Mouth and ears, all 3 are important organs in the body.
Without mouth, you can not eat- no nutrition no digest and no life. With mouth, you can talk, talk and talk.
Without ears, you can not hear birds singing, noisy neighbors. In contrast, you can hear others ideas-- some inspire you and some you hate.
If we have to choose one, better to stand your ears and shut your month. It often happens when we talk, we never listen--don't listen to yourself and to others. Try one time to listen to your own presentation, your own speech, you will find mostly what you talk will be forgotten at once; the valuable part always can be summarized in few sentences, instead of few paragraphs.
So except we have to talk-- give a training or a speech (but still try to make it shorter and shorter), we shall spend more time to listen to others. Ears and brain are working more closely together than mouth and brain.
To be a good listener and it is benefit to your whole life.
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Work with friends
For most people, they spent 8-9 hours per day working in the office. If calculating a person will work from 20 to 60-- 40 years in total, and in average we can live till 80, we will spend about 1/6 of total life in the office. This is something quite long.
If you cannot enjoy the time in the office, this can make you miserable--no happiness and no quality work. So it is really important to make yourself, your colleagues and your business partners enjoy working together. One easy way is to have a feeling and really to feel so-- working with everyone as working with friends. A business conference with partners--can feel as have a chat with friends over sea; a department meeting for setting up target-- can feel as playing the game goal with friends (we did play it when we were young.); a debating with colleagues-- can feel as similar as the training in the Mock court we did in school.
Thinking that you are working with friends and spending your time with friends, can make yourself and people around you enjoy the work; and you are really making more friends.
Is it difficult to practice? You try and you know.
If you cannot enjoy the time in the office, this can make you miserable--no happiness and no quality work. So it is really important to make yourself, your colleagues and your business partners enjoy working together. One easy way is to have a feeling and really to feel so-- working with everyone as working with friends. A business conference with partners--can feel as have a chat with friends over sea; a department meeting for setting up target-- can feel as playing the game goal with friends (we did play it when we were young.); a debating with colleagues-- can feel as similar as the training in the Mock court we did in school.
Thinking that you are working with friends and spending your time with friends, can make yourself and people around you enjoy the work; and you are really making more friends.
Is it difficult to practice? You try and you know.
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Attitude
By living and working in different countries, the biggest difference I can notice, apart from weather, is the attitude of people.
With negative attitude, people have less smile and less confidence in themselves; and turning everything in passive. With positive attitude, people feel nothing is frighten, and have endless courage and patience.
For individual, the attitude makes whom you are today and whom you will be tomorrow. For a country/a nation, the attitude in dominance becomes the symbol of the nation and more or less decides how the country is growing (or decaying). For a company... can we say the attitude that staffs share together finally forms the culture of company?
If yes, then every one in the company is an important element as we can have influence on others either with our bad attitude or good attitude. Thinking positive and acting active is the fundamental of a good attitude.
With negative attitude, people have less smile and less confidence in themselves; and turning everything in passive. With positive attitude, people feel nothing is frighten, and have endless courage and patience.
For individual, the attitude makes whom you are today and whom you will be tomorrow. For a country/a nation, the attitude in dominance becomes the symbol of the nation and more or less decides how the country is growing (or decaying). For a company... can we say the attitude that staffs share together finally forms the culture of company?
If yes, then every one in the company is an important element as we can have influence on others either with our bad attitude or good attitude. Thinking positive and acting active is the fundamental of a good attitude.
Monday, 14 September 2009
Life is not a competition
I am told life is not a competition. Life is to gain the experience and we shall enjoy it.
We usually act as solider, fighting for the goal--the life goal, which is no right or wrong. And the stress is coming along the whole time; we are angry with selves' mistake; criticize others; run for the time; push ourselves and persons around us. We make everyone so tired. Finally, we forget what we are up to, since we have been always looking forward; being afraid to be caught up.
The wealth and honor are not the meaning of life. What we can keep and convey to the next generation?-- Belief and experience.
To be the observer but not the fighter in the life. Make ourselves peaceful, and the same to our family and friends.
