by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 5, 2009
There is a great story on Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/googles_scott_h.html ) about Google’s “Evaluation Team” (“Eval”), the team which, among other things, measures the performance of...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 3, 2009
A few months ago, I wrote about the idea of “Egoless Ego”. Main idea: To achieve breakthroughs, you need to have enough ego to know you can change the world, AND at the same time be egoless enough to know that you are mostly irrelevant. It is like being...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Sep 30, 2009
My friend, Ke, told me that in China, it is common for graduating students to write their own letters of recommendation in the names of their professors. If I got to write my own recommendation in the name of my professor, it’d look like this: Meng is, by far,...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Sep 27, 2009
Over the years, I’ve developed a 4-step plan to deal with my distress. I hope this would be helpful to you too. My 4 steps are: 1. Know when you’re not in pain. 2. Do not feel bad about feeling bad. 3. Do not feed the monsters. 4. Start every thought with...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Sep 21, 2009
(Continued from Part I) In Part I, we described the 3 principles behind Search Inside Yourself (SIY), Google’s homegrown program for developing Emotional Intelligence: 1. Emotional skills are trainable 2. EI training starts with attention training 3. Work with...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Sep 19, 2009
(For the story on what motivated us to create Search Inside Yourself, see this post: “Three Easy Steps to World Peace”) Search Inside Yourself (SIY) is Google’s homegrown Emotional Intelligence (EI) curriculum. It was created in Google with...
