Posted by 珺 on Jun 27, 2009 in
management sometimes i wonder if i wonder too much…
why do so many people aspire to be a general manager or director or whatever-title-that-sounds-big? for the sake of fame/ego? power/authority? money? and the sad thing is…99.9999999% of these people…or at least those i know of…heard of…read of…are people who aren’t even capable of managing themselves…not to say managing an entire team and be responsible for the p/l…yes…the title comes with big responsibilities…
to be a successful GM/Director or even at the middle management level, the executive has got to be able to identify him/herself with the board of directors/boss/organisation…that means, any ideas…any thoughts…any actions must be harmonised to the extent of seamless execution…which is simply the ideal situation…but the simplest is…identify with the bottomline…which is the profit/loss…meaning…at this level, you can’t just shake your butt and say bye bye like that…
if u haven’t got the capabilities…dun ever mention to anyone…that you want to be a general manager or whatever…if talk is all you can do…just be a sales person…management requires real action…but of course, the board of directors/boss/organisation has to be cooperative as well…
that’s why, i always say: be sure of what you want…and LISTEN!
i hate all these craps! problems don’t appear by themselves…problems are created…by idiots…*arghz*
Posted by 珺 on Jun 17, 2009 in
argh this post serves as the ultimate reminder why i bothered to go back to work
argh!
Posted by 珺 on Jun 7, 2009 in
whatever tomorrow spells the beginning of yet another work week…
i’ve just redeemed shopping vouchers from my cc points…parents will be soooo glad that i redeemed all supermarket vouchers…well, maybe i’m becoming more ‘auntieeee’ cos i used to redeem vouchers for boutiques etc…and then bookstores…and now…supermarkets…but me, being me, i actually calculated the value of points vs voucher value…hahaha!…and thus the conclusion of supermarket …and also, there is no burberry vouchers to be redeem, nothing branded except from club21…and it’d seem rather yuckie to use vouchers there… -_-”"”"
i’ve been resisting the temptation to check my work email…which i failed miserably last night (there was nothing in the mailbox anyway)…and for the entire day today, it was the same old struggle…which my mum helped place into perspective earlier…there’s nothing much i could do now…so why not just check it only when i’m back in the office tomorrow? i’m actually a workaholic though it does seem to most people that i dun work…much or at all…i actually do work quite a fair bit and sometimes really a lot…
hope the coming week is going to be good…well, at least dinner dates scheduled so far are good…heeez…
counting down to Shahi Maharani with FY soon!
Posted by 珺 on Jun 7, 2009 in
stuff An inspiration from SY who wrote:
A world without reptiles and fowls
Oh, how wonderful it would be
No need to worry about poisonous bites and avian flu
No need to work till black and blue
No more grey hair and swollen panda eyes
No more torture of human lives
Days will be filled with joy and laughter
Eat, drink, dance and sing - happily ever after
I present here -
The Reptile & Fowl Rhapsody
How apt that the reptile and fowl should meet
Once upon a time in a corporate seat
With one married and the other spoken for
But on that first look, each they adore
For spite, money and power
The reptile in facing the fowl
Became a sweet and melodious sting
While the fowl succumbed to its primitive instinct
Entwined in their vicious net
Together a rambutan, a viper and a rat
They met, they fell, they coupled
They fed upon the kindness of the octopus
Listening to the clucks and the hisses
Mere humans could only wave their fists
And watch the reptile and fowl kiss
Since no intervention at the very least
The rambutan, the viper and the rat
Wanted to give the octopus the sack
The reptile and the fowl held back
As they desired the octopus as a punching bag
Stabbed left, right, up and down
Poor octopus could only frown
King Kong saw and bravely fought
Only to lose all his sanity thoughts
Mere humans could only shake their heads
Shakened, saddened and very much afraid
They asked for help from Peter Pan
Who sent Tinkerbell, armed with just a fan
She took the fan and gave it a wave
The reptile and fowl became her slaves
Oh, Tinkerbell was so brave
And so the octopus was saved
I Told You So - The Savage Kingdom
A glass of sparkling red grape juice
Was placed infront of Sussie Sue
She sipped and let out a smile
The fowl created thoughts of vile
Sitting closer to Sussie Sue
Leacherous moves slowly reveal
The evil, lusty, disgusting
Savage Kingdom where fowl is King
Reptile saw through slit of her eyes
A spilt second, fowl was chatised
With daggers silently flying
Unseen and yet with a sharp sting
Posted by 珺 on Jun 7, 2009 in
whatever a little overwhelming after the months of school life…which was really great…and the nagging thought my dissertation at the back of my mind…ohoh…
work has been hectic…with a big mess to be cleared up and i really hope i can find the strength to do more…the coy has huge potential…if only everyone in the coy can see that and work towards the same goal…that’s the more difficult than closing new deals i guess… =x
went shopping today…itz the great singapore sale hey! and the queues were…loooooong…what recession you’d say? even boutiques that weren’t having sale had long queues, not to mention those who are having sales of up to 50%…
i’m having jon’s song on repeat mode…besides posting the link up on frens facebook…hahaha!
