Happy New Year

Before I retired from IBM, I seemed to blog more regularly. Now that I am supposedly in the green pasture, I ought to have more time. It has not worked out so far.

But this being the last day of the year, it's really a good time to finish off the year with a reflective entry about LPG.

We had a great LPG year in 2008. We completed another round of discussions and practicing of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people. On the 7 habits, our discussions were led by various members at different times including Roger, Taylor and Jin-Dong and me. Donna did a vision alignment session for us. And Abbey led an insightful couple of sessions on Emotional Intelligence for us.

Our LPG distribution list has expanded to include non-IBM members and we do have the potential to link to a larger community.

So, it has been a remarkable year. I would like to thank everyone for making it a success.

As to next year, there are interests to go deeper into Emotional Intelligence started already by Abbey. Hoa had volunteered to lead the discussions at least for the first two sessions.

Sandra has suggested to have our meeting go for an hour and a half. Here is our suggestion, we will block off the calendar for 1.5 hour. The first one hour is formal meeting and those who can and would like to can stay for the additional 1/2 hour to continual the discussions informally.

Happy New Year!