• Who Do I Want To Be?

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    In five years, I want to become a full-time CEO. 🤵 In 2014, I told my boss that I wanted to become an architect. In 2019, I became one. 👷‍♀️ It dawned on me that I was already a part-time CEO twice. ✌️ Let’s go baby!🚀 P.S. I am writing this coughing my lungs out…

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  • Who controls the pace of innovation and why?

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    ● WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) publishes Global Innovation Index (GII)● WEF (World Economic Forum) ranks most innovative countries● US, EU, and other policy makers accelerate or decelerate the pace of innovation in a specific industry or region. Examples of policies that limit or stimulate innovation are GDPR in EU, and Section 174 in US.…

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  • Selling and Marketing at Young Age

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    My first sales and marketing experience was when I was about 12 years old. I was selling newspapers on the street. I was learning how to make money on my own. It wasn’t a lot of money but I was making some pocket cash. I would announce the names of newspapers I was selling and…

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  • Conflict and love

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    Conflict. The world is full of it. A difference of opinion. Is a harmonious society even possible? A story of Seraphim of Sarov comes to mind. He was one of the kindest people in his region. Many people came to him for advice, and the local thieves thought he had amassed wealth from hundreds of people…

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  • Giving feedback to peers

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    I made many mistakes in my career. One of them was giving feedback to my peers without their permission. You can do that as a person’s superior but not if you are their peer. Doing so puts you above the person receiving feedback. I suppose I had an ego problem but when you are giving…

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  • Career Coaching

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    Career coaching programs I am taking for the last few weeks have been a great help. The coaches provide1. motivation and morale booster2. influencing tools3. thinking frameworks for making better decisions4. ad-hoc problem solving help5. solid advice on networking and branding I highly recommend working with a coach. Below are the coaches I have been…

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  • Know Thyself

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    I do not know my true self. If I were placed in an environment where my academic achievements, possessions, social skills, and cultural context became irrelevant. How would I behave? What is my core personality? I treasure the people and moments when others show me what I really look or sound like. It is sad…

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  • I am your vendor at the end

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    She says “I am your vendor at the end”. That makes sense if you subscribe to gig economy but that seems to devalue working as part of a team, bonding with your team mates, becoming something bigger than the sum of individuals. Blind (social network) people think more waves of layoffs are coming later this…

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