Posted by 珺 on Jun 6, 2009 in
whatever everyone go http://www.wretch.cc/blog/kofanchang and listen to his songs, please! especially: http://f10.wretch.yimg.com/kofanchang/6/1845785097.mp3
i love love love love this song okiz!
this makes the first tiring week back to work…not tired anymore!
i’m so glad i managed to find the link back to his blog…i’m such a blurqueen…haha
Posted by 珺 on Jun 5, 2009 in
argh something happened today which reminded me why i chose to drop a career that was going up and to the phd route…
i wish i had saved the msn conversation but it wouldn’t be legit to cut and paste it here anyway…
to summarise, i’ve been low in blood pressure, blood sugar, red blood counts etc…since young…and every medical checkup results in the doctor threatening me with the glucose drip or iron pills or whatever nots unless i get those low counts somewhat at least 10% higher or so…however, when i started working at PSA, those counts suddenly became normal…guess workloads and bad diets contributed to the normalisation…
and last year, when i went back for my masters program, it all went down again…
AND, today, i am most proud to announce that for a few minutes, everything went normal again…and it reminded me of what i typed in the first sentence…
THE KINDA PEOPLE YOU MEET IN THE CORPORATE WORLD IS ARGH!!!!
i won’t mention names but it’d be obvious enough for those in the know to know who lah!
however, i’m glad that i’m far more grown up now and didn’t start shouting or writing extremely pointed emails… -_-” i even thanked the person…in a very ’sacar’ manner…*heez*
matter 1 - lack of manpower in a certain country office; head of office in certain country asked me to call long distance to hire the required manpower when the head of office of this certain country is doing next to nothing…(and hey, on a personal note, i really hate this but why does every OLD person has a problem reporting to a YOUNGER person? - i have no probs reporting to someone younger than myself so far…but i think i onli experienced this once though…)
matter 2 - client sent project over last thursday…head of office in this certain country sat on the project (maybe wishing it will turn into gold on its own) till 5mins to 6pm this tuesday before sending an email for help to my boss…and my dear boss sat on it for the entire of yesterday before forwarding the email to me today…*bleahz*…and client expects something tomorrow…so i’ve waved my magical wand and tomorrow, the client will receive something…i’m amazed at myself sometimes too…the things i do and i know i can do more actually…
i want to get up to speed…and settle all the problems once and for all so that i can get the new projects in and roll in the $$$!!!
went shopping at L’Occitane after work today and i suspect they purposely shifted Godiva next to L’Occitane so that i would spend more…argh!
i don’t want to look at the cc bills…i think i need to opt for auto giro…every month, my heart jumps a little at the bills…and that reminds me…i need to go for my ECG scan soon…don’t worry, i won’t drop dead…it’s just me being me…everything is a little abnormal… =x
Posted by 珺 on Jun 4, 2009 in
management by Gurnek Bains et al.
i’ve been reading this book for the longest time ever and yet to complete it. the reason being, i read, and then i re-read…i even brought it with me on the recent trip to Hong Kong, thinking, the time spent on flight would be fruitful reading and i started re-reading from the start so…there…
anyway, i’d like to intro this book to everyone…not just managers/bosses…
some questions which the book threw strikes me as particularly important:
are your leaders principally focused on creating the conditions for others to flourish?
