Thursday, December 4, 2008

Shanghai Noon

Dec 4 - 9: My wife and I will be in Shanghai.
photo: Tongji University (June 2007)

On Friday, Saturday & Sunday, I will be conducting a training course for 60 employees from an international property company. In one of my introductory slides, I will highlight three limitations I face - my so called "little red dots":
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(1) I am from a tiny nation!

(2) I do not speak mandarin!

(3) I am an academic!

On the third point, they say, "those who can, do. those who can't, teach!".

An academic is also defined as "a person whose job is to tell others how to solve problems of life which he himself tried to avoid by being an academic."

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