Diary of a CEO

What a Day

I stayed at the office until 9:00 pm, a very rare situation after establishing of the company 4 years ago; this not the blue Monday, but a busy and complicate Monday.

To begin with the day, I made up my mide to wipe out the gesture in my heart, after publish the blog in the morning, I knocked COO's office door and spend half a hour with him for the " Mis-understanding " or " Mis-communication " happened last Friday; he told me it took 2 days to resloved the upset; I share the same with him and advice him how I value the friendship in between and how I wish his tenure in Taiwan not only a Happy Ending but a Perfect Memory; he insisted that he can seperate personal and business issue and re-assured the friendship will not be changed; and Frankly inform me he is doing what he have to, even it will stir a few persons feeling... No matter how correct the message he delivered, but I have succefully overcome the hurdle in me. at least, I can release from this painful gesture.

Mangers' meeting in the morning, I wasn't happy about 2 issues - The inventoring result and the resource allocation planning; the company is here for 4 years, we never succefully counting our inventory correct, every inventory check will result to a write-off of assest or product. I don't know why and I am tired of all the reasons or excuses; so I told all the mangers I will be the project owner to deal with this weired situration; engineering resource allocation table is another thing -- the resouce table didn't show all the plans / project registrated in the engineering dept. it make all the division uncomfortable. it leave a blur situation of the resouce allocation efficiency and fairness. I asked they to add one more page to illustrate all the under discussion project and check how much time the company spend in discussion instead of action - for certian priority items. we need to escalate to higher management level and make decision upon. this ambiguilty stayed for 3 months already after the newly on board experiate from Tokyo.

He is the problem; HR manager - very mature and senior manager send me a note in strong and unset tone, she inform me if the person can't be adjusted to what he should do, she will resign from her post- I asked her to my office and soothe her feeling ; the turth is : her professionism have been challenge by a ousider, and this person don't really handle his own job well. the aggresivelly intrugle to other division head make him the unpopular person in the company, it will direct impact on his mission completion.

I need to talk to him today -- before any J. colleage jump into this hot water.

A meeting with A. at Sony BMG, he told me R. will step down by end of June. this is the path every professional manager must go through, include me someday some how...

posted by Roger @ 6/14/2005 08:20:00 上午