I got 2 free GV tickets which we suppose to watch on 29th Dec 2006 at GV Bishan. I managed to arrive at Bishan at arround 18:45, however my wife could not reach there on time. So at this juncture we actually have 2 options:
1. to watch the 18:40 show (Curse of the Golden Flower) but missed about 20 minutes of the show
2. Or to watch the same show at 21:30
Alas, we decided to watch that show on the next day, so I bought two tickets for 30th Dec 18:40 show. I kew that on the 30th Dec we would be going to JB with friends but I was thinking that the trip won't be a long trip. How long can you spend in JB?
That decision proves to be a bad decision as what we get the next day is: to pay $16.00 for the taxi from Woodlands checkpoint to GV Bishan and yet we still missed 30 minutes of the show. Plus we have to leave our friends in Jusco (JB) as they have not finished with their shopping.
Financial lost is only $16.00 but the emotional lost is much more, as I think there are so many things that could have prevented the kind of lost.
1. we could have watched the 18:40 show on 29th Dec, and missed only 20 minutes, no financial lost
2. we could have watched the 21:30 show on 29th Dec, and miss only the TV show at home, no financial lost
3. we could spend only 30 mnt (instead of 1 hour) in Jusco (JB) and rush back to Bishan to watch the FULL show. No financial lost. There was a great traffic jam near Jusco which caused more than 1 hour to reach there from City Square (JB). We also have wasted 30 minutes in the immigration as my friends refused to queue frist then fill the immigration form, instead they filled the form first then go for the queue.
4. we could just forget about the 2 free GV tickets, and hence go straight home from Woodlands checkpoint. No direct financial lost, but indirect financial lost is the cost of 2 GV tickets.
The key lesson learned here is:
When you are already in lost position, analyzed situation in a cool and calm manner, and CUT LOST when that makes the most logical action. Remember: when you are already in a lost position, be LOGICAL and detach your emotions. Be aware that your emotions will make you try to win back your lost, and those emotions will MOST likely cause you to fall into a deeper lost.
I think cutting lost is NOT an easy thing to do, as that requires us to detach our emotions and think very logically. However, if you want to achieve great things in life you got to be able to do that! Gud luck to you.
Happy New Year 2007. May God bless you with good health and may 2007 teaches you to be a wiser soul.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Learn to let go, be soft at heart but hard in head
We need to learn to let go and let nature takes its own course.
We can be hard at head, but always be soft at heart.
Do not let emotion or hurting words sour our heart, be forgiving and always emphatizing.
But remember to remain hard at head!
I will always pray for you bro, pray that you will someday learn something useful for your soul and mind and may you be wiser. I pray that God be with you, always.
We can be hard at head, but always be soft at heart.
Do not let emotion or hurting words sour our heart, be forgiving and always emphatizing.
But remember to remain hard at head!
I will always pray for you bro, pray that you will someday learn something useful for your soul and mind and may you be wiser. I pray that God be with you, always.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Lesson learnt from Heart vs Head
Remember my previous posting regarding the "Tough Decision"? Well at the end I followed my heart, I emphatized my brother and let the lady continues to work with us. My brother had make a damn serious promise that thing is over between them and everything is back to normal. I gave him the benefit of doubt, I took the risk in believing him. Well, well...what I realized today is that he is a person who does not care about his promises, and he will lie just to get what he wants. I was deeply dissapointed by the way he thinks and behaves. I don't know how I can help him. How can I teach him that he needs to be responsible? Responsible many times means: to give up what we like (to sacrify) and to do what we should do, to do what we have promised, and to think for others (are we hurting others?). I can only pray that God be with him and that He will always guide him. I think that's best thing I can do for now, and let nature takes it's own course.
Though the events turned out to be negative, I did not feel any regret for following my heart. Why? Because I think when I made the decision to follow my heart, which is to show emphaty and to give people chance, I've at the same time been fully aware of the worst-case should things don't turn out positively. So the key point that I've learnt here is that we should always be ready (mentally or physically) to take the worst-case. This sounded simple, but many people are not actually ready for such worst-case scenario, and when the worst-case does really happen they will start to feel regret with their decision and they will start the blaming-game.
Think worst-case and be responsible with our own decision.
Though the events turned out to be negative, I did not feel any regret for following my heart. Why? Because I think when I made the decision to follow my heart, which is to show emphaty and to give people chance, I've at the same time been fully aware of the worst-case should things don't turn out positively. So the key point that I've learnt here is that we should always be ready (mentally or physically) to take the worst-case. This sounded simple, but many people are not actually ready for such worst-case scenario, and when the worst-case does really happen they will start to feel regret with their decision and they will start the blaming-game.
Think worst-case and be responsible with our own decision.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Do it right the first time
"Do it right the first time" is more about attitude rather than intelligent. It means that it does not matter how smart you are, but whether you bother to try your best to do it right the first time. I've seen smart people spending unnecessary time and effort to troubleshoot problems that could have been prevented right from the beginning. The recent case is the good example. This case involved 4 parties, my company, my joint venture company in China, my external consultant in Singapore and my external consultant in China. There was a request to this consultant in Singapore to customize certain part of the software, and this customization is to be deployed to China and be supported by the consultant there. The customization is simple and if the singapore consultant try his/her best to do it right in the first time, there wont' be any need for such a long process of to-and-fro communication to fix the bugs. The main problem here is the singapore consultant never spend enough time to test and make sure everything is ok before deploying the solution to China. The consultant is smart, but his/her attitude is bad!
So, next time try to do it right the FIRST time.
So, next time try to do it right the FIRST time.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Tough decision
Sometimes, in life you just gonna meet a situation where your feeling and your logic could not agree. Tomorrow is my brother's wedding and I'll be there celebrating the joyous event. But tomorrow or probably tonight is also the moment where I'm confused whether to follow my heart or my mind.
It's regarding the problem of my other younger brother. He fell in love with someone whom he should not. And now he is asking my permission to let his lover to continue to work with us. He said thing is over between them and the only reason why he asked for her to be allowed to work with us is because he feels pity for this lady. The lady likes to work with us and she will be deserted if we let her work in other place.
