Thang Nguyen 555
Cultures on Collision Course
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Author: Thang Nguyen 555
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I have had great team experience. Been looking for an encore. When team works out, we can skip the prelim and go straight to solving problems. It saves a lot of time. Besides, trust binds us together. Online, it’s hard to know who is who. Hence, trust online comes at piecemeal. Tit for tat. Amazon…
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We got to stay somewhere in the healthy middle. Infrastructure building, social safety net and cyber security, cannot be achieved without collaboration and commitment. Far out in the ultra left , we got sustainability and science (to far-out galaxy). Can’t go alone. Not far. So celebrate Independence Day, or more rightly, Co-Dependence Day. Leading causes of…
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In a few days, they might put on Neil Diamond‘s America. Voter registration. Organ donor. Vehicle registration. They bring some cash (let’s hope so) and a load of dream. Many had left personal chapters of their lives before boarding that plane. Just like the Irish and Polish a century and a half ago. Except that the ports of…
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I have randomly collected disasters: monk burning, war evacuation, nuclear melt-down, boat people exodus, LA riot and earthquake, 9/11, Katrina relief and lately, my Penn State. Living in disaster zones. Affected by but not addicted to them. So I cherish a quiet Sunday morning…until the Euro soccer game starts. There will only be one winning team.…
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We make lemonade when life gives us lemon. Who wouldn’t want to focus on the top money-making time-saving activities! But …given the constraints we found ourselves in, we should celebrate not Independence Day, but Survival itself. First, stay alive. Then, stay free. I hear fireworks cracking. I hear music playing. But it’s been a while,…
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Burger King near the heart of Little Saigon, Westminster, CA is now closed. Burger King at Tan Son Nhut Airport is now opened. Just one of the many striking contrasts e.g. scooters vs wheels nation. Skin coffee vs alley coffee, homeless folks vs lottery-ticket sellers. On and on. People in Saigon have a vague notion of…
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It’s not good enough with automation. They need to combine that with outsourcing, off-shoring, in-shoring and now, near-shoring. The idea is to line up the Filippino call-center workers at mid-night (to go to work, not in line for next-day Black Friday sales) to make a go at scripted greetings like “Have I done everything to your satisfaction”.…
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Fact 1: I went to Penn State. Fact 2: I felt ashamed and defensive (no punt intended) at the same time Fact 3: I am not alone in this. There are more stuff to be worried about these days: immediate and long-term future. Already a book was out (at 50% off) about Penn State and…
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Maybe it’s just me. But people I associate with don’t seem to do well these days. Sectors once thrived are now wiped out: telecom, housing and to some extent, publishing. HR at HP has been busy. We learn from failure. By turning it into seed of success. Success and failure leave a different taste in…
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