It’s McDonald 2nd day in Vietnam. You can’t miss it (the Golden Arches), coming South from Highway 1 (North-South) as you merge into the round-about. Location, location, location. The ride-in (for scooter) and drive-in (white Mercedes at my first sighting) were roped up, to train the mass on first-in first-out monochronistic order. The stage (first-day…

Recent studies show more American graduated from all levels of education than before the Recession. Other studies show older ones also tried their luck at start-ups and social entrepreneurship. The first group just stay out of the depressing job market. The later, creating jobs for themselves and others, all the while, learning on the job…

Leadership doesn’t happen overnight. Since it encompasses many aspects e.g. character, skill-set, knowledge and drive, leaders are to be “incubated” ,  field tested and launched just like a product. I remember VP Gerald Ford (more for Chevy Chase’s SNL rendering of him bumping clumsily against the door”) and how straightforward his speech was to the…

That’s what happened at Super Bowl and I believe even today, the Seahawks still practice that mindset. Business leaders need a good dose of that. We are not the world. We are the winners (implied zero-sum game i.e. we win = you lose). But people need to be clothed, fed, fueled up before they can…

With another headline about Russia school shooting, I seriously fantasize about the return of the bell-bottom pants, and flower shirts. The age of heightened consciousness, of holding each other’s hands and not holding others hostage. Perhaps then, there was a hot war (Vietnam) broadcasted while we had our TV dinners that young students just went…

I have had the opportunities to listen to Reagan, Clinton, Bush and just now Obama’s State of the Union 2014. The applause at the end was the longest, for Cory, a veteran of the Afghan war, soon to be ended. He personifies not only what’s best, but also what’s so burdensome about America’s entanglement in…

In 1984 the Orwellian prophetic version did not materialize. That year saw the Mac commercial at Superbowl half-time (down with Big Brother). I guessed the underdog was supposed to be Apple Computer (later “Computer” got dropped because Apple wanted to diversify its product), and Big Brother, IBM. Now, we face the NSA vs Snowden (remember…

The Superbowl committee have been on edge about whether to go ahead with plan B. At least it helps occupied the nation’s attention. Unlike two recent disturbing incidents: one was a random suicide murder in Columbia, MD mall, and an arrest of a Penn State student (Altoona campus) for possession of marijuana and weapon of…

A few weeks ago, some argument over texting in a Florida movie theater got someone killed. Last week, Kim Dang who had wanted someday to be a talk-show host, got kicked to death outside a revived Santa Ana club (as of this edit, prosecutors are still gathering evidence about the case e.g was Kim walking…