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1 Mahbob Abdullah

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New leadership challenges raise tensions at the helm

THE first annual conference I attended at Sime Darby Berhad was in Penang, an event I had been looking forward to. However, I already suspected there would be some people I would not like and the three ...

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Uncertainty over impending changes

LIFE on the 11th floor in Wisma Sime Darby was pleasant for me, though I did not know that it was not going to last. I had a small team and we earned our fees from clients mainly from Indonesia. I could ...

Dream role just wishful thinking

Dream role just wishful thinking

AS development director of Sime Darby Plantations, my main job was handling consultancies for third-party clients. But sometimes the group would also give me assignments.

Unlike working for clients, these ...

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Cocoa rendezvous bears no fruit

WHEN a client asked me in 1992 to do a study on the supply of cocoa beans in Sulawesi and Maluku, I wasted no time in getting started.

Accompanying me was Yeong Chye, a thin young man from the marketing ...

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Job fuelled by constant travel

I REALISED that Dr Ho Chai Yee had left an efficient team on the 11th floor of Wisma Sime Darby when I took over his place as development director of the Plantations Division.

On Saw King looked after ...

Joy of working at head office

Joy of working at head office

AT Wisma Sime Darby in Kuala Lumpur, Dr Ho Chai Yee, the development director, was leaving on promotion to lead the research department.

He had worked in rubber research for many years before joining Sime ...

From the window seat of a Fokker Friendship plane, the rocky peaks of Mount Kinabalu would come into view, bathed by the sun. – BERNAMAPIC

All’s well that ends well in Sabah

IT was a nice life for me in Sabah. But it was not going to last. Being in Kota Kinabalu, I was free to visit the estates owned by Sime Darby near Sandakan.

I could enjoy the view as I took the morning ...

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Surprises come in threes

AFTER my leave was over, I arrived at my apartment in Kota Kinabalu to be greeted at the door by a pretty girl with fair skin and long glossy hair. Her lips were slightly wet.

“Who are you?”

“I am your servant ...

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Setback in pursuit of Wisma Sime Darby

AS a planter, I had been asked to buy plantations, but this was the first time I was asked to buy a building.

Wisma Sime Darby was a structure soaring with a golden glow as you passed it at Jalan Raja Laut ...

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Dealing with a change of occupation

PERHAPS one of the highlights of my career was when I was made a chief in a small village in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1986.

After that, a series of events brought me back down ...

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