

Ing. Salih CAVKIC
orbus editor in chief


Murray Hunter
University Malaysia Perlis

Perpetual Self conflict: Self
awareness as a key to our ethical drive, personal mastery, and perception of
entrepreneurial opportunities.
Murray Hunter

The Continuum of Psychotic Organisational Typologies
Murray Hunter

There is no such person as an entrepreneur, just a person who acts
entrepreneurially
Murray Hunter

Groupthink may still be a hazard to your organization - Murray Hunter

Generational Attitudes and Behaviour - Murray Hunter

The environment as a multi-dimensional system: Taking off your rose
coloured glasses
- Murray Hunter

Imagination may be more important than knowledge: The eight types of
imagination we use - Murray Hunter

Do we have a creative intelligence? - Murray Hunter

Not all opportunities are the same: A look at the four types of
entrepreneurial opportunity -
Murray Hunter

The Evolution of Business Strategy
- Murray Hunter

How motivation really works - Murray Hunter

Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities: What’s wrong with SWOT? -
Murray Hunter

The
five types of thinking we use - Murray Hunter

Where do entrepreneurial opportunities come from? - Murray Hunter

How
we create new ideas - Murray Hunter

How emotions influence, how we see the world? - Murray Hunter

People tend to start businesses for the wrong reasons - Murray Hunter

One Man, Multiple Inventions: The lessons and legacies of Thomas Edison
- Murray Hunte

Does Intrapreneurship exist in Asia?
- Murray Hunter

What’s
with all the hype – a look at aspirational marketing
- Murray Hunter

Integrating
the philosophy of Tawhid – an Islamic approach to organization
- Murray Hunter

Samsara and the Organization - Murray Hunter

Do Confucian Principled Businesses Exist in Asia? - Murray Hunter

Knowledge,
Understanding and the God Paradigm - Murray Hunter

On Some of the Misconceptions about
Entrepreneurship - Murray Hunter

How feudalism hinders community transformation and economic evolution: Isn’t
equal opportunity a basic human right? - Murray Hunter

The Dominance of “Western” Management Theories in South-East Asian Business
Schools: The occidental colonization of the mind. - Murray Hunter

Ethics, Sustainability and the New Realities - Murray Hunter

The Arrival of Petroleum, Rockefeller, and the Lessons He taught Us - Murray
Hunter - University Malaysia Perlis

Elite
educators idolize the “ high flying entrepreneurs” while deluded about the
realities of entrepreneurship for the masses: -
Murray Hunter

Lessons from the Invention of the airplane and the Beginning of the Aviation
Era - Murray Hunter

Missed Opportunities for ASEAN if the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) fails
to start up in 2015 - Murray Hunter

From Europe, to the US, Japan, and onto China: The evolution of the
automobile - Murray Hunter

ASEAN Nations need indigenous innovation
to transform their economies but are doing little about it.
- Murray Hunter

Do Asian Management Paradigms Exist? A look at four theoretical frames -
Murray Hunter

Surprise, surprise: An Islam economy can be innovative - Murray Hunter

Australia in the "Asian Century" or is it Lost in Asia? - Murray Hunter

Australia "Do as I say, not as I do" - The ongoing RBA
bribery scandal - Murray Hunter

Entrepreneurship and economic growth? South-East Asian
governments are developing policy on the misconception that entrepreneurship
creates economic growth. - Murray Hunter

Hillary to Julia "You take India and I'll take Pakistan", while an ex-Aussie
PM says "Enough is enough with the US" -
Murray Hunter

