Go out and make those connections, meet people, have conversations.
It may land you a dream job. My friend got an engineering internship in China by playing cards with a kid on a plane!
It may land you funding. It may get you invited along to a fabulous experience. Or an invitation to meet someone amazing. Or it may just give you an idea or insight that gives you a new perspective on your life.
Forbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.
I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.
I was starting up my new start-up and I was finding it hard to get my desired co-founder to commit. So I thought back over my experiences of the...
I was awarded the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) Diversity Award for my work with Robogals. It was sponsored by Airbus. Here is a photo of...
After months of careful, hard work by the team, we have launched a new Aubot website! Have a look at our new website here! In addition to that -...
Answer the phone. Reply to the email. Follow up with the guy you met last week. Go to the meeting. Don't go to the meeting. Don't become a board...
What's in it for the other person? If you look at everything from this perspective, you can get anything you want in life.
For one of the projects I’ve been leading for over the past 2.5 years, I manage a team of 20 people remotely. I meet with all of my direct reports...
I received my USA visa to do speeches in the USA several months ago. I’m very excited about spreading my messages and telling my stories all over...
Today, the most interesting part of the day was a session called "Open Space", where some people wrote topics they were interested in discussing on...
"If you have too much on your plate, get a bigger plate." I first heard this when I was doing a leadership course in London in 2009. Everyone in the...
I was invited to speak at the Pebble Beach Authors & Ideas Festival (PBAIF) in Pebble Beach. What a stunning part of the world! Most other speakers...
