Inspiration from Rasulullah SAW about Healthy, Positive Workplace Culture and Environment

Inspiration from Rasulullah SAW about Healthy, Positive Workplace Culture and Environment

You believe that a healthy, positive workplace culture and environment is very important for your business and to make it sustainable. You want to find a “core values” word/concept for your business, to represent warmth/casual/friendly/open to balance the “professional (commitment)” value. You don’t want professional to mean “constantly under pressure / employee burnout”. I think…

Learning Japanese Language (Nihongo) from Basic Words and Common Phrases

Learning Japanese Language (Nihongo) from Basic Words and Common Phrases

Here are several basic Japanese language (Nihongo) words and common phrases that I am trying to learn. Basic words: Anata. あなた. You. Watashi. わたし. I. Common phrases: Konnichi wa. コニチワあ. Hello. Arigatou gozaimasu. ありがと ございます. Thank you. Anata wa dou desuka? あなた わ どう ですか? How are you? Watashi wa yokunaidesu. わたしわ よくないです. I am not good….

Chinese Language (Mandarin) Survival Guide: Basic Words, Phrases, and Sentences

Chinese Language (Mandarin) Survival Guide: Basic Words, Phrases, and Sentences

I promised myself that I would learn to speak and write at least two new languages (to at least somewhat-acceptable conversational level) within the next three years, that means my deadline is by the end 2021. ⏳ But why Mandarin, the standard Chinese language? Statistically speaking it is obvious: Mandarin is spoken by 1.2 billion…

John C. Maxwell’s Best Leadership Quotes for Your Inspiration

John C. Maxwell’s Best Leadership Quotes for Your Inspiration

I just completed listening to John C. Maxwell‘s audiobook Good Leaders Ask Great Questions on Audible and I have to say it was awesome. I need to listen to that again, at least on second time. And I will probably re-listen to it again at particular times. His writing (or rather, his narration) contained a…

How to Change Citation and Bibliography Language in Mendeley

How to Change Citation and Bibliography Language in Mendeley

When writing an academic paper, your university, journal, or conference, may require a particular citation or bibliography style. If you’re using a reference manager such as Mendeley or Zotero, then you should have no problem changing the citation style to match your publisher’s required format. However, another aspect of citation style is the citation or bibliography…