Strategy
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 […]
MoreManagement – Performance Now
“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 […]
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 […]
MoreDeadly, Doable, Duplicable – 3D
You 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 […]
MoreDUPLICATE – How to Create Successful Product
This 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 […]
MorePTMBD_Interview with Huza Radzi of Westin KL (Part 2)
Organizational 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, […]
MoreA 90-Minute Plan for Personal Effectiveness – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review
Hi 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 […]
MoreINNOVATE – How to Create Successful Product
INNOVATE Usually at this stage, you have gathered substantial information of how your BASIC product work in the real customer’s setting. You have passed your moment of truth and a critical mass has been achieved. You have a long list of customers and you have stable sales monthly and you have repeat orders. Until […]
MoreBASIC – How to Create Successful Product
BASIC 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 […]
MoreHow to Create Successful Product
Product is very important in every business. It can be in tangible form such as engineering tools, medical devices, electrical washing machine, hybrid car, solar power panel, cost effective airline and so on. Additionally, product also can come in intangible form such as services. In one article I read from MIT Sloan Management Review months […]
MoreImproving Supply Chain: Four Main Items
When you look at any business there is always the basic supply chain. There is supply, mediator and customer. As i was reading an article in MIT Sloan Management (Summer 2010), i intend to elaborate a little bit more with more localized context of the four main items the author highlighted. The main article is […]
MoreBuilding A Company Without Borders: How I Am Going To Do It?
I 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 […]
MoreWisdoms of Project Management
I was often asked how did i managed my projects? Emm…my simple reply was “just manage”. Really, what i did was simply managing whatever is needed so the project can be successful. Some also asked, “But, you weren’t the certified Project Manager from any project management professional body, how did you manage?”. I wasn’t taken […]
MorePTMBD_Interview with Pak Agus from REFANES
If you have ever been to Indonesia you would realized that it a country that capture the spirit of entrepreneurship substantially. You will see many people involve in businesses from the petty traders to IT geeks. I was at Padang a number of times where I saw “mobile” cigarette seller, rent-an umbrella (while raining you […]
MoreThe Unnoticed Team Member
This 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”. […]
MoreDeceptive Marketing
This 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, […]
MoreCoaching as Strategy
I have written some entries on this blog about coaching, but I think coaching as a subject deserves more than that. I will not brag about what others say about coaching because that will be repetitive and meaningless for you. I will write my experience in coaching and how you can compare and contrast with […]
MoreWhen You Are Understaff….
As 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, […]
MoreHow to Make MLM Works?
In my previous post, i promised to show at least 5 ways How To Make MLM Works. These are the first THREE. Have fun! First Way: It’s A Business While many said it is just a passive income source, why make it passive if you can make it active? How many of us dislike what […]
MoreWhy Wedding is Important?
I 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 […]
MoreMcKinsey:A Marketer’s Guide to Behavioral Economics
Hi ALL, I have been busy and unwell the last 1-2 weeks. sorry for not writing for quite a while. But that didn’t deter me to read some good articles on marketing, strategies and business. Below is the link to a solid brief on Marketing and behavioral economics. It also contain some strategies for your […]
MoreTEN Tips for Successful Marketing Implementation
How much do you spend on your marketing initiatives? How much is your ROMI (Return on Marketing Investment)? What is your sales right now? Does your sales increased? Why your sales team not in the field but in the office? When is your new product going to launch? When is the competition going to end? […]
MoreWhy Do You Need A Marketing Plan?
When i ask entrepreneurs and small business owners, it is not unusual for not having any marketing plan. I once read that Sir Richard Branson was never had any marketing plan when he started the 1st Virgin business many years ago. In fact in one study of entrepreneurship (i couldn’t recall the name of the […]
MoreMarketing Plan Breakthrough_S6PEC_An Introduction
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MoreMarketing Plan E-book – What Say You?
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MoreHow to Develop Strategy Statement
1. Understand the industry landscape, what is it all about and who are the competitors. Understand the customer’s needs, segment the customer and find ways to add value with what you want to serve. You can refer to Product Planning section on how to value add your products. Over analyse makes you paralyse, so don’t […]
MoreMarketing Plan e-Book Preview
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MoreOne Page – Marketing Plan
A marketing plan supposed to be easy to consume for both management and implementation team. One sometimes wonder why marketing is usually complicated, because we cannot execute anything that is complicated and hardly understood. This is where many marketing managers that develop marketing plans that are nice to hear but end up just a nice […]
MoreMarketing Plan e-Book
About Marketing Plan e-Book and what are some of the highlights! It will be published by December 2009. Excuse me, i would like to complete my Marketing Plan e-Book now.. 😛
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