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Our guest blogger for the next two weeks is Jules Yim. Jules is a Consultant with Cognitive Edge and an Accredited Network Practitioner. In this role she is involved in the design, capture and analysis of client projects. She has worked with public and private sector clients in Asia- Pacific, Europe and North America. Prior to joining Cognitive Edge as a Consultant, Jules worked in various roles in wealth management, automotive tuning and e-commerce.
31 July 2010
It's 4.03 and I can't sleep...
... ok, not really. It's about half eleven on a Saturday morning now and the final day of my stint as a guest blogger on CE. A vicious head pain got in the way of a planned post; however there's little paracetamol cannot suppress for a while or at least until I've finished off this post.
22 July 2010
Between introversion and extroversion
Over the past month I have had a chance to delve into facilitating anecdote circles for a project. I did not expect to be surprised that it would enrich my professional experience, however what I find interesting is that I am slowly putting aside my natural inclination towards introversion, and letting a more ebullient side of me emerge.
21 July 2010
Of fishes, fishing, and feeding
I have not been spoonfed, whether literally or figuratively, since I was, say, three and a half. Even as a young child, and probably because I am the firstborn, I was expected to be independent. I distinctly remember having books for toys, and being left to read them for hours on end. I remember being put on a bicycle at age 5 and being pushed off to pedal on my own, only to fall and get back up, over and over again until I learnt that scraping my knee wouldn't kill me and that I would, eventually, come to enjoy the feeling of wind through my hair and crouching over the handlebars, pretending to be flying like a bird.
20 July 2010
The Spirit of Inquiry
My favourite word since childhood is 'why'. When overused in childhood it is a cause of exasperation or amusement but in adulthood, it is vital to retain that spirit of inquiry, to never stop asking 'why'.
I sat up late tonight, well into the early hours of the morning but I will backdate this post to its origin. Daughter had resisted my attempts to get her to not to drive up to London at midnight (not even the offer of paying for a morning train worked) and I wanted to know she was safe so I awaited the ping of the Blackberry to tell me she had made it.
My thanks to Iwan Jenkins for drawing my attention to