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One blunt upward comment and they stop asking for upward feedback anymore. Silence feels safer than hearing it again, and then the blind spot just grows.
If your team copies you on every email and waits for a nod before they move, that isn’t good process.
I’ve seen it almost in wvery organisational setup. The instinct is to stay closer - more check-ins, more rewrites of their drafts, etc.
360s mostly measure reputations.
Don’t rely on 360-degree feedback to measure emotional intelligence. s.hbr.org/4ta5Hfv
Who dares?
I would recommend every body to make some lumpsome money ,not a lot but enough. Enough to pay off your debts ,school fees for a year ,rent for some months and all other expenses catered for .After you have made this money I want you to take time off , dnt go on holiday or the village just stay where you live and slow down . Dnt think about starting business or any project, just eat sleep and go for walks .
This gives you an aerial view of the rat race , you will listen to your neighbors waking up at the crack of dawn and coming back at night, you will watch stress consume them as they chase numbers on a screen . You will learn that life is not all about making more . Only then will your life begin .
Getting a cyber insurance without fixing vulnerabilities is like buying top-tier health insurance so you can eat fast food every day, it might pay the hospital bill, but it doesn't stop the heart attack.
Large multinational corporations and government bodies have also made cyber insurance a prerequisite for vendors bidding for contracts.
thestar.com.my/aseanplus/ase…
For many budgets look fine on paper until a bill swings or something breaks mid-month. EPF is not cash you can spend when you most need it.
Keep a small buffer in a normal savings account for ugly months, plus a sinking pot for kids school fees and festivities.
This tax relief can look clever, but most of what goes back into EPF gets hard to touch again. If your real gap is a mid-month bill, locked money will not fix it. Cash buffer first, tax tricks later.
And the other thing is, don’t waste time complicating your personal finance.
A quiet risk meeting cannot be read as alignment. Often it just means it isn't safe to disagree with the chair in the room. Speak-up posters don't fix that.
Same question for how you lead a team. Best-day rituals look great. What matters is the check-in habit you still keep on a bad day.
Absorbing the extra load yourself or pushing an already thin cyber team harder both delay the real conversation with the business about capacity. The honest move is naming what stops when something new starts.
Most of the password mess I still see is policy that forces people to change on a calendar, then write the new one somewhere convenient.
This is the meeting where someone says the next maintenance window is in 3 weeks. If it is already on a known-exploited list with a hard date, the freeze is the risk, not the patch.
In Malaysia a lot of us treat EPF as proof we're already saving, then stack a car loan and a mobile phone plan instalment because the monthly still "fit".
This lands hard in Malaysia too. Chasing EPF dividends or the latest unit-trust tip while revolving a credit card or personal loan is just maximising the wrong scorecard.
A 3-year phone plan makes the monthly look harmless, but you still end up paying way too high for something that loses value the week you unbox it.
A leader who hides bad news to protect morale isn't protecting anything.
They're buying time then suddenly the room learns the truth without you.
Risk jobs train you to feel guilty for resting. Learned the hard way: a CISO who never recovers becomes the risk. Leisure isn't laziness. It's preventive maintenance.
