So innovation is in your blood or you like to bring new ideas to life and promotes an innovative culture at your organization. However, in spite of your best intention, the encouragement from colleagues, and even the nod from senior management, you might still find that your ideas or the ideas you support still wind Read more about 6 Barriers That Limit Innovation[…]
Before coming to London to join Techstars program, I told myself that I would try to blog as often as possible, but I could not find the time. The plan to write every single day is no longer possible. The plan B to write every single week is gone too, leaving plan C to summarize Read more about One Month in London — The Techstars Experience[…]
Food anyone? According to Adele, a Malaysian friend of mine, a “busy body” is someone who likes sticking her nose into other people’s business and gossip. Gossiping people exist everywhere because sometimes gossiping can be addictive, especially in Southeast Asia where I came from. “Hey, you know Ales?” asked Adele. “Ales who?” I replied. “He Read more about What Is a Busy Body? And How Does She Hack a Geek?[…]
I attended the Web Summit in Dublin In November to exhibit a startup found by a colleague of mine. He has built a snap-on technology that allows the instant integration of security into a mobile application and its backend, easily. Ok, it’s not a sales pitch…unless you or your organizations have anything to do with Read more about Web Summit – What Happened in Dublin Must Leave Dublin[…]
This post is a longer version of my Toast Master’s speech. One day when I thought about how to become happier: what should I do next, where should I go, and who do I want to have around. I came up with the W-factor to serve as a guideline for my decisions and actions. In Read more about Your Life and the 4 Simple “W”[…]
This free MOOC course “Becoming a Resilient Person: The Science of Stress Management and Promoting Well-being” is by far one of the best resources for stress management. The course shows you to look at stress from a more holistic view: yourself, your stressors, the environment and eventually your well-being. I think if we focus only Read more about Becoming a Resilient Person – What Do You Value?[…]
I recently attended a Type conference in Europe organized every two years in various cities in Europe by the British Association of Psychological Type (BATP) to connect Type Practitioners to share ideas, exchange new stuffs and practices in the industry. Most of the attendants are coaches, consultants, corporate trainers, entrepreneurs, psychologists, psychoanalysts and researchers. One Read more about 6 Time Management Tips for Intuitive Feeling Perceiving (NFP)[…]
Philosophy might not be a dying art just yet. According to Professor Luc Brabandere from Ecole Centrale Paris, there are many things we can learn from great philosophers. Below is a short summary of the course content. (Consider yourself saving 8 weeks of learning and hours of video.) To change is to change twice: perception Read more about 7 Surprising Ways Managers Can Learn from Great Philosophers[…]
What appears to be random behavior is the result of differences in the way people prefer to use their mental capacities, wrote Carl Gustav Jung. Some people you just click and some make you tick. Some daydream while some scream “show me milestones” or “give me tasks.” It would be convenient if you click with Read more about Know Your Type, Know Your Mind – The Code behind Your Personality[…]
What is EQ? Emotional Intelligence (EI) or Emotional Quotient (EQ) is the new big. It indicates your “ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups.” (Source: Wikipedia). Your success depends on the people skills: your personality, ability to communicate, negotiate and lead. Daniel Goleman, a renowned author and Read more about How Travel Can Cultivate Your Emotional Intelligence[…]