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Reinvigorating Rural Malaysia - New Paradigms Needed
Murray Hunter
As
urban Malaysia has grown and prospered, the rural hinterlands have
generally declined. Back in the 1980s approximately 70% of Malaysia's
land was considered rural, where today 72% of Malaysia is urbanized with
a growth rate of 2.4%. With this, the rural-urban divide within Malaysia
has been growing, where substantially very little is being done to
directly alleviate the problem.
Rural sector development has not been debated very much over the last
few decades, even though the primary sector still represents almost 12%
of GDP and employs more than 11% of the population. There are many rural
issues that affect the future of Malaysia in much greater magnitude than
the rural contribution to GDP and employment. The sustainability of
Malaysia as an eco(n)-system, the country's cultural basis, and even
political destiny is tied up with rural evolution. But the current
"health" of rural Malaysia leaves a lot to be desired.
Forest cover in Malaysia is decreasing on a daily basis. Conservation
has lost out to greed and development. Palm oil, rubber plantations, and
urban expansion are eating into the forests, with very poor land
enforcement on the ground. Well connected businesses are able to get
concessions that are extremely financially lucrative, at great
environmental cost. Roads and new townships have divided rural habitats,
playing havoc with biodiversity. These man-made barriers hold flood
waters inland during the monsoons, preventing dispersion of water to the
sea, causing flooding. Many animal species are in danger of extinction
through poaching in the quest to supply the lucrative Chinese medicinal
market.
Author: Murray Hunter |