I could understand my brother's reason and I empathize him. However, logically thinking I should not trust him, because he has broken many of his promises before. And I really don't think things can be so easily over between them.
If I allow the lady to work with us, there will be many foreseeable problems that we are going to face but if I don't allow her, I feel I'm being too cruel. My brother is begging me for help and empathy and I personally do feel sory for the lady. I feel that my brother is the main culprit for all the saga though there are some parts on the lady to be blamed too.
Anyway, it's a tough decision...and probably I'll just follow my heart because my heart is not hard enough to follow my mind. I might be making a very big mistake, and I can only pray to God that everything will turn out to be ok (at least).
Catching the flight...
It's regarding the problem of my other younger brother. He fell in love with someone whom he should not. And now he is asking my permission to let his lover to continue to work with us. He said thing is over between them and the only reason why he asked for her to be allowed to work with us is because he feels pity for this lady. The lady likes to work with us and she will be deserted if we let her work in other place.
I could understand my brother's reason and I empathize him. However, logically thinking I should not trust him, because he has broken many of his promises before. And I really don't think things can be so easily over between them.
If I allow the lady to work with us, there will be many foreseeable problems that we are going to face but if I don't allow her, I feel I'm being too cruel. My brother is begging me for help and empathy and I personally do feel sory for the lady. I feel that my brother is the main culprit for all the saga though there are some parts on the lady to be blamed too.
Anyway, it's a tough decision...and probably I'll just follow my heart because my heart is not hard enough to follow my mind. I might be making a very big mistake, and I can only pray to God that everything will turn out to be ok (at least).
Catching the flight...
Monday, September 04, 2006
Proud of your achievements?
It's not what you have achieved that matters, because what you have achieved is mainly God-gifted. Even when you think you have achieved all those things because you are smart and hardworking. The hardworking part is not God-gifted, but your conscious efforts and that's commendable. But let me tell you, it takes luck too to reach what you have reached. Even your great IQ is God-gifted, think about that. So, my point is, a large part of what you have achieved is God-gifted, and only a smaller part is the result of your conscious efforts to work hard. Instead of feeling proud, we should be feeling blessed.
You should only be proud if you could consciously give back all those gifts to society and left only a minimum part of them for your family and yourself. When you have done that, that's where your true success lies.
Btw, I met a member of Jehova witnesses yesterday, any comment on them?
You should only be proud if you could consciously give back all those gifts to society and left only a minimum part of them for your family and yourself. When you have done that, that's where your true success lies.
Btw, I met a member of Jehova witnesses yesterday, any comment on them?
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Learn to forgive & Open your way to happiness
In Chinese culture, there is an expression called "small people", which refers to devious and often small-minded human enemies, or even evil spirits, who backstab you, who are bent on giving you a hard time - either for their personal benefits, or out of plain hatred and jealousy. In other words, these "small people" are anything but "great" to you. There is a mildly voodoo-like folk custom of venting anger on these often unrecognised enemies, by beating a shoe on human-shaped paper figures. Doing so is supposed to ward away bad luck. In the media, feisty old ladies are often portrayed to uphold this ritual, by vengefully banging these paper figures on the floor with wooden clogs, while uttering horrendous curses and swears. But what if one's enemies likewise wish ill upon them? Will there be truce, or will mutual hate thicken? Ironically, probably the only hurt caused is to the old dames' tired hands, and being out of breath. Less tangible is the spiritual damage they do to their minds by nursing seething rage.
Sounds like a pretty harmless or even amusing practice? Well, it's always sad to encounter the elderly, who are resentful to the boiling point. It is as if they had, despite decades of living, still not learnt to forgive, unable to release the burden of hate. It is already suffering enough to be old, much more so to be continually bitter. The thought of growing old and angry is frightening indeed! The person who makes you unhappy is never really an enemy out there. The cause is always you - because it is you and you alone, who allows an external person to "condition" your very own happiness. We are our own small-minded "small people". Why let someone else hold your personal happiness ransom? All others can do is "tempt" us to be unhappy; we decide whether to take the bait and suffer the consequences. Part of becoming spiritually mature is to realise we are responsible for our own happiness, to the extent that others can neither truly grant us happiness nor unhappiness. However, as Shantideva put it, "Enemies and hindrances are my greatest teacher", because they train us to rise above enmity and obstacles. It is thus wiser to be more grateful than resentful.
We cannot force others to be nice to us, but we ourselves can be willingly nice to others. Hopefully, this can touch our enemies, and transform them to be friends. Not always possible instantly, but doing so is to become blameless to others, instead of just blaming others. The main unrecognised enemy is us. The eye that sees others cannot see itself. We are the most invisible to us. We are our immediate and ultimate foes, strengthened by our unmindfulness and delusions. Atisha taught us to "Drive all the blame into one." This "one" is none other than our ego-clinging, that divides others into friends or foes of our ego. Either way, we are all just folks who want True Happiness, with the common enemy of ego-clinging. Why not forgive each other, and help each other subdue this enemy instead?
Do so... before you grow old... and angry!
Sounds like a pretty harmless or even amusing practice? Well, it's always sad to encounter the elderly, who are resentful to the boiling point. It is as if they had, despite decades of living, still not learnt to forgive, unable to release the burden of hate. It is already suffering enough to be old, much more so to be continually bitter. The thought of growing old and angry is frightening indeed! The person who makes you unhappy is never really an enemy out there. The cause is always you - because it is you and you alone, who allows an external person to "condition" your very own happiness. We are our own small-minded "small people". Why let someone else hold your personal happiness ransom? All others can do is "tempt" us to be unhappy; we decide whether to take the bait and suffer the consequences. Part of becoming spiritually mature is to realise we are responsible for our own happiness, to the extent that others can neither truly grant us happiness nor unhappiness. However, as Shantideva put it, "Enemies and hindrances are my greatest teacher", because they train us to rise above enmity and obstacles. It is thus wiser to be more grateful than resentful.
