by Chade-Meng Tan | Aug 26, 2009
Back when I used to chair meetings with more than 3 people, I liked to start every meeting with what I call the Three Assumptions. 1. The Greater Good Assumption. We assume that each of us is in this meeting to serve the greater good, each motivated to achieve...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Aug 17, 2009
I just returned from a long vacation. Here’s the “out of office” message I’ve been using I’m on vacation until 8/17/2009. If you can’t reach me, please don’t think I’m dead, especially if you’re from payroll...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Aug 13, 2009
Not my original funny thought, but a funny story I heard in China. A Chinese Buddhist teacher used to tell his friends that he thought Jesus Christ was a manifestation of Guan Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. He realized that many of his Christian friends were very...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 22, 2009
I’m surprised that the “Living Will” I signed did not offer me the option I really wanted. What I really wanted is that, in the event that I’m incapacitated, either due to disease or accident, I want my body parts replaced with bionic implants...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 19, 2009
I once read that at the height of the Japanese real estate bubble in the late 1980s, the land occupied by the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was worth more than all the land in all of California. If I were the Emperor of Japan, I would have sold the palace and bought...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 13, 2009
(My first writing in Chinese in more than 20 years, please feel free to laugh at me. 已经二十多年没有用华文书写了。写得不好，请多包涵。我的华文这么差，肯定笑掉您的大门牙，西班牙，葡萄牙) 昨天在餐馆, 订购一碗 “姜汁汤圆”. 上菜时才知道, 原来一碗只有一粒汤圆. 一碗才一粒! 真是搞笑. Waitress 小姐说, 汤圆可以附加购买, 要多少都行, “只要放得下就行”. 我就说,...