Murray Hunter has been involved in Asia-Pacific
business for the last 30 years as an entrepreneur,
consultant, academic, and researcher. As an
entrepreneur he was involved in numerous start-ups,
developing a lot of patented technology, where one
of his enterprises was listed in 1992 as the 5th
fastest going company on the BRW/Price Waterhouse
Fast100 list in Australia.
Murray is now an associate professor at the
University Malaysia Perlis, spending a lot of time
consulting to Asian governments on community
development and village biotechnology, both at the
strategic level and “on the ground”. He is also a
visiting professor at a number of universities and
regular speaker at conferences and workshops in the
region.
Murray is the author of a number of books,
numerous research and conceptual papers in referred
journals, and commentator on the issues of
entrepreneurship, development, and politics in a
number of magazines and online news sites around the
world. Murray takes a trans-disciplinary view of
issues and events, trying to relate this to the
enrichment and empowerment of people in the region.
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Increasing
population and new townships are putting pressure on rivers and
waterways through increased domestic sewage, the dumping of garbage, and
processing waste from livestock and other agro-based industries.
Quarrying has silted many rivers. Soil erosion is depleting soil
fertility quicker than it can be regenerated. Burning off around the
region is producing thick unhealthy smog, which is affecting the whole
country.
Yet with all this development there are still distinct infrastructure
deficits in Malaysia. Most of the rural areas within Sabah and Sarawak
are remote, where transport is costly. Some regions in Terengganu and
Kelantan are still relatively isolated with very few perceived economic
opportunities, as is with Perlis and parts of Kedah. The cost of goods
in these areas are more expensive than the major cities. Sabah and
Sarawak are legally deprived of the ability to ship goods by sea
directly to other countries, as they must be trans-shipped through the
Peninsula, thus handicapping the development of new export industries.
Even with rising urban populations within Malaysia, food production is
not keeping pace with this growth. Malaysia is a net importer of food
and animal feed, and the relatively high prices industrial crops like
oil palm verses food crops deters food crop expansion. As Jared Diamond
professed in his seminal book Collapse, a country which fails to
provide for self sufficiency in food production and animal feed is
destined to doom just like the Mayan civilization of a long gone era.
There is a general lack of research and development in new crops and the
effects of climate change on existing crops. Crop research is undertaken
on a national rather than regional level, where there is little support
for developing new industries in specific areas. Currently most
agricultural research is undertaken centrally by the Malaysian
Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), which follows a
national research agenda formulated by policy rather than market
considerations.
High urban wages have created a labor shortage in rural areas, and the
rising cost of petroleum inputs is increasing the cost of production
making food production uncompetitive.
Rural development has been undertaken with little appreciation of
ecosystems within the concept of sustainability. The current method of
identifying development projects at a district or state level within the
bureaucracy and then Federally funding it is skewed towards meeting
personal interests of vested parties. Real community consultation is not
sort, where new projects generally lack any sense of community ownership
and pride, often becoming 'white elephants' and abandoned. Many
of the drivers of economic growth have been public sector orientated and
consequently unsustainable projects, in most cases at the expense of the
environment.
Rural Malaysians have been introduced to debt through loans and credit
cards as a means to acquire goods and services to increase their
standard of living, creating a debt trap. This burden is partly to blame
for the lack of micro-SME development, due to the inability to pursue
opportunities because of the lack of capital.
This
is the biggest crisis, the crisis of opportunity. The incidence of
entrepreneurial opportunity in rural areas is low, particularly for the
youth, who are migrating to the cities.
Consumer desire has replaced cultural continuity, where much of rural
society's traditions and knowledge are being lost. Locally grown food is
being replaced with processed food, fruits and vegetables are full of
pesticides, family built houses are being replaced with mortgages, fast
food has replaced ulam (native herbs), where bank loans have replaced
self reliance.
The development of rich local farming and craft skills are not being
renewed and developed through the existing education system so these
can be utilized and exploited for creating a sustainable living in the
community. This is dispossessing communities of their cultural wealth.
To remedy this requires a complete paradigm shift in development
philosophy, moving the focus away from infrastructure towards enhancing
the elements of local economies at a micro-level. This is potentially
very difficult as Malaysian technocrats in Putrajaya are governed by the
narrative of technology 'thrusts' and setting tangible 'KPIs' in
development planning.
As a commentator it is easy to criticize, especially when a writer
provides no meaningful solutions. So the rest of this article will focus
on providing one paradigm as a solution (no doubt other paradigms exist)
to Malaysia's rural development quandary.
The precise needs of rural societies is best obtained from inside those
communities. A 'bottom up' problem identification process will
ensure development objectives and implementation scenarios will remain
relevant to those targeted communities. Community shura
