At the end of the 1990s, a colleague of mine was sacked because he complemented a fellow female worker on how lovely her hair looked. I thought it was political correctness gone mad, but it’s even worse today. You feel you’re walking on egg shells all the time. For example, I got sacked for saying … Read more
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Mike Spear, director of global operations at Honeywell Cybersecurity comments that security dynamics in the process industry changed with the entry of Ethernet and Microsoft on the factory floor. “You now have vulnerabilities. Security has become a big aspect of the operation, not just running production,” he opines. A risk management methodology, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) … Read more
Seasoned former diplomat Kishore Mahbubani is a distinguished fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute and author of nine books, including Has China Won? This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. You’ve predicted that the geopolitical contest between the US and China … Read more
As war in the Middle East escalates with Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and Iran’s counter-attack, the global economy faces fresh recession fears after a year of remarkable strength and investor complacency even as Israeli forces swept through Gaza. The past week tells us the balance of power in the Middle East is fundamentally changing and … Read more
