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Humility is sometimes needed
I am in Malaysian Red Crescent Society, that’s no secret. I’ve been in the society since primary school if anyone is counting without any breaks in my service. I am proud of that. What people sometimes don’t know is that I was also active in university. We had made good friends with the State committee […]
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The 3 Leadership Traits We Learn From Failure
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 one of the easiest way to get information. I always look for case studies, where someone has put in the effort to analyze […]
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The ONE Factor You Need To Keep A Strong Team
Celebrate Victory – A Lap Around Ireland As I was looking though Google Photos to embellish this site, I was taken on a sentimental trip on what happened in the past few years in my career. So taking a break from writing serious posts on my journey of leadership to look at the trip the […]
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Kilkenny
This is a recap of the first day of power on, the cumulation of a year’s work and preparations that brings us to Ireland. The night before (a Friday), the international team involved in the power on decided that we would have a nice dinner before starting power on the next day. In our previous […]
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My First Eureka Moment
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 assessment results as well as feedback that he has gathered from my peers and managers. In one of the assessment, it is clear […]
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Where did I start this journey?
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 for me to take on challenging roles. I have been known to take on programs that relate to non-traditional technologies. My first prime […]
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2020 – The Career Turning Point.
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 to only go out to get essential supplies. Schools are closed, wife and I have been working from home. Today, the Prime Minister, […]
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Need to know myself and kind of a leader I am
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 to something that I have to start from beginning. Maybe it would be great if I knew what I needed to do, but […]
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Dublin, Ireland
Things have turned around lately. Early in the year, I was with the functional safety team getting the a product to comply with a product development lifecycle that enable the product to be compliant to a safety standard for either automotive or industrial use. The software director (which was my previous boss before joining the […]
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Bounce back Like A Rubber Band
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 fall very soon. Then people tell me, well I have to practice resilience, this is where you learn to bounce back after every […]