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It’s Better to Take Action and Fail than to Fail at Taking Action

For #motivationmondays, let’s go back to your childhood.

Have you ever been a child?

I’m sure you have. That’s a rhetorical question.

The reason why I’m saying this is because as a child, there was a time when you had to learn how to walk, talk, and even learn new skills such as how to ride a bike.

Now before you learned any of those skills, how many times did you fail and try again?

That’s right, a LOT of times.

You see, failure is part of success. You have to fail first so you can learn from it, and understand how to do it better next time.

It’s Better to Take Action and Fail than to Fail at Taking Action.

Why?

Reply with a comment to share your own thoughts. I’d love to hear from you.

If you want to find out what I think, then read on.

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Innovation: How the Deaf-Blind can use a Mobile Phone. Or can they?

It’s #FutureFridays and today we talk about one of the latest innovations from tech giant Samsung.

Imagine, what if you are living in this current age, but you lack the ability to see the world around you, hear the people talk to you, nor speak back to your family or loved ones.

What would your world be like?

That’s the kind of world a Deaf-Blind person lives in.

Thankfully, Samsung has come up with their latest innovation to solve this problem.

Read on to see how it works, and watch the video demo. I assure you, it won’t disappoint.

And if your eyes don’t swell in tears after watching it, you have no emotion.

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How to turn your Anger and Hatred into Motivation

For today’s #thankfulthursdays I would like to give gratitude to Tom Bilyeu, for teaching me how to use anger, hate, self-doubt, and turn that into the driving force to keep you going, just when you think you’re about to give up.

He recommends you keep a list of all your haters, trolls, and anyone who has ever doubted you, including that little voice inside of you, your own self-doubt.

Because just when you think you’re about to give up, you can channel all that anger and hatred to give you a reason to push, make it happen, and prove them wrong.

While I’m not really a person who gets angry, or holds a grudge against anyone, I can completely relate to the study that Tom talks about, and how people are able to do at least 30% more by using this technique.

There’s a reason why Anger exists. Use it to your advantage!

Check it out!

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Choose: (1) Build It and They Will Come, or (2) People Adapt to What They Helped Build?

For today’s #wisdomwednesdays, you gotta choose which statement makes more sense to you:

  1. “Build it and they will come” or
  2. “People adapt to what they helped build”

Think of a scenario in your your past when you tried to deploy initiatives that you think would benefit a lot of people.

Which strategy worked best?

The one where you built it, and then tried to push it to market? How did that go? Did they love it immediately soon as they saw it? Did they thank you for creating such a wonderful product or service?

Or did the strategy where you involved your audience in creating it work better for you?

If you’d want to find out what worked in my experience, then read on.

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How Facebook uses Data Science for Social Analytics (Use Case)

It’s #transformationtuesdays and our topic of the day is Data Science, and how Facebook uses it to do the following:

  1. Facial Recognition
  2. Textual Analysis
  3. Targeted Advertising

No, they didn’t use some magic beans then all of a sudden they became an internet giant.

They uses Data Science extensively to make these things possible.

If you want to find out how, then read on.

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People may Forget what you Say or Do, but they will Never Forget how you make them Feel

It’s time for #motivationmondays!

Do you know someone who is super smart, but for some odd reason, people don’t like that person?

Yes, I believe we can all name at least one person who is like that.

Have you ever wondered why, despite being very intelligent, people seem to dislike that person?

This is the reason.

People may forget what you say or do, but they will never forget what you make them feel.

Let that be a simple reminder to always think about before you go respond to people.

If you want to find out about some techniques I can share that I personally use with great effect, then read on.

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How can OCR (Optical Character Recognition) become AI (Artificial Intelligence)? Here’s how.

Alright, it’s #FutureFridays and today’s topic is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

OCR has been around for quite some time already, and is widely considered as mainstream technology.

OCR is simply the ability to have a machine convert text from a scanned document or image into machine readable format.

In a sense, it is a simple form of “Artificial Intelligence,” but because it has become mainstream technology already, most people no longer consider it to be a subset of AI, even though technically, it is, as it is part of Computer Vision.

How OCR really becomes AI is dependent on what you do with the machine readable data after the conversion process.

Let me show you an example of a how a company took OCR technology to the next level with AI.

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How implementing Agile can solve the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team

Time for some sharing on today’s #wisdomwendesdays.

Sometime ago I attended a talk on the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team:

  1. Absence of Trust
  2. Fear of Conflict
  3. Lack of Commitment
  4. Avoidance of Accountability
  5. Inattention to Results

The talk was based on the book by Patrick Leoncioni.

Read on as I share with you my story on how we mitigated these through the implementing a methodology of how we do things in the team.

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How Design Thinking saved the struggling Oil of Olay brand (Use Case)

For today’s #transformationtuesdays I will be sharing with you a case study of how Design Thinking saved the struggling Oil of Olay brand.

In the early 1990s, Proctor & Gamble’s Oil of Olay brand reached a point where it was seen by the public as a brand meant for “older” women.

They have lost their competitive edge as a top skin care brand.

In short, they were in trouble.

At that point they had 3 choices:

  1. Scrap Oil of Olay and just launch a new brand
  2. Buy out a competitor
  3. Innovate and reinvent the Oil of Olay brand

The use case below talks about how they applied Design Thinking to put themselves in the user’s shoes, empathize with them and find out what their pain points are.

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