Self Improvement Through Technology

I think most of us have heard about the Havard study how the 3% of successful people are differentiated from the rest of the population just because they have goals.

The number does not lie, but still after knowing this a lot of us still struggling to be part of the 3% population. We follow the steps: figure out our vision, write it down, figure out our goals and all those that come with it…specific goal number and the dateline……buuuut at the end we still fail. When this happen most of us are just clueless….what happened. Where can I improve? We dont know…and I doubt it if any one else also know why you can not achieve your goal.

At first thought we can say there can be thousand of reasons why we fail to achieve our goal - just plain lazy, its too tough, things has changed, death in the family…death in my neighbour family, loss my job…..etc. But….if we just rethink and look at these possible reasons then we can categorized them into main categories below:

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When I first involve in hiring process long-long time ago….I knew less.

I had too high expectation of the college graduates. I over estimate their minimum knowledge. I ended up interviewing a lot of candidates with blank stares when I asked questions. I learned my lesson. I proposed a simple over the phone interview to screen out those “no hope” candidates. Over time our department even trained the human resource staff on how to conduct the technical interview.

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I’ve read thousands of resumes/CVs. I’ve interviewed hundreds if not thousands of job seekers over the years.  One of the most common claims that keep appearing on candidates resumes and during interviews is the ability to be able to work with minimum supervision…and most of the time it proven as a false claim.

Job seekers always claim that they can work with minimum supervision….yes all of us can work with minimum, or even no supervision, but the question is will the result is good or not. You can be sleeping all the time with no supervision at all. There are a lot of areas of working with minimum supervision - and they follows the common PDCA cycle. Plan-do-check-action…

Just imagine if you are a supervisor. You give a subordinate of yours a task. Before he left, you reconfirmed whether he understood the task requirement or not. Once he says that he get it, then you let him go to execute the task. OK, for you subordinate out there….during this time the evaluation on your capability is started. You are under monitoring…off course with a good supervisor, you might not even feel that you are being watched.

OK,,now as subordinate where do you start? PDCA - yes, plan do check action. So you just go about planning your stuffs, then executing them, then recheck whether your execution is correct and act  on it if any corrective action needed. So is this enough ?

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I watched a movie aired by one of the local stations titled “Tokyo Friends” last night.

To me even this is a teenage movie, but it contains a lot of things that can be learned and shared. I want to write about one of the scene about a band called Sabakkan which are part of the important character in the movie.

The scene is where the lead singer, a girl (which name I’ve forgotten) want to leave the band temporarily (because of personal reason…to find her boyfriend in NY) just when they just started a major campaign to promote the band. The manager immediately responsed by showing his anger and scolded the girl as some one that is not committed.

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You can read the other parts here:   Part 1  and Part 2

In the last part I wrote about the time management section in this book. Now after getting your time managed properly what is the next characteristic of millionaire mindset ? In the book the author wrote how this mental trait actually transform his life way-way earlier during his high school…

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I stayed up late last night, reading this book.

So what is most valuable resource that need to be managed and use wisely if you want to be a millionaire….make it more generic …successful (what ever your definition of success is) ???

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I just bought this book. Currently reading it.

It contains some new things, and some old stuff. One message is to invest your money in something that can bring you more money. But it is easier said than done. What are the common avenue for people to invest - stock and trust fund. More risky…properties. It can be land, house or anything that you can rent to people. One of the author of this book started with renting advertising space…this is in the real world not online advertising space. Then he slowly move to properties.

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I found this web site on how to use Seam with Tomcat (so no EJB support) and Eclipse as the development IDE.

http://techieexchange.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/rad-seam-development-with-eclipse-and-tomcat-step-by-step-tutorial-screencast/ 

Not that I am going to write about this any time soon…just put it here to share with you and also as a reminder to myself.

Today let us talk about a book - JBoss at work, published by O’ Reilly.

Since my home internet connection is still not fixed, ..how efficient is Telekom Malaysia. Late payment of few days…you get the “red” warning letter, but if they are late in fixing problem…what can the user do. I’ve been complaining through the phone and also directly at their customer service center. The phone support has some idea of what is happening…but the service center people are clueless..

After struggling with JBoss AS and Portal try to learn them through what are available online, at last the library people send me a book that I’ve requested.

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So I am going to write more about technology than self improvement or mind related stuff because I only access to internet while at work…so I will write about work.

You see, I moved to a new place..in new state. I got my phone line transferred. It was working for few days, then came a long holiday (Chinese New Year). When I got back from the holiday the phone was dead…and nothing has changed since then.

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