invasion of China, where he was born, and later facing the challenge of building a new life in the United States after the communists came to power. He spent 25 years there with Texas Instruments and gained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford. That, however, is what makes Chang stand out from the crowded field of Asian business leaders. What When it comes to making critical business decisions, a leader should also have intuition, he told the Accenture consulting company when interviewed for a research article, giving as examples two acquisitions TSMC made in 1999-of Acer Semiconductor and Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (WSMC) They were gambles, but ones that paid off by strengthening TsMC's production facilities and further widening the gap between the company and its competitors. This is a company chief who believes in leading from the front and sets himself high standards of self discipline so he can be a successful role model for his staff. He has a hot temper, he told a magazine interviewer, which shows when people do things wrong that he knows they can do right. clearly a challenging man to work for He is knowledgeable, especially about the semiconductor industry; he has a clear mind and is confident of his own abilities. An HKUST conversation with his employees revealed that they are all a