We cannot force others to be nice to us, but we ourselves can be willingly nice to others. Hopefully, this can touch our enemies, and transform them to be friends. Not always possible instantly, but doing so is to become blameless to others, instead of just blaming others. The main unrecognised enemy is us. The eye that sees others cannot see itself. We are the most invisible to us. We are our immediate and ultimate foes, strengthened by our unmindfulness and delusions. Atisha taught us to "Drive all the blame into one." This "one" is none other than our ego-clinging, that divides others into friends or foes of our ego. Either way, we are all just folks who want True Happiness, with the common enemy of ego-clinging. Why not forgive each other, and help each other subdue this enemy instead?
Do so... before you grow old... and angry!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
My Hope
Last night before falling into a deep sleep, a thought flashed into my mind. At that moment I was wondering if I could ever help my family to see through many illusions in this life. To help them reach a higher spiritual level. I've seen through many things in life, I could feel peace, love and compassion. Can I help my family to experience the same things ? Is it possible ? Is it that I was born to seek the truth but the rest were not ? Actually, this is one of the biggest question that I've not yet found a satisfying answer.
For now, I can only pray that God will guide all my family members to truly understand what is the essence of living. To see through that life is just a temporary arrangement. To know that what truly matter is our soul. To believe that at the end it is how unselfish our soul have become that matters.
There are many things in life that I still don't understand, and there might be many challenges ahead that I have to go through. It is my faith in God and my believe that life is a test, that will bring me to the end; to the end, not with a broken soul but to the end with a better soul, a stronger soul who has passed all the tests and a soul who is no longer selfish.
I hope I can help my family to become that kind of soul. I hope I can help the rest too, but if I can't even help my family, could I possibly help the rest?
For now, I can only pray that God will guide all my family members to truly understand what is the essence of living. To see through that life is just a temporary arrangement. To know that what truly matter is our soul. To believe that at the end it is how unselfish our soul have become that matters.
There are many things in life that I still don't understand, and there might be many challenges ahead that I have to go through. It is my faith in God and my believe that life is a test, that will bring me to the end; to the end, not with a broken soul but to the end with a better soul, a stronger soul who has passed all the tests and a soul who is no longer selfish.
I hope I can help my family to become that kind of soul. I hope I can help the rest too, but if I can't even help my family, could I possibly help the rest?
Sunday, August 13, 2006
The Starfish Story
While tiding up my apartment, I found an old print out about a story which I like very much. I like this story because many times I've asked myself: can I really make any difference to the world? The problems in this world are just too many, and I realized those problems truly are part of the "defintion" of this world, the world that you & I are living at the present. Everytime I've the feeling that whatever I've done (or am going to do) will not be a matter, I'll think of this story.
And this is the story:
The Starfish Story
adapted from The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley
1907 - 1977
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.
One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up.
As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.
He came closer still and called out "Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?"
The young man paused, looked up, and replied "Throwing starfish into the ocean."
"I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" asked the somewhat startled wise man.
To this, the young man replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die."
Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, "But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!"
At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, "It made a difference for that one."
===== The End
And btw, my whole apartment looks much better now, plus I've saved $250 from not going to IKEA Sale to buy another two more bookshelves. Plus...controlling my temptation to go to Expo for the ongoing National Library Book Sale (12-13 Aug).
And this is the story:
The Starfish Story
adapted from The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley
1907 - 1977
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.
One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up.
As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.
He came closer still and called out "Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?"
The young man paused, looked up, and replied "Throwing starfish into the ocean."
"I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" asked the somewhat startled wise man.
To this, the young man replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die."
Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, "But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!"
At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, "It made a difference for that one."
===== The End
And btw, my whole apartment looks much better now, plus I've saved $250 from not going to IKEA Sale to buy another two more bookshelves. Plus...controlling my temptation to go to Expo for the ongoing National Library Book Sale (12-13 Aug).
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Why must there be a war ?
Maybe, that is part and parcel of human life. I think it is the imperfection that is built into our genes. The gene that makes us behave aggressively in order to solve our problems. The gene that makes unable to control our selfishness, greed and emotions. Until science can come out with a powerful genetic re-engineering to take away these genes from human race, there will always be war.
War will only benefit few persons at the very top, these are the people that manipulate many others to go into war. These are also the very same people that could prevent and stop the war.
What can I do? I'll pray for you to have compassion to know that there is no good outcome from any war.
Amin.
War will only benefit few persons at the very top, these are the people that manipulate many others to go into war. These are also the very same people that could prevent and stop the war.
What can I do? I'll pray for you to have compassion to know that there is no good outcome from any war.
Amin.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Happiness
What is happiness ? To me, happiness is when you have love, peace and compassion in your heart.
When you have peace in your heart, you are happy.
When you feel love is in your heart, you are happy.
When you have compassion in your heart, you are happy.
I have contentment, but i don't want to be complacent, no, never. Contentment is good, but complacency is BAD.
I will always try to be better, but I should never be attached to the results. Results depend on controlable factors and UN-controlable factors. So, there is no need to feel discouraged when we don't achieve the results that we are expecting. Most importantly is we must learn, and lessons learned are TRULY what I think as the "results".
To find peace, look for courage and seek the wisdom of Tao.
To have love and compassion, have a giving and caring heart. Ignorance is sin.
Life, in essence, is a chance for our soul to fully embrace love, peace and compassion.
At the end, it is how much love we have given.
At the end, it is how much peace we have enjoyed.
At the end, it is how much compassion we have shown.
At the end, it is our soul that matters!
When you have peace in your heart, you are happy.
When you feel love is in your heart, you are happy.
When you have compassion in your heart, you are happy.
I have contentment, but i don't want to be complacent, no, never. Contentment is good, but complacency is BAD.
I will always try to be better, but I should never be attached to the results. Results depend on controlable factors and UN-controlable factors. So, there is no need to feel discouraged when we don't achieve the results that we are expecting. Most importantly is we must learn, and lessons learned are TRULY what I think as the "results".
