Dim Sum for Great Parenting is packed with proven, practical insights into bringing up stable and emotionally healthy children. This invaluable parenting guide hones parents’ skills in the lost art of affirmation and apology. It also offers useful advice on disciplining your children. To top it off, John Ng provides enduring and timeless conflict management principles that will transform conflicts into opportunities. He also delves into the pitfalls of 12 conflict styles and suggests ways of ...

Dim Sum Leadership covers a wide variety of leadership essentials, e.g. self leadership, temptations, conflict and coaching. Short and crisp, each chapter is written independently to touch the heart, and is arranged in such a way that busy executives can choose to focus on any area that concerns them most. These chapters also serve to refresh readers and rekindle their passion, reshape their perspective and retool their competence as leaders and managers. Much wisdom and many gems can...

Smiling Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a timely and comprehensive book that gives a fresh approach to conflict management from an Asian perspective. Culturally sensitive with keen insights into the workplace and home , this incisive guide emphasizes interpersonal conflict management with tips that are easily applicable wherever we are.In this book, author Dr John Ng discusses how conflict can become opportunities to grow and learn. He examines ways to avoid destroying ourselves, others, and the r...

You can be Great.No matter what your background is or what failures you've experienced, you can achieve greatness. That is the main thrust of this book. The author, Dr John Ng, is Chief Passionary Officer of Meta Consulting, and draws on years of extensive interviews with thought leaders across the region and his astute observations, personal experiences, careful analysis and synthesis of research, to present a concise guide to the power of self-leadership.Having coached and supported many...

Artificial Intelligence in Accounting: Practical Applications was written with a simple goal: to provide accountants with a foundational understanding of AI and its many business and accounting applications. It is meant to serve as a guide for identifying opportunities to implement AI initiatives to increase productivity and profitability.This book will help you answer questions about what AI is and how it is used in the accounting profession today. Offering practical guid...

Dragons has been selected in the “Book Jackets and Covers” category for the 2021 Association ofUniversity Presses “Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.”**HONG KONG LITERATURE SERIESSeries Editor: John Minford**Leung Ping-kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the writing of his short stories as he did to his poems. ‘I have drawn on magical realism to explore the absurdity of Hong Kong,’ he wrote of the story ...

Ten tales of horror and dark fantasy, each with the retro-vintage flair readers have come to appreciate from the Curiosities anthology series. A poet makes a passage with death. A solitary monster meets another. Nazi war experiments run amuck on the Eastern Front. Unsettling sounds follow you through the New England woods. A sea captain takes in a mermaid, though it may be his doom. One very monstrous clock. And more.From the gothic to the grotesque, these exhibits will have you trading yo...

Approaches to Conflict: Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics aims to investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts. In addition to the fundamental importance of communication in various aspects of conflict, this volume offers a prominent position to the inherent part played by the effects of a wide range of emotions. This multi-disciplinary project draws from communication studies and media, public relations, philosophy, psychology and neuroscience,...

Dim Sum for Great Marriages is a handy guide that will add lustre to your marriage. Whether you are a newlywed or celebrating your 30th wedding anniversary, this book offers precious gems for a great marriage.In this collection of wisdom and practical tips, John Ng discusses issues and challenges that confront marriage in our modern world. He addresses crucial factors that break up a successful marriage. He also offers constructive and sound principles for building a great marriage. Writte...

This book is for every leader who's sitting awake at 2 A.M. wondering: 'Why is my team stuck? Why do we keep falling short? Why does synergy feel so impossible?'Supercharge Your T.E.A.M. is more than a playbook — it's a call to lead with heart and grit. Dr. John Ng distills decades of leadership consulting, sharing raw stories from diverse industries and giants like Singapore Airlines, the Ministry of Education (Singapore), Sunway Property Group (Malaysia), Gunung Sewu Group (Indon...

Heart to Heart with Asian Leaders is an intimate and insightful look at leadership issues first-hand with 28 prominent persons across politics, business, finance and academia in the region. These illustrious leaders have been specially selected for the values they represent, and how they have overcome crisis and staged comebacks against the odds.This book will serve as an invaluable tool for all in these challenging and fast-changing times — a resource which will profit leaders in the boar...

A Canadian teenager travels to China to explore her ancestry and search for her birth mother in a dramatic and moving YA novel.Throwaway Daughter tells the story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, whose biggest concern is how to distill her adoption from China into the neat blanks of her personal history assignment. Aside from the unwelcome reminders of difference, Grace loves passing for the typical Canadian teen — until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacr...