You got promoted
Hello, my dear reader, today I feel very powerful. So I have decided to promote you to the position of CEO. Congratulations. You are a real CEO now. Not later! Now! What do I mean by that? In this information age,…
I, your employee say, “my level of engagement is the effect of a great employee experience, but ….”
Do you feel engaged at your work? This is somehow an off-pattern post here on TACOMOB. But it totally fits into the context of Taking Care of Your Own Business – your own business of earning money by working for…
Would you please take care of your PFC
My apologies, in case I puzzled you, but we do love our acronyms here in Singapore. I have mentioned the PFC previously under the “Framing Bias” but to expound further, the PFC is your Prefrontal Cortex; a brain region that lies…
TACOMOB does include this too …
Does your work rock? Does your work sometimes feel like this? Recognition is the fuel that keeps us going. Do you feel you are being recognized enough for what you are doing for the company by your bosses? What…
Sunday = Ponder-day
THE GOOD LIFE IS ANYWHERE We tell ourselves that we need the right setup before we finally buckle down and get serious. We tell ourselves that we need this and that at work, a more supportive boss, more autonomy, more…
Why do you try to avoid pain so often?
Do you use Alipay, payWave, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay or boring NETS or even Credit Cards to part with your money? Then for you making payments might hurt less than it should. The pain of paying may be the…
I don’t want to feed the scammers or how to avoid the temptation of Getting-Rich-Quick-Schemes
There are people out there who want to be rich—without the risk, the sacrifice, or the delayed gratification necessary to accumulate such wealth. But you and I—logically—do not belong to that group. Of course not! Well, in my case, that statement is a tiny bit of wishful…
Did you misremember that correctly?
Would you have a few minutes for some slightly deeper thoughts? Do you trust your memory? Your memories are unreliable and often flat-out wrong, especially when it comes to remembering how you felt at a certain time or place.…
Question time: What does your job mean to you?
Does it give you a purpose beyond that biggest addiction of them all – your monthly paycheck? Does it enable you to contribute to something bigger than yourself? Hmm, what is he trying to get at? Allow me…
Are you paying attention?
To what? – you might ask. To whatever you are somewhat interested in. We are masters in paying zero attention to what we are not interested in. All thanks to our inborn or learned biases. Regular readers of Tacomob are…