To find peace, look for courage and seek the wisdom of Tao.
To have love and compassion, have a giving and caring heart. Ignorance is sin.
Life, in essence, is a chance for our soul to fully embrace love, peace and compassion.
At the end, it is how much love we have given.
At the end, it is how much peace we have enjoyed.
At the end, it is how much compassion we have shown.
At the end, it is our soul that matters!
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
What I've learned these past few days
My staff resigned unexpectedly during a business trip in Batam, and the trigger point was just because I asked with him about the work status in regards to his previous trip to Guang Zhou. Cutting the story short, the resignation was a result of pent-up frustation built over the time.
I've all the while been thinking that he was doing fine and happy. So the suddend and unexpected resignation prompted me to review deeply what have gone wrong all these times, without me truly aware.
I've learned many lessons in these past few days through objective self analysis, and these are the summary of things to note to prevent the same incident from happening again in the future:
1. Never again think that people could be so objectively take work arguments as simply a discussion for the sake of finding the best solutions. Especially, if that person is your subordinate or someone whom you have power/authority on. Take good care of their sensitive feelings. As much as we want to say work is just work, we are sensitive Asian, not objective American.
2. Control or manage constantly their expectations (and importantly, right from the very beginning) and let them know your expectations too. Serious communication in a RIGHT setting is crucial. Cannot depend simply on informal mode, mixing formal and informal will be best. Don't expect them to align themselves to your goals, you MUST put effort to align them to you. Well, initially they might seem to be able to align to you automatically (meaning: without you spending effort to align them), but it will be a fool to think that the auto-mode can last forever.
3. Effective communication does not mean having a good command in the language, but also right usage of tone and constantly be aware of the other party reaction and feeling.
4. Try to understand their situation, for example their work load and their mood. Help them manage their work load and motivate them when they are down (which could likely be caused by some non-office matters)
5. They won't understand whatever dilemma you are having, and they don't need to as long as you pay attention to point no.1 to no.4 above.
Bottom line is: we really need to spend time and effort on those so called non-technical stuffs to achieve the best working relationship in the hope to achieve maximum results.
I've all the while been thinking that he was doing fine and happy. So the suddend and unexpected resignation prompted me to review deeply what have gone wrong all these times, without me truly aware.
I've learned many lessons in these past few days through objective self analysis, and these are the summary of things to note to prevent the same incident from happening again in the future:
1. Never again think that people could be so objectively take work arguments as simply a discussion for the sake of finding the best solutions. Especially, if that person is your subordinate or someone whom you have power/authority on. Take good care of their sensitive feelings. As much as we want to say work is just work, we are sensitive Asian, not objective American.
2. Control or manage constantly their expectations (and importantly, right from the very beginning) and let them know your expectations too. Serious communication in a RIGHT setting is crucial. Cannot depend simply on informal mode, mixing formal and informal will be best. Don't expect them to align themselves to your goals, you MUST put effort to align them to you. Well, initially they might seem to be able to align to you automatically (meaning: without you spending effort to align them), but it will be a fool to think that the auto-mode can last forever.
3. Effective communication does not mean having a good command in the language, but also right usage of tone and constantly be aware of the other party reaction and feeling.
4. Try to understand their situation, for example their work load and their mood. Help them manage their work load and motivate them when they are down (which could likely be caused by some non-office matters)
5. They won't understand whatever dilemma you are having, and they don't need to as long as you pay attention to point no.1 to no.4 above.
Bottom line is: we really need to spend time and effort on those so called non-technical stuffs to achieve the best working relationship in the hope to achieve maximum results.
The Position Myth - Part 2
From: Boss
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:49 PM
To: Me
Cc: HR Manager
Subject: RE: Opinion on "The Position Myth"
Hi Subordinate,
Thanks for your opinion.
Not disagreeing with what you have mentioned....but when you said TOP....what does it mean....meaning one is in a leadership position already? If so, then a team or project leader is in a leadership position.
In organisations, its very difficult to promote someone to the very TOP position eg General Mgr and then "demote" that person....that is very difficult for anyone to accept. (Not like politicians, which runs election every 5 years). Hence, usually, organisations would "test" one's leadership capabilities by empowering him or her to run projects or lead a small team. Once he has proven himself in terms of delivering the results -- both in terms of "hardware" and the "software", then we can say that he is really a Leader -- both in name and in substance.
Regards
Boss
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and my reply to the above email
From: Me
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:28 AM
To: Boss
Cc: HR Manager
Subject: RE: Opinion on "The Position Myth"
Hi Boss,
In my opinion, sometimes people get trapped into what I think as one of the greatest fallacies in leadership: the Initial Support must (and in extreme case, always) be coming from the bottom first. To put it in another way, I made a distinction between a profit organization and a country.
Again, like what I have said, at the end it needs to come from BOTH directions.
On the “demotion” issues, I think that really depends on the culture of the company, in a high-performance company (and under high-performance manager like Jack Welch) maybe there is no such thing called “demotion”, the person gets fired. I believe, people like Jack Welch is NOT everyone idol, ask those who were fired by him, ask those whose comfort zone has been taken away by him. For the same number of people who praised him, there could be an equal number of people who hate him. But for many, he is considered one of the greatest managers, why? I guess, at the end it is still the results and achievements that count.
I just asked myself, if Jack Welch did not bring continuous excellent growth to GE that made GE’s market capitalization bubbled up few times during his tenure, will anyone say he is one of greatest managers and that he has a good team leadership (keeping in mind that he had offended and fired many people too)?
Regards,
Me
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Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:49 PM
To: Me
Cc: HR Manager
Subject: RE: Opinion on "The Position Myth"
Hi Subordinate,
Thanks for your opinion.
Not disagreeing with what you have mentioned....but when you said TOP....what does it mean....meaning one is in a leadership position already? If so, then a team or project leader is in a leadership position.
