From Kampung to Corporate to Kuli: My Personal Leadership Journey

By Boonsiri Somchit,
Chief Conceptualist at Xtrategize Technologies and
the best-selling author of "When the Chicken Dies, Everyone Cries"

Why look to the west when we can learn and be inspired by so much even in our very own backyard?

These are stories from the very heart of the kampung. These are stories of how my growing up years, my rag-tag gang of friends, the pakcik-pakcik and makcik-makcik plus a cockroach and a chicken taught me about the value of authentic leadership, the importance of communication and collaboration and the power of adaptability and resilience. However, the most important lesson I learnt from that time was about the power of sekampung and this will be the magic that I would like to share with you from my own personal leadership journey, from the kampung to corporate to kuli.