Singapore Management Festival

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Former Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts recently left the company after five years, and she revealed the three biggest lessons she learned during her tenure. What are they?

Angela Ahrendts was one of Apple’s highest-paid executives during her 5 years at the company — here are the 3 biggest lessons she learned on the job Former Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts details the three biggest takeaways from her five-year tenure at the company.

Starting the Monday with some truth. Share if you believe.

The brain naturally functions in spurts of high energy (roughly an hour) followed by spurts of low energy (15–20 minutes). So what can you do to make the 8 hours, or more, work for you at work?

Why The 8-Hour Workday Doesn't Work The eight-hour workday is an outdated and ineffective approach to work. Let go of this relic and try a new, more productive approach.

Different generations of employees have distinct career aspirations, save one: regardless of age, having “a rewarding job” is what matters most to staffers, according to a LinkedIn survey. What else can you discover about your current workers?

This is what every Singapore employee wants Regardless of age, all staffers are chasing after this in their careers, says LinkedIn

As organisations become flatter and less hierarchical, and the influence of social media swells, leadership roles are becoming more ambiguous. So how is our idea of leadership changing, and what does it mean to be a follower?

BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 in Four - What does leadership look like in the modern age? How is our idea of leadership changing, and what does it mean to be a follower?

So what are these best practices, the list of things that should be true for digital transformation to succeed? Can DT actually work? Absolutely – if we exploit the lessons learned.

Digital Transformation in 5 Steps - Are We Mature Yet? (Maybe) Digital transformation is a goal. But it can be elusive -- and expensive -- if pursued incorrectly. There are 5 steps companies can take to increase the chances for successful digital transformation. One of the most important is performance-based compensation. Another is the quality of data.

McKinsey estimates up to 800 million workers globally could be displaced by robotic automation by 2030. Future-proofing your career is less about picking a safe job and more about constantly updating your skills throughout your career, according to Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun, who wrote Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Humanics: A way to ‘robot-proof’ your career? To prepare for a future where AI will likely disrupt entire industries, some say we’ll have to rethink how we educate future generations.

SIM PD wishes you a very happy Chinese New Year. May this auspicious time bring you good health, blossoming prosperity and abundance of joy for you and your loved ones. Gong xi fa cai!

Watch the highlights video from and discover what it means to the attendees and speakers.

Singapore Management Festival 2018 Highlights The Singapore Management Festival presented by SIM Professional Development (SIM PD) affirmed itself as one of the few mega events where some of the best bus...

If biases are formed over a lifetime, dismantling them will be slow work. So, what can we do in the here and now?

Can you train people to be less prejudiced? Researchers have found that, in some cases, diversity training can be more harmful than beneficial