(consultation) committees can be set up at village level to identify and
discuss needs, problems, and desired solutions, and advise village
heads. Such a democratic approach to community will provide policy
makers with the guidance they need in setting objectives and programs,
and assist in minimizing funding leakages during implementation. This
measure alone would signal a very strong redistribution of policy
decision making to the communities themselves, thus empowering
communities to have more say in deciding their own future destinies. The
shura system should develop new leaders and 'champions'
who are willing to lead and help shape a new community sense of wisdom.
Policies will never succeed without people to drive them.
Self
sufficiency and a vibrant local trade economy is the key to future rural
communities. However, rural SMEs should be facilitated to enter
national and international markets. There are now many compliance
procedures such as Good Agricultural Practice (GAP), necessary for
agricultural produce to enter international supply chains. These
practices need to be introduced within rural communities so products
produced are accepted in international markets. These compliance
processes can be locally enhanced to include Halal certification,
thus widening the compliance process to one inclusive certification,
which for want of a better name could be called HalalGAP. A
HalalGAP certification could greatly enhance the desirability of
Malaysian produce, especially within the exponentially growing Halal
markets worldwide.
Whole sectors like rice paddy production need to be reconfigured from
the 'bottom up' so they can become competitive. The paddy
production process in Malaysia requires the hands of a number of
contractors during the field preparation, planting, cultivation,
harvesting, and processing stages. Paddy production is an uncompetitive
sector. Proposed solutions from the Northern Corridor Economic Region
Authority (NCER) to develop mini-rice paddy estates with land leased
from smallholders and employing these same smallholders as laborers is
culturally unsound and almost certain to fail.
New methods like System of Rice Intensification (SRI) could be adopted,
and more popular aromatic varieties of rice cultivated to increase
industry viability. The rice monopoly held by BERNAS could be ended to
allow new approaches to rice products and marketing by entrepreneurial
individuals. Such an approach could drastically decrease production
costs and add value to rice products in the marketplace, redistributing
this added value back to farmers.
University and institutional research should change focus towards
communities rather than using scare research funds to chase medals at
exhibitions that have no research or commercial significance in places
like Geneva and Seoul. The technology developed by Malaysian
institutions should be simple, applicable to community enterprise, and
appropriate to the size of the enterprises operating in rural areas.
This appropriate technology, if effective and viable is itself a source
of competitive advantage that will enable rural enterprises to compete
in the marketplace.
This is a major challenge to Malaysian researchers to come out from
their academic institutions and into the community with solutions that
can enrich society. If state awards with titles were recommended for
those who developed technology benefitting the community, one would be
sure there would be great focus and resources allocated towards solving
rural problems by academic researchers.
Locally relevant new crops research programs should be undertaken to
identify locally viable new crops, which are developed as close as
possible to the communities it is intended to benefit, with the
community's input and cooperation through Participatory Action Research
(PAR), rather than centralizing research under a national agenda. New
crops research should adopt an 'farm to folk' research and
development approach, including the development of knowhow for
processing new downstream products.
This requires support through developing new supply/value chains that
will carry new micro-enterprises to new markets, with new products. The
Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) has a superb
distribution infrastructure that can be utilized to do this. Primary and
processed food products can be supplemented with handicrafts,
traditional Malay wedding items, batik, leather goods, pewter, and Malay
fashion products to develop a national range of indigenous products that
can be marketed through franchised retail outlets. These products could
be the result of a host of new rural activities that are developed at
micro-SME level. If Fairtrade shops in Europe and OTOP shops in
Thailand are any indication of the viability of this proposition, these
shops will be extremely profitable.
The nature of entrepreneurship education also needs reconsideration.
Currently universities are playing a primary role in training
entrepreneurs, but current courses tend to be academically full of
theory, teaching more about entrepreneurship, rather than how people can
become entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is more about creativity, than
intelligence. Yet universities focus on measuring intelligence through
assignment and exam, rather than project formats. Entrepreneurship
education should be technically based and taught with a 'hands on'
approach, rather than the stiff classroom theory approach.
Entrepreneurship education needs to be refocused towards vocational and
community education mediums to reach those in rural communities who need
assistance through this form of education.
An
entrepreneurial community requires finance which the established banks
are hesitant to provide, even with the Government sponsored credit
guarantee program under the Credit Guarantee Corporation (CGC). Rural
community savings cooperatives can be developed as savings and
micro-lending institutions, owned by the community, run for the
