Leadership. Am I good at it?

I’m well known to my strict way of leadership. Effective leadership it is. I can’t tolerate with nonsense and excuses. All I care about it KPI! Achievements. My way to motivate is : ” I don’t care how you do, provided within the legal boundaries, get it done!” Sounds like dictatorship for certain people. I would say these people just can’t keep up with me or they just don’t like me at all. Efficient! Get things done! Bla Bla Bla!

I am not usually like this. It all started with a history. A bad one I would say. Back in the university days, I was being pushed away for being inefficient. It was a brutal. To the extend I refused to be in a group for ALL assignments, including dissertation which is compulsory to be submitted in groups.

There’s one particular tutor has to stand up for me and to advice other classmates to take me in. Well, they just have to take me in anyway. It was a painful experience for me as I treated them as my friends. Obviously just because I’m a just not as good as they expected me to be, I became an outcast in seconds. It’s a tough lesson I learnt that I have to bulk up if I wanted to survive.

Another lesson learnt is it’s best to motivate other members who is dropping out instead of just throw them away without even trying. I don’t want to be treated that way and clearly I will not treat others that way too. Unless it’s a gone case for instance after several attempt to motivate them, these members refused to change for better.

I lead according to situation. If shit is getting out of hand, I turned to Hitler and get things right. I prefer to call it the CHAOS Management. If members or subordinates are doing the right things and responsible with their individual functional roles, I’m just focus on the directions and goals they need to achieve. The rest, leave it to them to do it. Like I said, I don’t care how they do it, just get things done and achieve the KPI.

Micromanagement is tiring for me. However if my team need a push to get this forward, I stepped in. Temporarily and they need to bulk and move on their own fast too! After all, this is their responsibility to complete their tasks according to each functional roles that being assigned to them. I’m more like a incubator instead of spoon-feeder (if there’s such term). I’m there to support but not for too long.

Maybe one day when I have children of my own, that would be a challenge for me to lead and nurture these rascals! Children naturally are cheeky and restless at times. I hope I could pull this off without taking valium to calm me down! Hahah!

New Year New You. Life goes on, just better

I admit life can be a bitch at times. There are ups and downs in life that shaped our life to become who we are today. Nevertheless, to be that someone I wanted to be it’s also a matter of choice. Life is full with choices but it could disastrous if we made the wrong choices. Clearly I can’t turn back the time and fix it. Instead I have to move forward and let the past stayed where it belong, i.e. Past.

Oh well, what am I babbling about now. I’m supposed to finish my final report for my assignment on ILLY, the most famous provider of premium coffee in the world that also the world’s 2nd most valuable commodity.

Alright. Back to the assignment and shall update more next time!

 

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 33,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 8 Film Festivals

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Samsung SMART TV on Angry Birds App

Who have thought that you can now try to play Angry Birds on TV with your bare hands? It’s the new Samsung SMART TV that is now available for all ages to experience the games. With the features using the camera from the SMART TV, it can detect the your hand and to respond from the movement of your hand while playing the game.

For instance, once the sensor detected your hand movement in front of the new Samsung SMART TV and turn your hand into a fist, it will response as if you click a mouse to choose a feature on the screen. It sounds quite confusing here for some.  With the Motion Control Feature, Samsung has achieved to be the market leader when comes to the audio-visual feature. Now everyone can enjoy this as a family activities and to get hands on  the game with the Motion Control from the Smart TV. Who need karaoke for family gathering if SMART TV could cater all generations via Angry Birds! Aren’t they cute when they are super angry?

At first I was not really get the hang of it as I’m so used to the touch screen feature on my Samsung Tab. Trust me, it won’t take that long to get used with the Motion Control sensor to play this awesome game. I’m sure most Angry Birds fans would love to get their hands-on experience with Samsung Smart TV. It’s a smart move for Samsung to use Angry Birds as the first game app using Smart TV as it’s one of the most downloaded game application on smartphones.

With the Smart TV feature, it can be a central use for all social networking, informative platform and entertainment for families. All you need is a internet connection and you can use this as good as a computer completed with games for both children and adults. Sound system and the graphics are in both surround and HD quality. It’s really gives users the experience that would give fun yet hands-on feel on the game. What can I say? Meet the world’s FIRST smart TV and the world’s most successful game on smartphones.

