When is the right time to use e-mails when trying to resolve conflicts? To use e-mail in conflicts when: 1. When you need to have it in writing as a record of the conversation. 2. When dealing with low-level conflicts, simply miscommunication. 3. To set up a phone call or meeting to deal with...

With my new job, it’s been difficult for me not to stay away from my office desk to have lunch especially when trying to fit in as much work as possible. I realized that our desks isn’t the cleanest place to eat, your keyboard and mouse combined, can give you approx 1500 germs per...

There is a fine line between constructive criticism and destructive criticism. Criticism can eat anyone’s confidence away, and cause you to be offended, and push you into defensive mode to justify your actions. Please do not mindlessly criticize people, especially not in public. When I...

[ad] Imagine if there’s a real solution to us working at home? Of course the details needs to be worked out, especially with Asians being generally smartasses in finding loopholes. It can really be liberating to skip rush hour, save car maintenance and petrol expenses! The onus is for...

[ad] If you think it will work then you’re a nescient buffoon. It is substantiated than if you fall head over heels with someone in the office and would like to have that relationship, it almost always leads to failure. Unless, one of you quits the company. It’s as simple as...

[ad] Some of us, no matter how hard we try to conform to a circle of people, we just can’t blend in. Whilst we try to adapt to that circle, but there is so much we can do before we realize that we are no longer the same person we were before.  When I started my new job (which is very...

[ad] Mel’s new job as Project Executive for Inter-Expo, Marina Mahathir’s establishment, gave us the GOLDEN chance to meet the Mahathirs in person. I was excited about the night, especially meeting the Tun himself. We drove down to the Palace of the Golden Horses, and waited for...