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 […]
MoreTalent 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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Democratization of Education Through MOOC
In the education world it is called Mass Open Online Courses (MOOC). I have been following the movement of open courses and instruction for some years already. My journey with MOOC is rather unique because I stumbled upon it by chance when I was looking for free e-books on the internet. It was 6 years […]
MoreThe Case for Corporate College
In my previous article, “Reviving Youth Unemployment”, I brought up a new development in global education called corporate college. Here I would like to provide a snapshot of corporate college and how it can be game changing solution for government, corporate and university. If you Google keyword “corporate college”, you will see a long list of […]
MoreReviving Youth Unemployment
“The number of young people out of work globally is nearly as big as the population of the United States”. This headline certainly will make you wonder whether the youth unemployment is really that bad, the answer is YES. This report was published in The Economist back in April 2013, “Generation Jobless”. It takes at […]
MoreProject Management – Modern Workforce Imperative
While many business philosophers claimed that we are living in the best times of the world, unfortunately modern workforce has been seeing the worse in the last few years. Data from various sources also predicting a bleak outlook and across the ocean ahead. That’s just a general feel, but if you are familiar with things on […]
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Design Thinking – DT Personal Journey
There was a quote by Steve Jobs saying, “Design is how it works.” I think he was right. Recently i met an engineering student with strong right brain, he echoed that quote. He’s an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering. He said a lot of people equate design with advertisement, art or schematic drawing. It’s wrong he […]
MoreLearn How and The Simplified Way to Launch Your Project.
This is my new vehicle to achieve my life purpose – Free Up Knowledge. I recently launched my online training titled #THE ULTIMATE SKILLS (TUSK). In #TUSK I teach my students and participants the importance of learning #TUSK. #TUSK consists of Four Core Skills / Competencies. They are # Project Management Skills #Consulting Skills #Selling Skills […]
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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. […]
MoreHappy And Performing
In his book called Brain Rules, Dr John Medina said that happy brains perform significantly better because stress hurts brains and people. Other than the jumbo-mumbo cells damage because of stress attacks, stressed brains also resulting to depression, performance decline, truancy, loss problem solving abilities and creativity and physical deterioration. Well, some dose of stress […]
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