Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on February 8, 2010
For the last few months, TheStar have been publishing many articles about guarded and gated security. Here are some of them:
What surprises me is that Taman Megah have frequently used as an example (or maybe I’ve noticed it more since I stay around here). Anyway, the most recent article caught my attention most. It painted the Taman Megah resident associations in bad light and went to the extend of quoting unhappy residents. I wonder where were those so called interviews with the residents done since majority of the residents were supportive of the idea, only very few which disagreed. TheStar, however, interesting only managed to speak to those who disagreed. Maybe TheStar should be invited to the Taman Megah Resident Association’s meeting and witness for themselves the true feelings of the residents. (more…)
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Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on February 7, 2010
I made this the topic of the blog post because it reminds me of the project I organized when I was once a Leo Club member. The purpose of this project is to guide school leavers on selecting the best career options for themselves and to understand what the working world is like. Getting youths who have been working for less than 6 years to share with their juniors how it feels like to have taken their chosen paths.
Today I’ve once again been asked to advice on career options for a high-school leaver. Since I was once working in a bank, the topic began by revolving around how it feels like to be working in a bank and what are the career options in banks as well as graduates in accounting and finance. Well, I wasn’t a graduate in accounting and finance so really I can’t talk much about that, but I could probably share some of my general advise to school leavers. (more…)
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Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on February 7, 2010
“I may not be best at anything or the most knowledgeable in organizing projects, but I believe the role of the leader is not to do the work hands-on but to provide directions, bring the team together and set good visions” - The phrase was not said in as many words but that was the essense of the “campaign speech” given by a potential presidential candidate (Damian Leong) for Leo Club of Petaling Jaya Integrity for fiscal year 2010/2011. Although he didn’t win the majority of votes of was made the Vice President, I strongly believe that he is a great leader in the making and with the drive to succeed, he’s definitely one that could bring the team to greater heights. Hats off to him and I’m looking forward to a great leader for 2011/2012, don’t give up!
Back to the topic, what’s the role of a leader? I guess that phrase was spot-on! A leader’s role in fact isn’t to become the smartest, the know-it-all or the complete hands-on person; but one who knows everybody’s capabilities, motivations and the abilities to bring everyone towards to set vision and mission. (more…)
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Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on February 4, 2010
There was an interesting article in Economist recently titled “Fighting Corruption in India: A zero contribution“. I found the article very interesting, especially the unique way that’s used to fight corruption. However, I’m seriously skeptical about the possibility of it working accross different cultures, especially here in Malaysia (It does keeps me wondering though whether corruption is more prevalent in Malaysia or India).
Zero Rupees
Anyway, back to the topic, the techniques used here is championed by an organization, 5th Pillar, which prints zero-rupee notes to be distributed. This notes is then used by any individual to “pay” officials seeking bribery to signal that they will neither take nor give bribes. (more…)
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Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on February 2, 2010
SecondLife Logo
Stumbled upon this article (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/01/avatars_at_work.html) recommended by a friend via LinkedIn. It got me thinking about a project I was on many years ago which involves the development of Virtual Campus to deliver Virtual Learning Programs and knowledge sharing platform. For those who is not familiar with the SecondLife yet, I’d encourage you to find out more from:
It’s very much like a world within the cyberspace that uses single currency (The Linden dollars) and you could suddenly feel like a billionnaire overnight by becoming “owners” of lands, buildings or even Island! So is this just another fantasy game like “The Sims” or could it be more than that? (more…)
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Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on January 30, 2010
Acquire Boardgame Box
People who has known me long enough would have known by now that I’ve been a fan of boardgames. I always felt that boardgames has more values than just entertainment alone. Recently I’ve bought a new game - Acquire!
Among the many games I’ve played (Ie: monopoly, risk, game of life, blokus, monopoly cards, citadel, ratrace, payday, smart money, Cashflow 101/202 … etc) I found this most enjoyable and meaningful. This game is very much about mergers and acquisitions of hotel businesses. This game does give some insights about business ownership. (more…)
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Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on January 30, 2010
Succession Planning and Employee Development is often a double edge sword. When developing employees for succession, management will often be concerned about 2 key areas:
- Will the potential successor be ready when I need him?
- What if there’s no vacant position when the successor is ready?
These are among the key questions asked whenever there’s a project to embark on development of successors or high potentials. Let me answer a question with a question - Is concern No.2 a real concern? (more…)
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Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on January 20, 2010
Having heard much buzz about twitter, I’ve finally decided to give it a try. I’ve always asked “Why do we even need a twitter if facebook could do more than that?” Now I see some benefits of twitter thanks to a friend’s blog where he integrated twitter into the blog for short updates. Cool idea!
Next came the challenge - Twitter is only useful for that purpose if I could twit on the go anytime and anywhere. If it requires me to get onto a PC and get online, I could easily write on the blog instead (without needing to limit myself to 140 characters). Some may suggest that I could easily use a 3G phone nowadays but I really do not intend to continue the monthly subscription of unlimited Internet since it’s gonna cost me RM58/month even when my phone is spoilt or the area I’m in has limited coverage. Use pay as you go Internet? That’s way too expensive just to twit! So how do I do that? (more…)
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Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on January 19, 2010
“Do you think we can retain this candidate?” is often a question posed by hiring managers during recruitment. Employee retention has been very much talked about especially when the economy is recovering and talent war is fast taking place again. Each time I get such questions, I’ll ask myself:
- What position do we have?
- What kind of candidates are we looking for?
- Do we have what the candidate want?
- How will employee turnover in this position affect us?
- Is it difficult to train a new employee into this position?
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Posted By Clayton J.C Tan on January 19, 2010
Isn’t this a very familiar topic? Didn’t all HR magazines at one time or another posted something similiar before? Wasn’t “Build” the undisputed winner? Afterall, most sucessful companies today had a strong management trainee program and many senior leaders in these organizations with home-grown.
I’ve once been part of a graduate development program, also once managing one of these developmental programs; fortunate enought to experience seeing from the different angles. My personal opinion is that these “management trainee”, “management associates”, “graduates hire”, “vitality hires” program may be a thing of the past unless there are major revamp of how the program is being done. (more…)
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