Diary of a CEO

Second day in Beijing

Breakfast with Jeremy was a very inspring encounter, he is a better CEO than me, I seldom listen to others, but this time at the breakfast , I listen, by careful and attensive listening, I am engaged with knowledge I never experienced before, in my old days, talk, teach, speech and coach were instict, I sponteneously respone to all the question, challenge, begging or seeking for help, I never stop talking, and use up all my heart and energe in listening, only listen you can learn, I learn my lesson from 2 sessions, one from the breakfast session, the other from the lunch arranged by Mark. he is such a morvourese person, creating opportunity to see and explore my view to the leaders in China - in the perspective of business world.

Jeremy is an excellent story teller, he knows how to use mataphore and how to attract listerner, more over, he can point out the key point from conversation, he go through a process of accessment in my new company, do I have a single powerful DNA, can I replicate them ? does the scalablity an sustainablility is feasialbe to my new company; and then, bring me to a goal setting envirement, how can I make a living out of this dream business, If I only equipped with passion with no skill, then every effort will be in vain, and most likely, my passion will drive me away to trival issues and focus will be loosed. I love the way he conduct the conversation with me, And it reflect to the old days when I managed a big corporation, and the role I play such like him. but talking will never learn, I apprecaite the session we go over this morning, it gave me new aspect to learning, from bottom of my heart.

Lunch at Beijing Hyatt, Mark order vegetarian food for us, since another lengenary Mark is join us - Mark Chen, we switch our appetise to vegi food, during the lunch, I listen, very carefull, take notes with the permission of Mark Chen, I didn't want to interput, I want to be an good listener and learn what I lack of in the field of running an NGO or taking the best consultant's expertise in handling issues.

The battle of conversation was stirred by Mark Han in purpose, he invited antoher great lady Su-sing to join the lunch, a female entreprenure who also play vital role in the Alashm SEE NGO, Mark set the rule for them to talk , to express and to come up with intellegence ideas. I learn a great deal from Mark, as he point out the so-called Social Venture Capital and told us about the Robinhood foundation - how they gathering, how they process and how they failed - due to arrogant and proud. Su-ching teach me how different to be a start up and be an CEO, the engeireeing of building up a company is the secret of success, she hold the similar back ground as me, start with culture business ( entertainment ) and turn to ISP. TO BE CONTINUE.

posted by Roger @ 3/03/2006 04:25:00 下午