Reinvent or Disappear: Inside The AI Reckoning Reshaping Asia’s Banks
In this Good to Great Podcast episode, hosts Mindu Hapangama and Jacob Callaway sit down with Naren Gunawardana, Managing Director at Synpulse in Singapore and the person banks across Asia call when their AI transformations get stuck, to ask why an industry with all the money, talent, and urgency in the world finds it so hard to make AI real. Every bank has a strategy on a slide; far fewer have AI working on the floor. Gunawardana takes us past the press releases and inside the machine, revealing what agentic AI actually does in a live regulated environment, why most pilots quietly die in a sandbox, and the unglamorous work of data, governance, and trust that will decide which banks reinvent and which disappear.
The Longest Game: How Family Businesses Survive, Evolve, And Endure Across Generations
In this Good to Great Podcast episode, hosts Masrur Rahman and Jeremy Simonetto sit down with George Hartel, the outsider who helped turn a sixty-year-old Thai institution, GQ Apparel, into a number one online menswear brand, and Professor Thomas Clauss of Witten/Herdecke University, a leading authority on family enterprise, to ask why the companies built to think in generations so often stumble at the handover. Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations, the saying goes. Hartel reveals what it takes to reinvent a business steeped in tradition, while Clauss maps why families resist change and how the best build something enkelfähig, fit for the grandchildren.