Leadership & Culture

Regional game showcases like the Southeast Asian Games have been increasingly positioned as platforms for local talent and cultural celebration, but the reality is more complex. This article examines how these events are being co-opted as marketing vehicles for...

Brin’s $700 Million Alphabet Stock Transfer Signals Elite Philanthropy as Tax Optimization, Not Altruism Sergey Brin’s recent $700 million Alphabet stock transfer has made headlines as a major act of philanthropy, but the real story is buried beneath the surface. This...

Platform Outages Expose How Fragile Our Digital Dependencies Have Become—And Most Leaders Still Lack a Real Contingency Plan. When a major digital platform goes down, the ripple effects expose just how brittle our interconnected systems really are. This article...

Big Tech’s data center outages have become impossible to ignore, exposing not just technical failures but a deeper, systemic problem: chronic underinvestment and a pervasive culture of risk deflection. This article examines what’s really driving these outages, who...

South Africa’s recent Starlink exception is more than a headline about satellite internet—it’s a case study in how performative regulation stifles genuine economic progress. This article unpacks the real motivations, overlooked consequences, and what strategic leaders...

Snowflake, once the darling of cloud data warehousing, is now riding the AI hype train to distract from deeper structural risks—namely, its shaky monetization model and increasing customer lock-in to major cloud vendors. This article cuts through the marketing noise...