Building a Team

A powerful team is not something that we can take for granted. I'm now trying to build one. In my mind, the followings are important ... any ideas / comments from you my friends?

• Foster respect and trust in the team
• Be considerate
• Clear direction and goals
• Clear metrics for measuring results
• Communicate
• Work + play ...

Work-Life Balance

For the past 9 years in my company, I've been working like crazy in different departments with the exception of the half year when I was in Frankfurt for a short posting (that was a wonderful time for me to have more personal time after work to experience my life).

My friends always encourage me to balance my life and to avoid focusing too much on work. I tried. But it's not easy 'cos I feel that I've to spend more time than other people if I want to do well. But I really tried. Like two weeks ago I joined my colleague to play basketball on Saturday evening ... it seems that I don't have much spare time to relax. But where did my time go? How did I spend them? Probably I've to review the way I spend my time to find this out.

Now that there are more challenges and responsibilities ahead, I see a stronger need to have work-life balance. Perhaps apart from the goal to "I'll get the job done", my another goal is to achieve work-life balance. Let's see ...