we arrived at the office on time, this used to be the music company, now converted to a adminstrative building and inside the cosmetic company existed; he was summoned to an ungent meeting with Corporate CEO, thus, late to see me in 30 minutes, but this meeting was great, we soon recognized each other, and I briefly told him about my transfer to internet / telecom from the music sector and how the company running now, he well digested my output and show some degree of itimancy; I was informed by one colleage last week that this new Group head didn't see eye to eye to my superior, there's power play higher up; I am not a Japanese and know little about the political situation in the Headquarter, but to win friendship and support from every business entity shall be benefit to our operation, not to isolated to Headquater and keep your feasibility always, this is the way to surviving the corporate culture. I am not anyone's pretoge and will not be, I told the Group head that I should come and visit him from time to time, to keep him updated and have his support all the time.
Board meeting taking place in the afternoon, the ground work have been lays from the supporting staff, so it goes smoothly, although in a few new business pages, I am stucked, I am not familier with every detail, it make me hesitate to dig further and explain what I didn't know, I treated is as a rehearsal before the budget meeting tomorrow, although I am no feeling comfortable about my performance today, but overall speaking, to prove our outcome of achieving the very challenging goal this year is an outstanding result; they are easy on me and my presentation, this is also the last board meeting for a few strong supporter for the past 4 years, 3 of the director will either retire or transfer back to Tokyo, new director havn't been identifed yet, even identified but not aware of our business, a very new educational process for new directors, I am not sure if all the new business initative will be launched succefully and achieve our goal next year; too much uncertainty and too much ambigulity.
Corporate CFO and Director join our board dinner, we were honored to have him with us, he is a great supporter to us and we feel no pressure ( this include himself ) every time when seeing him, he canceled 3 dinner appointment and join our session, we have a oral agreement to celebrate the annual break even party in Taipei and I promise to get drunk on the perticular day, I must do that because this is the way to show my great apprecication to all the hard working people.
after dinner, SVP invited me to a coffee at the String Hotle, a lovely hotel where I really love to stay with my wife next time, the cozy lobby and open cafe are so quiet and elegent, he updated me about COO's future and the possiblilty to stay with us, I am happy to hear that and told him my suggestion to have a dual head remain unchanged , another expatraite is expecting to join us for another 2 years, we have to set the procesure and sequency right before inform our colleages. I had a map in mind and I really want to keep COO with us, it gave me more time and room to think about my own future, this is the perfect ending if it goes smoothly.
everyone told me the budget tomorrow will be no problem, I don't have 100 percent of confidence, if there's any power play between group head and the current Chairman, he may take our company as a sacrifice to making us look ugly now or in the future, my exercise this morning only make him know me, but I am not in the place to make him support me directly, I will cross my heart and hope for the best.
posted by Roger @ 2/24/2005 09:35:00 下午
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