by Chrisspeak | May 13, 2019 | Life
One Christmas, I decided to get each and every one of my team members a pretty designer notebook. The reason being that I simply loved the array of designs and wanted to grab them all. You see, I have always loved to collect notebooks of different designs – if I were...
by Chrisspeak | May 13, 2019 | Life
One of the questions I often asked during interviews – how do you unwind outside of work? I think it is important to have a balanced lifestyle where you could peel yourself from work and de-stress. I don’t want to hire someone who have no outlet to unwind and...
by Chrisspeak | May 13, 2019 | Life
For many years, the 9-5 working hours did not exist in my line of work. Particularly, not when I was in the advertising industry. In fact, it is a norm for ad people to work late and not leave for home until the sky was dark. Anyone caught leaving the office shortly...
by Chrisspeak | May 13, 2019 | Life
I often wished I have 48 hours in a day – the reality is, we don’t. Multitasking is a virtue as many people advocate. We are expected to handle requests from different directions. Overwhelmed and stressed I used to feel overwhelmed as a young executive and got...
by Chrisspeak | May 11, 2019 | Life
I have had my fair share of difficult and demanding clients during my early advertising agency days. Clients would be clients Clients would not entertain any reasons or challenges on why things can’t be done. Rightfully so, since they paid for the service (though...
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