Blog Entries tagged 'ONE'

KIDS really get this stuff

pauldunn — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:00:00 +0100

Yesterday I met an 8-year old girl for the first time. Jilly is her name.

She had a cold. So Kelly, her Mum, brought her along - together with her colouring pencils and books - to a meeting we had.

During a break in the meeting a gave Jilly my iPhone. and I cued it up on the shortened kids-version of the ONE Movie.

She was bent over the iPhone seriously attentive and clearly loving it. And when it finishes, she exclaimed, "This is SO cool! I love it."

A lit [...]

ONE � Finding what we are looking for - Bumblebee Movie

david.anttony — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0100

On 10th September 2008, a young lady got up at 1 in the morning. She just had to write down an idea. One hour and 20 minutes later she went back to bed with the perfectly finished script of an astonishing film.

Just 3 days later, she’d comple [...]

Beyond Our Words � Measuring something we�ve never measured before

Masami — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:00:00 +0100

I believe a management expert once said, ‘What you can measure you can manage’. And then a friend of mine added, ‘But measuring what really matters is the real key!’ And then I read that ‘what get’s measured gets done’.

So today, out of curiosity, I decided to measure my ‘Thank yous’ and found out that I have a [...]

Like a Child

pauldunn — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0100

Last Thursday I took a flight on AirAsia from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. And when I fly, I like to read what the Chief Executive is saying in the in-flight magazine.

You can tell so much about the company from the CEO’s articles. Read the QANTAS one and it always strikes me as ‘stuffy’. Read the VirginBlue one from CEO Brett Godfrey and it’s ALWAYS upbeat, always focussed on the customer (in [...]

Could Buy1GIVE1 help elect Obama?

pauldunn — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0100

If you’re like me, you can’t help but get fascinated with the ups and downs of American politics. And, if you’re like me, you were pleased to see Barrack Obama come through as the Democratic candidate.

So what does this have to do with Buy1GIVE1?

Simply this. I was on a plane from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur this morning reading my favourite newspaper (the International Herald Tribune) before take-off an [...]

Charities Begging and Competing

pauldunn — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0100

An article in today’s Straits Times raised some interesting thoughts.

The article is about so called ‘Flag Days’ where volunteers have tins and rattle them when you’re walking or shopping to get donations.

Here’s a direct quote: ‘ … Singaporeans growing disdain for the army of volunteers waving tim cans in their faces each weekend. Teacher Coen Ching has had students [...]

Life-Changing Quotes in ONE Book - Part 1

david.anttony — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0100

The following inspiring quotes are excerpted from ONE, a book by Masami Sato .

On mastering things…

"…doing things we've never done can often seem very difficult and complicated until the day we actually try them out."

"(Children) learn by playing and become the masters of the game. And they do it just by having fun."

"…when something more effective and easy comes along, we let go of the harder wa [...]