Food For Thought
Inspiring, practical readings, advices and strategies for the leaders of today and tomorrow.
Influence With A Mission (Featured On The Straits Times)
During my speaking and training engagement, one question that I regularly posed to all participants is: Do you influence because it is your job or do you influence with a mission? Influencing because it is your job is not going to take you very far. But if we shift...
Why Do Leaders Fail? – Featured On The Straits Times (15 Nov 2016)
Can everyone become a leader? If we define leadership as a title, not everyone can become a leadership because positions at the top of the chain are scarce. But if we can regard leadership as a journey of growth rather than a title, it would have a more powerful...
Retaining Talent Or Keep Them Returning – Featured On The Straits Times (9 Sep 2016)
Retaining Talent Or Keep Them Returning The real meaning of talent staying with you. The favorite question that has been going around for decades regarding talent retention is about how we can retain talent. A better question to ask is how can we ensure that talent...
The New Style of Leadership – Featured On The Strait Times (6 Oct 2016)
The New Style of Leadership. The new leader today lives without the title. A conversation I had with a senior leader was about how leadership today is evolving not just by how the economy is performing, but the standard people expect from their leaders today. People...
Embracing Change – Featured On The Straits Times (28 July 2016)
Embracing Change How to adapt to changes effectively. Most of use love variety and new challenges that help us to learn new abilities in the process. This is why change helps us to grow. People are fine with change – it is the transition that people need to get used...
Building Resilient Teams – Featured On The Straits Times (5 May 2016)
Building Resilient Teams Imagine you have a crisis on hand, and you need your team to pull things together and turn things around as fast as possible. What do you do when everything seems beyond reach? The answer is not what you should do, but what you should do now...
Influence Without Authority – Featured on The Straits Times (22 March 2016)
It’s true that you can get away with just about anything if you have enough authority. People have a natural tendency to be influenced by authority and research has proven this point countless times. In fact, through psychological research, the term authority is...
Harness Your Maximum Potential
These days, it takes more than sheer hard work to achieve recognition at the workplace. I am not suggesting we should not work hard, but there is more to it. High achievers often ask themselves, “How can I grow?” Stop asking your organization how they intend to help...
Are You A Happy Leader?
Are You A Happy Leader? High-Growth Leaders Help Their Teams To Succeed. Evidence of positive psychology has shown that happiness does have a return on investment. We call it the Return On Happiness (ROH). In multiple keynotes and training sessions I have conducted on...