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 […]
MoreBackground 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 […]
MoreNow, 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 […]
MoreIn 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 […]
More“The management boom is over; the time for management performance has come.” Peter F. Drucker; Management: Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices, 1985 Today’s management is all about performance and results. Management can be found in big corporation to government to non-governmental organization to military and self. Management is an organ that sits inside a body and […]
MoreThe 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 […]
MoreToday’s world is not short of knowledge. In fact this profession called knowledge worker coined by Martin Feregrino in 1959 is in its strongest momentum now. The explosion of knowledge since the dawn of 21st century proves Peter Drucker’s prophecy that managing knowledge worker is the biggest management challenge. “Success in the knowledge economy comes […]
MoreYou see, i love reading and i can consider myself addicted to it already. i feel itchiness all over my body if i dont read, and by the end of any week if i catch myself not reading anything useful i feel dumb and bad about wasting my time. so far, i had few of […]
MoreThis is one of the more difficult steps. Often the entrepreneurs themselves are the master of the product and therefore to duplicate means to find someone else to do the same thing and produce the similar if not same results. Emmmm…isn’t that challenging? A lot of variables such as experience, style, capacity, capability and ingenuity […]
MoreBackground 1. What is your current role? Tell us a little about your background I am currently an Assistant Director of Food and Beverage for Westin Hotel Kuala Lumpur. I am the captain of the ship. I have 9 different areas i.e. outlets; with its own unique concept. This is my 4th year at […]
MoreOrganizational Issues 6. Is it easy to find good talent for this industry? What is the entry level? It is never easy. Leaders are made, not born. But some leaders are just better at it. Some are direct, some are introvert, some no-nonsense and so on. Leaders need nurturing, give them chance to explore, […]
MoreAs a manager, being productive is the key thing to deliver timely results. You can be a CEO, COO, CFO, GM, MD, and so on but if you fail to deliver timely results, if you only keep delivering yesterday’s result today, then you are not being productive..enough. I always practise writing down the Daily Things […]
MoreI do agree with this because I’ve experienced it first hand. My experiences come in two forms. Firstly as a manager, and secondly as someone thats dealing with a lot of organizations and succession planning i.e. management in my client’s organization. The latter form, in fact, help me to model and shape my thinking differently […]
MoreI believe that change is continuous and moving baseline. In other words, everyday we need to keep looking for things to change (surely a lot of them, but are we doing anything about it???) and keep achieving even a simple thing like, mowing your lawn or just a phone call to some key customers and […]
MoreHi all, Occassionally I get something useful for myself and I love to share it with you all. This is one of it from Tony Schwartz. I love effectiveness and efficiencies at work and personal. I have used this technique long before I found this article, I think its great. I thought i was being […]
MoreBASIC This is the first step; you need to have a BASIC product. At this stage this product will have some features and benefits that appeal your primary customer segment. Talking about customers, to have shorter period to achieve critical mass, my advice is to develop market driven product. Look at your customers and […]
MoreI’ve been thinking of how to make my blog more meaningful so I personally will love to read it over and over again. I want something natural and unique which is hard to find. Suddenly i got this idea to interview some of my friends, ex-bosses and clients. Of course these people are ordinary in the […]
MoreI got this title as i was reading an article in Harvard Business Review (April 2010) – How Did I Do It. Whereby the CEO of Reckitt Beckinser (RB) – Bart Becht wrote a very useful article on how he grew the company to become one of the most fearful competitors in the housing cleaning products […]
MoreThis story was shared by an old friend. We grew up together and went to the same school. To cut it short i ended up in marketing and my friend in project management. I did some project management too in the past so i can roughly understand his story. Its about “the unnoticed team member”. […]
MoreThis marketing strategy is not new. It has been in practice for many years by many service providers as well as manufacturers. We have experienced faulty products, low quality products and some were totally scam. All in the name of cost and profit. It is understandable if the company that does this is from small, […]
MoreAs small business owner and entrepreneurs, resources are always scarce. Money, time, technology and people. If you are run small businesses, you probably agree with me. we don’t have much luxury just like the big boys do. “We need to be thrift” said one of my colleagues. Another said, “When you dont have enough money, […]
MoreJust get the recruitment consultant to do it for you can be the easiest way or check around with your friends for personal recommendations (referral) or check with your staffs whether they have anyone fit for the job. But what exactly you need to look when hiring a Marketing Manager. Emmmm..I won’t ask HR practitioner […]
MoreI recently received some photos from a friend wedding. He has been dating the same girl for more than 10 years (what??!! but yes!!) and he surely deserved a nice and memorable wedding with his long time girlfriend now wife. But amidst the celebration moments captured in the photos, i wondered how people find money […]
MoreI’ve done sales for a few years before moving into more strategic role in marketing. I’ve sold cookies in door-to-door sales job, tried and sold few jars of chocolates from table-to-table, sold investment packages from cold calling, sold training programs from cold calling and office-to-office and I am currently selling my Marketing Plan e-book. 🙂 […]
MoreMany of you probably handling various projects presently. it could be your work projects or personal (some called it Pet) projects. here i would like to focus on projects that you do at work. Now we have a Project Manager (PM) role (as a professional job) to manage projects in the company. generally PM is […]
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