David Yau & Associates

[Photo source unidentified. Please advise if anyone knows. I will add the source accordingly] Numerous articles on the internet have...

(The psychological game – NIGYSOB – ‘Now I’ve got you, you son of a bitch’) This is another post which probably only my Cantonese readers...

My take on collusion (e.g. pleasing participants in developmental interventions) has been changing in the last few years. First, I was...

Many many years ago, there was a village where no one has ever eaten anything from the sea. A few village men accidentally caught a few...

[Photo source unidentified. Please advise if anyone knows. I will add the source accordingly] I learnt to use the ‘Immunity to Change’...

Really…. why team? Complementary competencies…. A sense of belonging…. Cross-learning opportunities… there are many answers to this...

[Photo source unidentified.  Please advise if anyone knows.  I will add the source accordingly] In the ‘Journey to the West’ story (西游记),...

It was Day 2 of the Gobi race and we were somewhere midway in the 96km race. Right in the middle of the day, all were tired and some...

Experiential learning to an extreme – a leadership development program in the form of a team walking race for 96km in 2.5 days over the...

To a certain extent, I regret that I was major in Economics in university. Economics assumes that people are rational i.e. individuals...

I had a day of individual and team coaching sessions last month. I arrived early to settle myself in my coaching room. The first song...

A reflection on a recent ‘learning miracle’. I conducted a day of group coaching with 5 executives in a business school program. ...

‘It is often safer to be in chains than to be free’ Franz Kafka I come across this quote on radio today. It explains so well how often...

'What is really going on?' -  It is the question often used in the Adaptive Leadership practice as well as in the psychodynamics...

Some time ago, I worked in a program with a few other coaches. Because of misunderstanding on the schedule, a few coaches could not be...

I recently built a website to describe my work as I launch my coach / facilitator business in Asia. The purpose is to have something...

This post is again about the fundamentals of learning – the use of images.  I came across the above image on ‘Moneyball of Leadership”...

I recently ran a rather typical management development program. There were a few modules in a few days. Each modules was built around...

I came across recently a clip about an experiential learning activity around the topic ‘understanding the others’. It makes me...

I happened to hear on a radio show this quote – ‘Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art’ by Konstantin Stanislavski who is a...