We usually act as solider, fighting for the goal--the life goal, which is no right or wrong. And the stress is coming along the whole time; we are angry with selves' mistake; criticize others; run for the time; push ourselves and persons around us. We make everyone so tired. Finally, we forget what we are up to, since we have been always looking forward; being afraid to be caught up.
The wealth and honor are not the meaning of life. What we can keep and convey to the next generation?-- Belief and experience.
To be the observer but not the fighter in the life. Make ourselves peaceful, and the same to our family and friends.
Monday, 2 March 2009
The lonely life
Life is a lonely trip.
It starts alone and ends alone; it starts with nothing and ends with nothing.
Nothing will be saved or kept after the life circle, except the knowledge, experience and love.
We shall maxmize our life value by succeeding, developing, and smriting the knowledge and experience to our posterity; by loving others and teaching others how to love.
It starts alone and ends alone; it starts with nothing and ends with nothing.
Nothing will be saved or kept after the life circle, except the knowledge, experience and love.
We shall maxmize our life value by succeeding, developing, and smriting the knowledge and experience to our posterity; by loving others and teaching others how to love.
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
The challenge of being a female leader
As a leader, no matter man or woman, he/she takes more responsibilities and stress than others. Being a female leader, the challenge is to forget being lady or madam, just remember you are a person.
The weaknesses of women are vanity, jealousy, suspicion, hard up for ideas. If you want to be a successful leader, please have to forget your gender. Men and women are equal in the world and also in the business. You may get things easier done by displaying the best part of a lady, but this can not last for ever.
For a long term, business is business and all depends on the knowledge, experience and innovation.
If you can not forget your gender, then you will put your weak points in front of your staffs, your business partners. How do you want them treat you? -- a professional business partner? -- a real lady?
Trailblazer-- invest for future
I stop the blog for more than one year. During this year, I keep reading and thinking, but stop writing. Now when I re-read my previous paragraphs, I gain the passion for writing again. (Also sorry, found many spell mistakes there)
The year looks like to be end with a tragedy. In states, people lost the job in Wall street; banks and investing companies bankrupt. In Europe, many banks put the fund together for self saving. In China, people talk and hate the stock market-- dropping down from 64oo point to 2000 point. We ask where is the way for economy?
Meanwhile, the e-commerce industry is also experiencing a frozen year. Advertisers are decreasing the marketing budget; the industry needs to think of innovation for keeping growth. We ask where is the way for e-commerce?
How can we fight against our competitors, who don't ask for the entry barriers to advertiser? How can we cooperate our advertisers, who do not have knowledge of e-commerce and doubt it? How can we deal the situation-- enforcing the strength by technology innovation; but in another hand no one really cares for which kind of technology you use.
I don't see the change for this industry in China in the last year. The only good thing is local Chinese companies start to ask what e-commerce can do for them. We still need about three years to educate this market.
The most difficult thing is to bring up the concept-- educate person, educate the market, educate your partners and competitors. The trailblazer ( most are foreign companies, who are very successful in foreign markets and now work in China market) automatically take this responsibility. This is kind of investment for future. But who will compensate them for this invisible investment, the local government? China government? or the developed market in future?
The year looks like to be end with a tragedy. In states, people lost the job in Wall street; banks and investing companies bankrupt. In Europe, many banks put the fund together for self saving. In China, people talk and hate the stock market-- dropping down from 64oo point to 2000 point. We ask where is the way for economy?
Meanwhile, the e-commerce industry is also experiencing a frozen year. Advertisers are decreasing the marketing budget; the industry needs to think of innovation for keeping growth. We ask where is the way for e-commerce?
How can we fight against our competitors, who don't ask for the entry barriers to advertiser? How can we cooperate our advertisers, who do not have knowledge of e-commerce and doubt it? How can we deal the situation-- enforcing the strength by technology innovation; but in another hand no one really cares for which kind of technology you use.
I don't see the change for this industry in China in the last year. The only good thing is local Chinese companies start to ask what e-commerce can do for them. We still need about three years to educate this market.
The most difficult thing is to bring up the concept-- educate person, educate the market, educate your partners and competitors. The trailblazer ( most are foreign companies, who are very successful in foreign markets and now work in China market) automatically take this responsibility. This is kind of investment for future. But who will compensate them for this invisible investment, the local government? China government? or the developed market in future?
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