Diary of a CEO

Professor Lixin called by 6:00 pm and advised that the media reform association have achieve a milestone which is successfully persuade government to release TTV and CTS 's stock to Public forecasting System and to integrate a larger scale of public TV platform, this is to conduct the ultimate mission -- transform the current media environment to a healthy environment, idelogloy is the attribute of scholars and they win the first battle. Then I must think deeper, as I am the planned pocket candidate to run this new public platform, but until now I am mutual to this career move, as lixin told me he write one essay on major newspaper and make an assumption of " we need someone like Roger to lead the new PBS and turn around the jeopardized PSB in Taiwan ", this proclaim sounds exciting, but to think again, I know I am out of the candidate picture ( well, this is no big deal as well ), all the political exercise ( I treated the PBS ownership battle a good example ), candidate can't be explore under the sun, once you release your kitchen cabinet or press his or her name on the media, the counter player will easily identified where there target enemy are, then , they can goes higher up and screw up this opportunity, all the political game is the game of trading the interested, they do have something to sell to the decision party, and no matter how integrity I am, they can dig my dirty easily, before nomination, I will be gone. Altogether the PBS GM is not a good vacancy for entrepreneur, but it is a symbol means a lots to other people; by now, I am 80% sure that the games lixin designed is failed.

Meet with Thomas the first time last night, cyber home -- the branded consumer electronic rising star in Europe and US, with 4 listed companies in Taiwan and forecast a annual revenue at 40 billions NT, via the introduction of Jean, she pull us together for the possible Performance Industry investments, the appointment comes very sudden, we confirmed the meeting in one day and set a dinner together, I brought E. With me and she is the main character in this business, I am only the liaison to bridge the investment -- as Jean did for Thomas; he is interested in a bigger picture, the synergy on top of the investment, as this is the first time we met, we only throw out a few ideas, he is very into media industry and I can tell people surround him were not qualified to lead him to the media / entertainment world, no true player on the table, I am afraid he will loose some blood in the media investment.

last office session yesterday is the overall performance review for our employee, we review the grading / appraisal rank / salary adjustment percentage and promotion suggestion list; this is a very interesting session, both me and COO share almost the same thought to people we think should promote or earn more; as salary increasing is an indivisual achievement -- can be done freely as long as thy keep it with them, promotion is an open recognition -- shall be carefully review, otherwise the noise level will be high; we took 2 hours to finalized the list and identified 6 persons to be further interviewed by COO -- to find out the rationale behind their demotivation. We -- executive office can only increase ( to help mangers ), but can't decrees ( take away their authority ) salary. Other than this, to garner a broader view, I asked HR chief to change the salary increase figure to 500NT as the minimum increase amount, otherwise, 1% increase for lower base employee, they will only receive 1 hundred more money, when receive pay check, they will feel like a insulation, and second is to rounded to hundreds, this give the accounting dept a better calculation accuracy.

I thinks most of the people will be happy about the promotion and salary adjustment we did this year.

posted by Roger @ 6/10/2004 08:26:00 上午