Strategy
Content creation in VR & AR will definitely change the way businesses engaging their customers.
"It is common for all of us to seek our own path to success as we defined it. Time waits for no one."
"While allowing room for failures is encouraged, employees should also be trained to be courageous to admit mistakes and pick up slacks."
"Eventually, the core business will mature and stops growing. The owner should invest in parallel several years earlier in the next growth business so they are ready when the core stalled and profit would already be taking over as the next engine of growth."
"Given that 93% of companies, that ended up being successful had to change their initial strategy, any capital that demands that the early company become very big, very fast, will almost aways drive the business off a cliff instead."
"Given that 93% of companies, that ended up being successful had to change their initial strategy, any capital that demands that the early company become very big, very fast, will almost aways drive the business off a cliff instead."
The 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 […]
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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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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 […]
MoreDiscovering Gems In Interns
As I am writing this article, there are hundreds of thousands students in Malaysia that will be completing their university final year examination this year. These undergraduates will then disperse around the country to look for internship. Some will make to the top companies, while some to small and medium ones. Some will probably decide […]
MoreMy MBA Chronicles and Lessons
The way I understand MBA is simply a more elaborated degree on business. This may not be the academic definition, but that’s what you are supposed to get when you complete your study. It is rich with tools, techniques and theories on different facets of business and management. While you may not learn how to […]
MoreBecoming 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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