My Personal & Business Productivity Tools

Here’s my most important 3 Productivity Tools for personal and business use:

1. PDA phone. This is one productivity tool that worth the most to invest in. It connects me to my business, friends

   

   and families. It takes care of all my schedules, contacts, my business and personal notes, etc. Due to my short memory, I use it to do our my memorization for me like the details of my consulting and coaching work so that I remember where I left off in the last session.

2. Dell notebook. It really gives me the freedom to work in anywhere in the world, especially with wi-fi broadband facility become so common now. Therefore I can free myself from an office or a cubicle. Like right now, I’m actually working through my notebook in Hanoi, Vietnam.

   

3. MP3 or MP4 player. I has bought a MP3 player like Ipod. and it really help improve my productivity. Due to my high frequency of traveling and with the current high frequency of flights delay in airport and highly unproductive time waiting for my flights, this MP3 player really help me in improving myself. I put a lot of my motivational audio into this small MP3 players and “Taa Daa” I am working on my personal Kaizen (continuous improvement).

Is Entrepreneurs Crazy?

Anita Roddick, Activist & Founder of The Body Shop once said“There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see things that others don’t. What seems to differentiate the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.”

Many people dream of becoming an entrepreneur but they are not willing to be “carzy”. What I mean here is to think and act differently from the majority. Just like Anita Roddick has mentioned in her quote above that what differentiate a crazy person and a good entrepreneur is that an entrepreneur can convince other people to follow his/ her vision and take action to make that vision comes true.

So for your budding entrepreneurs, now start thinking “What can I do differently to help my clients achieve their goals?”.

Is Lean Management for Everyone?

Is Lean Management suitable for your organization? I have done so many Lean implementation for different companies coming from different industry in both manufacturing & service, and I can say that they are successfully implemented & also help these companies to perform better. But, for Lean to really successful, the most important factor is that the top management of the management understand the potentials of Lean and work with his teams to implement Lean.

I have one CEO that involves himself in driving Lean in his organization and with his effort his organization is able to really transform itself. Within a short period of time (less than 2 weeks), the company has already enjoying improvement and also staff performance improvement.

A lot of people just consider Lean as a set of tools and forget the real objectives of Lean. Taiichi Ohno, who is one of the key driver of developing Toyota Production System (TPS), said “All we are doing is looking at the time line from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point whenwe collect the cash. And we are reducing that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes.” This is the real purpose of Lean.

Computer Gamer – A Career?

Can playing computer games be a full time career? In Korea, playing computer games is not only a hobby but a big career. Gamers are trained like a sports players for long hours every day & compete frequently with other teams. The competition is normally held in a stadium where fans can watch their favorite team or players playing just like watching a music concert. Check out http://bbcworld.com/click.

Today any hobbies can be turned into a job or career. Think about it.