From the DipFM course that I am currently taking, there is the apparent paradox that when a new set of performance measures are introduced at the workplace, these measures will invariably be met, to a more or less degree. In other words, you achieve what you set out to measure, no matter how difficult it may seem at first. And, worryingly, sometimes just that, and no more.
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It’s hard to imagine that in one week from today, it will be exactly two years since the September 11 event took place in New York.
This incident has often been touted as THE “loss of innocence” by much of US-based media. Since then, US has been involved in every major terrorist-related retaliatory efforts, which are still on-going.
Read this interesting article about Apple culture on Wired.com.
Apple, a name in some sense synonymous with innovations, seems to be able to continually and tirelessly churn out novel ideas. Time and again, Apple reinvents the industry with seeming ease. However, this was only possible under the leadership of none other than Steve Jobs, as we have all witnessed.
Have you ever stopped and pondered: why it is that after a short holiday where you go off to some place, you always return feeling exhausted? I mean, the purpose of the trip is to take a break away from work/studies, no? How is it that you end up feeling even more tired than before the trip?
I must admit, from time to time, I am also, like many people, guilty of the “tiring holidays” syndrome.
Was out with some friends for a birthday dinner last night (for two people actually, two days apart). Funny to think that in the short time that I have been in Singapore, many of the close friends made in my first employment are no longer working at the same place. Some are off to other, similar, organisations, others stayed put when my work place went through a merger, while others have since changed lines of work completely, say, from engineering to patent law, or to financial institutions.