Welcome To Work & Live Smart

I am sure all of us believe in having a work life balance.
Why not share it, learn from it and move on....afterall it is having fun and passion in doing, knowing and learning along the way that makes life's experiences worthwhile.
Have a great time here sharing but as usual...no obscene or controversial stuff.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Reflection towards a new year

As we approach towards the end of 2010, many of us realise we have not grown or achieve much throughout the year. I hear many, including myself say he same thing...."so fast ar.....this year like faster, won;t be long Chinese New Year".
While many of us are really slowing down or even gave up doing anything during this time...it is best to REFLECT what we have achieved, failed, mean to do but have not or appreciate how fortunate we are to have 'some' great people that we can still call friends still around us...today or what we have against what we see people lose daily.

To me year end is not about celebrations, it is about knowing where we are and learning from our achievements and mistakes and being sure of how we want to start and end 2011.
How many of us really do that....it is time to reflect...a time to appreciate the things that we have...the people around us....the life we still have for 2011.
Cheers and have a great 2011.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Managers must work smart

Managers often get caught neglecting the basic fundamentals of starting any project or task to ensure success.

The "body of work" in a turnaround can be divided into three pieces:
  • What work are we going to do?
    • This is the first job of the Manager – to make sure the Team is working on the right stuff.
  • How are we going to do the work?
    • Once the "What" has been decided, now the best way of getting the work done must be decided. The manager should share this decision with their employees.
  • Doing the work. Most of the work should be done by the employees.
    • All too often, managers get trapped doing the work and no one is doing the critical job of "What".

Friday, November 5, 2010

Quotes & Tip of the day - RL Corporate Management Services

Quotes & Tip of the day - RL Corporate Management Services

Knowing and Appreciating

Story of Appreciation

One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company.

He passed the first interview, the director did the last interview, made the last decision.
 
The director discovered from the CV,  that the youth's academic result is excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never has a year he did not score.

The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the youth answered "none".
 
The director asked, " Is it your father pay for your school fees?" the youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my mother who paid for my school fees.
 
The director asked, " Where did your mother worked?" The youth answered, my mother worked as cloth cleaner.

The director requested the youth to show his hand, the youth showed a pair of hand that is smooth and perfect to the director.
 
The director asked, " Did you ever help your mother washed the cloth before?"

The youth answered, never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books, furthermore, my mother can wash cloths faster than me.
The director said, I had a request, when you go back today, go and help to clean your mother's hand, and then see me tomorrow morning.
 
The youth felt that its chance of landing the job is high, when he went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hand, his mother feel strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hand to the kid.

The youth cleaned his mother's hand slowly, his tear drop down as he did that.  It is first time he found his mother's hand is so wrinkled, and there are so many bruises in her hand. Some bruises incites pains so strong that shiver her mother's body when cleaned with water.

This is the first time the youth realized and experienced that it is this pair of hand that washed the cloth everyday to earn him the school fees, the bruises in the mother's hand is the price that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.
 
After finishing the cleaning of his mother hand, the youth quietly cleaned all remaining clothes for his mother.  That night, mother and sons talked for a very long time.


Next morning, the youth went to the director's office.

The director noticed the tear in the youth's eye, asked: " Can you tell you what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"
The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes'
The director asked, " please tell me your feeling."

The youth said,
Number 1, I knew what is appreciation, without my mother, there would not the successful me today.
Number 2, I knew how to work together with my mother, then only I can realize how difficult and tough to get something done.  
Number 3, I knew the importance and value of family relationship.

The director said, " This is what I am asking, I want to recruit a person that can appreciate the help of other,a person that knew the suffering of others to get thing done, and a person that would not put money as his only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired.

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates, every employees worked diligently and in a team, the company's result improved tremendously.
 
A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he wants,  developes  an "entitlement mentality" and always puts himself first.
He is ignorant of his parent's effort. When he starts work, he assumes everyone must listen to him, and when he becames a manager, he would never know the suffering his employees and always blame them for any problem.  For these kind of people, he may have good results, may be successful for a while, but eventually he would not feel sense of achievement. He will always grumble and always feel unsatisfied and feel nothing is enough for him. If we are this kind of protective parents, did we love the kid or destroy the kid?
 
