Management - Bernard Leong

On Loyalty

Loyalty is an under-valued virtue in the times of today. Yet it has helped me navigate the difficulties over the course of my career. In this essay, I explain why the virtue of loyalty is important to me and how I have incorporated the value into my tours of duty in my career.

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When Leadership and Management differs

In this essay, I share my own perspectives in how I think about leadership and management, and under what circumstances, they might represent different things and how I navigate through those times.

Why Digital Transformations Fail Case Studies 1 – How to Align and Build a Corporate Website

In this article, I want to specifically drill down to a concrete example about why digital transformation can succeed and fail. In the first case study, I want to explain why and how a corporate website can be easily built and offer a solution to what remains to be the most difficult digital transformation work in a company.

Why Digital Transformations Fail II – Fighting the Immune System & DNA of the Incumbent

In the second of the “why digital transformations fail” series, I want to focus on explaining why the immune system of the company in the form of cultural and operational DNA pushes back the change effort and what the ways of mitigation that would or would not work.

Why Digital Transformations Fail I – The Incumbent & Disruptor Dilemma

In the first of the “why digital transformations fail” series, I want to highlight the rarely discussed incumbent and disruptor conundrum that are faced by many senior leadership executives and board members. In the same conversation, a few potential solutions are proposed to address this complex problem.