DNA
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At Van’s Cafe Ho Chi Minh City, if you stayed til the end of their second set of music, you would no longer hear Truc Vy doing her closing songs. She performed her set last week for the last time. Despite her late-stage throat cancer, she gave her best with composure and courage. I did…
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Mr Tarr, head of the Vietnam draft lottery, has died at age of 88 in Walnut Creek, CA. A Nixon appointee, he headed Selective Service in 1970. He heard a lot of “Hell No, We Won’t Go”. And now, his number is up. I wonder how those who survive him, still lingering in the Canadian…
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Science has just made a great leap. Congratulations. They have discovered the equivalent of DNA of the universe. Named it Higgs, after the scientist. This lifts the burden off our shoulders: we are not faceless random masses. If there are DNA’s, there are designs and destination (you might not like it if it’s not to your preferences).…
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At work or in life, people are bunched together “us vs them”. No way around this. Shared values and “group DNA“. I am glad to see titles like Chief Cultural Officer. It’s about time we see how group think, group problems and group competition affect the bottom line. As we move away from the Command-Control management…
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In the latest issue of the New Yorker we find a cartoon, showing two women with huge brand-name shopping bags, blurting out “I am going to start my own Occupy movement on 57th St”. Scott Peck, on Organization, observes that organisations go through phases: honeymoon , chaos then, compromise before reaching full functioning. Movements however are little bit different…
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So this is Christmas, what have you done? Year-end review and future projection. Cloud strategy? Hiring and firing decision? Productivity squeeze and cost cutting? (female shoppers said they planned to spend 1% less as compared to last year). Time to take stock, at individual and institutional level. New calendar. Hollywood is going to Detroit (greener…
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My father often went off to see his daughter, my half-sister. My brother tried to see his son from a previous marriage every few years or so (coast to coast). Now I found myself in the same situation: seeing my little girl whom I took back from the hospital 19 years ago. I am sure…
Thang Nguyen 555 