RAIP Blog

December!

Taking Ownership at Work

What are you going to be Exceptional at in 10years?

A few years ago, I got asked this question at an interview and I thought “that’s weird, 10years is a long time!”. In retrospect, that was maybe 8yrs ago now!. So recently, I asked myself the same question and I most tell you, I didn’t find it so weird. We may not like this question

A Hedgehog or a Fox, what are you?!

Do you have MOTOR Insurance? Are you a hedgehog or fox with your insurance decisions?  When making predictions, most people will say to you “go with your intuition” or “lean on the advice of experts.” However, in business, both tactics are usually no better than random chance. In his 2012 book, The Signal and the

The Tale

A long-time ago in the Animal Kingdom,  a sheep was passing and saw a lion crying inside a cage trapped  and the lion begged the sheep to save him with a promise not to kill and eat it but the sheep refused. After much persuasion and for the sheep’s gullibility it opened the cage for

Just a short story..

The story is told of a certain Ali Tahir Fadih, who was the ruler of a small poor community in north Africa. They say he was quite a character. He amassed a lot of wealth for himself and family and was very greedy. He would rather throw food away and burn old clothes than give

What Is Your Attitude Towards Your Work?

Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and choices today! There is a story of an elderly carpenter who had been working for a contractor for many many years. He had built many beautiful houses but now as

Conversations of Everything and Nothing

Read this over the weekend and thought to share. Food for thoughts No matter who you are, how experienced you are, and how knowledgeable you think you are, *ALWAYS DELAY JUDGEMENT*. Give others the privilege to explain themselves. Leave the judgement for God. What you see may not be the reality. *NEVER CONCLUDE FOR OTHERS*. Don’t spend

Active Listening

Santosh Sachdeva All of us can hear, but all of us cannot listen. Hearing and listening are not the same thing. Hearing is involuntary and listening involves the reception and interpretation of what is heard. It decodes the sound heard into meaning. Does a knock on the door sound the same all the time? What

This is called…..

During a bank robbery in Guangzhou China, the robber shouted to everyone in the bank: “Don’t move. The money belongs to the State. Your life belongs to you. “Everyone in the bank laid down quietly. This is called “Mind Changing Concept” Changing the conventional way of thinking. When a lady lay on the table provocatively,