Falling Out Gracefully

Work cultures: change, adapt, join, or move out?

I had a long phone conversation with a workaholic friend last night asking for advice on what can she do in a year to prepare for a freelance consulting career. Her conglomerate work is taking the toll on her due to management changes and politics. This includes her former staff,...

Trusting Bob

Continuing my sharing on the book "Winning With People" (and its workbook), there's a chapter in it that asks if we are Bob or do we have a Bob around us. Bob, in this case, is a person who has a problem with everyone. Bob is either a: problem carrier problem finder problem creator problem...

My failure is my success

My column at Sun.Star today is "My failure is my success". It was inspired by John Maxwell's book Failing Forward. I hope you'll like it. Update (September 21, 2010): I just realized that the article is not available online and hereby re-posting it. I often receive praises for the things I’ve done in...

14 Challenges in Staying Remarkable

For those of us who have been in the online business for quite sometime, ideas do get dry out from time to time especially when failures have been encountered. Some are due to poor execution, others bad timing, or the market is simply not ready for the product or service. In...