Diary of a CEO

Executive gathering, a very constructive after-hour activity was first introduced by new Chairman Mr. T when he located in Taiwan, our company taking synergy as a slogan for quite a long time, but the gap between hardware and software companies still stranger to each other, as Taiwan is relativity a small island, intensity of popularity, open minded and welcome new idea, so Mr. T thinking of bringing the intimacy before instruct any collaboration in hard way; the result is impressive, we held the gathering every 2 months, hosted by each company , the activity can be designed by the hosting company, the first 3 gathering were simply dinner, then one company arrange a golfing tournament, this time, I arrange a half day trip to enjoy local Taiwanese country cuisine and take hot spring bath after lunch in northern coast highway;
Our Japanese friend held a golfing Champaign in the early morning, we chose the restaurant as our meeting point, I got there 30 minutes earlier in order to greet the owner of the restaurant -- an old friend who we first met in the army, he run the restaurant business very success, you can't image that a little tiny country restraint can bring him more than 4 millions revenue every month, how he achieve it ? a little restaurant can't make it happen, he did a lot of catering business and making the restaurant one of the famous catering restaurant in northern Taiwan, in addition to that, last year, he opened the banquets hall, a giant restaurant which can accommodate 1200 dining at the same time, last time, I went to check the banquets hall, to everybody's surprise, no one believe in a country ( Chinshang -- named after the gold rush in the Japanese occupation period -- Gold Mountain ) this giant restaurant exist and can survive. Mr. Ko, the owner of the restaurant is a decent person, who set an example of no matter how trivial your business is, you can always make it big by putting your heart into it. we spend 30 minutes chatting until all the attendee arrived to the meeting point -- the old Brother restaurant. Mr. Ko's wife bring us to the banquets hall, yes, another surprise come from everyone, the lunch is a feast. we order the " sample food " to check if it's OK for a possible year end party for the entire Taiwan subsidiaries, 6,000 NT is the list price, we had almost all the precious material include abalone, scallop, lobster, shark's fin and all kind of delicious cuisine , everyone is so happy, cause we are in a rush to next destination, so, we didn’t waving goodbye to the owner.
Elite Spa is where we had hot spring after meal, a quiet and nice place , a Japanese architecture with Zen atmosphere, it surprise our friend from Japan, I can tell that they are amaze about this out of the world in the mountain of Yanmingshan , the drive from restaurant to Elite Spa only took us 10 minutes, when we taking bath, they are so tired, so , only one round, stay in hot water for about 15 minutes, we are lucky to have a room for rest, after 18 holes, they are exhausted, napping for 40 minutes then we saying good bye to each other; on the way home, I drove through the Yanmingshan National Park; nice weather and nice view. after sending guests home, I arrived by 6:00 pm. take a short rest, I brought my wife to Whsi street night market to enjoy vendors and eating local food.

this complete my day and the week for gathering -- from Wed. seafood with Ping Pong team, Thursday with Inayoshi-san, Friday EMBA, Sat -- Executive gathering. what a week.

By the way, on the way to Chinsan, I manage to re-organized my monthly routine in my PDA using the software -- thought manger, the re-organized routine and check list will make me punch to the monthly to do's and remind me to check the schedule and status on hand - for business and personal, well, July resolution -- this is what I say, plan ahead make me feel secured, implement deliver achievement.

posted by Roger @ 6/29/2003 09:52:00 上午