Take Me To Work

Welcome to Take Me To Work

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20s, 30s, 40s

In your 20s, you achieve more by working hard. In your 30s, you achieve more by working smart. In your 40s, you achieve more…

What is your Strength?

Have you ever wonder and ask others “What am I good at”? The answer may be described as an experience, accomplishment, or a skill.…

Dance Dance Dance

Remember the saying “Dance Like Nobody is Watching”? Yes, we should all put our best game forward and enjoy the process, regardless of what…

Multiply instead of Add

Often you hear about people being talked and managed as Resource and Capacity – that we Add, Subject, Allocate, Repurpose. Yes, in manual labour…

What would Company XYZ do?

When I started working or consulting for a company, I often get asked what would my previous employer do given the challenge they have? …

The Product and the Customer

Just finished reading Tim Wu’s The Attention Merchant, which covered the history of how professional “Attention Merchant” apply mass human psychology to achieve their goals…

About TMTW

We dedicate much productive time and efforts to our company and profession, we optimize our lives around it. Have you ever felt:

“I am stuck and stopped growing.”
“I’m bored/ tired/frustrated. I know I need a change but I don’t know where to start.”
“I can do so much more, but the opportunity is not there.”
“Work is not fun when I am not myself”

Or wonder about:

“How Do I achieve more results, in less time?”
“How can I speak up more confidently and influence with my insights?”
“How can I get my manager and team to understand me?”
“When and how will I realize my full potential?”

You are not alone – I have asked all these questions myself.

The Journey

There are infinite resources online, but the quick tips and tricks will not satisfy the learning souls. You need to master the principles and apply to your career and lives.

Some of this knowledge used to come from your managers and mentors. Unfortunately, most organizations today demand more attention to business results than people development.

We need to own our development and career. Let me give you a Boost here.

What can you find here?

Stories

Good people learn from their mistakes, Great people learn from others’.

Let me dissect the situations and thought process, so you can apply on your own stage.

Just like “Take your kids to work” day, let me take my friends to work everyday.

Strategies

In Chinese history, whenever the strategist sent a general to a battle, he would send along a secret pouch with mission-critical advice.

“Open the red pouch when you see fire, and the blue at rendezvous”.

Let me arm you with strategies and tools to take on your mighty challenges.

Characters

We each offer unique propositions to what we do. Your company and team are counting on it.

Don’t sell yourself short.

Let us Start a conversation, bust those barriers, and bring our full talent and character to work.

Ultimate Guide to 1:1

Our professional lives are as much about what we do, how we do it, and the people we do it with/for. Relationship is the ultimate multiplier in our career achievements and satisfaction.

This guide covers how to use 1:1s to build and nurture relationships (with your boss, peers, reports, customers, partners) – Tried and true principles and practices for you to apply in your own way.

Ideas to Make you Think and Do