David Yau & Associates

I should have written this post earlier. In the picture, it is the function room in HK where I conducted the last workshop on Adaptive...

A friend of mine once attended a Leadership Development workshop all the way in the US. I supposed it was a huge investment by the...

This post is a bit dated. But I still want to post it here since it is rather significant to me. The photos were taken in Gazipur,...

As I am about to leave my current organisation, someone asks me ‘what have you gained the most from the job?’ I think it is my...

You may have read about it before. I just come across it this week on a newspaper. It is an anonymous gravestone in Westminster...

Well, I am writing things now more and more often outside the theme of this blog again….. Perhaps I should change the scope. My work...

A useful post on the HBR Blog - Create Human Connection in a Virtual Teams. A reflection as I read through it.... on the idea of...

A great piece of learning I got in talking to a learning / training veteran – It goes like this: Business leader: ‘I am sending people to...

See this one from blog - Eight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator. I particularly like this one - 'If we weren't already...

This Mckinsey article is rather comprehensive. I particularly like the part ‘…….companies should strive to make every major business...

I was excited about what I experienced in an internal meeting conducted in India. Basically there were a few leadership development...

It was a recent talent development workshop co-facilitated by me. In short, in a few occasions I thought that we were about to hit the...

The more I thought and talked about it, the more I like and respect this concept. I have gained new insights in the Oct HK workshop: · ...

Just completed a workshop in the Trident Hotel in Mumbai… I only realised that this was one of the hotels where the 2008 terrorist...

[The view from my hotel room was surprisingly stunning!!] I attended the IAF Asia conference last month in Tokyo. Different from last...

It is beautiful! ... if you ask me how I feel about overall Immunity to Change (ITC) approach. I have recently attended a workshop on...

I learnt recently from my co-facilitator a wonderful question in a workshop in Shanghai.  A great way to draw thoughts / questions from...

In recent years, I am more attracted to work with intact teams rather than ‘open programs’. (By ‘open programs’, I mean that the...

This piece of reflection is a combination of recent experience in Hong Kong and Chennai, as well as my reading on the book 'Standing on...