community, by the community itself. These savings cooperatives can
operate according to Islamic finance procedures where venture risk is
shared by both the entrepreneur and institution, and as supplementary
activities, run special education, Haj and Umrah funds for community
members.
These measures would create a new community enrichment rather than a
'KPI' orientated development paradigm. All of these measures
individually exist and operate successfully in other member ASEAN states
today.
New crop research is very much needed to ensure communities are able to
successfully adapt to a changing environment due to climate change.
Over the next few years, some crops may provide better yields, while
others will drastically decline in their productive capabilities. In
addition food production for increasing urban populations and restoring
water quality will become very critical issues. There must be a renewed
interest in sustainability on the part of both policy makers and
communities, as Malaysia's sustainability is tied up with rural
evolution. New forms of community education are needed outside of the
traditional education system to deliver community needed skills. The
failure to achieve this will result in continued population depletion as
the youth abandon rural areas for the cities.
For over five years there has been talk about the need of change. This
has usually been expressed in political terms at the cost of looking at
the cultural, economic, and spiritual development. Current development
paradigms have eroded traditional Malaysian society values to the point
where it is just a national memory and a long gone narrative. This old
narratives once housed Malaysia's sense of unity in being collectively
proud as a nation, where the rituals of 'balik kampong'
(returning home) during festivals, smelling the scent of durian during
season, rendang during festivals, fishing in the longkang (irrigation
drains), and flying kites over paddy fields. These activities once
signified what was most valued by communities.
Here lies the opportunity to enrich rural society along the vibrant
cultural traditions that the country once thrived upon; building self
sufficient and sustaining communities. These communities will be much
better immune to economic downturns. Communities based upon indigenous
knowledge and skills will develop much greater cultural pride which has
become exhausted through Malaysia's occidental industrial growth
paradigm.
This is the fundamental issue at stake for Malaysians to decide whether
the same country will spiritually exist in the future, or be gone and
replaced with something else. The rural communities are the last
custodians of Malaysia's culture and this is where efforts must be made
to preserve the spirit of Malaysia, if it is to survive.
The role of government linked corporations (GLCs) in Malaysia's corridor
development projects has not necessarily taken into account the best
interests of the communities they have sort to 'develop'. The
'collateral damage' of this 'development' may be too much to
bare. If rural development serves vested interests, it will surely be
piece meal, unbalanced and ultimately destructive. Future development
must enrich rather than destroy culture with blind materialism produced
through current paradigms. This requires a rethink on rural development
in Malaysia before what once mattered to Malaysians is destroyed
forever.
June 23, 2013
Can there be a National Unity Government in Malaysia?
Murray Hunter
With
the perceived weakening of Najib Bin Razak's position of tenure
as Malaysian Prime Minister, there is deep speculation within the
country about moves afoot to form a national unity government.
Since the Barisan National's re-election on May 5, there has been a
distinct shift in stance towards 'Ketuanan Melayu' or Malay
privilege, at the cost of 1Malaysia inclusive philosophy. There is now
little talk about the Government Transformation Program, and after a
relaxed stance towards rallies by the opposition, authorities are now
taking stern action towards Anwar's 505 movement with mass arrests of
demonstrators over the weekend. Even Najib's calls to make UMNO more
inclusive has aggravated many within his party.
According to political pundits, Najib Bin Razak is still prime minister,
only because there is currently no other creditable and popular figure
who could take the mantle of leadership away from him.
If we go back to pre-May 5 feeling in the community, there was great
anticipation that an era of change was about to sweep the country. There
was excitement on the streets with an almost carnival atmosphere. But
the result on election night disappointed so many people, where denial
and claims of massive cheating showed that many refused to accept the
result. This has left the country just as divided as it was before the
election. Nothing was settled and politicking rather than governance is
dominating the national narrative. Anwar Ibrahim is pushing the
Government into a corner with his national 505 tour disputing the
election result which seems to be directly challenging Najib to take
action against him.
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June 16, 2013
Will Australian Labor Remain Principled and fall on its own
Sword?
Murray Hunter
Julia
Gillard's Federal Labor Government looks like being totally
desecrated in the coming election, potentially leaving Labor with only a
small hand-full of seats in the new parliament with an Abbot Liberal
National Party Government. Such a situation could leave Labor in the
political wilderness for many years without much hope of regaining power
for a generation just like Labor was in opposition for 23 years until
Gough Whitlam gained power back in 1972 under a platform of change over
a tired Liberal National Party Government. Many Labor members of
Parliament have closely examined the latest polling and realize they
have almost no chance of retaining their seats under Prime Minister
Gillard leading the election campaign. Many pollsters believe that Ms.
