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Negotiating with emotion 14 Jan 2013 | 03:42 am
In my daily work, I am often negotiating with people. Either close colleagues or remote partners working on the same project. I noticed that my negotiation skills varies a lot depending on who I am ta...
Strategy for ads placement with Infinite Scroll (WordPress) 19 Dec 2012 | 01:11 am
Some high profile website (Facebook, Linkedin) have enable infinite scroll (automatically displays following pages when the user scroll down) on their pages. This is mostly because infinite scroll is ...
Bing Ads Accredited Professional 5 Dec 2012 | 05:13 am
I am now a Bing Ads Accredited Professional, I successfully passed my exam (even if I took two days to complete it). The exam is 100 questions but if you are working on online advertisement it should ...
The first 90 days: Promoting yourself! 1 Dec 2012 | 03:52 am
I am starting a new series of posts pulled out of a book I recently read. The book was written by Michael Watkins and titled “The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Leve...
Microsoft Program Manager Interviews 27 Sep 2012 | 05:46 am
So you want to be a program manager at Microsoft? I have just been through the interview process, multiple time actually, so I can share some of the findings I made. The typical interview process at M...
5 things you can do to avoid hurting your own cause. 20 Sep 2012 | 09:56 am
Nice blog post from Dorie Clark, she share 5 tips to avoid hurting your cause when trying to persuade others in the workplace. Painting a black-and-white scenario: do not idealize your approach nor de...
Career switch from test to program management 20 Sep 2012 | 04:23 am
After 4 years as a software development engineer in test I had the feeling that I needed a change. I was driven into testing because of my passion for customers and high quality software, time taught ...
How to make things happen – some tactics 11 Sep 2012 | 01:12 am
This post is the last one of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trus...
How to make Visual Studio 2012 stop yelling at you 8 Sep 2012 | 04:43 am
If you are lucky enough to be using the new Visual Studio (VS2012), then you probably have noticed and disliked that the menu bar was yelling at you. In the net etiquette, writing in ALL CAPS is equiv...
End game strategy 8 Sep 2012 | 04:16 am
This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building tr...
