To take step back as solution?

We will not always find a solution while trying to move forward and forward.
For business, if the organization structure and infrastructure grow slower than the business needs, shall we still beat the speed for  growing the business? Or we shall take one step back to have a breath? We will always feel bitter to see losing the opportunity, especially losing revenue and profit for a company.

Different challenge.

Keep growing

What do you learn from your life? What do you gain from your work?

I learn how ignorance I am, and I gain the conclusion how limited I am in the knowledge. Every time it seems I walked one step forward, I realize how much more I left behind.

In this amazing world, so many things we do not know and we might never will know or understand. But we shall keep ourselves eager in learning; and this will keep us growing. 

As far as life goes on, keeping learning and keeping growing.

Solution

What shall we do if we are looking for a solution, but can not find? Then the stress, pressure, sleepless night, nervous... all bad feeling comes up, which will not help at all.

What can we do? What shall we do? ...

It even took god 7 days to create the world. How long will we need to change the world - even to change our own life? As far as I do not give up, I know I will find the solution.  Mamamia.

Balancing

Here I am not talking about balancing the power or balancing the staffs, but about balancing the life and work.

When we are young, we believe we are full of energy and actually we are full of dream. We feel the work is more important than life, as we want to change our lives through our hard work. Is it true?

When we got age, we learned that we are just "we", same as many others -who are working as hard as us or even more harder; who had or still sharing the same dream as ours; while life does not completely change towards the way we want. Is it true?

We need the balance between life and work. Only it balances, you can gain the sustainable energy for the work; a positive attitude for the work;  more commitment for the work; to help for building a more harmony world.

How culture as issue can influence or impact in an organization?

This is really interesting and matters to many companies for different sizes; and it is becoming more important when the world is smaller.

As how it has influence in the organization, it is much easier to say and to notice. How it has impact in an organization? Which kind of impact it is?-- For this, you might only be able to notice and tell not when it starts but at a much later stage.

The impacts include: start the sub-group among employees;  inefficient communication and work; challenge for the management...

For a healthy organization, it can cure itself by facing the issue and leading to an open but objective work environment; and it might eventually turn a negative to a positive fact for developing the company culture. But it requires the determination and strength of the management.

But how the impact starts? If we know this, we can already stop it there. We might only see the different views, standing points, actions as a daily phoneme, and these are not sufficient enough to alert us.

Unnecessary risk

In many situation, we define that "challenge" = "risk"; and we are driving by " high risk, high return."

But without a clear picture of "risk",  we might start with a hope of success/win/gain while at that point it is already clear  of the result- fail.

In this case, balancing, calculating and measuring at the beginning is very important. We need to be able to detect it is really a high risk challenge or unnecessary risk that we shall avoid.

If we do already see one important fact that will lead you to fail by taking that challenge, and for which you have no solution; then at least to me, I will not define it as a challenge but an absolutely unnecessary risk, which we shall avoid for the life and business.

No give up, only give in.

By doing business, I tell myself never to give up, but I know sometimes I need to give in.

For the opportunity, for the revenue and for the target we shall never give up; but for gaining the opportunity, the revenue and reaching the target, we need to give in and make a comprise in some situation.

Also sometimes we need to comprises with ourselves, give in with ourselves. Your left half needs to work out with your right half; your emotional half needs to work out with your rational half. I think this is more difficult.

A beginning or an ending?

Each beginning is also an ending. While you begin something, in that way you also end something.
All can be triggered by one decision-- can be a very small decision but your life changes from there.

Everyone is naturally fear of change, because it makes us feel uncertain and unsecured. But life with no change, as the sea without wave, as the sky without wind.

Fearing of change and then be frightening to take challenge is limiting the joy of life and limiting the scale of success.

Every big change in the era always turns out as a big opportunity. So no matter in life or in business, we shall be open to the change. It is not easy! But without ending something, we can not make a new start.

