Started to wake up early... well, because schools resumes and my wife teaches @ 8am every single day of the week!
Anyway, went to Shan office, bought a new erm, got some tau-sa-pia, got a new radio for the smurf (our van) and back to work.
Over late lunch, I "munched" through the list of tasks and things that have been documented ever since we started 2 new web-page-post on our Twiki (our Unit Trust wiki). Essentially, these document meetings or discussions that require action, or execution.
Realised that while some of the tasks were executed, a number was not. It's really tough to get our priorities right. People have been bombarding us with the "important' and the "urgent". We know the drill; do the most important and most urgent (well, sometimes we ought to do the most important and least urgent! Cos we tend to make more errors when tackling the urgent stuffs). Anyway, it's all true but I truly believe that one can only learn through experience on how to differentiate between those 2. I keep struggling with this when it comes to (a) long term aims and (b) short terms! My long term goals is to build the team because without people, I can only achieve a multiple of my own capabilities but with others, I can achieve much more, on a geometric scale! The short terms? Well, these are the things that our boss wants! Want this, want that, why not this, why do that!
There is probably no solution but this calls for the right balance. And today, I think that it is about time to start focussing more on what management wants, leveraging on the team that has been built.
There's gonna be a new monthly meeting that will focus on our UT business, and involving the front, back and maybe even IT. That's great but well, challenging too. It's time to put to test what we have been building over the past 2 years. Can we get things done within the month in-between the meetings. Whatever else it might be, it surely is my own personal test to myself! I will know if the right things were done over the past 2 years. When the team shines, I will shine. If the team fails, so would I doubly.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
One year on!
Gosh, it's been slightly more than 1 year since I last posted anything! Anyway, nobody's reading :) Not even my dear wife!
Still, it's indeed a good way to "store away" the experiences. Interestingly, I was just sharing with my wife about the fact that I tend to "move" on around 2-3 years! And it's going to be 3 years since I joined UT Ops! For one, my counterpart in Marketing is also moving to a different role. I am even thinking about starting to think about taking a front end role! That would be a great new experience, though I will really want to finish a few things in UT Ops!
So, the great thing about UT Ops right now is that the people has been with me for at least 1 year. The officers are around 2-3 years now and that's great. A lot more things can be accomplished through the people. That was always the most important thing to me since day 1, even sometimes at my own expense!! So, it is like a critical stage where we can really start "testing" whether we can live to our "aspired" core competencies which are "execution, execution and execution" and "IT".
We want to get things done. And we want to leverage on our IT knowledge. I have a few guys who are good at projects and handling such IT stuffs. I myself am quite confident about understand the current system, which is important if we were to make changes! Our system, UTIBO, was like started from scratch and it's like we have deposited layers and layers of functionalities over them. Now, we are thinking of even changing to a new ones. Management keeps harping about having a ledger system, which is great theoretically but execution is key. Sometimes, probably one of the main problem with management is thinking that too much that IT can do anything, anytime. Maybe even to the extent of taking it for granted. Yes, everything is possible but it takes time, and more importantly, nothing gets accomplished without the people :)
That's why I am very proud of the people right now. I think we have a good team.. Well, I've always thought so. Now is truly testing time. Can we get things done fast and efficiently! Can the workload be distributed among all the people nicely!
It sure looks like that! I'm being an optimist for once ;)
Still, it's indeed a good way to "store away" the experiences. Interestingly, I was just sharing with my wife about the fact that I tend to "move" on around 2-3 years! And it's going to be 3 years since I joined UT Ops! For one, my counterpart in Marketing is also moving to a different role. I am even thinking about starting to think about taking a front end role! That would be a great new experience, though I will really want to finish a few things in UT Ops!
So, the great thing about UT Ops right now is that the people has been with me for at least 1 year. The officers are around 2-3 years now and that's great. A lot more things can be accomplished through the people. That was always the most important thing to me since day 1, even sometimes at my own expense!! So, it is like a critical stage where we can really start "testing" whether we can live to our "aspired" core competencies which are "execution, execution and execution" and "IT".
We want to get things done. And we want to leverage on our IT knowledge. I have a few guys who are good at projects and handling such IT stuffs. I myself am quite confident about understand the current system, which is important if we were to make changes! Our system, UTIBO, was like started from scratch and it's like we have deposited layers and layers of functionalities over them. Now, we are thinking of even changing to a new ones. Management keeps harping about having a ledger system, which is great theoretically but execution is key. Sometimes, probably one of the main problem with management is thinking that too much that IT can do anything, anytime. Maybe even to the extent of taking it for granted. Yes, everything is possible but it takes time, and more importantly, nothing gets accomplished without the people :)
That's why I am very proud of the people right now. I think we have a good team.. Well, I've always thought so. Now is truly testing time. Can we get things done fast and efficiently! Can the workload be distributed among all the people nicely!
It sure looks like that! I'm being an optimist for once ;)
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