are your company’s values inspiring or are they simply a list that no one pays attention to?
are you sure that, underneath the veneer of good corporate citizenship, your people are genuinely engaged in their work?
do you have sufficient levels of trust to create true alignment in your business?
do you make your employees feel special in any way?
simply put, it goes into the ’soft’ aspects of business but yet the core of it all…actually, not just business per say, but life in general…to me, passion for what you do is very important…of course, that passion must be supported by practical skills and resources…you can’t climb a mountain by yourself if u aren’t physically fit but if ur goal (passion) is just to be at the top no matter what the means is, then u can get people to carry u up there…
yes, i equate passion to goal, goal to passion.
i have a passion for challenges and thus i go for stuff that test my limits…while i may grouch and mumble and grumble about certain things, yes, i am generally sincerely happy in work that is challenging unless it is challenging the idiots or animals or walls…pointless then.
my feel on why many corporations fail as they do now is because of the lack of passion…from the boss to the employee…and the lack of trust…i know that everyone has got different management methods and we just can’t force everyone to be the same…but passion and trust are two factors which i believe leads one to success and away from failure…eventually.
i hope to be able to inject this meaning into my new team…*deep breatheeeee* and of course, at the same time, i hope my bosses are thinking along the same lines… *deeper breatheeeeeeee*
Posted by 珺 on Jun 3, 2009 in
whatever it’s the pandora’s box for me…opens up an entire unmanageable reel of emotions…which depending on situations can swing towards the good or bad…and unfortunately, while copying wordsworth for a fren…i got myself all emo-ed -_-” by reading/re-reading…and even worse, found a piece i wrote many years back for someone which is available online and i can’t remove it…awwww~ alright, itz all juvenile so let’s not make a mountain out of this molehill shall we? =x
let’s write about work which is all neutral…and well, oh no, i dun feel like writing about it…
there’s this feeling…something is wrong with the way society is structured, is functioning…we know it…we all know it…and yet no one does anything about it…out of the lack of courage? means? or even solutions? i dunno…i think and then i get tired…maybe we all do…and so life goes on the way it isn’t meant to be going on…and we pretend we are all happy about it…
so yes, words may change but my love for u is still the same…i’m glad you feel the same way too…
Posted by 珺 on Jun 1, 2009 in
whatever a whole lot of tasks undone. spent a few hours trying to get my work email up and running to no avail…so i’m stuck with the google app for the moment and i’m not complaining cos itz perfectly fine for me anyway…ah well…the evils and perils of technology…what can we say or do?
glad for the transportation to and fro work today…very much appreciated…can’t express my appreciation enuff…*muackz* *muackz* LOL~
next few days will be hurried and busy trying to get things sorted out…basically, no settling in period…which i dun really need anyway…
ate a lot of streetfood in hong kong and macau and yes, i eat streetfood when i’m overseas but i simply detest sg’s foodcourt…prefers the hawkers…i was wondering about this while having this msg going to and fro on facebook with a fren regarding my passion for streetfood even though it sometimes gives me an allergy (which unfortunately, this recent HK trip did…). particular fren (hey, dun feel offended k?) commented about not having streetfood and i really hope he will try it on his next trip to HK but of course, it really is up to the individual…just like how i’d never eat dog meat…-_-” but then, back to what i was wondering…u see, this fren had just posted a note on how he feels people judges him by his social status…which is true for most people…and that is why most people want to be rich and famous and powerful and whatever that gives them the feeling of being happy (which may not be true happiness)…my take is that people are divided…inherently divided…born divided…just like how i believe leaders are born and not made…i’ve got frens who absolutely do not mix with anyone of a lower social status (yah, the snobs - but still frens), frens who yearn to mix with the higher social status (the wannabes), frens who are of a really high social status and do not care about who they are mixing with (real sincere folks!)…of course, the selection of what and where you eat does not define you in either of these categories but it does reflect to those who are observing you, in order to better approach/get to know you, which stereotype they will be placing you into…and how they’d react to you…got it?
we all love to just label people, don’t we? not just people…we label everything…well, this is socialisation…get a 101 course if u wishes to know more…