What can't one believe easily in this modern society?

In this new era of information age, we are constantly receiving information via many media from time to time whether we like it or not.  It becomes more and more difficult to fully duplicate, evaluate and judge every piece of information for its validity, credibility and workability to many of us especially they could be mixed with a lot of false or contradictory data; while honestly many people do not know how to study (even with good grades) to make it more complicated in effective learning and sound judgement.  It could explain the reason why some people may have established automatic blocking system to stop receiving any more information especially those requiring one’s own observation and evaluation so to prevent from falling into further confusion.

There’re a lot of chance for all walks of life of Hong Kong, especially students to be exposed to a lot of new knowledge, information and technology,  as witnessed from our high attendance of the recent Hong Kong Book Fair, Hong Kong Computer and Communication Festival, etc,  in the summer time.

I have also visited the recent book fair with over 900,000 visitors this year.  Many book distributors utilized this as a channel to unload their inventory to appeal those looking for bargain sales, and there’re many books sold as cheap as $10 or $20.  Indeed, there’re many book buyers. Yet,  I also observed that many simply walked around without really checking or buying any books as the book fair event could serve as a “cool holiday spot” while one can sweat a lot with the high temperature outside. One major book distributor told me that the real book buyers will not come to the book fair as they prefer to check and buy books directly from the book store.   In other words, it could refer to the fact that we don’t have a lot of people really “thinking”, or “looking” as the statistics of visitors indicated otherwise.

While it could be “study bug” to stop us from acquiring real knowledge, I noticed that it could be explained by a strange phenomenon in our modern society, that is “people simply don’t believe anything easily” to the extent that “they stop looking”.   If we want to trace it down further,  it could be possibly due to some kind of “failed help” or “having been betrayed” experience on oneself or and on others in the past to make one not believe in any possibility of “genuine help”.

Yet if one is really looking, one can still find some “genuine help” though not always from everyone to everyone in our society.  Finding some genuine help in our society will raise your confidence and belief in the possibility of help, though may not happen on oneself directly.

If one sees that help is possible, it will definitely help to open the door of real knowledge as one seeks the knowledge which can help!  If the knowledge is not for the use of help, what’s for?

How can you make your pay beyond minimum wage?

It has been a very controversial issue whether we should have minimum wage policy in Hong Kong; and even if introduced but how to determine the minimum wage to cater to the interests of various sectors of the community. As of today, we have not yet come to any conclusion on the minimum wage policy in Hong Kong.

When we look at the actual reality of various economies of the world, one can easily tell that equality of the distribution of wealth is not attainable; and in many instances we see extreme disparity between the rich and the poor.

While men are born equally with many rights, the outcome however will depend on how one uses his or her own rights. As we would like to examine the workable possibilities to effect better change and control in our life, the subject of “fate” or “destiny” will be of no use for discussion due to its uncontrollable factors outside the scope of “what can be done” to help each other to exercise their rights for the benefit of himself and others.

Here I would like to offer a free webcast to the readers of my blog. This webcast also includes some drills of how to apply them in real life that you can do because something can be real to you only when you know how to apply or use it.

The regular cost of this webcast training including the review of your answers of the drills is HK$150 per person. Now you can watch it free on my blog but without any review of your answers. It cannot be delivered to any group for staff or business training purposes without any prior consent.

If you think someone may benefit from watching this free webcast, please feel free to forward to your friends that they would need to watch it on the same terms. I hope it helps to give you some ideas on how to live by exchanging abundantly in your life.

If you would like to have this webcast training or a workshop (either in English or Cantonese) to look into more of the subject for your staff to raise morale and productivity in your company, please write me an email (hkexecutives@gmail.com)

Viewpoints of Hong Kong Executives: What's yours?

What we see today depends on how we put our viewpoints into reality. To bring a better world with better civilization, we need better viewpoints.

The purpose of writing this blog is to share my viewpoints on various issues that any Hong Kong executive may care about including career, investment, finance, family, next generation, community, business, social and political environment, etc; as they are integrated as in one's life. Some may put more emphasis on certain aspects than others. Some may be more successful in certain areas than others. No matter what kind of executive life you have in Hong Kong, we are living in the same Hong Kong environment that many issues can affect us. In fact, some issues we are concerned in Hong Kong can be the same issues for people from many other countries; and I am delighted to find out I have many readers from many other countries.

If you somehow come to my blog and read my posts, I hope you enjoy reading it and find it helpful. However, I don't mean what I share here is necessarily the best viewpoint or truer than other viewpoints. In fact, it is only my own personal viewpoints without any representation of any authority or source. If you don't agree, you can ignore it. But I will better my viewpoints with better observation and share it here with you from time to time.

Here I want to clear the word: "executives" as it is part of the name of my blog with the following definitions according to American Heritage Dictionary:

n.

1. A person or group having administrative or managerial authority in an organization.
2. The chief officer of a government, state, or political division.
3. The branch of government charged with putting into effect a country's laws and the administering of its functions.
4. Computer Science A set of coded instructions designed to process and control other coded instructions.

adj.

1. Of, relating to, capable of, or suited for carrying out or executing: an advisory body lacking executive powers.
2. Having, characterized by, or relating to administrative or managerial authority: the executive director of a drama troupe; executive experience and skills.
3. Of or relating to the branch of government charged with the execution and administration of the nation's laws.

[Middle English, to be carried out, from Old French exécutif, from executer, to carry out; see execute.]

Sometimes, if someone starts to be critical on what you said, probably this person may at least have one word that he or she does not understand from you. You can help him by asking whether that person has any misunderstood word from whatever you have tried to communicate to either verbally or in writing. If you could find the word and clear this up with proper dictionary, you may get back into communication with this person again!

So you see if the executives of any community know how to observe, know how to know, understand and able to assume viewpoints from others, then decide and act the viewpoints for most people concerned in whatever area they are involved or interested, we will sure to have more winning fields in one's personal life, family, business, social and political environment, etc; as the essence of executives is to carry out.

I hope the above clarification may help you enjoy reading my blog.

Please feel free to write to me and let me know what you would like to be talked about in this blog.