Jul 2023. Melbourne I read people for a living in my work as a change manager and almost without realising it, in my day life too. I was doing exactly that, while seated in a China Southern Airlines flight from Melbourne to Guangzhou. Definitely a lot of seasoned travellers. Not too many people looking for... Continue Reading →
Oct 2014. Shenyang I once had to get some trophies for a business game I was organising for the office. Normally this was purchased by the office but this time the quantities were low and so we decided to organise it ourselves. I went downtown with my German colleague to the trophy stores. The process... Continue Reading →
Nov 2014. Shenyang There was never a strong necessity for me to cook in my Singaporean life. That changed when I moved to Shanghai in 2009. Then when I moved to Shenyang in 2014, cooking really became a necessity. So I started cooking more. On some weekends, I would invite friends over, cooked the curries... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Shenyang When I first came to China in 2009, I lived the expatriate life in Shanghai, visiting restaurants catered for foreigners. When I joined BMW and moved to Shenyang in 2014, I lived like a local. That's when I saw daily life in China in a different light. There were many cold winter... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Beijing Bringing people together to find solutions to cope with change is a huge part of my job and workshops are a very effective tool to achieve that. Organising workshops is therefore a regular part of my work. For this workshop, I pulled out a dozen senior managers for half-a-day from their desks... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Beijing At that time I was working for the BMW Group and was working on a large scale process optimisation program as an organisational change manager, a career I am still in but in Australia now. My stakeholders were mostly in the BMW plants in Shenyang but there was also a small group... Continue Reading →
Aug 2014. Shenyang I was making a weekend trip to a city called Benzi, about two hours train ride from Shenyang. I didn't make a big plan. I just wanted to get out of Shenyang and not think about work that weekend. But I wanted to go somewhere green and my colleagues recommended me to... Continue Reading →
Jul 2014. Shenyang How do you run a profitable mobile food business in a tight space? That question makes you think about lean ways of working as I learned working for German automotive companies. The short answer is to do only what that adds real value to the final product and remove everything else. For... Continue Reading →
Jul 2014. Shenyang Two comperes addressed the audience in Chinese and English. Then there were couple of welcome speeches followed by song and dance performances in English. The highlight was a ribbon cutting ceremony with a champagne toast. A rock band played followed by an Indian dance and a Chinese ribbon dance before the program... Continue Reading →
Jul 2014. Shenyang I organise large scale events regularly as part of my marketing, corporate communication and change management roles. And after a while this became a bit of an obsession because whenever I saw an event anywhere, I would just stand there and look at it. And I would also make mental notes on... Continue Reading →