Author: Leanda Lee, MDT
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Bizcuits | An ode to sleep
I need sleep. That’s the only thing really on my mind these days: how to get more of it at the appropriate moment. Rather than pull ... -
Bizcuits | Forms of expat capital
For those move to Macau from somewhere else, those first few weeks bring an incredible array of responses – excitement and awe but also frustration and ... -
Bizcuits | Mindfulness, attention and balance
What especially highlights the intrusion of modern technology into our daily lives is when work routines are disrupted by holidays. Summer holidays, Christmas and the more ... -
Bizcuits | Localisation
Coming at different angles on the term localisation, there appear two conflicting meanings. The expatriate package for high-flying executives with full relocation and repatriation costs, accommodation ... -
Bizcuits | Huddles for talent
To dismiss arguments for the hiring and promotion of foreign workers, and to justify and support the position that the interests of the resident workforce are ... -
Bizcuits | Import Policy on Professionals
Behind the statistics reported yesterday in MDT and Human Resource Office comments on the necessity of skilled non-resident workers, there is a piece of the puzzle ... -
Bizcuits | Put fat in the system
Macau has a way of giving us crazy life experiences if you so choose to take advantage of the gifts this pearl of a region presents ... -
Bizcuits | Mid-term Review Rigor
The Mid-term Review and the independence of the research process: How can you have a researcher with known political aspirations be involved in a review of ... -
Bizcuits | Expatriates over hemispheres
Father Christmas – as he is known in some older subcultures of my Australian home – took to the waves on a surfboard in 1977. At ... -
Bizcuits | Expat Divorce
Since the murder of a 5-year-old boy in early October by his expatriate Belgian father battling for child custody in Singapore, expatriate divorce, its causes and ... -
Bizcuits | Hopes for the policy address
Next week will see the start of the delivery of Macau’s 2016 Policy Address by the CE followed by various sessions over subsequent days to explain ... -
Bizcuits | America’s not the greatest country in the world anymore
If you are truly lucky enough with children (and students and employees, for that matter), you experience those rewarding moments when you’re offered a glimpse of ... -
MDT Analysis | Dore’s dangers
The Dore investor protests over the last week indicate that the elements within the local investor community believe they have an implicit agreement with the Macau ... -
Bizcuits | We brought them. Support them?
There’s little doubt that expatriates perform better on assignment when they are supported by their companies – real studies confirm this. Most expats are brought to ... -
Bizcuits | Singing the Blues
The social media response a couple of weeks ago to cases of child abuse and the subsequent death of an infant allegedly at the hands of ... -
Bizcuits | Dangers of anonymity
I received a strange letter in my letter-box earlier this week from one of my neighbours – I have six. Strange because the letter wasn’t addressed ... -
Bizcuits | The Seductive story
“The best speakers are good storytellers. The best writers are good storytellers. The best leaders are good storytellers.” – Rodger Dean Duncan Power and influence can ... -
Bizcuits | Hello, Mr Chips
It’s easy to blame massification of tertiary education for the fact that educators have now to consider maintaining discipline in the classroom. In the past, with ... -
Bizcuits | The end of Summertime
Summer, it is and many of us are still out and about. The idea of holidays is to relax, to rest, to build up reserves, to ... -
Bizcuits | Look beyond and be inspired
It’s summer. Get out, I implore you. Travel. Go into the countryside, breathe the air, or go to a big city, one of those amazing cities ... -
Bizcuits | Not that word again – “talents”
The school attrition problem hasn’t gone away. The rate students leave school since it became a topic of public commentary in 2005 has been attributed to ... -
Bizcuits | A cap in hand is worth two in the bush
The cap on the number of casino tables in Macau – “the Table Cap” – is still a conundrum to many and being raised by more ... -
Bizcuits | Weed for Sale
There are some real jokers in our community but other people who don’t, can’t, won’t see the beyond the apparent intent. Offense taken, it’s sometimes difficult ... -
Bizcuits | Why stay?
Are you an expatriate? Some foreigners don’t think of themselves as one because the term has been traditionally used to describe a high-flying executive on a ... -
Bizcuits | A load of rubbish and the Minimum Wage
Our heroes: during my childhood we called them dustmen. They were fit and strong, and ran beside the trucks flinging lids off metal dust-bins heaving the ... -
Bizcuits: …But names will never hurt me
Along with their Chinese generational names carefully crafted by the Chinese side of our family, we were going give our daughter the western name Lily (thereby ... -
Bizcuits | Measure and Manage
The development of Macau is mainly reported through measures of growth in GDP, fiscal reserves, foreign reserves, tourism, Gross Gaming Revenue: all economic growth. Viewing GDP, ... -
Bizcuits: Living dangerously
The lecturer must have said something but she couldn’t put her finger on it. Perhaps it had been flippant, perhaps in jest, perhaps that particular student ... -
Bizcuits | Unreasonable power
Those who bluff and bluster around us with total unreasonableness unsettle us. They can be objects of fascination. In what world do they live? How can ... -
Bizcuits | Happy Business
There are some weeks in which moments are connected by a particular theme that weaves its way across the day, through things we read and discussions ... -
Bizcuits: Niche idea
One of those statistics in Macau that isn’t what it is: unemployment, 1.7% (Q3)! MDT’s award- winning cartoonist with an eye to the absurd saw the ... -
Bizcuits | Multitask, man.
We have long been encouraged to multitask. Parallel activity was supposed to be more productive than activity in series. It certainly works for production lines, and ... -
Bizcuits: Don’t hold your breath
The gaming industry is big in Asia – we in Macau think we know this. So coming as a shock to those in the know was ... -
Bizcuits | Are you being served?
Governance is often not well understood by the average man on the street but what we frequently take for granted in the structure and norms of ... -
BIZCUITS: CanNOT
There’s no doubt about it, my behaviour feels more controlled in Macau than in most places I’ve been. Not that I’m much of a wild thing, ...
