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Celebrity Apprentice

Mar 8

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Last week, the new season of “Celebrity Apprentice” has just started. First of all, the celebrities chosen by Mr. Trump this time aren’t as “high-rated” as last season IMHO.

 

Last season's Celebrity Apprentice

Last season's Celebrity Apprentice

Last season‘s Roster Big Stars was: Lennox Lewis, Tito Ortiz, Steven Baldwin, Gene Simmons, Carol Alt, Vincent Pastore, and of course (for all Apprentice fans) the notorious Omarosa.

This season's Celebrity Apprentice

This season's Celebrity Apprentice

This season, they’ve got: Brian McKnight, Dennis Rodman, Joan Rivers, a member of TLC and the rest I don’t know and can’t remember, never heard of.

More to come later…

In the mean time, I believe if you like watching this show, you will understand and would really like to read my previous post on “Management as an Art?”

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How much does it worth?

Feb 18

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Good question.

How much does it “really” worth to you?

A glass of water in your everyday life? Cheap, right?

How about: a glass of water when you are lost in the desert? Priceless…

Today, my friend has shown me a website that “calculate” how much your domain worth. Okay, the site shown that some of the sites are worth thousands of dollars. Hmmm, sounds lucrative, right? But… will someone actually buy it?

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Time Management

Feb 12

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randy-pausch

The most common excuse that you probably hear or even say a lot is “I haven’t got time…” Isn’t it? :)
“I haven’t got time for… this… and that…”
“I wished that I had more time…”

Time is your most valuable resource that you cannot buy back. We should manage our time even better than we manage our finances.

Randy Pausch’s Time Management presentation

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758

76min video (at video.google.com) [Note: total filesize 177MB]

[click here for the HTML version]

Please go to the late Prof. Pausch’s homepage and watch his other presentations.
For those of you, whom haven’t heard about Prof. Randy Pausch… he was made famous for his “Last Lecture”: “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”

Hmmm, I must go do something else… I’ll get back to this subject later… enjoy the lecture in the mean time. :)

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Call your relatives in China this CNY and ask for a “Red Pouch”

Jan 26

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What do you think about this “Three” advertisement (shown on the right): appropriate or not?

Calling your relatives in China to demand “Spring Festival Money Gift” (压岁钱) (also known as 红包 “Angpao” among Chinese living in Indonesia)…

IMHO, it is inappropriate for you to phone a relative to demand it.

“Yashuiqian”, the real Angpao

The so-called “Angpao”, according to our tradition, is given from a married couple to a child, whom is usually of younger age. The original name for “angpao” in traditional Chinese is “Yashuiqian”, which literally translated as “Money to keep you stay young”. Usually given from older generation to the younger generation, to keep them stay young and have a long life.

So… is it polite for a younger person to call and ask for “angpao” to his/her elder? Of course NOT.

So… marketer, designer, or advertiser, or whomever, please do some research first before printing those BIG BANNER and place them on the streets. =) It will save you from the embarrassment.

“Happy Chinese New Year!”
“Gong Xi Fa Cai!” 恭喜发财!

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Management as an Art?

Dec 29

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Okay, here goes, the first post on this blog… I am a management graduate, so it’s logical if I chose “Management” as my first topic.

Management as an Art?


What is art?

art (n)
(http://definr.com/art)

1: the products of human creativity; works of art collectively;
2: the creation of beautiful or significant things;
3: a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation.

The strong keywords that I’m getting from the definition above are: human creativity, superior skill, learn by study and practice and observation.

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.” - Donald Trump

IMHO, for most cases or problems you’ll face or did face in the business world, there’s no “one-cure” to the perfectly similar diagnosis. I’m not saying that there’s no justifiable scientific method to come up with the solution to the problem. It’s just sometimes the variables are too many and too unpredictable that it requires the “art” from which comes from your skill learned from you studies, experience (your practices and observations).

Yes, you might have studied several business cases when studying for your MBA. Yes, you might have experienced some business cases of your own at work. But that does not mean that you are guaranteed to know the solution to every problem you face in the business world.

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