Make corporate culture work for you

Asian managers need a much more empowered culture that reflects openness to change and more engaged employees. Presently, they exhibit a number of cultural, capability gaps which include a strong acceptance of hierarchy and authority, where everything the boss says goes. The writer Howard Thomas is dean of SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business. He is also the school's chair in strategic management and one of the instructors of the new Executive MBA programme.