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Too much to write; too much to do

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I have been on radio silence for quite sometime for a good reason. Yes it is indeed the holiday season and I was on leave for the entire last week. Despite the 1 week “holiday”, I have been pretty much busy being a tour guide and a driver to my relatives who have come down from Canada. In fact I have been quite busy for the whole of last week I didn’t even get time to do my own...

Of Weights and Gymming

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“Seventeen…eighteeen” I clenched my teeth as I counted the number of times my biceps were flexing. I could feel the tension on both my biceps as I lifted those 10kg weights on each hand. Straight ahead was a wall-like mirror where I was observing my progress. “Twenty!” I exclaimed as I brought the weights back down. Yes, ladies and gentleman, like many of the typical...

Why Does “Management Crap” Happen? Part III

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Pride is the mask of one own’s faults  Jewish Proverb In my last entry, I mentioned that politics is one of the culprits behind management crap. Too often time politics get in the way, and we often see the “fruits” of it within a short period of time : unqualified executives warming the seats of important poisitions and making poor decision choices. Now as humans, granted one of...

Why Does Management Crap Happen? Part II

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It is no use saying “we are doing our best”. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary Winston Churchill That quote above sums up a great deal what most management don’t do. Doing what is necessary I left off my last post with the thought that the reason management crap happens is simply because it’s seats are occupied by crappy people. I’m learning this new...

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