Hsuan-Hua's comments

Andrew,

I don't see one man's question can devalues us all. :)

Ruth,

I want to share my perspective.

I paid more attention to this question - Do you feel that men are disempowered if their boss is a female?

I think worthy or not discussion didn't address this question. Worthness doesn't make one being an empowering boss; male or female.

When my client told me they were stressed out, I often asked them those simple questions - do you get enough sleep? do you exercise? do you eat right?

When we take care of ourselves, we have bigger capacity to handle all of the tasks in front of us with positive thoughts and clarity to choose letting go things beyond our control.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

"Making sure someone achieves certain performance levels is managing. Helping them handle problems for themselves is coaching." (from Coaching：The Ten Killer Myths from Harvard Management)

I prefer coaching more than managing since coaching develops a person's potential and will also have positive impact on people's performance.

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I described biznik as "a business networking group using social networking mechanism" to the people I invited. Since 20 of them are members now, I think that description must make sense :)

Wayne and Mark,

Thank you for hosting the event. It's great. It's a fast way to learn a new technology. I will let you know what biz idea I come up with this. :)

Interesting article on Twitter in Business Week. How Companies Use Twitter to Bloster Their Brands

Paul,

Thank you for hosting the event. You did a great job to deliver the content, provide oppotunities for us to practice what we learned and allow time for us to connect in personal level.

My biggest learning was "how to close sales".

I am very interested in attending and plan to clear my schedule. Will keep you updated. Thanks.

I like to have a general forum like this instead of fetching through others. Thanks for asking.

Thanks for the tips. I hear loudly about hiring help on legal related.

For the finance part, I like the idea to pay back all of the credit card debts before putting money into IRA.

I have close friends who went through bankruptcy. Some recovered and some are recovering. It’s difficult at the time and the experience made them all stronger.

Life is full of bets. Even people working in the office can fail on the bets they make on the investments and cause financial hardship. My neighborhood drug store was recently sold. The new owners are a group of investors with all professionals. They can lose their shirts if the drug store can’t balance the rent and the traffic. They chose to bet.

Congrats Leif! Sounds like exciting work and indication of new energy and direction of biznik.

Judy,

I will get a copy of the "The Artist's Way" and share my thoughts with you after reading it.

I also enjoy "Made to Stick". It showed in my life while I started to pay attention to marketing. Perfect timing! My next workshop Sell Yourself First is based on the book. We will give a copy of the book away in the workshop.

NLP has been appearing in my world recently. Thank you for hosting this event.