10 years ago on 19 Sep 2006, I had this inception that companies in Asia (and probably anywhere in the world) still didn't have effective and affordable management software technology, so I founded "Signify". In 2006, most management software was very expensive to buy, too cumbersome to maintain, and too difficult to use. So I proposed that Signify can do the contradiction. Signify can provide management software solution that "signifies" our customers, and in return, our customer will patronage us, e.g., pay us so that we can pay our staff salary and all the expenses. This is the mission of our business.
October 2016 will mark "10th year" anniversary of Signify.
In this 10 years, through my working with staff members and numerous client people with wide range from politicians, ministry's director general, CEO, middle managers, subject matter experts, to just office clerks, so I acquired the exposure to the extreme opposite of how people think and perceive. Working with technology is not easy. Working with people is harder. Managing people is the hardest, due to the dynamic of organisational and economic changes. I also think back the prior 10 years when I worked for Corning in the US and Japan. Corning has survived for 160 years with a tradition of effective managers that pass down from generation to generation. (it survived world wars I, II, and 4 economic depressions) I see "patterns" of managing people and I hope to share it with Signify members that are now managing own team members.