Dim Sum for Great Marriages is a handy guide that will add lustre to your marriage. Whether you are a newlywed or celebrating your 30th wedding anniversary, this book offers precious gems for a great marriage.In this collection of wisdom and practical tips, John Ng discusses issues and challenges that confront marriage in our modern world. He addresses crucial factors that break up a successful marriage. He also offers constructive and sound principles for building a great marriage. Writte...

Dim Sum for Great Parenting is packed with proven, practical insights into bringing up stable and emotionally healthy children. This invaluable parenting guide hones parents’ skills in the lost art of affirmation and apology. It also offers useful advice on disciplining your children. To top it off, John Ng provides enduring and timeless conflict management principles that will transform conflicts into opportunities. He also delves into the pitfalls of 12 conflict styles and suggests ways of ...

Dim Sum Leadership covers a wide variety of leadership essentials, e.g. self leadership, temptations, conflict and coaching. Short and crisp, each chapter is written independently to touch the heart, and is arranged in such a way that busy executives can choose to focus on any area that concerns them most. These chapters also serve to refresh readers and rekindle their passion, reshape their perspective and retool their competence as leaders and managers. Much wisdom and many gems can...

This book is for every leader who's sitting awake at 2 A.M. wondering: 'Why is my team stuck? Why do we keep falling short? Why does synergy feel so impossible?'Supercharge Your T.E.A.M. is more than a playbook — it's a call to lead with heart and grit. Dr. John Ng distills decades of leadership consulting, sharing raw stories from diverse industries and giants like Singapore Airlines, the Ministry of Education (Singapore), Sunway Property Group (Malaysia), Gunung Sewu Group (Indon...

Smiling Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a timely and comprehensive book that gives a fresh approach to conflict management from an Asian perspective. Culturally sensitive with keen insights into the workplace and home , this incisive guide emphasizes interpersonal conflict management with tips that are easily applicable wherever we are.In this book, author Dr John Ng discusses how conflict can become opportunities to grow and learn. He examines ways to avoid destroying ourselves, others, and the r...

You can be Great.No matter what your background is or what failures you've experienced, you can achieve greatness. That is the main thrust of this book. The author, Dr John Ng, is Chief Passionary Officer of Meta Consulting, and draws on years of extensive interviews with thought leaders across the region and his astute observations, personal experiences, careful analysis and synthesis of research, to present a concise guide to the power of self-leadership.Having coached and supported many...

Heart to Heart with Asian Leaders is an intimate and insightful look at leadership issues first-hand with 28 prominent persons across politics, business, finance and academia in the region. These illustrious leaders have been specially selected for the values they represent, and how they have overcome crisis and staged comebacks against the odds.This book will serve as an invaluable tool for all in these challenging and fast-changing times — a resource which will profit leaders in the boar...

A Canadian teenager travels to China to explore her ancestry and search for her birth mother in a dramatic and moving YA novel.Throwaway Daughter tells the story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, whose biggest concern is how to distill her adoption from China into the neat blanks of her personal history assignment. Aside from the unwelcome reminders of difference, Grace loves passing for the typical Canadian teen — until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacr...

This book investigates the trends and challenges that ports, logistics and supply chains have tackled in recent decades and the way forward. A new concept, port focal logistics is introduced which appreciates the efforts by previous studies in this field, but simultaneously recognize the limitations, and the need for further improvements.

Artificial Intelligence in Accounting: Practical Applications was written with a simple goal: to provide accountants with a foundational understanding of AI and its many business and accounting applications. It is meant to serve as a guide for identifying opportunities to implement AI initiatives to increase productivity and profitability.This book will help you answer questions about what AI is and how it is used in the accounting profession today. Offering practical guid...

This book examines important social movements in Hong Kong from the perspectives of historical and cultural studies. Conventionally regarded as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong Kong has yet witnessed many demonstrations and struggles against the colonial and post-colonial governments during the past one hundred years. Many of these movements were brought about in the name of justice and unfolded against the context of global unrest. Focusing on the local developments...

Packed with extensive enhancements, including new international case studies, and more strategies to introduce and maintain action learning programs within an organization, Optimizing the Power of Action Learning delivers an innovative and fresh perspective - making it a must-have for any organization looking to heighten competitive advantage and sustain success.This newly revised edition demonstrates how action learning can be used to address today's increasingly complex ...