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‘Diversity’ from Ancient Chinese
When I hear the following Chinese saying idiom from a radio broadcast, it rings the bell. å…¼å¬åˆ™æ˜Žï¼Œå信则暗 This one is...
David
Jun 25, 20142 min read


‘Learning’ from Ancient Chinese
Triggered by a discussion with a friend, I would like to write a few posts about Chinese ancient wisdom, and more importantly what it...
David
Jun 19, 20143 min read


Trend re Corporate Learning
I recently have more time to catch up with practitioners in the learning market in China. They include facilitators, HR leaders,...
David
May 28, 20141 min read


Begin and End
I should have written this post earlier. In the picture, it is the function room in HK where I conducted the last workshop on Adaptive...
David
May 4, 20141 min read


Leadership Development
A friend of mine once attended a Leadership Development workshop all the way in the US. I supposed it was a huge investment by the...
David
May 4, 20141 min read


Co-facilitation
As I am about to leave my current organisation, someone asks me ‘what have you gained the most from the job?’ I think it is my...
David
May 3, 20142 min read


Voice
I lost 90% of my voice during a workshop in KL. Scary. My voice has been with me so long that I almost forget how precious it is,...
David
Apr 7, 20141 min read


‘Leadership’ on a gravestone
You may have read about it before. I just come across it this week on a newspaper. It is an anonymous gravestone in Westminster...
David
Mar 20, 20142 min read


Really…. what is leadership?
Well, I am writing things now more and more often outside the theme of this blog again….. Perhaps I should change the scope. My work...
David
Feb 21, 20141 min read


‘Check-In’ in Phone Meetings
A useful post on the HBR Blog - Create Human Connection in a Virtual Teams. A reflection as I read through it.... on the idea of...
David
Feb 13, 20141 min read


Be careful about L3 and L4
A great piece of learning I got in talking to a learning / training veteran – It goes like this: Business leader: ‘I am sending people to...
David
Feb 7, 20141 min read


Useful Questions
See this one from blog - Eight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator. I particularly like this one - 'If we weren't already...
David
Feb 2, 20141 min read


Why Leadership Development Programs Fail
This Mckinsey article is rather comprehensive. I particularly like the part ‘…….companies should strive to make every major business...
David
Jan 31, 20141 min read


Action Learning in Action
I was excited about what I experienced in an internal meeting conducted in India. Basically there were a few leadership development...
David
Jan 30, 20141 min read


Rethinking Facilitation
It was a recent talent development workshop co-facilitated by me. In short, in a few occasions I thought that we were about to hit the...
David
Dec 14, 20131 min read


Adaptive Leadership
The more I thought and talked about it, the more I like and respect this concept. I have gained new insights in the Oct HK workshop: · ...
David
Dec 6, 20131 min read


‘When a program has a life of its own..’
Just completed a workshop in the Trident Hotel in Mumbai… I only realised that this was one of the hotels where the 2008 terrorist...
David
Oct 30, 20132 min read


Diversity in participants
[The view from my hotel room was surprisingly stunning!!] I attended the IAF Asia conference last month in Tokyo. Different from last...
David
Oct 11, 20132 min read
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