Quarterlife Crisis - Why does it happen?

Clayton J.C Tan | July 28, 2010

While the Generation-X talks much about mid-life crisis, Generation-Y seems to face a similiar phenomenon in the form of quarterlife crisis.  Gen-Y seems to want everything faster and therefore crisis happens sooner too, isn’t that true?  So what’s the difference between the two?
Here are the definition from Wikipedia:

Midlife crisis is a term coined in 1965 [...]

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Talent Corp - Curb Brain Drain or Encourage Revolving Door?

Clayton J.C Tan | July 13, 2010

The Star carried the news “Talent Corp to woo back 70,000 Malaysians” emphasizing that this is one of the key focus of the 10th Malaysian Plan.  While I see this as a very positive move by the government.  I would also like to raise my concerns and hope that the government will execute this with [...]

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World Cup Review: How does rules, enforcement and expectations changes the culture / gameplay?

Clayton J.C Tan | July 6, 2010

A player knocks the ball … the ball rolls out … every player nearby including the one who knocks it out raises their hand to claim the right for the throw in.  A player mistimed a tackle … knocked a player and felled him … then turns back and raised him hands in disagreement with [...]

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World Cup’s Lesson on Managing People Issues

Clayton J.C Tan | June 9, 2010

While world cup is around the corner, much have been talked about the final 23 selected by each country, the havoc created by injuries and team coach’s changes of plans and strategy leading towards the world cup.  I was looking at the news and the players selected for World Cup this year as compared to [...]

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Being the Solution

Clayton J.C Tan | May 13, 2010

Last Saturday (8 May 2010) I took a wrong turn after my medical checkup in Subang Jaya and that led me into a highway.  I was in such a hurry and found that the only way for me to get back on time is to make a U-turn using the flyover and return to where [...]

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Security or Safety - The psychological impact of designations

Clayton J.C Tan | May 5, 2010

Security officer or safety officer - what are the differences between the two?  What exactly do they do?  In some instance, security as well as safety matters are taken care off by the same people or groups of people.  So does it make a difference what we call them?  I believe it does.
Having attended many [...]

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7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Clayton J.C Tan | March 18, 2010

I’ve finally completed facilitating my first 3-day session of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” program for my organization.  I thought it was about time I write something about this program (one of which I think is among the most essential program for anyone - fundamental yet paradigm changing and inspiring).
7 Habits of Highly [...]

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Why not educate Gen-Y instead?

Clayton J.C Tan | February 12, 2010

I was recently in a good debate and discussions on Linked-In about Gen-Y - the similarities and differences accros culture and how to deal with them.  It triggered me to think about how to bridge the gap between the different generations.
Sometimes I do keep wondering why we often see programs, articles, workshops focusing on “how [...]

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Interesting way to fight corruption, but can this work in Malaysia?

Clayton J.C Tan | 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 [...]

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