Category: Career
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How to manage conflict effectively？
Recently, I had disagreements with a team member from Taiwan on certain projects, and we engaged in intense debates privately. Personally, I didn’t feel that these heated discussions would affect our relationship.However, afterwards, this team member started apologizing to me, feeling that her tone was inappropriate.
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How to build trust in different cultures?
When we started to merge with a new team, I feel the first thing we need to do is to build trust between the team members. When reading Erin Meyer’s book ‘Culture Map’, I realized the way people establish trust is very different in different cultures.
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How to convince others in different cultures?
I particularly remember my first French boss when I worked in Singapore. On my first day of work, he printed out dozens of pages of company policies and asked me to read them one by one. (I fell asleep reading them on a chair that afternoon…sorry, this is a bit off-topic.)
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Use ChatGPT For Visualizations
When I started to write an article about culture, I wanted to use some scales in a book to explain the differences between culture. However within the book, it doesn’t have the chart I need. I decide to test whether my best friend chatGPT could help me with this task.
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Cultural Differences In Communication
Born and raised in Asia, I had my first job in Singapore for a US company under a French boss. After a couple of years, I changed to a French company but managed the APAC business including Japan, Korea and South East Asia markets. Recently moved to the states, I started to experience a lot…
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How to navigate through changes and uncertainty?
When ChatGPT came up, while I was so impressed by how smart the bot was, I became even more stressed up and wondering what I could continue to do to create value in the future? Would my job be replaced by the bot?
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Why do you work here?
For all the working adults, we have jobs for different reasons, combined: Why did I work in Adtech? When I switched industry from Pharmaceutical to AdTech, I was very curious and enthusiastic to learn more about the technology industry and how things work, all looked new and exciting. I met the most friendly and caring…
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What makes you impactful?
Having a strong sense of purpose and dream, makes these people successful and impactful. It helps us to be persistent and break through challenges. I remember when I first started my career, I didn’t know what I really wanted to do and what I was good at, I didn’t have any dreams. And when I…
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What makes you different from others?
But WHY do we behave & react differently? On top of the environment we were in, fundamentally it’s how we think, and ultimately what we VALUE differently that make us different. Values shape who we are, what we do, and play a big role in happiness in our life too. Understanding our values and people…
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How to handle layoff? Emotionally & In Action
During my past 10 years of career, I have experienced layoff 3 times in the organization. The most recent one happened in this week where many of my close team mates had been impacted all over the world. Not only was it hard for those people that were directly impacted, but also a lot of…
A Growing Me 