The first week of 2008 has been positive, so far.

Things have been perking up, with a few upcoming business proposals, social circles extended beyond regions of profession, plans laid out for the rest of year completed, I guess now it's time to sit, focus and deliver.

After slacking due to the holiday seasons, I'm now fully energized to spring back into action. This weekends, taking a pause from the usual obdurate schedule, I'm reading up some books.

Clinging to Mihaly Csikszenlmihalyi's - Good Business, this book has brought new definations and ideas on team organisation, leadership qualities and self-well being in doing business.

Citation:
"In many jobs, the skills of the worker are not well matched to the opportunities for action. This is true even of highly paid knowledge work where, for example, well-trained young lawyers are assigned to years of monotonous library research that makes few demands on their skills beyong tolerance for boredom and the ability to put up with long hours, or where ambitious young consultants are thrown into stressful eighty-hour-a-week workloads that burn them in a matter of years.." [Page 93, paragraph 4]

Still in the mid pages, this book is a good reference for potential leaders-to-be, with loads of case studies that explain in the simplest form and true logic.

Also heaving up another book of reference, Singapore Business Law - 4th Edition, I'm trying hard to comprehend the Legal System here. Not surprising, it goes back to the colonial days, where the system is still very much influenced by the English Law Act.

Citation:
" In practice, those English legislation which apply in Singapore have now been reprinted as Singapore legislation, with most of them bearing the same titles and having contents which are almost identical to their English counterparts.." [page 43, Chapter 2-309, Application of English Law Act]

Too much of books for today. I have some lists of regulations to be updated in my other blogs.

Goodnytes, gudnites where ever you are...