Synopsis
*This title is a Custom Publication and is not under any Armour Publishing imprint.
Even before people make life decisions or start their businesses, family will already have played a role in the outcome. In this book, based on decades of experience as a banker working with associates from all over the world, Winston Tan shares how he has observed this to happen in Chinese and European cultures. For instance, why are so many family-run businesses Hokkien and Italian in origin, while many Cantonese and French people are known as high achievers who blaze trails of their own? Cultural values, he suggests, are shaped by events in a people's history, then passed down by caregivers. They inherently shape businesses and individuals - and so there are many fascinating parallels that can help readers better understand and connect with people from other cultures. Finally, he shares how cultural parallels mirror only recently discovered business strategies, and can be used to achieve individual and corporate goals alike.
ISBN: 978-981-45-9720-3
Size: 229 by 154 mm (closed)
No. of Pages: 136
Year Published: 2014
About the Author
Winston T H Tan is the founder and Managing Director of Winmark Investments Pte Ltd and Corporate Brokers International Pte Ltd (CBI). Winmark invests in selected investees for which CBI presents itself as both a broker and a long term partner. Winston is also on the Board of Directors of several companies, including Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd, Roxy Pacific Holdings Ltd and Plastoform Holdings Ltd. He is also the Chairman of several private companies including Armour Publishing Pte Ltd, FMS Hospitality Pte Ltd and Astralink Technology Pte Ltd. Winston has had 24 years of experience as a banker; over 16 years in Citibank and over 7 years in Deutsche Bank AG's Singapore branch, where he was the General Manager. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Singapore, and received the NUS Outstanding Alumni Award in 2005. He attended the University of Columbia's Executive Development Program on International Management. Born in 1948, Winston has a wide range of interests and experience, spanning banking and finance, business and marketing, science and engineering, carpentry and interior design, photography, the performing arts, graphic design and religion and culture.
