…our boss had asked me and a colleague to jointly shortlist potential partners for a major project. After a week, we reviewed the shortlist with the boss. At…

If an employee is great at something, do you give them more of the same assignments? Or do you pro-actively find other assignments to stretch and stimulate them?…

I used to ask my 18-year son how his day was, whenever I picked him up from school. But in the last few years, his answers have mostly…

I am in KL with 3 school friends from more than half a lifetime ago for a long weekend of Euro Championship football, great food and most importantly,…

…but happily left a job recently. The trigger? He left work one day at his old company an hour earlier than the stipulated time. He’d come in very…

My daughter did not have a regular recess partner for her first 2 months of Primary 1. While classmates had paired up or formed cliques on Day 1,…

On holiday in Taiwan in May, the geek in me was thrilled to find a 660-ton pendulum near the top of the Taipei 101, once the world’s tallest…

“If my son is weak in math but strong in football, should I arrange one-on-one training for math or football?”, a friend asked. Do we focus on strengths…

Last night I heard something that always brings a smile to my face but which I don’t mindfully acknowledge enough. One daily exercise I learned from a mindfulness…

My parents left China pre-WW2, met and married in Singapore. Over 17 years, my mother gave birth to 9 children. My parents’ belief was that more children =…