Gillard's personal unpopularity maybe generally holding down the
potential Labor vote.
Meanwhile Kevin Rudd is wandering around outer suburban shopping malls
in marginal seats, being mobbed like a pop star and looking a winner on
television. This is in contrast to Ms. Gillard's appearances which make
her look cornered and on the defensive. Rudd has always been able to use
the media exceptionally well in contrast to Gillard who prefers the
parliament as a forum to her advantage.
At the same time Labor factions are in disarray and contemplating what
the political future would be like on the opposition benches under a
conservative Abbott Government, capable of becoming a Howard style
Government of union bashing. If Abbott down the track of any future
government he leads introduces workplace reforms, they might have the
potential to destroy the Australian Union Movement as Australians have
known it. This scenario has from the Labor perspective brought about
much thinking and discussion about how to remedy this oncoming disaster.
Labor senator Trish Crossin who was tipped off from her No. 1 position
on the senate ticket by Prime Minister Gillard's personal intervention,
has come out publicly stating that Rudd would be the better person to
lead Labor into the election. However as of today, Kevin Rudd has
indicated that he will not mount a challenge against Julia Gillard.
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June 11, 2013
Finding a long term solution in the 'Deep South' of Thailand
Murray Hunter
With
the apparent stall in negotiations between the Thai Government and Barisan
Revolusi Patani (BRN) over the violence of the 'Deep South', one must start
considering how long before a solution to this lingering insurgency problem can
be found
With roughly 5,300 people being killed since 2004, with 45 killed and 75 injured
since the negotiations between the Thai Government and BRN began negotiations
with Malaysia mediating, there are calls by opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva
to suspend negotiations with the BRN until the level of violence is lowered.
There are also risks that the military may go on the offensive again and conduct
pre-emptive raids on suspected 'terrorist' hideouts.
These apparently stalled negotiations could be interpreted to mean that the BRN
are not the sole voice for the various insurgent groups in the 'Deep South' and
some of these groups feel angry that the BRN is grandstanding in public claiming
to represent those in the south with grievances. In fact if one drives from Hat
Yai in Songkhla Province through Petani, Yala, and Narathiwat, what is most
striking is the diversity and fragmentation of 'Malay' Muslims within the 'Deep
South'. There are those who live by the coast, those that live in the mountains
around Yala, those who live in rubber estates within Narathiwat, and the urban
Malay Muslims. All have different interests, livelihoods, and leaders, where by
far, the majority are peace loving people.
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08.06.2013
Islamic
Freedom in ASEAN
Murray Hunter
Almost half of the 629
million people living within the ASEAN region are Muslims. Within the
ten countries of ASEAN, three countries Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia,
and Malaysia have Muslim majorities, and the remaining seven
countries host Muslim minorities, ranging from 0.1% in Vietnam to
nearly 16% in Singapore. Due to the lack of any recent census data in
many ASEAN countries, obtaining accurate figures of the Muslim
population is extremely difficult, where estimates vary widely.
In
the Muslim majority states of ASEAN, Islam provides a source of
political legitimacy for government and its leaders. Within the
Muslim minority states, there are increasing aspirations for an
Islamic society which today is expressed through the demand for
Shariah (Islamic law), Madrasas (Islamic schools),
Halal practices (what is permitted under Islam), and most
importantly religious and cultural recognition.
Centuries ago
Islam promoted both an enlightened intellectual and socially
progressive culture which brought many societies to the forefront of
art, medicine, scientific discovery, philosophy, and creative
civilization. However today we see a large proportion of the Ummah
(Muslim community) living in poverty and isolated from the rest of
the world community. Islam once the basis of a progressive society is
now seen by many as backward and irrelevant. Most Islamic societies
of today are struggling to keep pace with the rest of the world,
creating a dangerously wide gap between Muslims and non-Muslims.
If
we subscribe to Richard Florida's concepts of socially determined
creativity, then religious freedom would have great influence upon
the level of a society's innovation, and ability to solve the
problems it faces as a community in a socially and spiritually wise
manner. Within the Islamic world this would hinge upon;
1. The
freedom to practice Islam, 2. The freedom to
express Islam, and 3. The
freedom to produce new social intellectual output that will enable
the evolution of a progressive Islamic society.
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03.06.2013
PUBLICATIONS:
The return of Kevin Rudd as Australian PM: For how long? - Murray Hunter
Reinvigorating
Rural Malaysia - New Paradigms Needed - Murray Hunter
Can there be a National Unity Government in Malaysia? - Murray Hunter
Will Australian Labor Remain Principled and fall on its own Sword? - Murray
Hunter
Finding a long term solution in the 'Deep South' of Thailand - Murray Hunter
Islamic Freedom in ASEAN - Murray Hunter
Multiculturalism is dead in Europe – MENA oil and the (hidden) political
price Europe pays for it - Author: Anis Bajrektarevic
Malaysia: It was Never About the Election It was always about what would
happen afterwards - Murray Hunter
Enriching the Sustainability Paradigm - Murray Hunter
Does Australia's 2013 Defence White Paper Signal a Strategic Withdraw? -
Murray Hunter
Where is Saudi Arabian Society Heading? - Abdullah Abdul Elah