You can let your kid lived in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experience it. After a meal, let them wash their plate and bowl together with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way.  You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parents are, one day their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person. The most important thing is your kid learn how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learn the ability to work with others to get things done.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Know your vehicle well

How often than not we are not aware that when we change tyres, we always put them in front?
Test from the experts have shown that it is ALWAYS A MUST to put your new tyres at the rear to AVOID skidding.
Check out the https://sites.google.com/a/rlcmservices.com/www/articles-of-interest and download the file tire.wmv or Car Safety to see the results. You will be amazed.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

How to hire well

How To Hire Well

Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window.

Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation.

If they are counting the bricks.
Put them in the accounts department.
If they are recounting them.
Put them in auditing.

If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks.
Put them in engineering.
If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order.
Put them in planning.

If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in operations.
If they are sleeping.Put them in reception.

If they have broken the bricks into pieces.
Put them in information technology.
If they are sitting idle.
Put them in human resources.

If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved.
Put them in sales.
If they have already left for the day.
Put them in marketing.

If they are staring out of the window.
Put them on strategic planning.

And then last but not least. If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved. Congratulate them and put them in top management.

Strategies For Success

Strategies for Success
from Lew Smallwood

Defining success is a difficult task because success is deeply personal and means something different to each one of us. However the process of achieving success isn't a mystery. It's not some deep, dark secret. In fact the 'secret of success' is so simple that most people miss it. There is a system for success that can be summed up in five words: intention, attention, action, perseverance and achievement.

Our 'intentions' shape our lives. Intentions are the things we continually move toward. They guide and indeed dictate every action we take and are a long-standing puzzle in the study of human consciousness. Intention is defined as: directing the mind with purpose toward some object or outcome. And our intentions represent both challenges and opportunities for creating a better life. Indeed, this draws our focus to one of the most interesting and perplexing questions about the connection between our mind, body and spirit - leading us to explore how our thoughts influence us both directly and indirectly.

Directing and then keeping our 'attention' on our intentions is the key component of superior performance in every activity we engage with. Our attention should follow our intentions as naturally as night follows day. Great achievers down through the ages have consistently demonstrated an ability to focus their energy, their entire being on the intentions they deem important. It's vital to concentrate and focus our energy only on the key tasks that support our intentions instead of frittering it away. Life is the study of attention. Where our attention goes, our heart goes also, and therefore our ability to focus on activities that have high value is central to everything we accomplish in life.

Taking immediate 'action' to achieve our intentions, in fact creating an absolute blizzard of activity is the next key step. Fast, focused and defined action is better yet. Perhaps the initial actions you take will be successful, but perhaps some adjustments or even different actions will need to follow. However the key issue is that once you decide your intention and focus your attention then massive and measured action will help you achieve the outcome you want.

The next key is 'perseverance.' This isn't about running a marathon but rather committing to a series of short sharp focused sprints one immediately after another. Few things are impossible to the person who persists. Great successes are not achieved by skill alone but through perseverance. The rewards for those who persist far exceed the pain that precedes victory. Resolve in advance of taking action that no matter what happens you will never give up. You will bounce rather than break. You will keep on keeping on until success is achieved. It's difficult to develop this trait without a strong sense of purpose. So lock in your intention, focus your attention, take massive action and persevere until.......

We can then say that people who achieve success follow a consistent formula. The first step is to know our intention, to clearly and precisely define exactly what we want. The second step is to focus our attention otherwise our desires will always be dreams. In the third step we take massive action. Action that we believe will provide the greatest probability of producing the results we want. And because our initial actions may not create the results we want, we need to measure and analyse the responses and results that flow from our actions and decide if they are taking us towards or away from our intentions.

Then take the fourth step, which is to adapt, adjust, and accelerate our actions, to push on and persevere until we finally celebrate our 'achievement.' Do take the time to celebrate your victory, its important. And from Anthony Robbins: "There is a powerful driving force within every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream or desire a reality."

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