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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
We are humans on a leadership journey. I owned and operated a Chinese restaurant for six years and then spent 20 years in corporate America as a Finance professional. As a 23-year-old immigrant business owner, I developed my leadership skills through trial and error,...
Three years ago, in a prescient moment, my sister snapped a picture of me sitting in front of a simple but powerful quote: Don’t forget to play. It was the perfect backdrop for a decision that would change my life - saying goodbye to opportunities with the biggest...