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The Numbers Don’t Tie: Psychological Safety
Great teachers know it, great parents know it, and great team leaders know it. It is the key element for a robust learning environment, a critical factor in raising inquisitive and confident kids, and essential for leading high-performing teams: Psychological Safety....
Leadership: Be a Gardener, Not a Carpenter
If you’ve ever assembled IKEA furniture, you know the satisfaction of snapping the final piece into place - the perfect symmetry, the precision, the control. Everything fits exactly as planned. But have you ever tried controlling a garden? You can water, prune, and...
It’s Not Imposter Syndrome – It’s a Confidence Gap
I remember the day I was assigned a big enterprise-level transformational project - strategic, high-stakes, and C-suite visible. I was thrilled, prepared, and yes, a bit nervous. But when I shared the news with a colleague expressing both my excitement and my...
Strive for Excellence, Not Perfection
A Lesson from a Little Library When I was between eight and twelve, I spent most afternoons tucked away in a small Chinese library in my hometown in Malaysia, waiting for my mom to finish work nearby. For a budding bookworm, it was paradise. One day, with the earnest...
Awakening the Force Within
Ten years ago, a few months before the release of The Force Awakens, I made my biggest Amazon Prime Video purchase: a box set of six Star Wars movies. My ten-year-old son and I spent several weekends watching them all, preparing for the seventh film’s debut in...
The Power of Hellos, Goodbyes, and Everything in Between
I joined LinkedIn on February 18, 2012, almost nine years after it launched in 2003. I had just attended a colleague’s farewell party and was feeling nostalgic. After years of working together, I lamented that our paths might not cross again unless we made an...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Talent: Rethinking How We Recognize Talent
Beyond Hard Work – The New PIE You Need to Succeed
According to Coleman, career success isn’t just about performance. It is about Performance – 10% (Yes, only 10%!), Image – 30%, and Exposure – 60%. The message? Doing great work wasn’t enough – you had to be seen and heard.
Returning to Love
A Journey through Compassion, Courage, Connection, and Clarity “Make my words honest and true, economical and few, wise and well-chosen, calm and kind. Give me so much love and grace that this kind of conversation comes naturally to me.” This is my daily mantra at the...
Activating Your Own Fu
On Wednesday, January 29th, we will celebrate the Lunar New Year. This time of joy, reflection, and renewal is celebrated by nearly two billion people worldwide - 25 % of the global population. Though it is most closely associated with people of Chinese, Korean, and...