deep listening – learn when to listen and what you say when you
listen.”
Which is
why I encourage you to go to t [...]
Post-Spacemob/WeWork, Fuad makes fintech play with new “BNPL” startup Pace
EIGHT months after his departure from WeWork, veteran entrepreneur Turochas “T” Fuad has unveiled his newest startup in the hot “Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL)” space, Pace Enterprise (Pace).
Armed with a “high seven-figure” seed round co-led by Vertex Ventures, a Temasek subsidiary, and A [...]
Business travel will come back more sophisticated with bigger role for TMCs, says Amadeus
BUSINESS travel, when it returns, will likely be initiated for different reasons, have different requirements for planning, and travellers and corporates will place value on different considerations.
Amadeus’
recent report “Reboot. Recharge. Rethink Business Travel”, based on interviews
co [...]
Why events and travel are in the same boat: Testing protocols need to be fixed and facilitated while both wait for vaccine to work its “game changing” effects
SINGAPORE showed its determination to bring back life to its business events sector this week when it played “Global Broadcast Centre” and hosted “Main Stage”, the physical component of PCMA Convening Leaders 2021, at Marina Bay Sands.
For those
not in the events industry, PCMA stands f [...]
Brace yourself for “explosion of creative destruction”, says Friedman to business events professionals
EXPECT an explosion of creative destruction AC (After Covid), said Tom Friedman, author and New York Times columnist at the opening of PCMA Convening Leaders 2021 today.
Calling it
“incredibly exciting and destabilising”, he said this would happen because
“never have more people had availa [...]
People who travel frequently are happier than those who don’t
NO wonder I was so miserable last year. I mean, other than all the reasons associated with Covid, it seems another reason for my unhappiness was because I was unable to travel frequently.
And now there’s research to prove it.
A new
study in the journal of Tourism Analysis shows frequent tra [...]
A survivor’s guide to getting through 2021: Look how far we’ve come
WELL,
that’s 2020 done and dusted. But is it? Dusted for sure and leaving many of us
in the dust, wondering what hit us and now wondering how we pick ourselves up
from the rubble.
Done it certainly is not. Even as many of us took a breather from work the last weeks of 2020 we couldn’t help [...]
Don’t lose the travel spirit, learn from fungi – see you on the road in 2021
THE other day, I watched in horror as my sweet golden retriever pounced on a young monitor lizard, grabbed it by the neck and whipped it about three times. By the time I pulled Bowie off the creature, it was dead with a deep gash at the neck.
In many
ways, it reminded me of what this year has be [...]
Velocity eyes $20m for travel fund, aims to match corporates with startups
COVID has given Velocity Ventures new impetus to forge ahead with its travel and hospitality fund, and the firm is targeting to raise US$20 million by December 2021.
Nicholas Cocks (pictured), founder and managing partner of Velocity Ventures, said, “When we thought about the kind of disruptio [...]
Tech adoption accelerates on cruises as safety takes top priority and customers go digital
Singapore, Taiwan good models for restarting as safe cruise bubbles
THE forced adoption of technology along the cruise customer journey – from pre-boarding to onboard – and the massive shift of consumers to digital booking channels during Covid will be trends that will underpin cruising lon [...]
