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 Saya sedang menelaah buku THE NO RULES RULES. Ini kisah bagaimana NETFLIX mengubah tradisi innovasi. Ditulis bersama oleh CEOnya Reed Hastings dan profesor pengurusan Erin Meyer (yang juga penulis buku The Culture Map). Ya, ini buku tentang pengurusan. Dipendekkan cerita, pendekatan Netflix ini bukan untuk semua orang. Bukan senang-senang saja kita boleh tiru dan  terus indeks kegembiraan pekerja naik ke tangga nombor satu (Netflix tangga kedua daripada beribu yang lain, lebih hebat daripada Google dan Apple.) Ada tiga prinsip utama perlu ada sebelum pengurusan memulakan polisi cuti tanpa had (tiada polisi), pekerja beli aset tanpa perlu tandatangan boss, atau junior exec boleh naik kapalterbang kelas perniagaan tanpa perlu minta kebenaran Jabatan Akaun. Satu: Mereka yang diambil bekerja mestilah golongan high-performers. Bukan cukup-cukup bagus atau sederhana bagus, tapi terbagus. Dua: Ada budaya berterus terang dalam organisasi (candour. US: candor) (dalam konteks bu

Beginning of July 2021 I started sharing to Facebook friends how to draw with just using stick figures. They loved it! So from stick figures of men/women the how-tos evolved to cats, boats, houses and many other things. From end of July I have gotten myself more than 30 things you can draw by just using simple lines. You can download them free by subscribing to my Mailing List (also free!)   Link below.  Have fun! And let me know what you think! Subcsribe to Latfy's Mailing List

Some people are big fans of storybooks.  You could tell how much they loved the stories by how much their eyes lighten up (or widen out) when you try to act out scenes from the books. When we read wonderfully-written stories, we became immersed in it - soaking its very details - time of the day, the scenes, the dialogues, what the characters were thinking, the smells, our own emotions, feelings – as if we're really there, in our own fantasy magical land. Yesterday morning, during our clown round in Ward 8B, we met Ms Granger.  Hermoine Granger.  She was much taller than I previously thought (she was sitting down when we met her a few weeks earlier).  Much, much taller. (Or maybe that I'm just short, but let's not dwell on that debatable subject for the moment). Not surprisingly, she still didn't like DR Donno. DR Donno scared her. It could be that DR Donno reminds her of Professor Sprout, which doesn't makes sense (real name: Pamona Sprout - a witch

Creating Children Picture Books Workshop, Universiti Putra Malaysia. July  2015. Photo courtesy Dr Noris Norowi. Have Fun Creating Your Own Picture Books Workshop, Bedok Library, Singapore - for the Asian Festival of Children's Content ( www.afcc.com.sg ). 31 May 2015. Photo courtesy of En Zamri Mohamad. For the past one year, I’ve had the privilege of sharing/giving talks to primary school students, university students, parents, fellow writers and librarians. Subject: How to create your own picture books for children With these sharing sessions, came great feedbacks. I think it would be useful to share some of what I shared during the sessions with you today. Hopefully we both can learn a thing or two, and can put them into good use :) What I would normally do is present slides on the ingredients of a children picture book (story, characters, settings, backgrounds, story arches, conflicts, scenes setups, motifs, and if the audiences are up to it - layers). I w

One of the earliest panda sketches, dated 24 December 2014 © Latfy A Latif If I remember correctly, we started working on the DR Bubbles & Panda book somewhere around mid November 2014. Guess when did the book got published? April 2015. It was launched exactly a year after the first book was published (DR Bubbles & Anak Kucing, April 2014), during the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair. It takes a number of text developments and drawing revisions before a book gets published. Characters changed, stories changed, pages taken out, added in, scenes got swapped etc etc. But if you'll enjoy the creative process, and deep down inside you know that it will be a nice, well-written, properly-thought-out picturebook that children deserves to have. Here are some of the final illustrations that made it into the book: Look closely and you'll find some animals that normally lives in the burrow. These two pages has no text, as to allow parents an

Bukit Tabur, overlooking Klang Dam © Latfy A Latif