How to lead in a Chaotic World

This lecture is part of McDonald Agape Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series.  The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. But this is not the case. Our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years. It is those very categories, rather than their underlying concepts, that constrain…

Can social media make us happy? When Dr. Donna Freitas set out to interview university students across the United States about social media, she found happiness to be a recurring theme in those conversations. When students talk about social media and their smartphones, they do so in a way that measures their happiness – or the appearance of…

Leadership from the Halls of Power brings the audience inside the corridors of power and relates the personal stories and powerful findings of the ten-year Platinum Study. The project represents the largest ever interview-based study of senior leaders with more than 550 senior executives in business, government, higher education, and non-profit institutions, including two U.S….

Co-organised by:Faith and Global Engagement, HKUDepartment of Social Work & Social Administration, HKUVisual Psychophysics and Neuroimaging Laboratory, HKU Anger is often associated as one of the major faces of shame in society. The word shame’ has been traced to the root meaning to cover or to hide, exemplified in the Biblical narrative of Adam and Eve. Shame is…

Celebrating our Lead for Life midyear reunion with Cohort 2021 students in their Year 3.