Monthly Archives: August 2015

Divide and Conquer

You have a project coming due. The task requires multiple skills to get it done and numerous eyes to check the different parts and make sure they fit together. Because you are such a great recruiter of talent you have a collection of Creatives who can tackle any challenge. They are all very talented in […]

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A Meeting Space That is Right for Your Meeting

Holding a brainstorming session in a room that is set up for an inquisition might not get you the best results. Likewise, giving a formal presentation while everyone is sitting in bean bag chairs is not going to let you make your point very well. Those things are noisy. Bottom line: when you set up […]

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Singapore’s Startup Scene

Online learning

Singapore’s startup ecosystem has been ranked among the Top 10 in the world, and even more opportunities are bubbling up. In the last year, the coordination between SPRING Singapore, the Economic Development Board, the Ministry of Manpower, and others, has improved so that many valuable resources are available to entrepreneurs who need some support as […]

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Give Something Back

Retaining employees

Consider giving a little something back to the community that supports you. While the effective altruism movement might be more concerned about a Terminator-style takeover of the world than feeding the homeless, they ultimately do have the right idea: what can we do that will actually do some good rather than just making us feel […]

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Expanding Into New Markets

I started running marathons back in 2008, and after doing it for a couple years, I set a goal of running a marathon on all 7 continents. Of course, if you are going to run all 7, at some point you have to do Antarctica, and so that’s what I did last November. Running a […]

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