Learning from shortcomings


Family bond: Frank and his sister, Yi Shin, have been taught to admit their mistakes and to learn from them.

NOBODY likes to have their mistakes pointed out. But Crystal Safety Glass Sdn Bhd chairman and founder Datuk Tan Seng Huat, 53, believes there is no better way to learn than from your own mistakes.

It is also in this way that he has trained his successors, his son Frank Tan Yin Ming and daughter Tan Yi Shin, to be good leaders in the company.

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