The COVID-19 disease is the latest adversity to hit our world and it’s the worst yet. It also should be the last in how we deal with adversity because how we’ve been dealing with adversity has just been outright awful. COVID-19 started late December 2019 in China and had spread around the world threeContinue reading “Why Weren’t We Ready for COVID-19 and How Should We Have Been?”
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How NOT to Manage a Crisis
My manager apologized for coming in late for the meeting. She came from her home at Marikina but got stuck in traffic because she couldn’t use the LRT-2 commuter train. The LRT-2 station nearest to her home has been closed since October when two (2) rectifier transformers tripped and caused a fire. (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-4-starting-points-getting-reliability-you-want-ellery-samuel-lim/) The LightContinue reading “How NOT to Manage a Crisis”
How to Avoid the Aggravation of Un-Available Items
If there’s one thing that ruins the productivity of your day, it’s when a needed item isn’t available. A wonderfully designed business may have skilled workers, state-of-the-art machinery, and a talented management team. But the business yields nothing if the needed items to run it aren’t there. Managers deal with challenges such as absent workers,Continue reading “How to Avoid the Aggravation of Un-Available Items”
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