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My insights and learning on my journey of leadership.

3 Important Steps When Starting As A Leader In Engineering

Posted on June 1, 2021

Made Software Engineering Director in Jan 2020 when my manager left for another organisation, mainly because there’s a huge restructuring in the organisaton involving new leadership and teams coming on board. Prior…

6 Principles We Can Learn

Posted on November 19, 2020

During tough times, we want to find feel good stories that would encourage us. We want to know that the tough times won’t be forever and learn how others navigate through difficulties….

3 Steps You Can Take To Overcome Challenges

Posted on November 16, 2020

Gratitude, Perspective then Hope It is coming to 8th month since Malaysia first started the Movement Control Order (MCO), since then we have various levels of movement control and now into our…

The 3 Leadership Traits We Learn From Failure

Posted on November 9, 2020

It is my belief that one of the best places to learn about leadership is in the military. Not everyone gets a chance to join the military leadership so watching documentaries is…

My First Eureka Moment

Posted on May 2, 2020

One of the first thing I was lucky to get was a professional coach to help me through my journey into the leadership role. At this point, he already have my personality…

Where did I start this journey?

Posted on May 1, 2020

I count my self lucky that I have a very supportive manager throughout my career, especially in the past few years. My manager did give me assignments, support and the psychological safety…

2020 – The Career Turning Point.

Posted on May 1, 2020

Today is May 1st 2020. For posterity sake, the family have been locked down at home since April 18th due to COVID-19 pandemic. Malaysia Government implemented Movement Control Order, allowing general public…

Need to know myself and kind of a leader I am

Posted on May 1, 2020

When I started to transition my job from a successful individual contributor to a leader, a lot of doubts come to my mind. Essentially, I am jumping from a great happy job…

Bounce back Like A Rubber Band

Posted on January 18, 2018

I have been feeling stressed and  worried at work over the past few months. The feeling of hopelessness, mainly on work issues.. the feeling that the balls I am jugging now will…

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Posted on August 28, 2012

I like books like this, they basically take some research results, come up with some use case and write a story about it. This book is so interesting that I finished it…

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