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People say, Andy, you are a corporate speaker and trainer coach for over 29 yeas, why talk about love? Isn't this too soft and not relevant for business? That’s a fair question. I’ve heard it many times. “Andy, you’ve been a corporate speaker and trainer for nearly three decades. Why talk about love? Isn’t that too soft for business?” Let me answer directly. If love were just romance, emotion, or sentimentality, then yes, it would be irrelevant to business. But that is not what I mean by love. When I talk about Love Intelligence, I am talking about the disciplined ability to build trust, inspire courage, and create value through human alignment. Tell me, what business succeeds without trust? You can have strategy without trust. You can have technology without trust. You can even have funding without trust. But without trust, nothing sustains. Deals collapse. Teams fracture. Talents leave. Partnerships weaken. For 29 years in corporate training and leadership development,...

(This article was published in The Straits Times on Tuesday 2 August 2016 As we know, the corporate world is not the same as your family or social world. People who work in small and family organisations, if they don't understand what is corporate, will definitely encounter difficulties at work. With globalisation and emergence of large entities, the corporate world is gaining preeminence.  Having worked in the corporate world all my life since the tender age of 22, I know there are many mis-conceptions about life in the corporate world. From consulting and training many global corporate entities, and learning from my past painful experience, I know what it means if you do not fit in well in the corporate world. Not only will you lose your career opportunities, you will also be faced with difficulties at work. That's why I am so passionate about this topic and want to share with everyone  the 7 major differences between the corporate and non-corporate world. Know them a...