At the height of the pandemic, Park Hotel Group executive director Tan Shin Hui faced a difficult decision: let go of people or let the ship go down. She went for another option instead. She decided that it was more important to spread out the pain and impose progressive pay cuts across the board instead of letting a few people bear the brunt.
Publicity-shy and elusive, Tan comes out of her shell to tell us about her decision making matrix, being a female leader and the lessons that she has learnt in business and life.
Episode List
- Episode 1: Ankiti Bose on the battles she faced while at the helm of Zilingo.
- Episode 2: Tjin Lee addresses that controversial social media post and why she will continue speaking out.
- Episode 4: Karl Mak on turning a meme page into a million-dollar media empire and why he resented fatherhood.
- Episode 5: Joel Leong looks back at ShopBack’s growth from a scrappy start-up to its current unicorn status after its latest funding round.
- Episode 6: Anna Lim chronicles the Soup Spoon journey of the past 20 years and her dreams of building the “Starbucks of soup”.
- Episode 7: Magnus Grimeland shares why we need more children and the big bets he’s making on the future as the founder of Antler.
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