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Digital India and the world, a giant leap forward ! Lot of hope in technology and digitization to resolve challenges, empower people, creat real exonomy enterprenuers, and bridge the gap between demand and supply that help efficient use of resources in a sustainable and scalabe manner that seems monumental in the recent past!  This is an UberTaxi application which shows supply of cars and taxis on rent and i now wish to see similar applications showing farm equipments, people seeking skills and jobs, food and water, books, toilets, recyclable waste and renewable resources, and whatever resources that can be marketable to balance demand, supply and discover price. The UberTaxi, Airbnb and other app brings together the best technologies - internet, GPS, smart cell phones, the cloud, the softwares, and the real economy on real time basis.  I hope an Uber and Airbnb taxi like application(s) can help people discover availability of  #clean and usable pay and use private and pu...

Emerging market multinationals are set to reshape global trade; “What the Growth of South-South Trade Means for Multinational Companies? @ Bloomberg Brief.  http://newsletters.briefs.blpprofessional.com/document/Bj66QMePtZ.W3C2POZNqIQ--_46z1dnclxlbzq6p9ms/qampa http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/what-the-growth-of-south-south-trade-means-for-multinational-companies/ The article discusses trade and commerce between emerging markets - tapping into opportunities and managing risks, how emerging market companies have grown as MNC's, the challenges such as implementation risk and volatility in foreign exchange and prices of commodities while navigating challenges and how to ensure sustainable success.

* Leadership is the art of harnessing human energy towards the creation of a better future. In the process of harnessing energy, leaders respect and value people at all levels. Leaders bring out the best in others and cares about success of everyone; they earn respect.  * Leadership is all about creating change for a better future. Not giving up on the envisioned better future is at the heart of powerful leadership. Creating change encounters huge resistance at every step. Staying the course despite resistance requires deep intrinsic leadership energy. * Leaders are not born but are nurtured (or nurture themselves). Leadership is not a title or position to command or direct a group and is neither measured by the wealth nor income. * Leaders are ordinary people that assume extraordinary positions and they remain ordinary; leadership exist at all levels in the organisation and is situational. Our lowest (forced) ranking colleague is a leader in his own scope of work and...

You are 'good'! You are deserving and the chosen few for this life and this program!!  Find and be passionate of your purpose and values that will energise you and others; harness your energy that help make a better future for others and everyone. Make this world a better place!  Stay calm and authentic, its about learning; it's not about ego nor competing!  In a case study, there is no right nor a wrong answer - it is the learning process that matters. There are no easy answers, walk the tight rope and flex.  We get stresses when we are unable to manage our body, mind or soul. Self assess and reflect, Self coach, self visualize, self talk, self critique to find answers.  Integrity, Compassion, Forgiveness, Empathy will take you far ahead in the game !  Rule 10: 90 - work on your 10% priorities; as rest is less important and can be managed later. Rule 90:10 - 90% factors are contollable or self generated and 10% non-con...

GTR Asia Finance week – 9 September 2015:  Performance, pricing and managing the supply chain: Coping with challenges in the soft commodity space Moderator : Chris Pardey, Chief Executive Officer, RCMA Commodities Gopul Shah, Director, Corporate Treasury & Trade Finance, Golden Agri-Resources Jacqueline Chang, Regional Head of Commodities, Asia, ABN Amro John Reeve, Director, AgRee Commodities Jean-Francois Lambert, Global Head of Commodity & Structured Trade Finance, HSBC *  S ugar, coffee, cocoa, grains, cotton, and palm oil: How have these various sectors performed over the past year when it comes to pricing? Where is the most volatility predicted? *  Are we seeing fewer participants in the commodity space as we near the end of the ‘super-cycle’? Is this expected to be a long-term trend or something more cyclical? *  With banks keen to minimise risk and limit exposure to price volatility, how has this impacted on the use of hedging a...

Golden Agri Adopts Bloomberg''s Foreign Exchange Trading Platform By PR Newswire,  August 10, 2015, 09:32:00 PM EDT Vote up AAA Sets Industry Standard in Treasury Management SINGAPORE, Aug. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Agri-Resources Ltd has selected Bloomberg's Foreign Exchange trading platform (FXGO) for currency hedging and risk management. The world's second largest palm oil plantation company is part of a growing number of regional centers globally using Bloomberg FXGO to manage and trade risk for its businesses in Asia Pacific. "Bloomberg FXGO enables us to seamlessly trade G10, regional and emerging Asian currencies with best execution and straight-through processing," said Gopul Shah, head of global treasury and trade finance at Golden Agri. "The efficiency and cost savings gained using Bloomberg as an integrated trading solution allow us to better support the company's operational and strategic decisions while adopting industry best practi...

As Sun Tzu said in The Art of War, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu evidently underscores the importance of understanding risk and also explains that the flip side of risk is returns  Knowing the risks either helps in staying hedged or enables making money by riding on volatility. Just as returns are the flip side of risk, properly managed risk is cost saved. Volatility is here to stay; notice that there isn’t a straight line nor any direction in the commodity or foreign currency and the volatility index.  Case study:  The company imports commodity X in US dollars (USD) on sight terms, and it processes and sells consumer packs to its customers in local currency (LCY) through a countrywide local wholesale network on credit terms and t...