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Entreprenuership and Nonprofits (Social Enterprise), Some Links

Some links to Entrepreneurship and Nonprofits (Social Enterprise)

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Secret Place, Doi Suthep

Dry season, but Teerak still could find a nice place in the jungle, Doi Suthep…

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Doi Pui Hmong Village

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April 19, 2010 • Posted in: travel • No Comments

Everyone is smarter than me

I love Spolsky’s blog. He has also written articles for Inc, such as the one on competition and strategy called Fire and Motion. In the article there is a great quote about how management for his company is not about employees quickly obeying directives.

The biggest problem is getting people to tell me when I’m wrong and to do things their way, because they’re all smarter than I am.

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Sakichi Toyoda and the Five Whys Root Cause Analysis

Sakichi Toyoda and the Five Whys

Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Motor Company, is considered one of the greatest if not the greatest inventor of Japan and the father of Japanese Industrialization. His impact on the world should not be underestimated. As with most historical figures, our tasks are different because we live in a different world. However we can learn from the thinking of this great man.

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April 5, 2010 • Tags:  • Posted in: innovation • No Comments

The Five Most Important Questions – Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker is by far the most important management thinker of the 20th century. Even in 2010, his thinking and guidance is highly effective and has lost little of its lustre and value.

The Five Most Important Questions

Drucker formulated five “Most Important” questions to ask an organization. Each of them have subquestions which result. It is the answering of the questions together as a team which builds not only consensus but a shared understanding of what needs to be done.

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US Consular Alert for Northern Thailand – 2010-03-05

This message alerts U.S. citizens traveling to or residing in Northern Thailand to media reports that, following the recent Supreme Court verdict regarding the disposition of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s frozen assets, supporters of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (aka UDD or “red-shirts”) are planning a demonstration in Phrae on March 9. UDD supporters also might demonstrate at Bangkok Bank branches in Sankampheng and Doi Saket between now and the planned March 12-14 rallies in Nakhon Sawan, Saraburi, Nakhon Ratchasima and Bangkok.

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March 5, 2010 • Tags: , • Posted in: travel • No Comments

The Art of Asking

Time and Value

I have recently received a few unsolicited email requests from people whom I don’t know. Now, I am actually happy to help other people, but I have to weigh this desire to be helpful with the actual value it will create in the universe as a whole, not simply to unknown individuals requesting something. Time is inelastic and I have a limited amount. The older I become the more I desire to help others and the more picky I become in providing my time.

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Urgent Evoke

My Application to Urgent Evoke

I am an American expatriate living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I am an entrepreneur who co-founded a Thailand-based publishing company in 2009. Previous to that I taught for 7 years at the University of Hawaii including courses in Internet marketing, organizational communication, public relations and entrepreneurship. Previous to that I was a network engineer managing global corporate IT networks for six years.

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