Articles for October 2007

Mike Douglas on Family

I picked up a copy of Newsweek (Sept 17th issue) at the airport and as usual spend the time on the plane from Singapore to Malaysia reading …..and up pops this LOVELY article written by Mike Douglas. Yes Mike Douglas a.k.a Mr. Gordon Gecko from “Wall Street” I think every father should read this. Go to [...]

Building a Learning Culture in Organizations

Beijing in October is a lovely place in so far as the weather is concerned.Not the traffic.Not the pollution. CPT* grad Kevin from Singapore dropped by at the hotel and took me and our Country manager Joelynne out for dinner. We had hotpot ….the thing to do in the nice cold weather. The joke is Kevin [...]

TRAINING FOR BUSINESS RESULTS

Companies are spending money on training, but on haphazard and poorly planned training activities with little results to show in terms of enhancing the quality of the workforce and their performance. However, management cannot be totally blamed for this. We attributes this gap to the people who understands training, people such as training managers, trainers and [...]