Diary of a CEO

Had a conversation with Tokyo liaison before lunch, we touched upon the career issue, although I didn't expect to conduct such a dialogue with him, but I did illustrated my concept of how I vision my years in S- company; working in China is on top of my career development agenda, as no one can escape the booming and competition battle in China, to carry a up and rising career, facing the challenge in China is a must, S- company is a complicate enterprise, you can't really get what you think, my second option is relocate to the US arm and experience the life I never had before, working in foreign country with difference culture, this is to grow my vision to the world and to bring my family to a new life experience, then retire from the job; Status Quo is the third choice, as the company is growing stable, I don't see an urgent need for me to stay for another 5 years; if I stay 2 more years in the same company with the same position, I may not able to move anywhere to develop my career further;

the business domain we are participating is not a easy business, Hong Kong operation is in a critical judgment of whether we should keep this business running, if the decided to close the operation, we will be the only company performing this domain, their must come thousands of question and challenge of why we are doing this; walking along without companion , fighting in the dark with no lights; support comes from no where; we need to survive ourselves in a tougher environment.

Shanli didn't return the sign-off contract yesterday, I was doing my coffee break with Ivan, when heard this bad news, I am so mad, I've know so many executives in different industry, but never saw a company executive behavior like this, the late and postpone decision from they cause great damage to our business; I need to fix it in 2 days, it's no matter if we should break the deal, even we finally get the sign back contract, how can we partner with people like her ? this is totally ridiculous, if they get second though, we are open for any discussion, but the bad reaction and move really making us upset, it waste our time and people .

review my heath check report with Dr. Wang, Sid is my EMBA Classmate as well, he arrange me to follow a neck and brain check before Chinese New Year as I often had a headache, the report show insufficient blood supply on spine vessel, so I invite him for dinner and bringing another health check report for his review, Sid is a very nice doctor, he helped me lot before and explained to me how to control my current situation; lost weight, on a diet, exercise, eating less, yes these are common sense, but I do need to follow it step by step.

posted by Roger @ 2/11/2004 07:34:00 上午