PREFACE
Why do I still spend Sundays writing emails to my colleagues and friends?
During my tenure as CEO of CapitaLand (from 2000 to 2012), I compiled all my emails which I wrote to my colleagues on Sundays and published them in three separate books with Wiley. After I stepped down as CEO of CapitaLand, I remain active in corporations as Chairman of Changi Airport Group and Surbana Jurong Group. Changi Airport Group has two roles—operations and development of Changi Airport; Surbana Jurong Group is a global consultancy group focusing on urbanization and infrastructure development in Singapore and over 30 countries. My active chairmanship of both organisations renders me ample opportunities to continue my Sunday emails but this time I penned them as Chairman and not CEO. Let me explain what inspires me to continue writing these Sunday emails.
“Will you continue to write your Sunday emails”? “Will you please include me in your circulation list”? These were the questions my ex-colleagues frequently asked when I stepped down as president and CEO of CapitaLand. I assured them that I would. I started the habit (which became more like a hobby actually!) of writing and sending Sunday emails to my colleagues in Pidemco Land (the forerunner of CapitaLand) in 1998. I don't write every Sunday, but if I do, it is only on a Sunday. Why do I write only on Sundays? Because it is only on Sundays that I have the luxury of three to four hours of uninterrupted and peaceful time to write, and it ...
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