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 …
Category Archives: Joy
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 …
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is one of the top three festivals in Chinese culture. Zonzi (see images, made with sticky rice, meat, mushroom, duck yolk, etc. and wrapped in bamboo leaves; different provinces and families have different recipes and styles) and dragon boat racing are the highlights. I love zonzi yet with Covid-19, I don’t plan …
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 …
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 …
Change it Up
I haven’t taken any day off this year. Due to Covid-19, I’ve cancelled my March trip and have been working from home since March. If not going anywhere, why waste vacation days to stay at home? Yet the good news is that many of the physical events have moved online and become free. I came …
Come Out
I walked after dinner around the neighborhood. It’s cool and refreshing air after the rain and birds are singing all over yet I heard ACs running in several houses. Come outside, open the window, and you’ll see a different world~
Gift
My roommate gave me a home-made mask. It’s from his friend who volunteers in coordinating mask distribution while others sew and pack. A simple piece of cloth yet full of love and regardless of race, religion or political party. I don’t know her or who made the mask yet I thank ‘angles’ like them to …