Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Peter F. Drucker - The passing of a Management Thinker and Legend

News (and in Washington Times) of Peter Drucker's death recently is indeed a downer.

This visionary man single-handedly defined the practice of management and other related issues in such clarity in the 1940's that every management thinker since is but a shadow and a subset of this man's ideas.

Fellow Bloggers, if you haven't read him, do check out his works. His vision and depth of thought is astounding, and I believe anyone who reads him will benefit from his insights.

Terms which we take for granted like "Management by Objectives", "Knowledge Worker" were concepts he thought of 60 years ago, and still valid to this day and age.

Friday, November 11, 2005

Peronality Tests - Know Thyself

Read about the Myers-Briggs personality test from Shakespeareheroine's blog.

Tried to see if there's any changes, and (not surprisingly), I still have the same traits as compared to test taken some years back.

I'm a INTJ. (Introverted-Intuitive-Thinking-Judging) - The description fits pretty well too.

More information on relationships for the various personality types can be found here.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Family trip to HK and Shenzhen

Whew, triring trip man, esp travelling with family members. I think i shall take a break from travelling with family for some time...Nothing against it, but having 2 older(read: fussy) folks and 2 noisy nephews on my vacation takes a bit of effort :)
It has been a good 7 days tho..Promised to take Mum to China after she recovered so.. promise is a promise.

Here's some shots of the trip. Splendid China in Shenzhen is a great place. (for those who haven't been there, but plan to in future, pls DO NOT go Shenzhen's World Monuments; it's just not worth it, esp if you've seen the actual monuments before).


Mum at Spendid China

The miniatures of various Chinese architecture and buildings are wonderfully crafted and very detailed.

Miniature of the Summer Palace in Beijing

Disneyland! actually not a big fan of it, but hey, i'm in HK with 2 nephews right..so, needless to say, i got to visit the Magic Kingdom. It's quite good actually, so pleasantly surprised, heh.

Pooh decided that he wanted to stretch his legs and do a little samba and guess which kid he chose to demonstrate it? ....Samuel was extremely lucky that day.
The next few shots were what i could quickly capture of that 1 minute dance..kinda cool. Wonder if it's a man or lady in that suit..

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me and Garros Posted by Picasa

at the harbourfront.. now i know where the 'xiang4' from xiang4 kang3 came from. smells like the Singapore river x3  Posted by Picasa

at the Peak Posted by Picasa

Last night at Kowloon Posted by Picasa