Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong invites you to this joint chamber`s luncheon:

Beyond Conventional Leadership:

“How do you shape up to lead in Asia?”

For better or for worse, globalization whilst undoubtedly creating new playing fields for businesses everywhere has also created bumps and troughs in a supposedly flattened world. To thrive, leaders will need to ditch conventional management wisdom and stop looking to the past for guidance on how to move forward in a rapidly changing and uncertain future. Yet, this gap in understanding provides a “leadership opportunity” and needs to be seized in order to clearly establish how and why doing things differently will help reshape the role of business in society and create a new prosperity.

Focus:
• What are the key leadership skills and attributes needed for managing in a globalized future?  
• How to deal with different management perceptions and cross-cultural differences in traditional organizational structures?
• What is the “leadership opportunity”? How can leaders better prepare themselves?
• How can you gain trust from within your organization and peers, particularly when established beliefs, practices and norms need to be challenged?

About the speaker:
Chandran Nair is the founder and chief executive of GIFT. For more than a decade, Mr Nair has strongly advocated a more sustainable approach to development in Asia, and he has helped governments and corporations instill these principles into their key decision-making processes. He is a frequent speaker at forums around the world, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and the Hong Kong Institute of Directors. Mr. Nair has written widely including opinion pieces for international publications such as the Financial Times. He is currently working on a book titled ‘Consumptionomics’: Asia’s role in reshaping capitalism and saving the planet.”

Date:             Thursday 25 March 2010 
Time:             12:00 – 14:00, including lunch

Venue:           The Hong Kong Jockey Club, 6/F Members Stand 1
                       Entrance E, Happy Valley Racecourse
                       Happy Valley, Hong Kong 
Price:             HKD 390 for members and HKD 490 for non-members

Please confirm your attendance by e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or telephone: 2525 0349, no later than Thursday 19 March 2010