David Wilson

10 Apr 2013

Margaret Thatcher would have preferred not to have been British prime minister when the future of Hong Kong had to be decided, former governor David Wilson says. But as a "supreme realist", she...

4:14AM

Book review: 'Mastery' by Robert Greene

2 Dec 2012

Few writers can compete with Los Angeles' Robert Greene in the street-cred stakes. He is a specialist in the themes of strategy, power, sex and seduction, making him a hit with the success-fixated...

2:57PM

Former governor returns for dinner, but never for seconds

30 Oct 2012

Former governor of Hong Kong, David Wilson, was espied dining at the Police Officers' Club with a group of people on Saturday evening.

4:25AM

Ex-governor David Wilson 'clueless' why he got job over Prince Charles

30 Oct 2012

Former Hong Kong governor David Wilson has no idea why he was assigned to run the city in the 1980s instead of Prince Charles, who, according to a recent book, once topped a list of candidates.

11:53AM

All the Money in the World

29 Apr 2012

All the Money in the World
by Laura Vanderkam
Portfolio

The standard advice that the average financial adviser offers could be summed up in three words: 'stop buying...

1:44PM

The Language of Leaders

22 Jan 2012

The Language of Leaders
by Kevin Murray
Kogan Page

We live in a fishbowl. Thanks to the scrutiny fuelled by social media, no manager is further than a thoughtless...

5:55AM

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

Updated 5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

4:18AM

The User's Guide to the Human Mind

The User's Guide to the Human Mind
by Shawn Smith
New Harbinger Publications

Do you suffer from anxiety? If so, don't worry because everyone else is a bag of nerves...

3:33AM

Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle

Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle
by Tim Phillips
Kogan Page

10:13PM

More expected back in school

A shaky economy will drive more people back to business schools for an MBA degree, says the president and chief executive officer of the Graduate Management Admission Council.

2:52AM

review

The Bear Went Over The Mountain: Finding America, Finding Myself

by Carll Tucker

(Mary Ann Liebert)

US$19.99

1:50AM

Fear of flying

I can handle steps; I accept that, en route to the aerial adventure course, my team must negotiate 716 of them.

10:31PM

dime a dozen

Running a weird website is not the sort of thing you admit on a first date. Websites about the weird went out of fashion last century, when every newspaper sported a wacky column telling you...

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