Author: Daniel Hoang

Daniel Hoang is a visual leader, storyteller, and creative thinker. As an experienced management consultant, he believes in a big picture approach that includes strong project leadership, creative methods, change management, and strategic visioning. He uses a range of visual tools to communicate business challenges, solutions, and goals. His change strategy is to build "tribes" of supporters and evangelists to drive change in culture and organization. Daniel is an avid technologist and futurist and early adopter.

Personal Finance Strategies for Life Long Prosperity

The path to personal wealth follows a simple equation: Wealth (Income) = Revenues – Expenses There’s only two ways to change this equation. First, increase your revenues or sources of income. Second, reduce your expenses. If you live above your means, you are in debt. If you live below your means, you have savings. Living […]

How to Be Alone

This is a beautiful video made by Tanya Davis on how to be alone. I personally have a fear of watching a movie at the theater alone or eat along at a restaurant. The first I haven’t done yet but the latter I have.

I Don’t Have Time for Social Media – How They Do It

If you’re wondering how all these young people are always on and always connected, here are a few ways they do that. Using mobile devices – They use their smartphones that come with social media apps. This makes updating, uploading photos, and sharing much faster, especially on the go. By text message – They use […]

Gamestorming, Solving the Problems of Tomorrow

Gamestorming, a set of best practices compiled from innovative approaches authored by Dave Grey, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo. The book contains 80 different “games” that can be played to develop new ideas, innovate, and create. My new project is to take each of these games and create a playing card or self-contained kit.

Starbucks Debuts Mobile Payments

We can’t pay for everything on our cell phones, yet. Today, Starbucks announces that it has launched nationwide its mobile payment system. Using a smart phone app, a bar code shows up on the phone’s screen and the user holds it under a scanner. I’ve personally used the payment method at a trial Starbucks in […]

Greed is Good

Gordon Gekko is a fictional character. For most, he’s known for his Greed is Good speech. However, he never literally says that greed IS good. Below is the speech in its entirety. It’s a shame to take it out of context and say that greed is good. Instead, I believe that Mr. Gekko is pointing […]