Today in my walk around the neighborhood, I noticed 3 things: 1st are a bunch of ‘purple ball’ flowers on top of green sticks, like a lollipop and 2nd are ‘pink hearts’ flowers hanging between the leaves. I googled and found the purple ball is called Allium, also known as “ornamental onions”. The pink heart …
Category Archives: Creativity
Listen, Thank you, Move On
Have you had meeting with people ‘dominating’? Not only does the person talk a lot but also raise topic out of context or demand more without appreciation or concerning the reality. What can we do? We could defend or explain yet it’s unlikely to achieve an outcome either side wants. What’s more productive would be …
Think Walk
I observed myself in the past few weeks when I have the best focus to do hard works and when I’m most creative. There doesn’t seem to be a difference on concentration for the morning or the afternoon if I have important tasks at hand. Yet, I come up great ideas at break, e.g. during …
Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to the smart, caring, and dedicated women. Whether we have children, each of us has touched many lives. If we can be a good boss, mentor, teammate, friend, neighbor, or simply a good person is a positive contribution to the world!
Commitment
A roller coaster ride this week…while preparing a big feature development and team collaboration, I received a shocking news of an executive, my core team member’s departure. When my boss said that he is not worried that we’ll work this out. On the one hand, I appreciated his confidence in me, on the other hand, …
Take the Time
I’ve found it’s productive to write down the to-dos, think, and prioritize before the day start. It’s even more effective to turn-on the computer ‘later’. To manage the ‘distractor’ (e.g. emails) and avoid jumping in too quickly (especially seemingly quick or urgent thing) is as much or even more valuable than taking the action. Take …
Change
The perception of people resists to changes may not be true, more accurately, they don’t see why they need to change. People have been using the same approach for a long time and it worked. Why and how would they see the need to change? Therefore, to make change effective, we need to facilitate/ enable …
Choice
At the end of a long work day, I felt annoyed of myself (more than tired) that why I didn’t stop earlier. There is always more to do. 1 email usually leads to another, an hour later, I’m still in front of the computer. I could be upset of myself yet it would not change …
Feedback
I asked my core team for feedback on the team and for me… The good news are that we are aligned on the decision of a big development and people complimented on my fast learning/ progress, not afraid to reach-out, and presentation. They recognized it’s hard to lead the largest, rapidly changed initiative with most …
Turn Around
We (product team) started PM Forum to engage with the project management team. To accommodate the global teams and time zones, the meeting is held at 6AM with Asian/ European group and 11AM with European/ American group. We were excited to get to know the PMs, had pre-session survey to gather interests and introduced ourselves …