Tagged by CNN as one of the twenty-five most powerful businesspeople in Asia, Liew Mun Leong, President and CEO of the Singapore-based real estate empire, CapitaLand, rose from very humble beginnings to become one of the world's wealthiest people. Since joining the company Liew has been communicating regularly and frankly with his staff in various ways, including emails. Like the previous two volumes in his internationally acclaimed Building People, Sunday Emails from a CEO, this compilation offers fascinating and instructive insights into Liew Mun Leong's inimitable character and his management philosophy.

• Delivers powerful lessons on leadership, communication, strategy, decision-making, application vs. theory, motivating people and much more
• Offers fascinating glimpses into the life of a visionary leader, including his many interesting work experiences and challenges
• For easy reference, the communiques are gathered under the four main categories of competition, people, corporate culture and strategy

Liew Mun Leong is the Founding President and CEO of CapitaLand Group, which he helmed from November 2000 to 31 December 2012. Prior to that, he joined Pidemco Land as its President in 1996. Pidemco Land merged with DBS Land to form CapitaLand in November 2000.

Mun Leong is currently Director of CapitaLand's philanthropic arm, CapitaLand Hope Foundation. He is also Chairman of Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Chairman of Surbana Consultants Holdings, as well as Director of Singapore Exchange Limited (listed on the SGX-ST) and Singapore China Foundation Ltd.

In 2011, Mun Leong was conferred the Meritorious Service Medal at the Singapore National Day Awards 2011 for his chairmanship of the Changi Airport Group, in recognition of his outstanding contributions in public service and community work in Singapore. He was also named one of the top 25 most powerful businesspeople in Asia by Fortune magazine as well as Best CEO in Singapore by FinanceAsia that year. In 2008, Mun Leong was named Asia's Best Executive of 2008 (Singapore) by Asiamoney and Best CEO in Asia (Property) by Institutional Investor. He was conferred the CEO of the Year Award (for firms with a market value of S$500 million or more) at the Singapore Corporate Awards 2007 ceremony and in 2006, he was named Outstanding CEO of the Year during the Singapore Business Awards. In 2012, he was conferred the Outstanding PR Champion Award by the Institute of Public Relations of Singapore (IPRS).

Mun Leong graduated from the University of Singapore with a Civil Engineering degree and is a registered professional civil engineer.

This book, available in English and Chinese, is the third volume of a compilation of Sunday emails to his colleagues. The first two volumes were translated into Chinese and Vietnamese.

Preface
Chapter 1 opening quote
Chapter 1: Our Competition
1.      The Competition CapitaLand Is Facing
2.      Are we competitive and combative enough?
3.      Obama concedes that China's Railways and Singapore's Airport are better than the US
4.      ""If you are a pretty girl, there will always be a long queue for you""
5.    Are we still ahead of the curve?
6.      Are we Product Focused and Product Driven enough?
7.      Lessons from Chinese New Year!
8.    There is no such thing as an uncommunicative CEO

Chapter 2: Our People
9.      Young Turks and Silver hairs
10.  The war on talent-pull or push factor
11.  "Man is truly great when he acts from passion"

12.  "Bright eyes and bushy tails" is not good enough
13.  What should "Apprentice Executives" do to succeed in CapitaLand?
14.  Effective managers and strong pragmatic leaders!
15.  Notice of leaving CapitaLand in one year's time
16.  There are no bad workers, only ineffective supervisors
17.  Why CLIMB in CapitaLand? Converting Human Resource to Human Capital

Chapter 3: Our Corporate Culture
18.  Ten Corporate Principles of CapitaLand
19.  What Say You?
20.  Talk to your bosses!
21.  An unexpected year end lesson
22.  The very best thing for a person is health
23.  CapitaLand Wear-less Day & Green Reward
24.  B 20 Summit and Anti-corruption group
25.  Chongqing Dog
26.  Again, can we manage our mobile phone with some discipline?
27. The "Soul" of CapitaLand
28. Stay true to our core values, always!
29. "A Simple Life" - A loaded message on values

Chapter 4: Our Strategy
30. To The Next Ten!
31. Project FOT-On Corporate Strategies
32.  Synergising with Surbana the one million homes developer
33.  Some personal thoughts on the GE
34.  Lessons from the GE
35.  Managing the fourth economic crisis
36.  CNBC 's "Managing Asia" with Christine Tan
37.  Climbing the hierarchy of needs through art
Appendix
38.   Wall Street Journal 19 Mar 2012 - Managing in Asia: CapitaLand Sees Plenty of Spark in China
39.    Jinghua Times 26 Aug 2011 - The China market has bubbles but will not break
40.   Straits Times 28 Sep, 2010 - Silver-haired but Highly Treasured
41. Bloomberg 23 May 2012 - CapitaLand CEO Calls Shoebox Flats Inhuman