In organisations, its very difficult to promote someone to the very TOP position eg General Mgr and then "demote" that person....that is very difficult for anyone to accept. (Not like politicians, which runs election every 5 years). Hence, usually, organisations would "test" one's leadership capabilities by empowering him or her to run projects or lead a small team. Once he has proven himself in terms of delivering the results -- both in terms of "hardware" and the "software", then we can say that he is really a Leader -- both in name and in substance.
Regards
Boss
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and my reply to the above email
From: Me
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:28 AM
To: Boss
Cc: HR Manager
Subject: RE: Opinion on "The Position Myth"
Hi Boss,
In my opinion, sometimes people get trapped into what I think as one of the greatest fallacies in leadership: the Initial Support must (and in extreme case, always) be coming from the bottom first. To put it in another way, I made a distinction between a profit organization and a country.
Again, like what I have said, at the end it needs to come from BOTH directions.
On the “demotion” issues, I think that really depends on the culture of the company, in a high-performance company (and under high-performance manager like Jack Welch) maybe there is no such thing called “demotion”, the person gets fired. I believe, people like Jack Welch is NOT everyone idol, ask those who were fired by him, ask those whose comfort zone has been taken away by him. For the same number of people who praised him, there could be an equal number of people who hate him. But for many, he is considered one of the greatest managers, why? I guess, at the end it is still the results and achievements that count.
I just asked myself, if Jack Welch did not bring continuous excellent growth to GE that made GE’s market capitalization bubbled up few times during his tenure, will anyone say he is one of greatest managers and that he has a good team leadership (keeping in mind that he had offended and fired many people too)?
Regards,
Me
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
The Position Myth
I just finished the workshop conducted by my boss. The workshop is about leadership and it was conducted after one of my people, who is very capable, resigned from the company. I'll talk about the whole saga pertaining to his resignation in another chance as I want to focus on the leadership issue here.
My boss gave everyone a copy of a chapter from one of the books written by John C. Maxwell (her favorite author). The title of that article is "Myth #1 The Position Myth - I can't lead if I am not at the top." Having read that article, I ended up with writing her an email (which I cc to my HR Manager, with the hope she could comment on that too). And this is my email.
start of email - "
Hi Boss,
Thanks for sharing with us the interesting article on “The Position Myth”.
My opinion is this:
I agreed 100% if we say “Title and position are not what a leader need”. In fact, in some organizations, position and title are totally screwed up. What leaders truly need is SUPPORT.
Support can come from Top or bottom. In country, the support is coming from below. In organization, I think it is most importantly must be coming from the TOP. At the end of the day, it must be coming from BOTH directions. The problem here is should it come from the BOTTOM first then top, or TOP first then bottom? My bet is in organization, unlike in a country, the support should come from TOP first, and let the leader build the rest (of the support) from the BOTTOM.
Egg first or chicken first?
Hi Mrs.HR Manager, I thought it will be good to cc you too as you are much into organization/leadership stuffs.
Regards,
Me
" - end of email
My boss gave everyone a copy of a chapter from one of the books written by John C. Maxwell (her favorite author). The title of that article is "Myth #1 The Position Myth - I can't lead if I am not at the top." Having read that article, I ended up with writing her an email (which I cc to my HR Manager, with the hope she could comment on that too). And this is my email.
start of email - "
Hi Boss,
Thanks for sharing with us the interesting article on “The Position Myth”.
My opinion is this:
I agreed 100% if we say “Title and position are not what a leader need”. In fact, in some organizations, position and title are totally screwed up. What leaders truly need is SUPPORT.
Support can come from Top or bottom. In country, the support is coming from below. In organization, I think it is most importantly must be coming from the TOP. At the end of the day, it must be coming from BOTH directions. The problem here is should it come from the BOTTOM first then top, or TOP first then bottom? My bet is in organization, unlike in a country, the support should come from TOP first, and let the leader build the rest (of the support) from the BOTTOM.
Egg first or chicken first?
Hi Mrs.HR Manager, I thought it will be good to cc you too as you are much into organization/leadership stuffs.
Regards,
Me
" - end of email
Thursday, June 22, 2006
How much wealth could you have?
How rich will you be? How much wealth could you have during your whole life time ?
What I'd like to address is this question: What are the key factors that determine how much wealth someone could/might have?
I concluded that there are 3 factors:
1. Luck
2. IQ/EQ and some other "Q" or even new "Q" that might not be discovered yet. I consider attitude as part of EQ.
3. Hardwork
Luck: anything that you get (or do NOT get) but NOT because of IQ/EQ or Hardwork falls under "Luck".
Example:
1. you are stupid and lazy but still have millions to spend, how come? because you are LUCKy...you are probably the grandson of Bill Gates.
2. you don't truly have the knowledge needed to be someone at managerial post, but you are holding a title of "XXX Manager" and continuously drawing quite a good salary. How come? Because you are LUCKy!!! to have a NOT so intelligent boss who does NOT really understand what you are doing...Yes, you can continue sitting on your position because you boss is kind-of-stupid in your field..and as I said u r LUCKy.
3. and the examples continue....
IQ/EQ: you are born with it. A great IQ/EQ is supposedly a blessing because you have the power to contribute alot to society and make our human life better. But you also have the same power to destroy it/us. IQ/EQ is a double-edge sword. Use it wisely. Last, great IQ/EQ does not guarantee great wealth. With good/great IQ/EQ but without luck, you should NOT be in a bad shape though you might not go into the top 100 richest man in the world.
Hardwork: if you don't have luck and IQ/EQ, you better do this well. Unfortunately, without luck and/or IQ/EQ there is no possibility for you to go into the top 1,000,000 richest man in the world. But if you are hardworking, at least you won't have problem solving your family 3 meals. So you see, hardworking is still very important. Combining hardwork with great IQ/EQ and a little bit of LUCK, you will very likely make your way into the top 100 richest person in this UNPERFECT world..
have a nice day....
What I'd like to address is this question: What are the key factors that determine how much wealth someone could/might have?
