Alvin Soong’s Blog

Lessons on staffing by Andrea De Cruz
Andrea De Cruz, the actress celebrity in Singapore turned businesswoman after her liver transplant (over the slimming pills consumption which she also endorsed) from now husband Pierre Png. Now she opened a chic hair spa called Cinq. Here she shared on her experience in staffing.
As a businesswoman, she learned […]

These are the qualities of Great CEOS / or being in Top Management
1. High Energy
2. Desire to be in charge
3. Ability to see into really important part of complex issues (and simplify)
4. Never be Passive-Aggressive.
5. Never Micromanage
6. Ability to Persuade others the decisions they think are right and take responsibility for the power position. (and I think possibly the consequences)
Summarised from […]

I was immensely troubled over the workload and amount of time to service my clients efficiently while having more family and personal time. While looking at some forms of time management, I came across the recent newspapers that many of us in Singapore are probably experience the same thing.
But everyone also has only 24hrs. How […]

According to Rice, there are 5 common pitfalls that befall celebrity CEOS:
1. They try to impose a copycat culture and try to replicate the strategies of the market leader or recreate the culture of their last firm without regards to the culture already in place. Thus forgeting the mission and values from the core of […]

Just a tip break from usual investment, insurance and health matters….
While reading the Edge, I read something interesting on social networking sites. In workforce, social networking is good time/cost saver for getting leads and contacts.
Many workers use it also for e-break, claiming a break of 10mins or so every hr of breaktime. However the recent […]