This series focuses on Asia's new entrepreneurs and their secrets for growth, using a unique style combining documentary and animation. The first episode begins with Thai magnate Dhanin Chearavanont.
Morris Chang has revolutionized the semi-conductor industry, creating an empire that controls over 50% of global production. How did a simple subcontractor turn into a leading business success story?
Tony Fernandes, the Malaysian Group CEO of AirAsia, established his low-cost-airline in 2001, and through his never-back-down attitude changed the airs over Asia. This program explores how he did it.
Since his beginnings as the director of a refrigerator manufacturing plant about 30 years ago, Zhang Ruimin, the CEO of Haier, has built a global brand that exports products to 165 countries. His starting point was an electric home appliance company on the verge of bankruptcy. He pushed through a merit-based personnel system that raised employee motivation. Recently, Zhang divided his company into as many as 2000 independently managed units and created a system to transfer authority and responsibility to selected employees. These moves have attracted attention from entrepreneurs in Europe and America alike. The secrets of Zhang's method for developing human resources are revealed in this episode.
Odjargal Jambaljamts has helped turn Mongolia into one of the world's leading high-quality coal producers, while dealing skillfully with the landlocked nation's two neighboring superpowers.