Ali Sallam & Murray Hunter University Malaysia Perlis
Critical Similarities and Differences in SS of Asia and Europe - Prof. Anis
H. Bajrektarevic
Searching for an end game in the Korean Crisis - Murray Hunter
Turks suspicious
towards German Government - Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann
The high Australian Dollar: Whose
interests is the Reserve Bank of Australia looking after? - Murray Hunter
Is Secretary Kerry's trip to
China a "face saving" measure? - Murray Hunter
Asia-Pacific at
the Crossroads - The Implications for Australian Strategic Defense Policy -
Murray Hunter
Obama's Korean
Peninsula "Game" Strategy seeks to achieve a wide range of objectives in his
"Asian Pivot" - Murray Hunter
Institute for the research of genocide - IGC Letter Regarding Vuk Jeremic Agenda in UN
Who rules Singapore? - The only true mercantile state in the world - Murray
Hunter
The Thai Deep South: Both Malaysia and
Thailand Desperately Seeking Success - Murray Hunter
The desperate plight of Islamic education in Southern Thailand - Murray Hunte
Who makes public policy in Malaysia? - Murray Hunter
MENA Saga and Lady Gaga - (Same dilemma from the MENA) - Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Australia's National Security Paper: Did it
amount to lost opportunities? The policy you have when you don't have a policy -
Murray Hunter
Are "B" Schools in Developing Countries
infatuated with 'Western' Management ideas? - Murray Hunter
The Stages of Economic Development from
an Opportunity Perspective: Rostow Extended - Murray Hunter
Who Really Rules Australia?: A tragic tale of the Australian People - Murray
Hunter
Europe: Something Old, Something
New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue - Murray Hunter
Back to the future: Australia's "Pacific
Solution" reprise - Murray Hunter
Hillary to Julia "You take India and I'll take Pakistan", while an ex-Aussie
PM says "Enough is enough with the US" - Murray Hunter
Entrepreneurship and economic growth? South-East Asian
governments are developing policy on the misconception that entrepreneurship
creates economic growth. - Murray Hunter
FOCUSING ON MENACING MIDDLE EAST GEOPOLITICAL ENVIRONMENTS,
ENDANGERING SECURITY AND STABILITY OF WESTERN BALKAN* - Brig Gen (Rtd) Dr. Muhammad Aslam Khan, Pakistan
Australia "Do as I say, not as I do" - The ongoing RBA
bribery scandal - Murray Hunter
Australia in the "Asian Century" or is it Lost in Asia? - Murray Hunter
Surprise, surprise: An Islam economy can be innovative - Murray Hunter
Do Asian Management Paradigms Exist? A look at four theoretical frames - Murray
Hunter
What China wants in Asia: 1975 or 1908 ? – addendum - prof. dr. Anis
Bajraktarević
ASEAN Nations need indigenous innovation
to transform their economies but are doing little about it. - Murray Hunter
From Europe, to the US, Japan, and onto China: The evolution of the automobile -
Murray Hunter
Missed Opportunities for ASEAN if the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) fails to
start up in 2015 - Murray Hunter
Lessons from the Invention of the airplane and the Beginning of the Aviation Era
- Murray Hunter
Elite educators idolize the “ high flying entrepreneurs” while
deluded about the realities of entrepreneurship for the masses: -
Murray Hunter
The
Arrival of Petroleum, Rockefeller, and the Lessons He taught Us - Murray Hunter
- University Malaysia Perlis
Ethics, Sustainability and the New Realities - Murray Hunter
The Dominance of “Western” Management Theories in South-East Asian Business
Schools: The occidental colonization of the mind. - Murray Hunter
How feudalism
hinders community transformation and economic evolution: Isn’t equal opportunity
a basic human right? - Murray Hunter
On Some of the Misconceptions about Entrepreneurship - Murray Hunter
Knowledge, Understanding and the God Paradigm - Murray Hunter
Do Confucian Principled Businesses Exist in Asia? - Murray Hunter
Samsara and the
Organization - Murray Hunter
Integrating the philosophy of Tawhid – an Islamic approach to organization. -
Murray Hunter
What’s
with all the hype – a look at aspirational marketing - Murray Hunter
Does Intrapreneurship exist in Asia? - Murray Hunter
One Man, Multiple Inventions: The lessons and legacies of Thomas Edison -
Murray Hunter
People tend to start businesses for the wrong reasons - Murray Hunter
How
emotions influence, how we see the world? - Murray Hunter
How we create new ideas - Murray Hunter
Where do entrepreneurial opportunities come from? - Murray Hunter
The
five types of thinking we use - Murray Hunter
Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities: What’s wrong with SWOT? - Murray
Hunter
How
motivation really works - Murray Hunter
The
Evolution of Business Strategy - Murray Hunter
Not all opportunities are the same: A look at the four types of
entrepreneurial opportunity -
Murray Hunter
Do we have a creative intelligence? - Murray Hunter
Imagination may be more important than knowledge: The eight types of imagination
we use - Murray Hunter
The environment as a multi-dimensional system:
Taking off your rose coloured
glasses
- Murray Hunter
Generational Attitudes and Behaviour -
Murray Hunter
Groupthink may still be a hazard to your organization - Murray Hunter
Perpetual Self conflict: Self awareness as a key to our ethical drive, personal mastery, and perception of
entrepreneurial opportunities - Murray Hunter
The Continuum of Psychotic Organisational Typologies - Murray Hunter
There is no such person as an entrepreneur, just a person who acts
entrepreneurially - Murray Hunter
Go Home, Occupy Movement!!-(The McFB– Was Ist Das?) - prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarevic
Diplomatie préventive - Aucun siècle Asiatique sans l’institution pan-Asiatique - prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarevic
Democide Mass-Murder
and the New World Order - Paul Adams
Crans Montana video:
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prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarevic

