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Determi & DedicaThe life and leadership of Montri Rawanchaikuination
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I first met Montri Raw Expo 2020 Dubai. What s he was already one of the but the ease. He has a ra ease, to make a conversa an audience. It is a quali I had spent enough time rests on connection, on c trust. The man and his pSo when he asked, som book together, I was glad person's story is not a sm properly.
We did the substantia high in the towers that lo should confess that we be moving furniture this wa bore the whole disruptionPrefacMatthew Amlôt
Dubai, 2026wanchaikul in 2022, on the sidelines of
struck me was not the seniority, though
e most significant figures in Asian energy,
are ability to put the people around him at
ation feel like a conversation rather than
ty I came to understand better later, once
e with him to see how much of his thinking
collaboration, on the patient building of
philosophy, it turns out, are the same thing.
me time later, whether we might make this
d to take it on. To be trusted with another
mall thing, and his is a story worth telling
al work in Bangkok, at PTTEP's head office,
ook out over Wachirabenchathat Park. I
egan by rearranging his office entirely,
ay and that in search of the right light, and he
n with good humour.
ce
A man of his position might reasonably h waited while we fussed, which told m before we had properly begun.
What followed were some of the mos have spent in this work. It is one of the r to meet people with genuinely interestin has one. He is disarming in his directne same breath, a combination rarer than i an anecdote only when one is needed, n has given the vast majority of his workin and one industry, rising from its lower r produces a depth of knowledge you cannHe was, throughout, generous with h schedule that would flatten most people listen closely and get it down faithfully.
This book is my attempt to set down Rawanchaikul has done, but how he th justice. 03
have left us to it. He simply
me something about him
st absorbing hours I
real pleasures of the job
ng stories, and Montri
ess and humble in the
it sounds. He reaches for
never to fill the air. He
ng life to one company
ranks to lead it, and that
not acquire any other way.
his time, despite a
e. My job was simply to
n not only what Montri
hinks. I hope it does him