This isn’t “Cocoon”, no one can reverse the aging process and those in, let’s say, their fifties aren’t exactly stepping up because either they don’t have the leadership skills to turn things around or there’s some kind of old girls and old boys clubs hoarding who does what, meaning that very possibly some very good talent with ideas are shut out. Also shut out is the Hong Kong I love and remember when it was positioned as “Asia’s World City” and really did attract the world

The only person who I knew and could read the tea leaves and really understood the China market was my friend and client Daniel Ng, the former NASA engineer, someone with a PhD in engineering and somehow ended up opening the first McDonald’s in Hong Kong by owning the McDonald’s franchise in the city. Despite the naysayers who warned that Chinese people only ate rice and mentioned the Burger King losing its crown and relevance in Hong Kong, Daniel sailed past them guided by a

I don’t know much about the gentleman, but having watched him interview Andre Agassi, one of my all-time favourite tennis players who brought so much colour and personality to the game including tie dyed cut-off jeans and a certain Rock’N Roll spirit to centre court, came the realisation that the interviewer was Anil Wadhwani, the 53 year old CEO of Prudential plc. What Prudential is doing for Hong Kong and Asia and the generations to come- read on to understand the insurance