Building People

Preface ix Chapter 1: Pragmatism in Business and Leadership 1 Work-life Balance - Is It a Zero Sum Game? 3 New Year Message - Building the New Changi Airport 9 New Year Message - Transformation of Surbana 14 Pragmatism - A Key to Successful Leadership in Singapore and China 18 Pragmatism in Business 24 Pragmatism in Business 2 28 Contractors are Our Partners! 34 New Year Message - Waste Not, Want Not 40 Chapter 2: Engineering and Infrastructure Business 47 Conscience of Safety 49 When the Stars are Aligned (ÌìʱµØÀûÈ˺Í) 55 Commencement Speech - "My Story Can be Yours Too" 61 Engineers - Our Unsung Heroes 73 Time to Make the Engineering Profession Shine Again! 77 Speech at PFI Best Asia Infrastructure Citation Awards 84 If You are Not Committed, Don't Do It! 90 Drama at the Last Farewell to a Close Friend and Colleague, Mr Somkiat 95 Eulogy for Somkiat Lertpanyavit, a Most Distinguished Professional Engineer 99 Chapter 3: World Outlook 105 A Journey of "Encountering Evil" 107 Survival - The Mother of Innovation! 112 Turning Sand into Gold! 116 Will Prime Minister Abe Launch His Bazookas Soon? 123 World Outlook - A Marine and His Beloved Dog 126 Will the Year of the Fire Monkey Have More Tricks for Us All? 130 Chapter 4: Talent Development and Core Values 137 Changi Airport - The Learning University! 139 Corporatisation vs Commercialisation - Are They Really the Same Thing? 147 Building CVs 155 Choose Our Troops! 158 The Top Chinese Talent that I "Missed" 165 Churchill and the Cleaning Lady 169 Corruption Management in Business - Some Practical Points 173 It Takes Leadership and Courage to Fight Corruption 181 TICS - The Way Forward! 187 Chapter 5: In Remembrance of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew 193 How Changi Airport Has Transformed Singapore (and Me!) 195 The Big, Bold and Innovative Air Hub of Changi Airport by Lee Kuan Yew 203 Lee Kuan Yew Truly the Father of Changi Airport 209 Some Qingming Thoughts 214 The Launch of Up Close with Lee Kuan Yew 217 Chapter 6:

LIEW MUN LEONG is Chairman of Changi Airport Group, Surbana Jurong and Temasek Foundation Nurtures. He serves on the boards of Singapore Exchange Limited, National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, Human Capital Leadership Institute, Chinese Development Assistance Council and Singapore China Foundation Ltd. Mun Leong is also pro bono Provost Chair Professor (Practice) at NUS Business School and the Faculty of Engineering, as well as Chair of the China Business Centre. With over 45 years of experience in the construction and real estate industries (locally and overseas), Mun Leong was the Founding President and CEO of CapitaLand Group from November 2000 to 31 December 2012. He was also President of International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) from 1997 to 1998. For his exceptional contributions to Singapore, Mun Leong was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the President of Singapore in 2011. And in 2016, Mun Leong was conferred France's National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), with the rank of Knight. Mun Leong also won numerous awards during his tenure in CapitaLand. In 2006, he was named "Outstanding CEO of the Year" in the Singapore Business Awards, and "CEO of the Year" in The Business Times' Singapore Corporate Awards the following year. In 2008, he was named "Asia's Best Executive of Singapore" by Asiamoney and "Best CEO in Asia (Property)" by Institutional Investor. In 2011, he was named one of the top 25 most powerful business people in Asia by Fortune Magazine, as well as "Best CEO in Singapore" by FinanceAsia. A registered professional civil engineer and a graduate of the University of Singapore, Mun Leong has published four books titled "Building People: Sunday Emails from a CEO, Volumes I, II and III"; and "Up Close with Lee Kuan Yew".