Tag: Bizcuits
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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 | Pet Rock of yore
The inventor of the Pet Rock died the other day. In 1975 a strangely uplifting novelty craze inspired by a conversation over a beer was created ... -
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: Nature calls
I don’t seem to have the words. My language appears foreign to others. I speak, they apparently understand but it doesn’t elicit an appropriate response. I’m ... -
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: Now a resident, now you’re not
One of the issues close to the hearts of many of us is our Macau residency status. On the flippant side, there is that secretly held ... -
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, ... -
Bizcuits: Newbies
“How long have you been in Macau?” appears an innocent enough question but can be heavily laden with judgement depending upon the answer and enquirer. It’s ... -
Bizcuits: The problem with ethics
Talk about ethics in business in Macau and you’re likely to be met with a wry smile and a look that reads “oh, you’re a naïve ... -
Bizcuits: How lucky
Many expatriates and foreign residents come to the point early in our stay where we have to make a decision about hiring domestic help. My problem ... -
Bizcuits: Building Pride
It seems we are at risk of losing faith in our tertiary institutions. In terms of the fabric of such an organisation, there are a multitude ...
