Diary of a CEO

Ichiban Shopping

Our long awaited EC shopping Mall finally launched yesterday; by 4:00 pm, we succefully open 4 shops on line; the drag and pain kick out for a while, but this is ice-burg of the problems; to launch new business is our goal this year, by well-round and comprehensive survey and discussion ( disagree somethings ), the company identified 2 nes initatives ; one is the community service -- a combine and blend blog / avatar / web-application / friend making community service ; and EC Mall.

Community service launch by June 23, the performance is way behind our target, it's goal is to GBF ( Get Big Fast ), generate decent amount of members and traffic, ultimately to contribute to the EC Mall development, I am an active user for this service, but the marketing team don't really know how to drive the members and don't even know what's the problem.

EC Mall - a much complicate case, the devleoper - our vendor can't deliver the agreeable outcome in time, nor can satisify our requirement; the fundemental problem is : We choose the wrong partner , the getting worst relationship derpordize our launch, our confidence and it directly impact on the shops we acquried, they are gradually losing faith in us-- a very serious problem; I am not complaining ( IWNC - What an coincidently, we just retain this consultancy to design a " Team Building " program for us ), and will not credit this disarstor to COO - who made the decision for selecting vendor and depart before launch of the service. looking forward is the only solution, I must think how to overcome these obstacles. delay of launch, insufficient of system operation cause the delay of income, it affect our overall performance, existing ISP business facing serious decline issue, new businesses in traps, it's time to examine my leadership and my wisdom; I though of fire a few disqualified staff and try some demanding way to show my concerned, but that's no me, I can't pretend to be another person who our colleage don't believe. maybe this is only one of the challenge in business, not in life, I should take it easy, step back, take a deep breath and think again.

The design award os " Livestrong " plastice braceless is so impressive, coming from the Dour de France Champaign -- Lance Armstorng, who founded this idea and conduct a 100% donation charity by association with NIKE, The target is 5 millions, the outcome is 33 millions in 2004; this great idea should be picking up by NPO immidiately : Think : no adminstration charge, 100% benefit to charity, great influence, simply desing and message, then a brand recognition. no wonder is win the best design award - not for the product itself, but for the idea / process and outcome.

Minor querrel with wife last night, cause by K, her brother and my formal driver, she is sad about my can't get rid of this shadow and can't get over the hatray; I don't know, I don't really know, I just don't want to be kind to him at the first place, what should I aggresivelly greeting him after all of this? why he can't apologies for such a bad behavior, I will not take a step back for this, and I really hate this obstacle become the hurduls between me and my wife, we tried so hard to build the home of our own, trust each other, become the most important pillar to count on, I will not let such a bad feeling penatrate into our life; this is the end, why should I forgive him if he didn't say sorry to me....... I will no do this. I love my wife so deeply, but this is not what I am willing to sacrify.

Eating at a new restaurant I've been watching for a while, returned home by 7:00 pm, I bring Sound and wife to the restaurant - Yu-her-Yuang, I though it was an old restaurant moving to a new premise, but to my surprise , this is a brand new restaurant, it located in a bad area and occupied 2 floors, but the food is relatively good, especially the " Old Tofu " and the price is so reasonable.

Conduct my shopping by midnight at home, buying each item from the 4 shops we opened, hope what I do will make them understand.

posted by Roger @ 7/29/2005 08:16:00 上午