Author Archives: Raymond Yung

Tomorrow night I am going to attend my executive assistant/friend Gary’s 25+ birthday party. I was told that blatant promotion of my book (or myself for that matter) will not be taken kindly. Well, it is always a bit of dilemma with me when it comes to the promotion of my book which is close […]

I am not sure if other people experience this at all. My guess this is probably common. Whenever the escalator is not working and I need to step on or off a stationary escalator, my feet behave as if the escalator is moving based on muscle memory. I actually need to force myself to “overwrite” […]

In my words, copycat is someone that follows what you do without giving you credit or asking for your permission. I have had a case up-close and personal recently. A friend of mine who initially discouraged me on my new endeavor and did not help me in my effort suddenly “followed” me and told me […]

The second half of the key points: 6) The manager’s job isn’t to motivate. 7) The talent needs to trust each other more than it needs to trust the manager 8) Improve the talent 9) 99 per cent of recruitment is about who you don’t sign 10) Accept that the talent will eventually leave 11) Gauge […]

One recent article from the FT weekend magazine caught my attention. Its title is ”Talent Management – What can we learn from football?” This lesson is pertaining to managing successful football teams in Europe. Though I don’t agree 100% with all the points raised, it has generated some inspiring thoughts. Here is the first half […]

It did not realize how important the quality of one’s voice is until my friends told me the following 2 stories. 1) A young lady in her mid-20’s has difficulty for being taken seriously at her work place even though she is knowledgeable in her field because she talks like a 12-year old girl. 2) […]

I have had a few setbacks on friendship recently. Despite the disappointment and let-down, there is a lesson to be learned. To sum it up in a bit of a cliché phrase, there are “50 shades of friendship”. To elaborate, I think managing one’s expectation is important. We all live within certain parameters of our […]

Viv Thackray suggested the following four steps to develop a growth mindset. Follow these four steps to develop a growth mindset: Step 1: Learn to hear your fixed mindset inner dialogue, typical fixed mindset comments that you might say to yourself are,“Maybe you don’t have the talent?” or “You’ll fail, so why bother?” Step 2: […]

By chance, I came across some interesting information on Positive Psychology posted by Viv Thackray, a positive psychologist and trainer in London. Mindset is a simple yet groundbreaking idea from the field of positive psychology. Psychologist and world renowned mindset expert, Carol Dweck, has spent decades researching achievement and success. Dweck’s research reveals that we […]

It is obvious to me from the start that the life of a life coach (ironically) can be difficult. Over lunch with a friend who went to a coaching discover day confirmed that it is quite a competitive field. In addition, quality differentiation is very difficult as it is dominantly based on soft skills and […]