Emotion

I was used to think that every sucessful person must have a strong personality and wear the hard mask- as hard as steel. No one shall be allowed to see the soft part behind it. Why?-- because the softness is not part of success, it is part of weakness and part of human being.

But we can not change the fact- we are human, so we do have the same feeling same emotion that others have. As a manager, we shall try to understand the feeling of our staffs/colleagues, so in return, they will be closer to their managers and share the same feeling with their managers. 

For a manager to show the feeling and emotion in working place is not disgrace, but shall be controlable.

Role model

Every one has his own role model-- can be the most closer one - from family; also can be the one very far to you- the one you got to know through history book.

Why we need role model? The one reason is it is lighting your way; you gain extra strength or faith by looking at your role model; and think and believe you will be closer or similar to him/her- your role model is the one you want to become or whose asset you want to be transferred to.

Is it possible that your manager or your boss also can be your role model?

My answer is YES. To be a good manager, he/she shall has the expectation that the staff shall be pride of their manager and might take him/her as their role model, and so more respect to their manager.The great respect is contributing in the couple relationship, and it also exists in good working relationship.

Are you ready to be a role model? Think of it and act on it.

Mouth and Ears

Mouth and ears, all 3 are important organs in the body.

Without mouth, you can not eat- no nutrition no digest and no life. With mouth, you can talk, talk and talk.
Without ears, you can not hear birds singing, noisy neighbors. In contrast, you can hear others ideas-- some inspire you and some you hate.

If we have to choose one, better to stand your ears and shut your month. It often happens when we talk, we never listen--don't listen to yourself and to others. Try one time to listen to your own presentation, your own speech, you will find mostly what you talk will be forgotten at once; the valuable part always can be summarized in few sentences, instead of few paragraphs.

So except we have to talk-- give a training or a speech (but still try to make it shorter and shorter), we shall spend more time to listen to others. Ears and brain are working  more closely together than mouth and brain.

To be a good listener and it is benefit to your whole life.

Work with friends

For most people, they spent 8-9 hours per day working in the office. If calculating a person will work from 20 to 60-- 40 years in total, and in average we can live till 80,  we will spend about 1/6 of total life in the office. This is something quite long.

If you cannot enjoy the time in the office, this can make you miserable--no happiness and no quality work. So it is really important to make yourself, your colleagues and your business partners enjoy working together. One easy way is to have a feeling and really to feel so-- working with everyone as working with friends. A business conference with partners--can feel as have a chat with friends over sea; a department meeting for setting up target-- can feel as playing the game goal with friends (we did play it when we were young.); a debating with colleagues-- can feel as similar as the training in the Mock court we did in school.

Thinking that you are working with friends and spending your time with friends, can make yourself and people around you enjoy the work; and you are really making more friends. 

Is it difficult to practice? You try and you know.

Attitude

By living and working in different countries, the biggest difference I can notice, apart from weather, is the attitude of people.

With negative attitude, people have less smile and less confidence in themselves; and turning everything in passive. With positive attitude, people feel nothing is frighten, and have endless courage and patience.

For individual, the attitude makes whom you are today and whom you will be tomorrow. For a country/a nation, the attitude in dominance becomes the symbol of the nation and more or less decides how the country is growing (or decaying). For a company... can we say the attitude that staffs share together finally forms the culture of company?

If yes, then every one in the company is an important element as we can have influence on others either with our bad attitude or good attitude. Thinking positive and acting active is the fundamental of a good attitude.

Life is not a competition

I am told life is not a competition. Life is to gain the experience and we shall enjoy it.

We usually act as solider, fighting for the goal--the life goal, which is no right or wrong. And the stress is coming along the whole time; we are angry with selves' mistake; criticize others; run for the time; push ourselves and persons around us. We make everyone so tired. Finally, we forget what we are up to, since we have been always looking forward; being afraid to be caught up.

The wealth and honor are not the meaning of life. What we can keep and convey to the next generation?-- Belief and experience.

