Tag: Bizcuits
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Bizcuits | Extraordinary times of crises
During the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, multinationals in Asia who maintained their support for local communities and workers were the ones equipped to ride out the ... -
Bizcuits | Values: The World We Want
Another show of superfluous consumption has given us the Wuhan coronavirus, threatening to knock on our doors and anything we contact. Sanitation of public facilities and ... -
Bizcuits | Red Durian and Heated Confusion
Holidays away mostly bring with them some sort of clarity. Focus elsewhere usually lends an objectivity that is impossible from within the noise and mess ... -
Bizcuits | Gifts of Crisis
While Macau has been centre-stage of unequivocal messages of national sovereignty during the 20th Anniversary events, I am in Australia and Australia is burning. Multiple times ... -
Bizcuits | Plastic Bags Disincentives: One step forward, two steps back
Communities find it difficult to let go of plastic shopping bags. Check-out staff get yelled at; people worry about what to put their rubbish in; they ... -
Bizcuits | How real is Macau’s CSR?
Once hauled up for using an unrecognisable acronym by some seriously educated chaps, I realized my fatal writer’s error: assuming reader knowledge. It hadn’t dawned upon ... -
Bizcuits | CSR: Sustainability or Regeneration?
The Macau Institute for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Greater China held their first forum as reported in the Times this week. While the main focus ... -
Bizcuits | Obsolescent mind
Obsolescence: I’ve always had to rely on the spell-checker for this one, in maybe a subconscious attempt to deny the existence of the commercial form of ... -
Bizcuits | Behaviour change
Even if you may have commented ad hominem against Climate Change Activist, Greta Thunberg, or doubt if her message is fact or fiction, one to be ... -
Bizcuits | Covering Climate Now, with action
“Our office is closed this Friday: we support the #CLIMATESTRIKE”. Today and 27th September, companies and individuals across the globe will strike in support of youth-lead ... -
Bizcuits | Our students: a shocking waste of resources
I have long advocated international students be permitted to work in Macau during their studies, and although that stance has not changed, the geo-political situation has, ... -
Bizcuits | Vulnerable expatriates in crisis
Beyond the glamour and the rewards of an expatriate life there are inevitable difficulties caused by stresses of adjusting to a strange environment. Where personal stress ... -
Bizcuits | Animal cruelty coming off the menu
Environmental sustainability has gained traction from our Integrated Resorts. Earlier focus was on the traditional low-hanging fruit of cost-cutting through water and energy efficiencies, recycling and ... -
Bizcuits | Foreign, dark-skinned, female and thoroughly exploitable
Even though the draft bill to set a statutory minimum wage of MOP32 per hour has been accepted this week in the Legislative Assembly, it continues ... -
Bizcuits | Fields of Green…
I dream of a day when all the casinos in Macau have edible gardens on their expansive roof-top real estate. I have voiced this only once ... -
Bizcuits | Why Plastic-Free July is coming again
From modest beginnings in Perth in 2011, Plastic-Free July is back with #ChooseToRefuse and #PlasticFreeJuly challenges. Last year over 2 million people from 177 countries participated ... -
Bizcuits | Talent outside the box
A few years ago, Ernst & Young, the fifth largest recruiter of graduates in the UK, removed from their employment criteria the requirement for a university ... -
Bizcuits | Mass confusion
Las Vegas Sands Ltd released their first quarter results after share markets closed in the US Wednesday. Industry media writers and analysts offer us interesting insight ... -
Bizcuits | Labour protection: No value in values
Macau residents would not have been surprised by the Times’ exposé (Special Report March 8) of the conditions our most vulnerable workers are at times forced ... -
Bizcuits | Death and other ways to motivate
Take a Master of Business Administration course, any under-graduate business degree or work-place leadership seminar and you will come across many theories on how to motivate ... -
Bizcuits | Honey, Honey
Early in my move to Macau, an old-hand expatriate advised me that to maintain healthy equilibrium, I should regularly spend time away from the city. Currently ... -
Bizcuits | Ethnocentrism clouds analysis
Although flagged in gaming analyst reports back in February 2018, the public announcement of a reshuffling of the control of the Stanley Ho family gaming empire ... -
Bizcuits | The Bridge and other symbols
Whether they be the most monumental, mundane or just plain, products and artefacts that we interact with each day hold meaning, even those that are hardly ... -
Bizcuits | Black Friday Spoils and Devastation
It was severely hot and dry that summer in Victoria. The drought had lasted several years, creeks and riverbeds were dry, and Melbournians were on water ... -
Bizcuits | A story on your dinner plate
Leanda Lee Lily died in a 4WD accident earlier this year. Her coming of age 21st birthday would have fallen on Mother’s Day. Instead, the day ... -
Bizcuits | Activists: Guiding us down Desire Paths
Desire paths are tracks worn by the wishes and feet of those gone before. As explained in an article in last week’s Guardian, they very often ... -
Bizcuits | Casinos Innovate in Zero-Waste
Annie Lao, a fellow plastic-waste activist, and her team petitioned the government to take some baby-step actions to curb Macau’s disproportionate creation and mismanagement of solid ... -
Bizcuits | The last straw
Recently we have seen some concerted single-use plastic and waste activism locally; and not before time. From a petition seeking a plastic-bag ban to “plogging”, individuals ... -
Bizcuits | The elephant on the bridge
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HKZMB) has long been proposed (2002), planned (from 2004) and contracts signed (2009). It has long been in development, long been seen ... -
Bizcuits | The ambush of Abusive Supervision
You invest in Human Resource Management. You take pains to understand people management or bring HR professionals to do the work. They sit at the top ... -
Bizcuits | Bonus points for bonus assets
Five years ago, I wrote to the Chief Executive. My message may have fallen on deaf ears, maybe not, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, and I ... -
Bizcuits | IPIM rebranded
The lack of transparency and high use of discretion with the residency application and renewal process through Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) have been ... -
Bizcuits | Waste not, want not
Monday morning’s video of the hygiene worker in Aberdeen, possibly in the employ of Hong Kong’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, throwing a bag of rubbish ... -
Bizcuits | From plastic-free-July to product stewardship
I knew it was bad: I had sailed dinghies in that murky delta water, ignored whatever happened to be floating past; I had pulled shredded flotsam ... -
Bizcuits | Traffic fines: it’s you, not us
When there is an outrage over laws or when the general law-abiding community starts flouting the law, it is probably the law that is unfair or ...
