Diary of a CEO

Outsiders' advise

C. and I had a long lunch; we never had enough time to share, we covered almost everything in life, some of them were so privacy and some of them were so controversial -- nothing across the line, the line between man and woman - 2 married people sharing things beyond their spouse -- we had an itimacy forum ; much closer then YPO or any association in the world; I tried not to talk too much and to listen; I managed to listen and asked ; then I observed more, to run ones own business is not like farming ; you can't seed it, plant it, wait for them to grow and worried about the nature disaster .... to run a business of your own, you must track the trend, catch the wind and ride on the best opportunity in time---- this is what she said to me; the insight she released hold my breath for a while. am I seeding my own business ? or I am in the right track to catch the wind? well, maybe Side Media is in between....

I asked her opinion about the help hand to Nylon; she shake her head and advise me, if this is not from bottom of my heart, then, don't do it, the cost is too high to afford; I asked the CTS situation, she said if I wish to run my own business and consider the time will come in short, then don't take this offer as it might not direct benefit to your business; she gave me a book " Tht story telling factor " and told me this is a great book ; and I happen to bring music sampler and the YPO introduction file to her, another fate and coincident to us. we don't have enough time to share.......

B. was sick , the kidney stone give him a slam to his face; I remember having coffee with him last week, he told me his wife is worried about his physical status and urge him to go for a physicl examination on last Sat. and he told me that he don't know why the body can take more than he expected. and now, he have to stay in the hospital.. the manager who worked so hard.

S.'s secretary inform my assistant about one speech next week, she inform me that the Chairman of Ezfly asked me to do a 30 minutes' presentation about Ezfly on behalf of him; this is abnormal, I am neither the GM of Ezfly nor the shareholder of the entity, My presence to deliver speech is so wiered. I subtley decline the invitaiton. I don't want to push myself to an uncomfortable place.

Coffee break with new onboard manager of Call Center, she was from City Group. a 10 years experience in the call center field; the conversation begin with her adapability in the new company, then I notice her stress and presure in her job; she had the problem of trying to know all the product and industry and tried to sloved all the problems remained in Call Center, I told her my experience when working in different enviroment at the new industry and inform her not to take all the historical burdon as her own burden. and do not need to solve them all at once. Showing her empathy and appreciate the situration is good enought. the 40 minutes conversation may give her a relief, well, I hope.

Today is our 17th wedding anniverslly, during the ping pong session, I send my gratitude to Tom - who is now our ping pong team member and my wedding witness ( he was my colleage classmate before ); take an early leave home , arrvied by 9:30 pm, we had a Shabu Shabu late supper together and celebrate our day to remember.

Be you service will delay, big bug and unslove problems. M.'s resign leave a bad impression to us, he is not take serious attitude toward the project he iniatived , run away without a accoutable response. I decided to withdraw my farewell dinner to him, this is not worthy.

posted by Roger @ 6/16/2005 12:15:00 上午