I concluded that there are 3 factors:
1. Luck
2. IQ/EQ and some other "Q" or even new "Q" that might not be discovered yet. I consider attitude as part of EQ.
3. Hardwork
Luck: anything that you get (or do NOT get) but NOT because of IQ/EQ or Hardwork falls under "Luck".
Example:
1. you are stupid and lazy but still have millions to spend, how come? because you are LUCKy...you are probably the grandson of Bill Gates.
2. you don't truly have the knowledge needed to be someone at managerial post, but you are holding a title of "XXX Manager" and continuously drawing quite a good salary. How come? Because you are LUCKy!!! to have a NOT so intelligent boss who does NOT really understand what you are doing...Yes, you can continue sitting on your position because you boss is kind-of-stupid in your field..and as I said u r LUCKy.
3. and the examples continue....
IQ/EQ: you are born with it. A great IQ/EQ is supposedly a blessing because you have the power to contribute alot to society and make our human life better. But you also have the same power to destroy it/us. IQ/EQ is a double-edge sword. Use it wisely. Last, great IQ/EQ does not guarantee great wealth. With good/great IQ/EQ but without luck, you should NOT be in a bad shape though you might not go into the top 100 richest man in the world.
Hardwork: if you don't have luck and IQ/EQ, you better do this well. Unfortunately, without luck and/or IQ/EQ there is no possibility for you to go into the top 1,000,000 richest man in the world. But if you are hardworking, at least you won't have problem solving your family 3 meals. So you see, hardworking is still very important. Combining hardwork with great IQ/EQ and a little bit of LUCK, you will very likely make your way into the top 100 richest person in this UNPERFECT world..
have a nice day....
Thursday, June 15, 2006
My Three Musketeers
Courage (the past), Determination (the present) and Faith (the future)
Have courage to look into your past actions and life experiences. Have courage to admit that you have done many things for your own selfishness. Have courage to admit that you are a bad person, a bad wife/husband, a bad mother/father, a bad brother/sister, a bad employee/employer, a bad friend, etc. Have courage to say you have done many wrong things. Have courage to admit your sins. Have the COURAGE to face your PAST!
Be determined to do the right things after you have courageously faced your mistakes. Give no single excuse to do the same mistake. Give no justification for another mistake. You need determination NOW, in the PRESENT!.
Have faith that what is good is NOT selfish. Have faith that what is bad is SELFISH. Let this be your ONLY core faith, Unshakable Faith. Do NOT let religion teachings to confuse you. Use religion to make this core faith of unselfishness stronger. The right religion teaching will make you a less selfish person and not the other way round. Hold this simple and powerful faith in any state of confusion. Always fall back to this when you lose your wisdom. You will NEVER be wrong if you hold on to this faith. God will NEVER like us to be selfish. Never harm others in the name of God as that is the MOST selfish reason in God's eyes.
Have courage to look into your past actions and life experiences. Have courage to admit that you have done many things for your own selfishness. Have courage to admit that you are a bad person, a bad wife/husband, a bad mother/father, a bad brother/sister, a bad employee/employer, a bad friend, etc. Have courage to say you have done many wrong things. Have courage to admit your sins. Have the COURAGE to face your PAST!
Be determined to do the right things after you have courageously faced your mistakes. Give no single excuse to do the same mistake. Give no justification for another mistake. You need determination NOW, in the PRESENT!.
Have faith that what is good is NOT selfish. Have faith that what is bad is SELFISH. Let this be your ONLY core faith, Unshakable Faith. Do NOT let religion teachings to confuse you. Use religion to make this core faith of unselfishness stronger. The right religion teaching will make you a less selfish person and not the other way round. Hold this simple and powerful faith in any state of confusion. Always fall back to this when you lose your wisdom. You will NEVER be wrong if you hold on to this faith. God will NEVER like us to be selfish. Never harm others in the name of God as that is the MOST selfish reason in God's eyes.
Monday, May 22, 2006
The DaVinci Code
I have watched the show last Saturday with my wife. It is quite an entertaining show to watch. At the central of the topic is the divine status of Jesus. Did Jesus truly marry to Mary Magdalene and have a daughter called Sarah ? Jesus is not God ? Jesus has descendant that might be still living ?
Honestly, I'm not sure. But whether Jesus married and had a daughter does not make me less believe in His Teaching. My faith in Christianity does NOT lie in the divine STATUS of Jesus, but in His Teaching. You are christian if you abide to His Teaching, and live the life that He teaches you. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is: Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:37)
Understand truly the first and the second commandment. Remember, both commandments must be understood as one whole message. You must love BOTH, God and your neighbor --- not only God and not only your neighbor. In fact, if you truly love God, you will love your neighbor too. And if you hate your neighbor you cannot claim that you love God! There is NO way to separate first and second commandment, they are ONE!
I hope you can understand His Teaching and strive to practice it in your life, because that will bring you to His true kingdom.
Amen
Honestly, I'm not sure. But whether Jesus married and had a daughter does not make me less believe in His Teaching. My faith in Christianity does NOT lie in the divine STATUS of Jesus, but in His Teaching. You are christian if you abide to His Teaching, and live the life that He teaches you. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is: Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:37)
Understand truly the first and the second commandment. Remember, both commandments must be understood as one whole message. You must love BOTH, God and your neighbor --- not only God and not only your neighbor. In fact, if you truly love God, you will love your neighbor too. And if you hate your neighbor you cannot claim that you love God! There is NO way to separate first and second commandment, they are ONE!
I hope you can understand His Teaching and strive to practice it in your life, because that will bring you to His true kingdom.
Amen
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
A brief on relegion and philosophy
These are complex topics, I probably would talk about these in more than one writing. Today, I'd just touch on a very simple guidline that I adopted for my ownself pertaining to religion.
