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Queen Of Heads
Interview with Winnie Loo by Barbara Tey (2005)
Her clients' crowning glory is not the only reason why this queen wears the crown of her industry; Winnie Loo is also the mastermind of her craft and always ahead of the pack.
Winnie Loo
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If you want to succeed in
business, you need to be, well, a cut above the rest. Winnie Loo has done just that and
what is more, she has named her business "A Cut Above", a title so cheeky it
probably riles her competitors each time they see it.
For Winnie that is the fun part of doing what she loves best - snipping hair in such a
daring way, it became almost an art form. She was so good at it she impacted the local
hairdressing sector and marked herself out as being uniquely different. |
The fearless factor
Instead of pursuing law, accountancy or chartered secretaryship, Winnie fearlessly opted to carve her career path in the so-called "lowly" field of hairdressing! Her passion for hairdressing began after being brought into a hair saloon as a child and she took great pride even then, to look good. Unabashed about being vain, Winnie says it was the deciding factor that made her want to go into
hairdressing.
But back then in 1979, the prevailing view was that hairdressing was not a business but merely a profession for the less academically inclined. Even her worried father urged her to consider establishing a business that was likely to generate greater respect than that but Winnie was adamant on proving the skeptics wrong!
* Extracted with permission from MANAGEMENT magazine (April - June 2006)
| Read the rest of Winnie's success story in MANAGEMENT magazine (April - June 2006) and her book, A Cut Above: Built on Hard Work, True Grit and A Pair of Scissors. Meet Winnie Live in Person and get your copies autographed on 5 May 2006 at MIM's Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Talk. Register Now! The MANAGEMENT magazine and A Cut Above: Built on Hard Work, True Grit and A Pair of Scissors are available at all MPH Bookstores
nationwide. |
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to our Malaysian companies and serves as a platform for free exchange of management knowledge and experience. This year MIM celebrates 40 years of delivering management excellence, having not only grown in stature and membership support in forty years, but having also established itself as the authoritative voice of management in the country. MIM's national charter and challenges will require it
to be innovative and forward looking to prepare Malaysian workers and the present and future generation of managers to be able to competently handle and manage new dynamic challenges, enabling us to navigate our way to
compete successfully and to achieve our Malaysia 2020 vision of becoming a developed nation.
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