Diary of a CEO

She kissed me

Stay up pretty late last night, when my cellure phone alarm rings , the same tone -- Faithfully by Journey, I turn it off and went back to bad for another 15 minutes of deep sleep, then I woke up again and fix my dress for today, the first Board Meeting in Q4.
Rushing out of the room, I heard a kiss sound coming somewhere, I tried to search where the voice from, kids room - they were all sleeping, my bad room, my wife wasn't there, she is preparing my breakfast - the health moring food, I couldn't locate the sound, then the kisses came across again, I check the bathroom, that's my wife kisses from the toilet basin, and I could not find the voice for like 30 seconds, this is so interesting, when hug her and give her my real kiss, she laughed and I have to go down stairs.
F. don't have a good instant reaction, how come ? it is not qualified to be an executive driver, 2 months ago, when I honestly told him my uncomfortable feeling sitting in the car, he change his way of driving, this is hard for him, to change a behavior last for quite a long time; he works so hard, never miss or late for picking me up, so, you can't complain. this morning, I am really tired of listing to stock news again, the News Radio set the time flame from 7:30 am to 8:00 am for stock analyst report and forecasting the wave, it's been 4 months, I am really sick about it and asked F. to switch radio frequency, he can't manage to tune the radio while driving. this is amazing, it recalled that when I speak over my cellure phone in the car, he will turn off the radio, but when I finished the conversation, he will forget to turn it on again. I don't want to see his distraction cause traffic accident, so, I asked him stop scan the radio until we arrive at the office.

K. investment begin and we ( me and my wife ) found lots of financial problem, I am curious to know if there's no investor join the company in July, how the existing management handle the cash flow problem? and I don't understand why there's no income in the month of July? I became a little bit anxiety and nervous, this is not a perfect way to deliver message when take majority share of a company, I should be more patient and push the management deliver, they don't even know there potential, there's a glass ceiling in J.'s heart, he must break it, otherwise, the company will be in great danger

Providing Corporate planning and marketing mangers a guiding rule for preparing the presentation, I would like to record it below, as this rule which I created may help me in a way also:
1. Think who is the audience to this presentation.( their seniority / rank / background / expectations )
2. Think what purpose to be served for such a presentation.( approve / agree / accept / apology / against ? )
3. Think how to leave the impression we design in limited time flame.( turn the bad result in good shape? unforgettable what? )
4. Think if we have the second chance to re-do it again.( challenge every angle / viewpoint we provided before presenting it )
5. With a story to tell. ( the story of logic , story of reason, story of dream, story of turn around; never probe a story of failure )

to take the board meeting as an example :
Background : we will have a new Chairman who is not familiar with our business and may not support us as before.
Story : FY05 Q 1 overall performance is poor , decline of ISP, slow and delay for new business, COO is leaving, the company go through a new organizational change....( The Fact ), but...we manage to do this and that, change this and that, fighting this and that, ( The Defense ), so compare with last year ( with us ), with market ( competitor ), we are not so bad ( Cosmetic ) and we have a plan to do this and that in Q2, fix all the problem in coming season... ( The story to make believe we will be alright )
Purpose : Overall finance status is cope with our plan, even we didn't reach the top line, but save the bottom line prove that we are relatively doing OK. So, don't worry. ( buying time for rooms to improve )
Impression : ECmall acquired 100 shops before launch service. Mass Media Coverage for community service. HW sales exceeding performance. Develop with CHT negotiation. Bandwidth Cost saving in near term. ( The positive bright side )
How: The turn around plan in Q2 for ISP business, improvement of revenue shortage units, contingency play for not performing business. Organization after departure of COO.

This is only an example for you, you don't need to follow the rule, but to logically identify your own version of a convincing story to tell.

Last important thing is:
Make every slide a story / implication / insight, otherwise, delete it. And making the sequence of slides a moving picture with a story to tell.

Mid-age is something interesting, the status of maturailty shining a mystic mood , it dosen't drive by young - the imposing. it dosen't drag by old - the escape, it floating somewhere, without a backbone, stand still by its own, a very interesting staus. Mid-age.

posted by Roger @ 7/21/2005 08:12:00 上午