Recently there was a discovery on n early Christian manuscript "The Gospel of Judas" which I read from TODAY newspaper. That prompted me to find out more about "Gnostic". And in the search for that, I found these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
In my circle of friends, colleagues and family, almost all except my youngest brother think that philosophy is NOT important, and has no practical value. Most of them don't really bother about some fundamental questions like "what's the meaning of life? what's the purpose my life? have I given the best out of my life?, etc. etc." To me such questions are so important, so I wonder why some people just prefer
to spend all their time with their family or work, and never bother to ask such questions and try to find out the answers. My conclusion is: maybe our brain is wired differently - somehow. Btw, just take a look here for the "technical" explanation on philosophy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Philosophy
Let's talk about religion. Many think that their religion is the only one that is correct and true; but many also think that religion does not matter, they are all the same, they basically teach us to do good thing and should NOT do bad things.
I am one of those who think that right religions are the same. To me, the most basic fundamentals for a RIGHT religion is: it should teach people to do good things! Apart from that each religion can have it's own beliefs, but as long as they teach us to do good things, they are the RIGHT/GOOD religions.
Well, it might seem easy to determine whether a religion is a GOOD or RIGHT religion. But hold on, it depends. It depends on how do you define "Good" and "Bad".
To me, what is "Good" is things/acts that are less selfish (or not selfish). Something that we do NOT to gain benefit for ourselves, but for the benefits of others. Something that we sacrifice without hoping anything in return.
But BEWARE, we must be completely HONEST with ourself when doing such judgement, because too often, deep inside we are actually doing things that we like or for our own benefits, but we try to fool ourselves (consciously) to think that those are NOT selfish acts.
In conclusion, I would say that GOOD religion is the one that teaches us to be a LESS selfish person, the one that teaches us to break all the sufferings brought by our own selfinish. Note, I said GOOD or RIGHT and I don't mean TRUE, because NOBODY will be able to prove all the beliefs scientifically - as all of us are "INSIDE the box", so how can we complete prove if those religion believes are true or false. This is where faith plays the most important role. But I dun want to delve into the issue of faith now. Maybe next time...
God bless you.
Recently there was a discovery on n early Christian manuscript "The Gospel of Judas" which I read from TODAY newspaper. That prompted me to find out more about "Gnostic". And in the search for that, I found these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
In my circle of friends, colleagues and family, almost all except my youngest brother think that philosophy is NOT important, and has no practical value. Most of them don't really bother about some fundamental questions like "what's the meaning of life? what's the purpose my life? have I given the best out of my life?, etc. etc." To me such questions are so important, so I wonder why some people just prefer
to spend all their time with their family or work, and never bother to ask such questions and try to find out the answers. My conclusion is: maybe our brain is wired differently - somehow. Btw, just take a look here for the "technical" explanation on philosophy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Philosophy
Let's talk about religion. Many think that their religion is the only one that is correct and true; but many also think that religion does not matter, they are all the same, they basically teach us to do good thing and should NOT do bad things.
I am one of those who think that right religions are the same. To me, the most basic fundamentals for a RIGHT religion is: it should teach people to do good things! Apart from that each religion can have it's own beliefs, but as long as they teach us to do good things, they are the RIGHT/GOOD religions.
Well, it might seem easy to determine whether a religion is a GOOD or RIGHT religion. But hold on, it depends. It depends on how do you define "Good" and "Bad".
To me, what is "Good" is things/acts that are less selfish (or not selfish). Something that we do NOT to gain benefit for ourselves, but for the benefits of others. Something that we sacrifice without hoping anything in return.
But BEWARE, we must be completely HONEST with ourself when doing such judgement, because too often, deep inside we are actually doing things that we like or for our own benefits, but we try to fool ourselves (consciously) to think that those are NOT selfish acts.
In conclusion, I would say that GOOD religion is the one that teaches us to be a LESS selfish person, the one that teaches us to break all the sufferings brought by our own selfinish. Note, I said GOOD or RIGHT and I don't mean TRUE, because NOBODY will be able to prove all the beliefs scientifically - as all of us are "INSIDE the box", so how can we complete prove if those religion believes are true or false. This is where faith plays the most important role. But I dun want to delve into the issue of faith now. Maybe next time...
God bless you.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Success
I'd like to talk about success this round.
Most of us want to be successful. Many of us, who do not consider ourselves as a sucessful person (yet), are striving to be successful. Well, some who do NOT have the courage to success, will simply kill their dreams and try to be contented (may be by saying "I'm a simple person, I'm happy with what I have now"). I see people who killed their dreams as people who do NOT have courage, people who are afraid of challenges, people with tonne of excuses for NOT performing to their best possible.
My message to these people is: "Wake up, you are not a simple person and you are wasting your life if you do NOT try to give the BEST out of you. Be courageous!"
For those who are like me, trying to give the best out of us, I have few words of caution too: "do NOT be attached with the RESULTs that we are trying to achieve". There is no need to feel disappointed when you did not achieve your results. Pause, relax and try again. Never give up.
That's why it is so important for us to do/work according to our PASSION. When you do what you are passionate about, there is NO such thing called "failure" - you will always be successful, you will always win - because you ENJOY the journey, and the destination becomes secondary. The best scenario of course is to achieve the results we want, but REMEMBER,in reality results are affected NOT ONLY by our own efforts, but also but many EXTERNAL factors that are NOT in our control. When the results are not as what you are expecting, take them as NEW challenges and continue to ENJOY the NEW JOURNEY to success.
So, do NOT define success as "the result", but define it as "the JOURNEY"!
I'd like to close this with a quote from Booker T Washington (1856-1915):
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed."
see ya next time :)
Most of us want to be successful. Many of us, who do not consider ourselves as a sucessful person (yet), are striving to be successful. Well, some who do NOT have the courage to success, will simply kill their dreams and try to be contented (may be by saying "I'm a simple person, I'm happy with what I have now"). I see people who killed their dreams as people who do NOT have courage, people who are afraid of challenges, people with tonne of excuses for NOT performing to their best possible.
My message to these people is: "Wake up, you are not a simple person and you are wasting your life if you do NOT try to give the BEST out of you. Be courageous!"
