This an interesting article I found online regarding the Chinese, Chinese culture and business in China.
With more and more business trying to get into the China market, understand the people and culture becomes an important subject of discourse.
When even a Chinese myself finds it difficult to understand the mainland Chinese people, it is not a […]
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The Pursuit of Happyness is quite an inspiring film for entrepreneurs and if you have not watch it, I personally recommend it.
The storyline is simple and the ending predictable. But if nothing else, the film gives us entrepreneurs a jolt and reminds us that “it is possible” and “do not give up yet”.
Whenever I stand […]
Like a jigsaw puzzle in progress
Published January 25th, 2007 in Entrepreneur and Business Models. 0 CommentsHow do you visualise the process of starting and running a business? I thought of this imagery while thinking about what I’m doing and how I can move forward.
Take a step back, look at the roads you took and the things you did. Compare with the visualization I am going to describe.
The imagery is that […]
For most of the past few months I was in a rather negative mood. Things was not going well and the more I dwell on it, the more negative I became. Everything simple went into a downward spiral.
I knew immediately from past scenario that it is a cycle that I had to breakout. Of course […]
Getting ideas out of the heads
Published October 30th, 2006 in Entrepreneur and Open Source. 0 CommentsAs business grow and more people join the company, the one challenge that I constantly face is how to get ideas out of my head and into the head of people who will execute and realise the ideas.
This may sounds simple until you try to untangle all the strands of detail in an idea and […]
Being an entrepreneur certainly means wearing different hats. It could be the financial hat, marketing hat, operation hat or the sales hat. Unlike working on a job, wearing a few hats at the same time is commonplace.
Wearing the accountant hat, I worked out the account for the company so far over a few nights. Previously […]
Other people’s problem can become your problem
Published September 5th, 2006 in Entrepreneur, China and Day to Day. 2 CommentsThis may sounds familiar.
You did everything right and was expecting to deliver a job well done to the customer. Then out of nowhere problem came. What’s worst part is that the problem was not caused by you and there is no way you would have anticipated that.
Just this shit happened to me last week and […]
Ran across 5 Reasons Why Every Entrepreneur Should Workout and I was immediately reminded that I hasn’t been working out regularly over the past 2 years.
Scary. When things get busy, exercising is often the first thing to be put aside.
Exercising is like a long term investment with compound interest. If started young, you put […]
Learn to stop worrying about details
Published August 20th, 2006 in Entrepreneur and Business Models. 0 CommentsMany pundits claimed that without a business plan, you are planning to fail. Yet others ignored business plan. Those walking down the middle avocate a short plan.
Over the years I had learnt to stop worrying about details but to let the details work their way out.
It is not to say planning isn’t important, it is. […]
Quality - you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is.
Was Quality something that you “just see” or might it be something more subtle than that, so that you wouldn’t see it at all immediately, but only after a long period of time?
This was the question, If everyone knows what quality is, […]
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