New Year Reflection: Either you are a Leader or a Follower -What Makes a Good Person?

New Year Wish: May we have the peace in mind, passion in heart and be a good person, first things first. It is the end of year, before making resolution, perhaps we shall take a moment to do a reflection, regardless of who you are, are you a good person? There are so many things that make a good person good and it depends to a large degree on who is to assess and evaluate what is good - that is, the observers perspective. One important thing, is...

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What is the Driver of GRC

Culture and awareness are the most critical aspects of GRC, and can only be implemented in humans. The important characteristics of digitalization are over-complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity. Hence, GRC (governance, risk management, and compliance) becomes more critical than ever. Here's the context; how should GRC programs be approached? Should technology be a driver? Can you achieve any level of GRC without automation? Can you achieve any...

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A Biologist Mind: How Shall you Perceive this “Organic” Digital World?

Our species is at a turning point that requires a significant adjustment in our evolutionary path. The world is mechanical in the industrial age because business is running as functional silos to achieve efficiency. But the emerging digital era has an “organic” nature and businesses today empowered by digital technologies such as cloud, social, mobile and analytics are more sociological, so what’re the right minds to run such evolutionary business...

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Is Developing your Employee like Growing a Tree?

It takes wise eyes to identify talent, the growth mind, and systematic approach to developing them effectively. Digital means flow and continuous improvements, like many business disciplines and technology trends, Talent/Performance Management is at an inflection point, the traditional performance management is out of date in many perspectives, more tailored talent management and ongoing development is a strategic imperative to human capital management...

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Agile View of Multi-Dimensional Business Values

Too often the whole system is not considered when measuring success.  Wikipedia has the following definition for "business value": "Business value expands concept of value of the firm beyond economic value (also known as economic profit, economic value added, and shareholder value) to include other forms of value such as employee value, customer value, supplier value, channel partner value, alliance partner value, managerial value, and societal...

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The Multitude of Creativity

There are many differentiating factors to decide how creative an individual is. Creativity is an innate ability to create novel ideas. Would you consider that creativity is a response to a stimulus and that individuals will manifest different behavioral responses to that stimulus depending on their individual experiences...? What are the personality traits or working environment which decide how creative the individual or team could be? Creativity,...

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A Positive Mind: How to Handle Negative Emotions

A really high EQ mind stays positive, self-aware and wise if you get negative vibes, you move away. Human is not perfect, there are positive emotions and negative emotions; such as joy, anger, grief, worry, fear, sentiments, affection, and the 8th one: envy; the negative emotions such as the malicious envy may evoke the unprofessional or even destructive behaviors to build the walls in people’ hearts and cause the toxic culture in the work,...

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How to Implement Strategic Workforce Planning Collaboratively

The point is how to fit the right talent to the right position at the right time. Talent is the most invaluable business asset and human capital investment is strategic imperative for companies’ long term growth. However, from industry survey,  45% or organizations feel they are unprepared to meet their future talent needs and 35% lack confidence in their Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) process. What’re the biggest obstacles for SWP, how...

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Visionary Mind vs. Victim Mind

The visionary mind is looking for possibilities; and the victimized mind is focusing upon perceived limitations. Human society is not perfect, though continually makes progress. In every step of societal evolution, from agricultural society to industrial society; from information age to digital era, in order to pursue freedom, equal opportunity, education, love or happiness, many brave souls became the victims of old traditions or out-of-dated...

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Does your Organization Have Too Many Business Initiatives

Prioritization starts with the right mindset. Organizations today are inundated with the sea of information. Modern businesses can often get trapped into "busyness," overwhelmed with too many projects or change initiatives, and overloaded with the operation and short-term business concerns, what are the root causes of such symptoms, and how to overcome these challenges? The focus is key. Companies overwhelmed with projects is a common scenario....

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