For those who are like me, trying to give the best out of us, I have few words of caution too: "do NOT be attached with the RESULTs that we are trying to achieve". There is no need to feel disappointed when you did not achieve your results. Pause, relax and try again. Never give up.
That's why it is so important for us to do/work according to our PASSION. When you do what you are passionate about, there is NO such thing called "failure" - you will always be successful, you will always win - because you ENJOY the journey, and the destination becomes secondary. The best scenario of course is to achieve the results we want, but REMEMBER,in reality results are affected NOT ONLY by our own efforts, but also but many EXTERNAL factors that are NOT in our control. When the results are not as what you are expecting, take them as NEW challenges and continue to ENJOY the NEW JOURNEY to success.
So, do NOT define success as "the result", but define it as "the JOURNEY"!
I'd like to close this with a quote from Booker T Washington (1856-1915):
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed."
see ya next time :)
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
My Love
Undoubtedly, the person that I love most is my wife. I first met her when I moved from primary 6 afternoon class to secondary 1, morning class. If not because of my parents deliberate choice, I would have continued my secondary 1 in the afternoon class. My parents heard from some of our silly neighbours that morning class is of a better quality and because my parents thought highly on me (well, yeah..I'm pretty smart actually :) they put in much efforts to enroll me into that morning class where I eventually met my wife...thanks dad & mom for unknowingly arranged a partner of life for me.
My dearest...I promise you, I'll try my best to always bring you happiness. I'll help you fufill your dreams...and one of them is to have a long and nice holiday in Europe :) Now is not possible as both of us are too busy with our work and study. Hopefully, in another 2 more years dear...
I love my dad too. Dad, though you are no longer in this world, the memory of you will always live in my heart. I pray for you that God will provide you with the best in that other world. I know you love us too and want us to be happy. We will dad..
I pray for all others that I love, my mom, my brothers. I pray that all of you could have a healthy life till the end and may you walk through this life with a clarity of mind. I hope you all will live this life to its best. It's not about how long we can live, but how good we have lived our life. I pray the same for my wife's parents, brothers and sisters too. God, please guide us always....
I know, all of you don't read blog...but hopefully one day, one of you will reach here...
With Love
My dearest...I promise you, I'll try my best to always bring you happiness. I'll help you fufill your dreams...and one of them is to have a long and nice holiday in Europe :) Now is not possible as both of us are too busy with our work and study. Hopefully, in another 2 more years dear...
I love my dad too. Dad, though you are no longer in this world, the memory of you will always live in my heart. I pray for you that God will provide you with the best in that other world. I know you love us too and want us to be happy. We will dad..
I pray for all others that I love, my mom, my brothers. I pray that all of you could have a healthy life till the end and may you walk through this life with a clarity of mind. I hope you all will live this life to its best. It's not about how long we can live, but how good we have lived our life. I pray the same for my wife's parents, brothers and sisters too. God, please guide us always....
I know, all of you don't read blog...but hopefully one day, one of you will reach here...
With Love
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Interesting conversation with a colleague
I had an interesting conversation with a colleague on the way to office this morning.
She (let's just call her MN) told me that few years back she was offerred a job by our biggest competitor. The job offered a better pay, but she said she did not take it. Initially she told me that she rejected the offer because she still remember that the boss of the current company she is working now has been treating her very good, and have guided her from the lowest rank to what she had at that moment.
The reason given surprised me, as it seems to against my believe that there is basically no true loyalty exist between employee and employer.
I was guessing that she was not swayed by the offer because she did NOT have confident on how the new boss will be treating her in the future. And she is not a risk taker, so she prefers a secure job. That was my analysis.
True enough, after further conversation, she revealed that beside that the good treatment that she got from her current boss, she canNOT be sure also on HOW the NEW boss will be treating her in the future when she is not able to perform up to the NEW boss expectation. She afraid that she might lose the job and she still has family to take care of.
From this conversation I learn that if we want to find such "loyal" employee, we must:
1. In the first place, find a person which is a risk averse (prefer a job security)
2. Build a trust by giving them chances when the do mistakes. This will show them that we are tolerance to their mistake. But be careful not to send a wrong signal that underperforming is fine
3. For such people we do NOT need to use money, in fact be cautious to increase their basic salary, the best is to use bonus. This type of people normally will not be a GREAT performer, but they are on the average and can be considered "loyal" (stay at least > 5 years)
Basically, my thinking that true loyalty (unselfish reason) does NOT exist still hold. However we (the company) can create an environment which give people more reasons to stay. Job security is one of the main reason why many people stay for a long period of time in a company.
She (let's just call her MN) told me that few years back she was offerred a job by our biggest competitor. The job offered a better pay, but she said she did not take it. Initially she told me that she rejected the offer because she still remember that the boss of the current company she is working now has been treating her very good, and have guided her from the lowest rank to what she had at that moment.
The reason given surprised me, as it seems to against my believe that there is basically no true loyalty exist between employee and employer.
I was guessing that she was not swayed by the offer because she did NOT have confident on how the new boss will be treating her in the future. And she is not a risk taker, so she prefers a secure job. That was my analysis.
True enough, after further conversation, she revealed that beside that the good treatment that she got from her current boss, she canNOT be sure also on HOW the NEW boss will be treating her in the future when she is not able to perform up to the NEW boss expectation. She afraid that she might lose the job and she still has family to take care of.
From this conversation I learn that if we want to find such "loyal" employee, we must:
1. In the first place, find a person which is a risk averse (prefer a job security)
2. Build a trust by giving them chances when the do mistakes. This will show them that we are tolerance to their mistake. But be careful not to send a wrong signal that underperforming is fine
3. For such people we do NOT need to use money, in fact be cautious to increase their basic salary, the best is to use bonus. This type of people normally will not be a GREAT performer, but they are on the average and can be considered "loyal" (stay at least > 5 years)
Basically, my thinking that true loyalty (unselfish reason) does NOT exist still hold. However we (the company) can create an environment which give people more reasons to stay. Job security is one of the main reason why many people stay for a long period of time in a company.
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