昭闳
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The Real CEO Question
2009-08-20 06:28
在 CEO 面试题之后，有一刚刚当了老板的朋友问了一个真实的 CEO 问题：
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Here, I have a real-life question that tests what kind of boss you are or will be:
Facts: You just started your business. Since you are unsure of the economic future, you draw minimum salary monthly, hoping that the income you generate will be sufficient to cover the monthly overhead. You have 4 very dedicated and experienced staff who, from time to time, indicated to you that your competitors are trying to recruit them. Your office is not professionally renovated, as you do not want to spend so much initially.. Your competitors are spending huge sum to market their products, and you feel that you are losing your market share. Your wife is expecting and you will need some cash in a few months time.
And, at the end of the year, after deducting all expenses (including rental, staff salary, stationery, utilities etc), your business generates a net profit of RMB100k.
Question: what will you do with the RMB100k?
This is an essay and not an objective question, so, no (a) (b) (c) (d) for you. Don't be lazy. Please write out your short and clear answer and forward to me or everyone.
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我们当中已经有人当上老板了、有人可能刚刚或正要成为老板、其他尚未或不打算成为老板的，有什么看法呢？
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昭闳
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回复: The Real CEO Question
2009-08-25 14:27
| 昭闳:
在 CEO 面试题之后，有一刚刚当了老板的朋友问了一个真实的 CEO 问题：
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Here, I have a real-life question that tests what kind of boss you are or will be:
Facts: You just started your business. Since you are unsure of the economic future, you draw minimum salary monthly, hoping that the income you generate will be sufficient to cover the monthly overhead. You have 4 very dedicated and experienced staff who, from time to time, indicated to you that your competitors are trying to recruit them. Your office is not professionally renovated, as you do not want to spend so much initially.. Your competitors are spending huge sum to market their products, and you feel that you are losing your market share. Your wife is expecting and you will need some cash in a few months time.
And, at the end of the year, after deducting all expenses (including rental, staff salary, stationery, utilities etc), your business generates a net profit of RMB100k.
Question: what will you do with the RMB100k?
This is an essay and not an objective question, so, no (a) (b) (c) (d) for you. Don't be lazy. Please write out your short and clear answer and forward to me or everyone.
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我们当中已经有人当上老板了、有人可能刚刚或正要成为老板、其他尚未或不打算成为老板的，有什么看法呢？ |
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Base on the limited information given, here are some of my opinions:
First, discuss with your wife and estimate how much do you need in few months time. I guess she is particularly good in this calculation.
Your development plan to the firm will help to decide whether or not to keep those 4 dedicated and experienced staffs. I have heard that "staff is the greatest asset to the company", to have these greatest assets continue to stay, maybe we should find out what are their needs besides the higher salary. There are some ideas came to my mind and I am not sure whether it is practical: Compensation, Sense of belongings, Career path and Profit sharing.
Compensation
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For compensation, we can give them compensations in different way with a budget allowed and yet enjoy the effect that might be more than just giving them the cash. Consider fixed amount of monthly petrol redemption (in coupon / voucher) and company subsidized parking fee etc.
Sense of belongings
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Build up their sense of belongings to the firm, this is another way to improve the co-workers’ loyalty and to have better resistance to opportunity from competitors or head hunters. Consider birthday cake / gift / celebration in office (budget mah, haha), have a lunch with them every week / month, buy breakfast / lunch to office for them occasionally and be proactive to know their family members (yeah, you got to have big memory, man! :P) etc.
Career path
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This is especially important to those who are still young. If one does not see their career path in the firm, they will most probably leave after 1 or 2 years if they have a dream. If your firm has no career path planning for staff now, maybe should discuss with your HR manager for it. It has to be transparent, something like what is there in EY and KPMG. For example, after 2 years for performing good or at least not making any serious mistakes, your staff will be promoted to Senior Lawyer I (don’t know if this title make sense, hehe :P), or Principle Personal Assistant and Secretary (Female only) With Full Care (your wife is going to kill me).
Profit sharing
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This might be the ultimate weapon which will build their sense of belongings and to show them their career goal at once. Consider to allocate some percentage of your profit and share with the top performer(s) of the year. Come on, don’t be so kiam siap lah, share share a bit mah. To maximize the effect of profit sharing from the perspective of empolyee’s loyalty, I will distribute the profits / shares in a timely manner. Meaning is to leverage the amount / shares to be awarded into several portions and credit to their account in several months / years. This will prevent them to quit the company right after they have got the award. In other words, this also tell them that “Kalau lu baik baik kerja sama saya, lu akan dapat banyak duit. Lu kerja lagi lama dapat lagi banyak. Kerja sampai 10 tahun, wa belanja lu makan bak kut teh dan lim chiu, wuahahaha!”
Just some opinions lah, don’t know if it is practical, hope this helps.
其他人有没有其他的奇思异想呢？
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yikyuan928
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一位大马青年的迷思
2009-09-01 00:21
| 昭闳:
在 CEO 面试题之后，有一刚刚当了老板的朋友问了一个真实的 CEO 问题：
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Here, I have a real-life question that tests what kind of boss you are or will be:
Facts: You just started your business. Since you are unsure of the economic future, you draw minimum salary monthly, hoping that the income you generate will be sufficient to cover the monthly overhead. You have 4 very dedicated and experienced staff who, from time to time, indicated to you that your competitors are trying to recruit them. Your office is not professionally renovated, as you do not want to spend so much initially.. Your competitors are spending huge sum to market their products, and you feel that you are losing your market share. Your wife is expecting and you will need some cash in a few months time.
And, at the end of the year, after deducting all expenses (including rental, staff salary, stationery, utilities etc), your business generates a net profit of RMB100k.
Question: what will you do with the RMB100k?
This is an essay and not an objective question, so, no (a) (b) (c) (d) for you. Don't be lazy. Please write out your short and clear answer and forward to me or everyone.
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我们当中已经有人当上老板了、有人可能刚刚或正要成为老板、其他尚未或不打算成为老板的，有什么看法呢？ |
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我相信大家花不到三分钟的时间就能理解这一道CEO的问题，问题并不复杂也阐明得非常清楚。阅读后，蠢蠢欲动地也想发表自己当下的伟论。希望能为这个论坛增添一些色彩，而不至于每次都让我们的坛主自问自答。那就太无趣了！
追根究底，回答这一道CEO的问题之前，我们必须先假设本身是一位CEO，然后再以CEO的思维去思考如何去解决那一系列的问题。
所幸平时阅读的工具书也不少，应该可以大作文章一番。其实要导入那些（有的没的）经济理论来解释问题的解决方案，并不难。
然而，想了一想，以自己区区六年半的工作经验，当初以Executive Level入行到现在顶呱呱自称是Senior Executive Level。连经理人(M..a..n..a..g..e..r) 都没当过，又怎能奢望自己一跃龙门当上CEO呢？
此刻，沉默不语，回想起当初刚踏入社会工作，常把“创业” 挂在嘴边。满脑子都是（有的没的）生意点子，无限的想象空间。
但，一年复一年，除了债务（车贷，放贷，人情债）“创” 了不少之外，其他依然故我。教人嘘唏不堪！
当然，我与大家分享这一些，并不是要大家意志消沉，自我沉沦！
而是，想请教各位大马青年们，如何在这一片生于斯，长于斯的大地，寻找属意自己的天空？
几乎可以肯定，我们大家都试着努力，然而我们努力的方向对了吗？
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