MENA Saga and Lady Gaga - (Same dilemma from the MENA) - Anis H. Bajrektarevic

Go Home, Occupy Movement!!
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(The McFB – Was Ist Das?)
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prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarevic

Diplomatie préventive - Aucun sičcle Asiatique sans l’institution pan-Asiatique
- prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarevic\/span|

ADDENDUM – GREEN/POLICY PAPER: TOWARDS THE CREATION OF THE OSCE TASK FORCE ON (THE FUTURE OF) HUMAN CAPITAL
prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarevic

Gunboat Diplomacy in the South China Sea – Chinese
strategic mistake
-
Anis H. Bajrektarevic

Geopolitics of Quantum Buddhism: Our Pre-Hydrocarbon Tao Future
prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarevic

The Mexico-held G–20 voices its concerns over the situation in the EURO zone
- Anis H. Bajrektarevic

What China wants in Asia: 1975 or 1908 ? – addendum - prof. dr. Anis
Bajraktarević



‘The exhaustion of Greek political system and a society in flames’ - by Dimitra
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FOCUSING ON MENACING MIDDLE EAST GEOPOLITICAL ENVIRONMENTS,
ENDANGERING SECURITY AND STABILITY OF WESTERN BALKAN* -
Brig Gen (Rtd) Dr. Muhammad Aslam Khan, Pakistan

Institute for the research of genocide - IGC Letter Regarding Vuk Jeremic Agenda in UN

Critical Similarities and Differences in SS of Asia and Europe - Prof.
Anis H. Bajrektarevic


MENA Saga and Lady Gaga - (Same dilemma from the MENA) - Anis H. Bajrektarevic

Le
MENA Saga et Lady Gaga
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(Même dilemme de
la région MOAN)
- Anis Bajrektarevic


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