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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Inside Wal-Mart, you can find towels, pillows and assorted bath items neatly displayed, aisle by aisle. Almost all the essential and desirable are available in store and online, but you can not find love on aisle 13. You wish. http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/business-news-briefs/2010/09/money_cant_buy_me_love_but_it.html Love and happiness are quite alluding. The more one…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Yesterday, I saw Monique Truong on the Poets-and-Writers cover. The author of “the Book of Salt” was launching another title : “Bitter in the mouth”. Meanwhile, I still am awaiting the shipment of “East eats West” by Andrew Lam. What’s going on here? A Renaissance in publishing by Vietnamese-American…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: I was privy to not once or twice, but thrice, work in non-profit capacity with displaced Vietnamese. My first time was at IndiantownGap, Pennsylvania as a Child Welfare interpreter. Later, in Hong Kong as a relief worker. And latest was in 1983, in the Philippines, where Cambodian and Vietnamese…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: The verdict is in. Marketing folks all know by now that top of the list reigns COKE. My first wage (selling Vietnamese worthless currency in Subic Bay on my way to the US a few days after the war had ended) was spent on Coke, from a vending machine.…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: http://www.ukti.gov.uk/de_de/uktihome/pressRelease/117708.html?null Among the top findings from an UK investment survey (Economist Survey Unit – above), Vietnam, India and China (VIC) are the top three to watch. Other findings by HSBC came up with CIVETs (remember BRIC?): Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and S Africa as stable political markets (as…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Before there was “elevator speech” . Now Twitter speech (or CV) offers a quick summation of one’s career mission. Best and worst of wise cracks and fortune-cookie wisdom. Modern-day equivalent of digital tombstones. Tombstones leave behind relationship-defining legacies i.e. mother, teacher, sister etc… In The Last Lecture, the author…
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As the saying goes, you’ve got to enter the lion’s den to get the lion. No pain no gain. Taking risks is not something for everyone. After all, we have all the safety measures built-in to our system: from seat-belts to “frisk-machines”. Yet, in business as in life, risk is part of life, just like…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: WSJ most read article is “Why people can’t make decision” (see my other blog, “buy-in behaviors”). I also found another article that reinforces this period of indecision: companies are saving the money they borrowed at bank’s low rates, thus fail to spur the economy. Why would people borrow money…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: We don’t thank people enough. That’s a fact. Bride and groom leave those thank-you notes at the door even pictures taken earlier in the banquet. Efficiency over gratitude. Sales people are advised to send Thank-you cards to get referrals. For job candidates, it’s a must. But what about situations…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: NYT columnist sums it up and I have nothing to add to it, maybe except the cross-cultural angle about change or perish. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/opinion/05iht-edcohen.html?_r=1&hp I hear Yesterday’s lyric ” I am half a man I used to be”. .. Technological leap forward (surround sound, anyone?). Star Wars itself has to…
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