Clive Lim-“The Family Business: East Meets West"Register Now

Clive Lim, Founder, Leap International, Singapore

TOPIC:  “The Family Business:  East Meets West"

DESCRIPTION:  Many business and entrepreneurial success stories are rooted in family dynamics. Family can be a great support—but it can also be very complicated. There are many tales of family challenges with respect to succession and transition strategies. What lessons can be learned from how other cultures treat the family business? In Asia, business is family and family is business. In fact, in the Overseas Chinese disaspora, stretching throughout the West, the family is the preferred way of doing business. Clive will engage in a Q & A with Rick Goossen to discuss the following issues: Confucian influences in family structure; power structure v organizational structure; the role of legacy of the family name; entitlement and the next generation; and the nature of family obligations. This session will allow you to understand more about how business is done in “the East” (the Chinese way of doing business) and also reflect on how business is done in “the West.”

BIO:  Dr. Clive Lim, Singapore, serves on the board of TeleChoice International Ltd, a mobile telecom services and equipment provider listed in the Singapore Stock Exchange. He was the founder and first CEO of TeleChoice. He is also the founder and current director of Leap International, an investment holding company. Prior to being an entrepreneur he worked as a senior manager in Fuji Xerox, then Motorola Electronic.  Dr. Lim holds a Master of Business Admin from the Asian Institute of Management, a Master of Christian Studies (Marketplace Theology) from Regent College (Canada) and D. Min (Leadership and Business Ethics) Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (U.S.A.).  Dr. Lim served on the board of The Biblical Graduate School of Theology (BGST). He is married with three grown children.