Lately I have been engaged in defining my wife’s marketing management for their line of high power LED lights. Yesterday, she asked me if I want to come aboard in their group to do the marketing for their overseas operations.
I am thinking of getting this opportunity to add it in my list of experiences. This could be my ticket for a career shift.
I’m back in Singapore to accompany our
company’s president who is attending the GEMMS 2007 event by
Terrapinn. Quoting the event flyer, it is the “…only mining
maintenance conference in Asia”…
I got the chance to sneak inside the
conference (well, my company was very reasonable). The Lepanto guy
(Mr. C.M.) was up on the podium for his presentation about human
resource development in their mine. I was very eager to hear what my
countryman had to say about the situation of the mining industry in
my country.
Time to be the executioner…
To Lepanto – are you sure you hired
the right guy for the job? Or am I just expecting too much?
Maybe both questions apply. I was
disappointed at his obvious lack of preparation. He practically read
his speech that was published in the conference materials. Fine, so
he was nervous, but what about the content?
Have you ever heard the line “…no
meat”?
My heavens! The topic was all about
human resource development and all that he could deliver was a 20
minute description of the history of Lepanto and a 10 minute general
message that says mining companies should work with communities in
order for them to maximize their operations’ potential, and the
company should hire only the best of the best? Where are the
specifics that let us realize how to manage people effectively using
Lepanto’s case?
This is perhaps the reason why I don’t
pay to enter the damn summit. You want to hear what the supposed
“experts” have to say, but you get crap.
I wanted to juice out the specifics of
the guy the moment that the floor was open for questions. I got the
balls, but didn’t have the ID to push for it…