Joseph KK Ho's work diary

A story about new year and best friends: All the Polytechnic classmates gathered together and were about to share a cake, one with the words on top stating "Happy together". My best friend (a boy) turned to the other best friend of mine (a girl) and declared: "Happy to get her.."... After graduation from HK Polytechnic, and returned from UK, I met them individually again in HK; He got another girlfriend and the other friend got another boyfriend.. After all, the cake had long been digested.

From what I have heard throughout 2015, the first part of all the propositions always make good sense, but not the rest of the proposition content... Example 1: we need to expand airport runway capacity Example 2: we need to study history and learn more about the China Example 3: we need to protect freedom of expression and copyright.. It is like: Example 1: we need to increase our quality of life with more wealth, so let's rob our parents. Example 2: we need to have more public space to improve our quality of life, so let's tear down our apartments,, Advice: better make use of proper research skills to study and evaluate the ideas carefully. 

I am currently conducting a survey on systems thinking in management in Hong Kong . Pls kindly participate; if feasible, also forward to your friends to do so. Many tks. Link

The education centre asks teachers to discuss the problem of why students' dissertation progress is slow and failure rate high? Simply, the problem is a symptom of our education system failure. Dissertation requires an engaging learning mindset and certain level of practice-oriented intellectual skills. Both most students do not have. Now, what can be done about it? Suggestions:  1. cancel the subject of dissertation works in the Degree programme. 2. lower the standard of assessment on dissertation projects so that even dissertation reports of very poor quality get a pass. 3. provide intensive personalized coaching to students  to do final-year projects. The existing formal education system in HK does not prepare students to do dissertation projects.

The following is the outline of Systems thinking for management workshop. Each session is 2 hours 30 min. There are 7 lectures altogether: 1. Basic notions in systems thinking and strands of applied systems thinking 2. Usage of metaphors 3. Hard systems thinking and system dynamics 4. Organizational Cybernetics 5. Soft systems thinking and methodologies 6. Emancipatory systems thinking and postmodern systems thinking 7. Critical systems thinking The workshop is delivered by J.K.K. Ho. Notes will be provided during the lecture. Venue is very likely to be in Sheung Shui.  The workshops are expected to be held on Sunday afternoon from 2:30pm to 5pm. Workshop is  delivered in Cantonese, with some jargons in English. Further announcement is made in JKKH coaching page . Only JKK Ho's Facebook friends or their friends are invited to enroll to the workshop.