Year: 2013
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Being A Good Boss Man
I’ve been an employer for several years now, and when I first started, it was easy to look for advice from other “bosses”. Whether that advice was good or not is another matter. What’s been evident is the difference in attitudes between the younger generation of employers and the older. Last year when one of…
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There’s A Book For Dealing With Whiny Kids
We have an arrangement at home with Kai where if he’s been really good he gets to exercise an option of half an hour of (apple) tv time in place of a bedtime storybook and a 5 minute chat about his day, but only if it isn’t already past bedtime (8pm). Two nights ago, he…
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Pedestrian Safety
Nick Singh stood at a traffic junction for 30 minutes to record all manner of jaywalking and dangerous behaviour and distilled it into this short video. He might have missed out on instances of people texting/facebooking/tweeting while crossing the road. Still, Pedestrian safety is everyone’s responsibility, including the pedestrian.
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Shanghai Is Still In China (And Singapore Airlines Is A Great Way To Fly)
On a work trip to Shanghai last Friday, I sat in my cab and marvelled at the gleaming towers, giant billboards and the frenetic pace of the people in the business districts of the giant city. Then my cab driver asked me something which I assumed to be permission for him to excuse himself because…
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Happy Mother’s Day
To every son and daughter’s mother, a happy Mother’s Day. You’ve made your children what they are, whether or not you’ve intended to. To Naomi – on behalf of Kai and myself, thank you for being everything he needs. To Naomi’s Mom, thank you for being family. And I remember my mother today, for making…