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 …
Category Archives: Creativity
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 …
Accident & Miracle
I spent 3hr writing the blog posts for the past 2 weeks, suddenly the computer froze and I had to restart. Word periodical auto-save helped recover most of the writing yet I couldn’t simply overwrite the older file. I saved it as a different file and deleted the older version. Not sure what happened, the …
Big Name
A (consultant) friend is presenting, along with representatives from 6 other consulting firms, to a well-known university’s* advanced degree students. Each presenter has 8min to share about his/her firm, experience, and projects. The representatives from McKinsey were the first up and to my surprise, had no slides, neither preparation. The guy, a PhD himself and …
Let Go
For May and June, I’ve been ‘consumed’ with 3 heavy-duty projects, (1) preparing teams for the changes and delivering the milestone feature FR, (2) working on the UX/ user research project to extend system function/ design new capabilities for internal resources, (3) designing a new partner survey. With the initiative now in a more mature …
New Norm
Covid-19 has changed the business operation, organizational structure, and resource allocation. It’s not easy to carry out big projects with reduced resources yet we successfully delivered the milestone feature FR recently while preparing teams and partners for the changes. Moreover, we continue pushing the bar higher; next project will be another breakthrough in a new …
Do Well & Good
I watched Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge Global Final College competition. Incredible creativity and energy from students in 30 universities and 17 countries to achieve UN SDG 17 Goals from #BiomilQ to replicate the nutrition of breast milk, #BrailleEazy to support the blinds better communicate, #SunlightU to support rape/ trauma consoling, #Dr.Nanoxa to improve the …