Category: Personal Growth

Leadership, Personal Growth, Recommendation

What Kind of a Presenter Are You?

Five minutes into the session, the first cameras went dark. By the twenty-minute mark, people had started leaving. And when we finally opened the floor for questions, all we heard were crickets. The first slide that the presenter shared was one with a bunch of customer logos, across the board. The next slide was something that the audience had seen hundreds of times. I immediately knew how the presentation was going to end, a disaster. Contrast that with another presenter. He started his presentation with a story, about a conversation he had with a customer, someone like the audience in […]

Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast

Building The Confidence to be VISIBLE with Sheena Yap Chan

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/The_Confidence_to_be_VISIBLE_with_Sheena_Yap_Chan_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSPremise: Confidence doesn’t always come naturally, especially when you grow up rarely seeing people like you represented in leadership, media, or success stories. In a world where visibility often determines opportunity, learning how to show up fully becomes essential. In this episode of my podcast, we host Sheena Yap Chan, a keynote speaker, leadership strategist, and author, who shares powerful insights on confidence, identity, and visibility, particularly for Asian women navigating personal and professional spaces. Why Representation Matters More Than We Think? Growing up in Canada, Sheena often felt the absence […]

Leadership, Personal Growth

How to Get Ready for the Higher Order Tasks when AI is Ready for the routine One’s

Premise: There is a lot being said about the capabilities of AI tools and how they can bring in so much efficiencies and free up humans to do higher value tasks instead. So, I have been thinking about what these higher value work would look like? Given the depth and width of knowledge and skills that these tools have amassed, is there any skill that we can bring to the table to ensure that we are not becoming redundant? Here is what I have come up with. There are 5 skills that are still uniquely human and that any AI […]

Personal Growth

Learn Any Hard Skill by Cal Newport

Premise: We live in a world that is changing much faster than we can keep pace with. The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence is a testament to this. As I talk in my book Thrive, we will be called upon to learn something new all the time, just to stay relevant. If we are to thrive, we need to be able to turbo charge our ability to learn. It is in this context that I really liked a video posted by Cal Newport, that he released at the start of the year on his YouTube channel and would like to […]

Leadership, Personal Growth

Why do I Continue to Blog and You Should too

I have been writing on this blog for more than 12 years and this is my 851st post. I wanted to reflect on the experience. For a variety of reasons (some known and some unknown), this blog never became popular nor did I get significant number of visitors. I do not make any money from the blog. So, my friends, family and colleagues have asked me many a times the question: If you are not making money of this, why do this at all? What is your purpose of spending so much time and effort on writing and maintaining your […]