I completed ‘Dynamic Leadership’ path from Toastmaster Pathway and gave a reflection speech about the journey. I shared 3 lessons, not typical from the communication and leadership skills people associated with Toastmaster. What I have learned is to focus on one thing at a time and don’t be too harsh on myself (progress will come …
Category Archives: Creativity
Story Worth Telling
I came across SheNYC Arts, showcasing women writers and theater artists across the country, out of curiosity and love/ support of art, I got the All-Access Pass. My first show is Fort Huachuca which featured five African American women enlisted in the army to train as nurses. Simple story with complex issues of racism and …
Step Back to Move Forward
We had a survey discussion with community management (CM) team. We’d like to have the application survey to be independent to get more in-depth feedback with targeted users while the CM team preferred keeping the application part of the larger general partner pulse survey. Nobody could stop us from doing the survey yet is it …
Building Our Strength
A friend shared about 2 incredible friends: One only in his 30s but already an executive in a hot startup that is going IPO, who is a doctor and Harvard graduate with influential classmates in politics, on top of that, an impeccable speaker. The other is a fast raiser, moved from manager to partner of …
Celebrate Global Food
I like to try new food and restaurants. I called a Nepali Indian restaurant to order lunch. I haven’t had Nepali food and the staff recommended chicken or vegetable chowmei (isn’t it Chinese?). He explained it’s Nepali style. Ok, I’ll give it a try. I went to Spot Café to pick up Miche bread*. While …
A Different July 4th
Due to Covid-19, many US cities cancelled events and fireworks for July 4th to avoid the crowd. To celebrate at home, my roommate S and I made and shared champignon pizza (French-style with mushroom) for lunch and orange chicken with vegetable over brown rice for dinner. S said orange chicken is among the most popular …
Take a Moment to Recognize
We successfully released a milestone feature at the end of May, pilot and prepared teams and partners for the change management in June, and rolled-out system-wide today. Last week we also gave a highly complimented team presentation about the journey at company’s learning event (see ‘Teamwork for Positive Changes’ post). With organizational change and initiative …
Try it
My roommate and I received an angry text from the leasing agent that he didn’t want to share the wifi anymore and asked us to get our own. He said I complained for the bumpy service (interrupted important work meetings) while he couldn’t come to re-boot the server and we didn’t pay. My roommate usually …
Signs of Hope
I saw the display (image) in the neighborhood. It made me smile. What a great idea to spread hope and love. I like the honor system, you choose a sign and put money in the box. 100% profit will go to small businesses that are impacted by Covid-19. I don’t know if the honor system …
Teamwork for Positive Changes
My boss asked me to present at company’s monthly learning event. I named it ‘teamwork for positive changes’ and did several things new/ differently. First, I asked team to co-present (vs. the usual solo). It’s more fun and every success is a team efforts. Second, I want to engage the audience so we sent pre-session …