Featured in RTM and a New Year Resolution !

Dear Friends,

I was informed by one of my staff today that apparently this blog was mentioned in an RTM programme recently.

This staff said it was mentioned as a exemplary blog where the "owner does not have a PhD but is knowledgeable".

Not sure if I should take that as a complement but I am pleased nevertheless since the blog got a mention.

If anyone has any further information on this, please don't hesitate to let me know.

I don't want to know this for the purpose of any self-glorification but just to know and learn from it.

I believe failure is not the only teacher - success can be too and success must be celebrated no matter how small.

We do that a lot at home - where even little successes are celebrated in simple ways.

Most of us have grown up in an environment where our successes are not acknowledged and we hardly get a pat on the back. We don't tell our kids enough of how well or how appreciated they are. We don't celebrate our friends and their successes enough. When we become bosses, we carry this habit along and make people around us feel unappreciated.

For us to become a successful nation, I think we also need to add the skill to be candid in both our appreciation and admonition in our repertoire of things to do and skills to acquire.

In my company, when someone has done a good job, we say it openly. We tell them there and then and not wait for a performance review. I personally think we need to improve on this acknowledgment bit a little more though.

However when someone screws up, we also tell them where, why and how they have screwed up.

We then move on. No grudges. No regrets. Most importantly no gossip. We state our point of view and then we move on.

But many people don't and that's sad. They live with their burden and see their own frailty in others. They never move on with renewed faith and energy...

I think, one has to constantly die to the past to be able to reinvent oneself.

I think we need to be each others' cheerleaders in the pursuit of finding relevance..

I wish every one of us can make one additional resolution for 2009 : to appreciate people around us?

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Cheers