Jeffery Tan

THE WRITER IS A LAWYER AND SENIOR ACCREDITED DIRECTOR OF THE SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS. HE SERVES ON SEVERAL BOARDS INCLUDING THE GLOBAL GUIDING COUNCIL OF ONE MIND AT WORK AND THE SGLISTCOS COUNCIL

The circular economy challenges an assumption deeply embedded in modern consumption – that when something breaks, its useful life is over. Sometimes it is. Often it isn’t.
THE BROAD VIEW

Sustainability begins with learning to repair

2026-09-11T23:30:00.000Z
Boards seldom destroy companies in a single meeting. They erode trust one choice at a time.
THINKING ALOUD

Boards need to pay attention to their invisible balance sheet

2026-09-02T23:00:00.000Z
For more than six decades, Singapore’s greatest natural resource has been neither land nor minerals, but people.
THINKING ALOUD

Singapore must be prepared for a race that is always changing

2026-08-10T23:00:00.000Z
Psychologists have long distinguished solitude from loneliness. Loneliness is unwanted isolation. Solitude is chosen aloneness – and increasingly recognised as restorative rather than harmful.
SWITCHING LANES

What I’ve learnt from solitude in retirement

2026-07-31T23:00:00.000Z
Fifa sparked global controversy when it rescinded the red card given to US striker Folarin Balogun amid pressure from US President Donald Trump to review the decision.

The Fifa red card fiasco is a mirror for governance

2026-07-09T09:00:00.000Z
Singapore’s next generation of listed companies has the potential to reshape perceptions of the local equity market.

The new currency of markets is narrative; SGX companies must learn to master it

2026-06-07T23:00:00.000Z
Expanding the senior counsel designation to include general counsel would require a redefinition of what it signals to the courts, the profession and the public.
THE BROAD VIEW

Should Singapore’s senior counsel title include corporate general counsel?

2026-05-22T23:00:00.000Z
Many of our social and corporate systems are built to favour those who can project confidence, command airtime and manage upwards.

The quiet cost of a noisy workplace

2026-04-30T23:00:00.000Z
Routine work will be automated. Information will become more accessible. But the enduring value of the lawyer will not disappear.
THE BROAD VIEW

Why the best general counsels shape risk, not avoid it

2026-04-17T22:30:00.000Z
Alexander Stubb, Finland's president, offers a quietly compelling lesson on how resilience in geopolitics is less about rigid doctrines and more about pragmatic adjustment.
THINKING ALOUD

Pragmatism in an age of uncertainty

2026-04-01T23:00:00.000Z