MBPP workers cleaning a muddy road after a flash flood in 2018.
NASI kandar outlets and other small businesses in need of good local workers may benefit from studying Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
But before I get into this 1943 exposition on the theory of human motivation, I want to pay tribute to the road sweepers of Penang island.
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