Trading Billy at the factory floor

Met the supplier at lunch with a few new faces from the same industry. The new faces are from Beijing, that’s why we had many common topics to discuss. Discussion went well with the supplier in the afternoon and I was pretty excited. Went back to the factory and checked on the products. I was thinking that I just needed to work on 30 of them and it would take around 30 mins. God, finally, with 5 other people help, we spent 5.5 hours to fix everything. As usual, I just skipped dinner, no water, no toilet break until I was done. When I sat down at the restaurant, it was 12:15a.m. Reminded me of the time I had in Dong Guan.

I have been telling my people, it is not possible to have zero issue in a single project, no matter it is a big or small project. The major objective is to minimize the problems and correct them in the shortest timeframe. And more important, we learn from those stupid mistakes and tell ourselves not to do them again the next time.

Quarterly Company Event

We started at 12:30p.m., and finished at 11:00p.m. This must be the longest event we have run in this company. Started with the BBQ, and then the sing song competition. The guessing game was so fun, we must do that again in the future events. More BBQ and sing song through out the day. Will make this team stronger and stronger, this is not a goal, is a Must.

Commitment on people development

Have been dealing with major HR issues in the past couple of weeks. A manager and a team leader inside the same team are leaving the company in April. Besides finding the replacements, need to make sure that everyone inside that team is feeling alright. With this change, I told the team that I will be involved even more on their day to day works.

I truly believe that it is important to invest in people, or I should say, invest in the right persons. It is not an easy job, but I must admit that it feels good when you see the real improvements. Bottom line, it is good to see people improving and they can leverage the skills not only at their works, but also in the lives.