Leadership
How 25 Teen-Trepreneurs Succeeded And Left World Leaders Perplexed
This is actually a title from a book that I recently bought at a discount. I love discounted books and I have been very lucky that this book is one of the books that I bought at significant ROI – at least 1,000%. I have bought several other books with similar ROI – Fifth […]
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Fifty Productivity Strategy Secrets For 2015
Hi all, I have been on hiatus (*again) and now I am back. It must be the intense review of my goals that I had with my mentors and fellow coaches. Every year I will meet my mentors and coaches friends to discuss things that matter to us. So by end December 2014 where we had […]
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Talent Development Program For High Potential Employees
In Malaysia, talent development program for the high potential is on the rise right now. In a forum Talent Development and Succession Planning that I attended recently (April 2014), it was clear that many organizations and companies are now revving up talent program for the high potentials. But why? The obvious reason is to make […]
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Development of Knowledge Worker
Recent report (published by The Work Foundation in March 2009) that ideally knowledge worker in your total workforce should consists by the following breakdown: 1. Many Knowledge Tasks (33%) 2. Some Knowledge Tasks (27%) 3. Few Knowledge Tasks (40%) If you look carefully of the above and you take Some Knowledge Tasks as minimum requirement […]
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Good Intention, Bad Decision
How many times that your own logic backfires? Just like when you try to fit a round ball into a square mould. It just won’t fit and you get frustrated. Consider this from Dr Wayne Dyer, “often we see the world as it is, but actually we see the world the way we are.” How […]
MoreThe Execution Premium
Today’s world is full of ideas. Why? With a quick search on Google you will find at least a million pages on almost anything you want to know. From as general as cook books to as specific as writing resume. Consulting business thrives on this superb accessibility to information including other knowledge-based services as well. […]
MoreOrganization Development (OD) Interventions
OD is the most talked about HR stuffs lately. What is OD? It is Organization Development. It’s very popular in the western corporations 20-25 years ago and currently making strong momentum to this part of the world. What is OD really? Here’s the classic definition that I gathered from OD Network website: “Organization Development […]
MoreMaking A Mental Leap
We’ve heard so many times that “it’s all in the mind”, “what the mind can believe, will achieve” and “just dream, you’ll make it”. One thing in common with all these notions is referring to our brain or mental component in human being. Is it as simple as that? No, it isn’t. Nonetheless, it is […]
MoreBuilding Competitive Talents
Recently I attended a tea talk by a chairman from one of the biggest GLC in Malaysia. He spoke of need for local talents to be competitive. He added that in the rage of globalisation and borderless uncertainties, a nation like Malaysia cannot sit on our laurel and celebrating for we’ve become one of the […]
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Malaysian Olympic – Not About Talent
I watched my favourite sport, basketball, with great interest. It was a match between Russia and Spain. The first two quarters led by Russia, it was probably then the Spanish could have said ‘bastante!’ (means enough in Spanish!) in the next two quarters. The Spanish won by 67-59 in the semifinal. The Spanish will be […]
MoreLearning From Failure
Nobody likes the ‘F’ word, failure. And the other ‘F’ comes out after you really fail. Especially in Asian culture, failure means bad and in some cultures if you fail you don’t deserve the right to live because you bring shame to the family or the business that’s associated with you. The Western culture tolerates […]
MoreThe Higgs Boson
I’ve left physic as a subject many years ago, but my love of the related knowledge remains. I remember one formula that I never fail to answer in every exam which is to calculate Velocity (v) or Speed. You can do it by dividing Distance Travel (m) with Time of Travel (t). The formula will […]
MorePowerful Conversation
Have you had any experience talking to someone and later that someone becomes your partner in business, work or even life? That’s how powerful a conversation can be. I believe that powerful conversation (PC) can change life. For the last 10 years I always seek the opportunity to have powerful conversations (PC). I realized that […]
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Becoming A Leader
When I asked fresh graduates and young workforce what they hope to become in the next 7-10 years of their career; their answer was “to become a manager or leader”. It seems that leadership is synonymous to only at workplace and from the title given to you from whomever in the office. I also fall […]
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Joker’s Guide To Personal Effectiveness
I just uploaded my key success factors that i called as Joker’s Guide. You can download from Slideshare.com. This guide is a touched-up slides from my talk to my university alumni. I gave this talk to a group of new part time learners. i have been all in close to 8 years as part time […]
More3D – Managing The Millennials – Discover the Core Competencies Managing Today’s Workforce (Part 2)
continue on Part 2. 16. Three behavioural competencies needed to effectively managing the Millennials employees: Adapting – willing to accept a Millennial employee doesn’t have same experiences, values or frame of reference that you had when you were the same age. You got to suspend own biases and adjust your management style. Communicating – […]
More3D – Managing The Millennials – Discover the Core Competencies Managing Today’s Workforce (Part 1)
Management is one of my favorite’s discipline. The reason is simple, management primary goal is to make things happen. In some way, management is both art and science. By saying art i mean that management needs resources and we all know resources are all the time, limited. Therefore with management knowledge, one needs to artfully […]
MorePTMBD_Interview with Dato’ Hj. Ameer Ali bin Mydin of Mydin Holdings Bhd (Part 2)
6. What has to be done to increase employability and career advancement in this industry? In this industry, if you can’t work hard enough please don’t join. If you love your weekends forget about it. It’s really a 24/7 job you know. You are on call all the time, just like a doctor on duty. To […]
MorePTMBD_Interview with Dato’ Hj. Ameer Ali bin Mydin of Mydin Holdings Bhd (Part 1)
Background 1. What is your current role? Tell us a little bit about your background and Mydin’s I am the Managing Director for Mydin Holdings Berhad. I have been with Mydin for about 55 years, that’s my age. Mydin started as a family business, still is but now run professionally. We are the 3rd generation […]
MoreNew Interview with PTMBD_Dato’ Hj. Ameer Ali bin Mydin
Now, this is what i called real-stuff. I know this man not by chance, rather through some work i did with Mydin Holdings Berhad some years ago. Since then i have been keeping in touch and learning as much with Dato’ Ameer, occassionally when I am @ Subang Jaya I will text to say I am […]
More3D – Think Supply Chain, Logistics and Transportation.
In my overall post, logistics and supply chain posts clocked the highest visit. I received emails thanking me for my simple wisdom on logistics. Logistic is not my favourite subject, marketing is. But when marketing defined as “strategy” of the organization, logistical consideration is a must. I connect logistic and marketing. Both cannot be in […]
MoreLeadership Code
The last 15 years the center of the economy has been shifting towards Asia. This trend will continue. In fact it is eminent that the standard of Asia will become the de facto standard of the world. These exciting opportunities pose a big challenge for Asian because we will need to have global business skills […]
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