To be the observer but not the fighter in the life. Make ourselves peaceful, and the same to our family and friends.

The lonely life

Life is a lonely trip.

It starts alone and ends alone; it starts with nothing and ends with nothing.

Nothing will be saved or kept after the life circle, except the knowledge, experience and love.

We shall maxmize our life value by succeeding, developing, and smriting the knowledge and experience to our posterity; by loving others and teaching others how to love.

The challenge of being a female leader

As a leader, no matter man or woman, he/she takes more responsibilities and stress than others. Being a female leader, the challenge is to forget being lady or madam, just remember you are a person.

The weaknesses of women are vanity, jealousy, suspicion, hard up for ideas. If you want to be a successful leader, please have to forget your gender. Men and women are equal in the world and also in the business. You may get things easier done by displaying the best part of a lady, but this can not last for ever.

For a long term, business is business and all depends on the knowledge, experience and innovation.

If you can not forget your gender, then you will put your weak points in front of your staffs, your business partners. How do you want them treat you? -- a professional business partner? -- a real lady?

Trailblazer-- invest for future

I stop the blog for more than one year. During this year, I keep reading and thinking, but stop writing. Now when I re-read my previous paragraphs, I gain the passion for writing again. (Also sorry, found many spell mistakes there)

The year looks like to be end with a tragedy. In states, people lost the job in Wall street; banks and investing companies bankrupt. In Europe, many banks put the fund together for self saving. In China, people talk and hate the stock market-- dropping down from 64oo point to 2000 point. We ask where is the way for economy?

Meanwhile, the e-commerce industry is also experiencing a frozen year. Advertisers are decreasing the marketing budget; the industry needs to think of innovation for keeping growth. We ask where is the way for e-commerce?

How can we fight against our competitors, who don't ask for the entry barriers to advertiser? How can we cooperate our advertisers, who do not have knowledge of e-commerce and doubt it? How can we deal the situation-- enforcing the strength by technology innovation; but in another hand no one really cares for which kind of technology you use.

I don't see the change for this industry in China in the last year. The only good thing is local Chinese companies start to ask what e-commerce can do for them. We still need about three years to educate this market.

The most difficult thing is to bring up the concept-- educate person, educate the market, educate your partners and competitors. The trailblazer ( most are foreign companies, who are very successful in foreign markets and now work in China market) automatically take this responsibility. This is kind of investment for future. But who will compensate them for this invisible investment, the local government? China government? or the developed market in future?

Tomorrow is coming soon.

Sorry, I really forget to write my blog in last four weeks.

Once you are too concentrated in something , you will neglect other things. Once you love some one too heat, you will keep distance with others.

I hope I have done some good business, considering I have forgot my blog so long. However, things are coming slowly.

Affiliate market is similar to stock market, no one knows how goes on tomorrow. Once the thing is referring to more than two parts, the thing is going to be complicated.

After all, still believe people will see and really understand the importance of performance based affiliate market.

High technology is the heavy burdon.

High technical industry is in the sunrising. High technical means high profit; means high demand of staffs; means high speed of innovation; means high intensive of competition.

However, whether we have though it also means heavy burden.

Any slight problem in the workflow or any small mistake in the technology can cause an disaster.

Maybe we could have prepared for the trouble, but we could never do not account trouble.

The physical quality of person could never so high as machine. We also could not seek so high personality of person that no any thing would be ignored by working.

High profit and high risk, it is true.

High expectation and be high disappointed, it is also true.

Suck, but not the stomach

Have you ever felt suck from your own guys?

What is a trouble, if you have been run in the trouble by your own guys?

I could not say I have felt faint in this case, because, in fact I was really irritated.

The mistake takes me in the far distance to the information, for which delay I almost have signed a contract for nothing.

This is the symbol of no good channel for information flowing.

This can happen, when persons do not fulfill their duty.

But I would say the most awful thing is , if the mistake results from the people who intend to do so.

A mess!