After reading Angelica Perez’s post on the benefits of learning Spanish (or at the minimum, being bilingual), I feel that I should compile a list of advantages of learning languages from her post and other sources. In addition, personal opinions would also be added to why I would want to learn additional languages, or improve [...]
Read the Full PostTeamwork Series: Dealing with Accountability and Commitment (2 of 4)
February 20th, 2010 with No CommentsAs for this blog post of the teamwork series, accountability and commitment would be discussed in ensuring a high-performance team. Low-performance teams have ruined my confidence in my past in terms of poor grades or reception from the quality of product and service delivered to meet requirements. Not surprisingly, low-performing teams also have longer delays [...]
Read the Full PostReflections through Olympics festivities: Part 1
February 16th, 2010 with No CommentsOn Monday, I visited Downtown Vancouver after I was done with project work for the day at University of British Columbia. Although I was originally from Hong Kong (where there is loads of people walking on the streets every day), due to the Olympics, I witnessed something that doesn’t happen very often in small, quiet, [...]
Read the Full PostTeamwork Series: Dealing with Ego-Centric Team Members (1 of 4)
February 13th, 2010 with No CommentsI never enjoyed working in teams during numerous occasions. Unfortunately, in the real world, progress moves forward the fastest in teams. In that case, I felt finding out more facts and words of wisdoms about dealing with certain teamwork problems a wise action. This series of blogs about teamwork is inspired by Brenton Gieser’s video [...]
Read the Full PostNetworking through Volunteering for Well-Known Organizations
February 5th, 2010 with No CommentsAs I haven’t posted here for a few days due to midterm studying (not meant to make any excuses), I have new ideas regarding networking that I want to express. I have read some fantastic articles in a variety of areas. Since my recent blog topics are about networking, I’m going to wrap it up [...]
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