This book is what it is largely because of Chairman S. Suppiah & MAS Book Core Team, and editors extraordinaire, Premilla Mohanlall & Philip Mathews. Thoughtful publisher, Malaysian Airlines System Retirees Association (MASRA) in particular the President, Shulhameed Marican raise issues that are elusive and thereby inspire the authors to their best reflections. Suppiah has performed this task with aplomb, persistence and wisdom. Throughout the face-to-face weekend meetings over more than two years, Projest Leader Engineer Sitham, with Dr. Pathmanaban, Wilfred, Sam Ramasamy, Captain Paramsothy, Susai Anthony, Shulhameed & Dr. Zul, have been an indispensable parners in the conception and execution of this book. Another remarkable collaboration impact with exeptional skills of supporting from 70 writers.
An eminent panel of industry leaders and top academicians reviewed every chapter. A genius in slicing Gordian knots of clotted prose and a profound amateur historian, they broadened the perspective and elevated the prose. Attorney Dato' Seri Abdul Mutalib Razak & Professor Dr. Hajah Nor Khomar Ishak, who combines enthusiasm and remarkable intellect were very helpful & incisive in development and analysis.
I have benefitted from dedicated colleagues of former MAS Academy who shared the vast source materials, extraordinary commitment and gave me sage counsel on both substance & style. I'm indebted to each of them and my mentor Judge Dato' Syed Ahmad Idid for their help.
The lessons, I learned along this valued route in writing the book is that leadership is indispensable: decisions must be made, trust earned, promises kept, a way forward proposed. Within human institutions, like MAS, Global Sejahtera Initiative, MyaeroangkasaSatu - leadership is needed to help people reach from where they are now to where they have never been & sometimes, can scarcely imagine going forward.
I subscribed without compelling leadership, institutions drift, and nations court growing irrelevance and, ultimately, resulting with disaster.
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