by Wendy Nguyen | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Most people who know me personally would know this fact about me… I am a highly spiritual person. I start my day with a prayer for another blissful day. I begin my meals with an expression of gratitude to God for the abundant food on the table and for the roof over my...
by Wendy Nguyen | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Many years ago, an international consulting firm I was working for at the time implemented a new 360-degree evaluation system where all employees receive feedback from seniors, team members, as well as subordinates. One of the feedback I received from my subordinates...
by Wendy Nguyen | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of my clients recently told me that they needed to make more profit in order to be able to hire me as their CFO. I told them, “Sounds like you’re in the chicken-egg dilemma!” If you think about it, operating a business is not as simple as...
by Wendy Nguyen | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s never too late to press the “RESTART” button in life! One time, an audit partner asked me—an auditor in a large international firm—why I did not go back to Vietnam and run my mother’s company. He had overheard my conversation with another...
by Wendy Nguyen | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Do you know what is one of my biggest fears? The day I stop creating and looking for changes. The act of creating and changing, to me, means pausing, listening, and reading. I panic when I run out of a good book to read. I draw back because I extend myself too wide. I...