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How AirAsia's Tony Fernandes smashed a COVID-19 home run

Harvard MBAs have got nothing on Southeast Asia's most dynamic entrepreneur

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Tony Fernandes is taking things to new extremes by making the odd bicycle food delivery. (Photo courtesy of AirAsia Food) 

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

In the COVID-19 era, CEOs have been forced to change gears. Yet Malaysia's Tony Fernandes, founder of AirAsia Group, is taking things to new extremes by making the odd bicycle food delivery.

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