A former colleague in advertising revisiting Hong Kong after over twenty years was mentioning just how much the city- and everything in it- has changed, and not for the better either. Having been invited to Riyadh for the running of the Saudi Cup and watching Japan’s Forever Young win and meeting the team behind this equine superstar, we talked about the horse racing in Hong Kong, which he had seen up close and personal last Thursday at the bang a gong Chinese New Year’s Day

I’m writing this early in the morning with the Beatles playing in the background, listening to some of their earliest originals and wondering how they wrote and produced all the music that they did and swept many of us up in a groundswell of awe and joy while also asking us why we couldn’t write a song like “Girl” or “I’ll Follow The Sun” or the very much overlooked “I’ll Be Back” or, well, just something that came even close to what they were doing before Strawberry Fields F

I’ve been talking about teamwork for a few years now and how the type of teamwork where all the parts fit might not lead to instant fame and riches, but it lays down the groundwork from where the unexpected can grow. What I have been seeing now for years is the lack of real teamwork, because maybe the different parts don’t really fit for one reason or another, but mainly because of an “imbalance” in talent and different levels of experience and maybe even tolerance. Often, I