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Le Tour
Singapore, 6th July 2012 With Le Tour de France cycling completing its first week (I am a big fan of it and just saw Peter Sagan win his 3rd stage!) I was just wondering if there are any parallels between competitive cycling … Continue reading
A day at the office
Singapore, 3rd July 2012 With travel looming tomorrow again I spent a good part of the day working on projects that needed my input in view of upcoming deadlines, though I still had to go out for a two meetings … Continue reading
There is always another bus around the corner
Singapore, 20th June 2012 Sometimes your patience thins out to a level where you lose faith in good outcomes. But keeping faith and (healthy) optimism helps staying sane as in our project world nothing is straight forward and nothing really … Continue reading
Frustration
Singapore, 13th June 2012 I guess that closely linked to inspiration there is frustration, specifically when you are not getting (to) what you want. While I had an inspirational day yesterday I had a kind of frustrating day today. Not … Continue reading
Engrish
Singapore, 7th June 2012 Back in Singapore…besides catching up on project work with the team, meeting one of my clients for a concept presentation, one of the challenges today was having to translate our documents into another language. Most of the time … Continue reading
Sorry it’s the system!
Singapore, 31st May 2012 One of biggest “fights” has to be against those multi-national companies when it comes to payment. Today again I had to deal with two of these cases where the project director hides behind “the system”. The … Continue reading
Wheeling and dealing
Singapore, 29th May 2012 Making sure you get the best deal for your client seems a fairly straight forward exercise but in practice it is not. Certainly if your lighting design is worked out in Singapore and your project location … Continue reading
Planning ahead
Singapore, 28th May 2012 One of my recurring tasks is to allocate capable manpower to new projects. It is a challenge not easily defined as each project has its specific demands and each staff has their specific strength. This capacity … Continue reading
More or less
Singapore, 26th May 2012 Did not make it yesterday, too many things going on and then later in the evening I went out and did not have the energy to write my blog. It was a day in which I … Continue reading
On the acquisition trail
Kuala Lumpur, 24th May 2012 Bet a lot of my competitors would love to know how I go about my project acquisition…I am in Kuala Lumpur for the day to meet some new clients and ick of new projects. Some … Continue reading
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