Elijah Lim

Elijah Lim started the topic in the forum 9 years, 11 months ago

Adaptable. Flexible? Pliable? Circumstantial?
Have you been exhorted constantly to “Think out of the Box?” Ok. So what IS the Box? Do you know? What’s IN the Box? Do you know about that, too? THINK for yourself, don’t always follow what the world tells you to do. This is similar to The Leadership Challenge Practice called “Challenge the…[Read more]
Elijah Lim started the topic in the forum 9 years, 11 months ago

Adaptable. Flexible? Pliable? Circumstantial?
Have you been exhorted constantly to “Think out of the Box?” Ok. So what IS the Box? Do you know? What’s IN the Box? Do you know about that, too? THINK for yourself, don’t always follow what the world tells you to do. This is similar to The Leadership Challenge Practice called “Challenge the…[Read more]
Elijah Lim started the topic in the forum 9 years, 11 months ago

Science of Character?
There is a science and an art to most things in life. Broadly speaking, the science is knowing how stuff works. The art is knowing how it works for you and for others. The art is applying what the science has found out. Sometimes the art is intuitively applying what the science later confirms.
Go through the materials…[Read more]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

SOS – Supply Of Supplication
Supplicants the world over beam their SOS signals every day. They ask for love, appreciation, fulfillment, excitement, purpose, gratification and so forth. This is besides the need […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 9 years, 12 months ago

Why a Post about M&As?
I have read many posts and articles about Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As). There are more than a few forms of M&As. You can read more about them on Investopedia and elsewhere. I hope to […]
Elijah Lim posted an update 9 years, 12 months ago

@kelvin-sng Welcome to Building Better Businesses! Do look around and feel free to ask questions and interact with others!
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years ago

Acquisition
The desire for gain is one of the two basic motivations we humans have. The fear of loss is the other one. This desire for gain is not just for material things. It can be the adulation of others, […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years ago

POS. Point Of Sale.
POS stands for, among other things, Point Of Sale. Although narrowly defined as “The place where a retail transaction is carried out”, I would like to include here that it means everything […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years ago

Maturity – A Person of Substance
Do you aspire to maturity? Would that mean being matronly? Or would it mean being middle-aged, with hints of grey appearing already? Given a choice, would you want to be mature? […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years ago

Inanities
How often have you read a report about once-great entities now gone to the dogs? Have you noticed how often those entities are described as being “Victims of their own success”? What does that mean? I […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years, 1 month ago

Playing to Strengths. Indeed.
The Character First! definition of Truthfulness is Earning future trust by accurately reporting past facts. Various gurus would have told you by now that you need to be playing to […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years, 1 month ago

Of Babies and Bathwater
“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” is a very useful adage to keep in mind. I wrote some time ago about “Silos? Or Synapses?” In that post I emphasized that we ought to think in […]
Elijah Lim started the topic in the forum 10 years, 1 month ago

Read the Business Times news item here.
In order to decide on what to do next for the Singapore Port, what other factors need to be taken into consideration?
What can we discern as fact and what as conjecture in this news article?
Elijah Lim started the topic in the forum 10 years, 1 month ago

Read the Business Times news item here.
In order to decide on what to do next for the Singapore Port, what other factors need to be taken into consideration?
What can we discern as fact and what as conjecture in this news article?
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years, 1 month ago

Get the picture? Yes! So what? Make a movie!
A picture paints a thousand words, so they say. If that’s the case, would it be true to say that a movie shows a thousand pictures? With audio thrown in, perhaps? It’s […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years, 1 month ago

There’s an app for that!
There certainly is! With probably a few million apps in both the Apple and Android Play stores, people are either spoilt for choice or freeze. There are apps for any number of reasons. […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years, 2 months ago

Speakers Love Speaking?
I get bored when I listen to many other people speaking as well. Few speakers can actually capture my attention these days. Why do I get bored listening to myself speaking? Does the same […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years, 2 months ago

Sharing and Giving IS Caring!
I attended an interesting talk on “The Socially Savvy Organization” organized by the Direct Marketing Association of Singapore (DMAS) on 30 Jun 2016. Former CEO of Vocanic, Ian […]
Elijah Lim started the topic in the forum 10 years, 2 months ago

This topic is all about the value your business brings to your customers. It doesn’t matter if you’re a business consultant or someone who designs websites. Perhaps you’re in marketing and you help your clients gain more customers, not only because of your great marketing skills, but also because of your valuable insights as to how to integrate…[Read more]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post 10 years, 4 months ago

“Give me liberty, or give me death!” ~ Patrick Henry
Clarity is greatly liberating, in the sense that decisiveness is enhanced by it. Since liberty is not the right to do as we like, but the freedom to do as we […]
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