I shall end this with a short footage I took from my Samsung Tab 10.1

Advertorial: TIGER BALM NECK & SHOULDER RUB (REGULAR / BOOST)

From being a college student till stepped into the working world, facing computer on daily basis has been part of my life. It’s quite normal for me to spend at least 2 hours in front of computer screen for work or even since student life back in Kuala Lumpur. Most working adults could easily spend at least 5 hours and above sitting down and straining their neck doing their work in front of the desktop. Trust me, there are some points in my life I felt a huge stone pressing my neck and shoulders. The last thing in my mind is a great reliever to ease the pain and strain while rushing to finish my work.

Long hours and hectic schedule among working adults like myself didn’t realize the long term effect of straining the neck and shoulders without taking precautions to ease the tension on these muscles. Without realizing it will become a common discomfort found in most professionals in this city. Chasing the achievements and goals while own health is at risk. What’s the point being successful if constantly having body discomfort along the way.

Getting a massage for instant relief is always my 1st choice. But thanks to my hectic schedule, it’s a challenge to find the most suitable time for me to get one. Not until I was introduced to use Tiger Balm Neck & Shoulder Rub from a friend. Honestly?! Tiger Balm? I never thought of it at all till I started to use it 3 days ago. No more small glass bottle and will stuck in my long nails if you think I’m using the old packing for Tiger Balm, if you know what I mean.

Tiger Balm Neck & Shoulder Rub comes in 2 different types and a newly packaged with a modern and sleek design that you might think it’s a moisturizer for the face. The 2 variants are the Tiger Balm Neck & Shoulder Rub with soothing lavender fragrance for a mild neck & shoulder aches while Tiger Balm Neck & Shoulder Boost has extra strength with lasting relief for over-stressed, tired and stiff neck & shoulders muscles. The scent is refreshing that provides invigorating feeling on the skin after application.

It’s easy and convenient to use as it’s easily fit into my small bag whenever I need it a quick fix to my strained neck. It’s light and non-greasy. It will take around 3-5 minutes to feel the cooling feeling on my skin after applying it. The smell is acceptable as it doesn’t produce strong pungent smell. The fast absorption on the skin is a perfect for me for a Massage-on-the-Go that only needs minutes of my hectic schedule for a quick fix.

I’m glad Tiger Balm, the world renowned and trusted brand came up with innovation quality for relief aches plus a touch of reinvention in the new packaging. This brand may be a century old with a modern innovation and still continues providing high quality product in the market that has a special formulation to reduce tension around the neck & shoulder areas.

Think Positive. Be different. Color your Monday differently today. Not BLUE!

I had slow and easy weekends. But that doesn’t mean I have to have a slow, boring and BLUE Monday too. Let’s color it PINK!

BNI Meeting – June 2012

I will be completing my 2nd year membership this coming September 2012 and can’t wait for renewal. While I’m serving term as vice president till September 2012, I’m looking to help the grow the chapter as well to help other members to grow their business as well.

In the month of June 2012, I’ve conducted new member induction this time and it’s a pretty exciting moment for our chapter. By growing the chapter, it helps us to generate more referrals for each other. It’s crucial for all of us to commit by attending the meeting every week plus spending more time outside the meeting by conducting 1-2-1 meeting with members.

Besides our weekly 60 seconds and 1-2-1 meetings with members, 10-minute business showcase is part of the chapter meeting agenda that provide platform for members to present more in-depth business presentation to members and visitors. Members are given 6 weeks in advance to prepare their slides presentations and 8 minutes to present on the day members supposed to present. Another 2 minutes will be reserved for Q & A session. Members who are presenting their 10-minute presentation also required to bring a door gift for that day too.

I’ve presented today for my 10-minute presentation and managed to get a referral for a potential lucrative business. By being specifically presenting what’s your ideal referral, members will give the right one ideal referrals to you eventually. It’s about farming and not hunting. Till next time, been awake since 4.45am! Time to get my sleep, early! Good night.