Author: Medecci Lineil

Our customer journey, all you need to know

Ordering food as a Grabfood or Foodpanda customer is a minimum-click process. Open the app, eye the offers that jump out, and decide on a meal that suitably satisfies hunger. Add it to a cart, select any of multiple coupon codes to chew away at the total price. Tap, click

Can a country prosper when its institutions fail?

IN economics, we are taught to focus on what can be easily measured: Sales, profits, prices, tax revenues, etc. Since the decay and failure of institutions isn’t easily quantified, this decay doesn’t register in the realm of economics. Since it isn’t measured, it doesn’t exist. But institutional decay and failure

Health D-G’s true leadership on display

Clarity is the key to effective leadership. What are your goals?    – Brian Tracy, American-Canadian motivational speaker Months into the coronavirus pandemic crisis, Health Director-General Datuk Seri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has shown that he can be a very effective communicator. I love the style during his daily press

Wonderful timing for the Earth Day

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir, Scottish-American naturalist, author and environmental philosopher A beautiful thing has happened amid the coronavirus pandemic. The animals are running

Mask on or not?

If you’re sick and need to be around others, properly wearing a mask can protect those around you from contracting your illness. –  CENTRES FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION When news of the first death from Coronavirus reported on January 11 in Wuhan, China, and started to reach the outside

Holding to smart devices during MCO

I don’t believe in curfews, because you can’t treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust. – Phil Jackson, American former professional basketball player and coach We have spent tremendous time and effort trying to put down our devices. All of that seems so long

Our ways of coping with new babies

When we encourage new parents to ‘treasure these moments because they don’t last forever,’ we need to remember to also reassure them that they will survive these moments because they don’t last forever. L R Knost, award-winning author and social justice activist My wife is the kind of person who

How to stick to your New Year’s resolution

Don’t let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go. Catherine Pulsifer, author Has a New Year’s resolution ever made a permanent difference in your life? Maybe you stick with it for the first

Sharing economy as a lifesaver

There will be growing pains along the way — and more horror stories, no doubt — but the sharing economy is here to stay. Glenn Carter, English actor As I got into my Grab to an appointment the other day, I complimented my driver on his punctuality. As our conversation

Budgeting for the status quo

We were told that there is no great change in government fiscal policy in the 2020 Budget. So this budget — as was last year’s — was as boring as we were all thinking it was going to be. The attempts to both reduce the deficit and shrink the size