1. Khoo Kheng-Hor is a Malaysian author and speaker on contemporary application of the 500 BC Chinese military treatise, The Art of War, by military strategist Sun Tzu.
15 Facts About Khoo Kheng-Hor
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Since 1999, Khoo Kheng-Hor has gone into retirement and occasionally travels in Malaysia and Singapore.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor was born in 1956 in the Penang state of Malaysia.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor received his formal education at St Xavier's Institution before leaving for Singapore in 1974, to continue his pre-university education at St Joseph's Institution.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor immediately took keen interest in the military treatise and began to learn and apply Sun Tzu's teachings into his work.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor married Judy, a former Taiwanese singer in early 1982.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor initiated a series of management and sales policies that enabled The Mall to secure the 'Best Shopping Mall' award for two years in a row.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor finally received an unconditional offer from the University of Stirling after he impressed the visiting Director of the MBA programme showing how he managed the award-winning shopping mall.
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In early 1994, Khoo Kheng-Hor was retrenched from KFC as a result of an ownership change.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor ran the company with his wife, who handles all the accounting and administration.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor lectured part-time on Strategic Management for Singapore Institute of Management's external degree programmes.
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In 1999, at the age of 43, Khoo Kheng-Hor decided to 'hang up his sword' to live a quiet and leisurely life in Cameron Highlands of Malaysia, with his wife and their "four-legged son", Bandit, a Yorkshire Terrier to this very day.
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On 1 July 2009, Khoo Kheng-Hor was promoted to the honorary rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police for his long years of service to the police force.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor came to the attention of King Khoo Kheng-Hor Lu of Wu, who was impressed by his 13-chapter military treatise, The Art of War.
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Khoo Kheng-Hor additionally manages to add realism by injecting real-life situations culled from his 15 years in management, that provoke much thought and encourage readers to assess their own performance, and take positive measures to become more effective in their workplace and interpersonal relationships.