New Product Development
Several months ago i was asked to train a group of senior managers on new product development. They came from a large utility company and they have high expectations. Armed with my direct… Read More
Tag Archive: Management
The 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… Read More
Happy 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… Read More
Organization 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… Read More
Making 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… Read More
Building 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… Read More
Power of Rituals
“Consistency builds trust. Trust creates history. History builds traditions. Traditions become rituals.” -Martin Lindstrom Just what is ritual? Rituals are activities that are meaningful to people who observe it. I just complete one… Read More
Learning 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… Read More
Discovering 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… Read More
Powerful 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… Read More
My 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.… Read More
The New Age of Productivity
Often when it comes to productivity the common understanding is its all about achieving high numbers, securing the largest sales, adhering endless processes and multi-tasking on myriad projects. This outdated understanding comes from… Read More
The EIGHT Leadership Beliefs
Leadership is both art and science. It means it is unique to that person yet it can be learned methodically from one person to another. My journey to learn about leadership is about… Read More
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… Read More
Talent and Passion
I always thought that talent means someone that is super gifted or extraordinarily capable; simply because the word “talented” means “gifted and brilliant” in dictionary. But what does it means to be a… Read More
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Some said this mantra originated from Steve Jobs, yes the Apple’s. In one of his keynote address to Stanford graduates graduation ceremony in 2005, he reminded the audience about the importance of being… Read More
CRM – Fashionable If You Know How
CRM is just a system. Customer Relationship Management System (CRMS) comes in many formats and services attached to it. In some companies CRMS is used to store customer contacts, purchase records, sales amount… Read More
Leader’s Job: Pushing Boundaries.
It is always easy to fall into the trap of status quo. Some leaders disagree, they say they always add value; incrementally. But would incremental value changes results? Hardly. Simply because you just… Read More
Effectiveness Is Key
It is either by chance, design but i reckon simply pure luck that my effectiveness theme come in a bundle. first it started with a conversation with a friend, then become a talk… Read More
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… Read More
