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[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...

Less than 12 hours before starting a 2-day Leadership Development workshop, the client told me that they need to take the first 1 hour...

[Regent Park in London, May 2017] I am an advocate on action learning, or more specifically the practice of ‘Action Reflection Learning’...

Like what I said in the 5 years anniversary, I would not imagine that this blog would last for 10 years when I started it in 2007. I...

Time for change! Here is the new look for Ask Not Tell. In memory of the old look (the 2nd version) which has been in place for a few...