In this episode, we uncover the life & leadership lessons that Dr Ong Kian Ming (better known as OK Man!) learnt the hard way.
Tune in as Dr Ong shares about his lesser-known childhood stories, lessons from from his management consulting days, roadblocks that he faced as a policymaker, how Sheraton Move took a toll on this mental health, what a ‘return to politics’ could look like - and more!
Kian Ming is the former Deputy Minister of MITI and two term Member of Parliament in Malaysia from 2013 to 2022, representing the Democratic Action Party (DAP) and serving the largest parliamentary constituency in the country. He is the Program Director of Malaysia’s very first Philosophy Politics & Economics (PPE) program at Taylor’s University.
HIGHLIGHTS:
3:55 How his consulting stint at BCG shaped him
7:40 His proudest policy achivements
11:22 Not taking credit as a politician
12:26 Main roadblocks bringing a policy from strategy to ideation
15:11 First Difficult Lesson (Value added networking)
20:17 Second Difficult Lesson (Value added transparency)
22:27 His involvement with the vaccination exercise during the COVID Pandemic
25:56 Balancing conviction and ROI as a politician
26:54 Third Difficult Lesson (Value added mentoring)
29:39 Who is his mentor in the political landscape
32:26 Sheraton Move and how it affected his mental health
35:07 Why he decided not to re-contest for a seat
40:31 His aspirations with his podcast venture, Are We Ok?
42:40 What he would do differently if he rejoined politics
44:56 Audience Q&A 1 (How to Make Career Decisions)
47:44 Audience Q&A 2 (Advice for young people joining politics)
50:14 Audience Q&A 3 (Is there a need to be patriotic?)
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