Diary of a CEO

LCPC day 2

A very early breakfast at the hotel, we were told it can be serve by 6:00 am, so I became the first customer, however, the kitchen not yet stated until 6:30 pm, this is a basic communication breakdown issue. take the window retruning to my room and wash hair. be at the restaurant again and everyone move to Lutu factory by 6:45 am, we arrived around 7:20 pm, and prepare for the Quaterly Review - Leeling is nice to me, as the head of IT, she join the company slighterly over a year, from the late dinner we did last night, I learned that Bengo is organize his new management team - a new cabinet to run the empire in the future - Leeling share with lot lot of information, of course, some are bias, some are fair, to learn as many information as possbile in a short period is critical to my success in the manufacturing industry - especially in such a traditional firm - paper manufactuer - it last for thousands of years.

Doing the psysical exercise with all the manufacturing people and factory employee by 7:50 am, this is anothe routine I learned, according to Leeling, this exercise format is developed by Bengo himself, and after the 5 minutes more strech, everyone need to read -- Monday is Bengo's management belive, rest of the week, everyone should read the message from the founder - Bengo's grand father, it's like the credo of the compnay.

Joint the pilot Quality 9 am meeting - another routine developed by Bengo himself ( or Toyota Consultant ? ), at Luthu factory I learn a great deal by Tech head's input and leeling's question asked, it really arose my curiosity a big deal, as I know I can learn, understand, and to contribute, it really make me think to relocate to Luthu factory at least for 2 weeks after Chinese New Year, without hesitation, calling wife for this brighten decision, to make myself available in the factory and relocate for 2 weeks can make a difference.

Leeling continue share with me some dispute occure between China operation and how the margin erode due to lower margin product was asked by the customer ( the same parent company, from paper mill to corton maker ) what interest is the mill didn't making profit and the corton company loss money - 78 cutomer out of 80 are not profitable, in Taiwan, if the gross marfit is less than 7%, the company will lost money. and some power play also, my observation is Leeling is relatively new but win some trust from BOSS, those old guard and or senior executive are batteling - all the company are the same.. and talent are shame or hide away, according her opinion, no talent in the company is the critical issue.

Accompany Manger Chen Lung Chen to his prepartion check, this is for finding the safty inventory and the re-ordering machenism, check the sales office at Luthu factory, eyeing at the wall with the sales / customer map - curious about the black - dot / half black -dot / circle , asking the sales manger, he didn't know what it means. it posted just behind him and he is no new to this factory, something intersting also.

Strolling the carton production line - intersting, one senior employee - an aged one see me as a stranger who join the reveiwing crew, when approching him and check the monitor he is watching, he told me this is not corrent meter or figure, he said Boss is coming today , and someone should tell him about this, follow the line, the noise level is very hight, I should watch my hearing also.

Have the desire to raise or asked question, good and bad, good is I do have some interesting in this company / industry, bad is it may break the rule of " Crude but fast is better than Beauty but slow ", I should RESERVE, LEARN MORE, KNOW MORE, PREPARE MORE, FINE MORE ,before Bengo - be prepare, think hard, much harder than him.

Now, I should do :
1. collection Impoving Team Head's document and check / ask.
2. don't re-assemble job to myself, have the bottom taking care of their own issue.
3. find a qualified secretary to follow my steps. or have someone to share it with me.
4. welcome by the new mangement team while gaining the respect from old staff.
5. build the trust from Technology Heads

Lunch box is no good -- the rice is too hard to swallow -the restaurant provide lunch for employee and ' Forigen Nationality ' in one corner - I didn't know if the price is different, maybe only the taste.

Attending the weekly sales meeting now, this is a weekly sales meeting islandwide using the tele-conference, this company use is at the ultmost - Tawian, Cross Strait. it can scale up and saving a lot of time and money, now I am wondering is they are in an IP base soultion.

VP Wei is concerning about BOSS's unhappy with the meeting room layout - he asked to re-shape it and it delay the sale meeting for 20 minutes, everything have to follow SOP is good, but to think how the BOSS think maybe wrong, there's no GOD in the world except God himself, all the space can pre-think how to accomodate all the meeting function and have the layout.

posted by Roger @ 12/17/2007 02:01:00 下午