Shine With Grace

Just discovered a new book at the bookstore called “The Hard Truth About Soft Skill”, written by Peggy Klaus, Fortune 500 communication and leadership coach.  In the book, she pointed out that no matter how good you are performing, how professional you are, how knowledgeable you appear to be, it’s your soft skills that land […]

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Walked around the blogosphere to visit some old good blogging buddies - and found that many who started around the same time with me has slowed down posting or even stopped writing…
And this leads me to think about this concept of ‘quitting’.
Why you quit?
Have you ever asked yourself why you quit something - blogging, playing […]

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I learnt the term Parkinson’s Law from Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, who argued that applying the law,  i.e. “shortening work time to limit tasks to the important“, together with the 80/20 rule, i.e.  ‘limit tasks to the important to shorten work time”, in our daily […]

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Don’t you call yourself names?  “A small potato”? “A jerk”?  Please quit the habit for you are what you think you are. 
A lesson learnt from The Apprentice
You go around calling yourself “white trash”? You think I would hire somebody who call himself “white trash”?
You are fired.  And, you should stop using that expression.
~ Donald Trump
Apprentice participant Derek […]

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The performances of Cirque de Soleil are always fascinating - imaginative, colourful, magical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP6AJXprOXc

I was astonished when discovered that the circus was quoted as an “Blue Ocean” example in the very first chapter of the Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant.  Aha!  I thought.  This lesson is not only relevant to the business world, […]

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