Last summer I moved to Boston area and I was busy enjoying its variety of offerings, e.g. concerts, festivals, startup events while exploring restaurants and museums. This year, with Covid-19, a different summer, I’m finding alternatives online… I came across Honeyland, a documentary about Hatidže Muratova, a wild bee keeper’s life in the remote mountain …
Category Archives: Inspiration
Be the Cause, Not Because
Can’t remember where I saw or heard the phrase, Be the Cause, Not Because, yet it immediately became my mantra. Instead of making excuse or waiting on others, it’s our responsibility to take action to make what we’d like to see and a world we want to live in. Using data/ fact to make decision …
Failure
Job placement fail has been a constant topic/ team concern as we’re rolling out the new (software) function, though in reality, it’s a very small % and failure happened before the function release as well. I understand people’s ‘risk-adverse’ nature yet I want to cultivate/ encourage a failure-learning-growth culture. If there is no failure, we …
Journey is the Reward
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 …
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 …
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 …
Back to Basics
My boss asked me to support customer research. Before deep-diving into customer interviews and competitive landscape analysis, I’m thinking of the end goal and how to conduct the research. If we don’t ask the right people the right questions, we’ll not get to the right answers. People say ‘less is more’. It only tells half …
Freedom with Consideration
Happy Independence Day to America! I heard from radio that Surgeon General Adam encouraged people to wear facing covering…”…if more wear them, we’ll have MORE freedom to go out*…” He is right and I think it’d be even better to add that it’s not only to exercise and promote our own freedom but to respect …
Maturity (Growth) vs. Learning
For people who love learning, it’s part of life yet learning is different from growth, or more accurately, maturity. Learning usually focuses on being able to do new things or get better with existing capabilities. Maturity is to distinguish what’s worth doing and be willing to do so even if feeling uncomfortable or unsure. Or …
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 …