Jul 24th, 2008
At the dawn of great changes
I wrote that last week. I had no idea.
This week, I had a large-format meeting to introduce myself to all the managers and senior contributors. I talked about myself, my background, past jobs, and the general management style. Curious audience asked questions: some on personality (”What do you fear?”) and many hinted on the more pressing problems on their minds that I should fix.
Then the rumors started circulated on the net, we are getting someone senior from Microsoft. Thursday morning, oh my gosh, we have a new CEO, the 2nd week that I come onboard.
Last week, during a scheduled 1-on-1 with my boss. He dropped the bombshell, “Sin-Yaw, I am going to manage this group from Bangalore for a year starting next week.” I floored, flabbergasted. The emotions and thoughts mixed into a big glass of smoothie. I am to be separated with my boss for thousands of miles again. This time, I am here and he be there, almost by himself. This is the remake of the Beijing movie, with a slight twist. Is this karma that I and global engineering are meant to be together?
I met many new people and will still more next week. I studied up many 3- or 4-letter acronyms that people use in daily conversations as they are real words.
Dawn of great changes. Man!