Are you basing your life choices on half-truths?
Pursue an MBA? Start a business? Accept that job offer? Relocate? Marry? How do you know you’re making the right choices? As a tumultuous year draws to a close, I know many of you...
Category: Success Tips
My favorite investment advice quote
With everything that’s going on in the stock markets since the start of this year, I think this is a good time to revisit one of my favorite bits of investment advice.
25 management lessons in 25 HBR charts
The Harvard Business Review has done a great job by summarizing what we learnt about management and business in 2015, in their collection of 25 of the best charts from this year! What I...
How to stand out from the crowd
As a mentor to several young and ambitious professionals, I am often asked, “What should I do to stand out from the crowd?”. I usually respond to the question with a question of my...
How to own the world
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts …” Shakespeare’s immortal lines beautifully...
Being OK is not OK
My wife decided to check out a new restaurant in Singapore a few months ago (and I went along meekly, needless to say). As with most major world cities, Singapore’s restaurant scene is fiercely competitive. We had...
Being unreasonable
Ever since I read it as a child, I have been fascinated by the following quote, generally attributed to the great George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable...
