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    October 21

    工作小抱怨

    下午不小心喝了巧克力摩卡,我光看到巧克力了,却忘了关键字是摩卡,结果晚上兴奋点过高。
     
    希望自己不至于为了很小的事情沮丧。可惜人要么是过分自信,要么是太自负。比如我自以为一定会是本季度的star,没想到被提名的是我的直属西班牙女老板。我才发现原来尽管人人抱怨她没有任何management skills,可惜人家的visability到底比我们高。事到临头,credit都是她的。如果说是妒嫉,那当然是有的。因为就技能而言,她是很好的analyst,而且communication也不差。只是她实在不是一个manager,并没有能力把上下左右打点的很好,所以对我来说,只有对peer的妒嫉,并没有觉得可以学的东西。
     
    做analyst谁不会,把事情dump在手下,功劳都是自己的。值得佩服和期待的反而是recognize她的大老板,是不是这样也算是说,就算只是一个能干活的analyst,如果碰巧放在合适的位置上,也会有出头之日呢?
    October 15

    training course

    这是今年下半年第二次executive training,莫非我真有成为executive的潜能,而非只做小卒子?估计做人得有更强大的自信一点。比如,就和任何一个我周围的美国人一样。
     
    每一次做这样的training,总感觉对自己,对他人的认识都更深一点。他为什么那样微笑,她的声音为何低沉,为什么kate同学站的姿势仿佛是准备跳舞的样子。这些都是about personal history。或多或少总manifest在个人的仪态表情presence上。我自然也不例外。
     
    接下去一个星期,我要训练我的声音,做presentation时候的手势,通过提高声音,找到我最comfortable的melody和tone。和若干年前比,我已经有很大的进步,到了今天,能够present on the fly,并且有条理,有逻辑的convince others。这和刚刚来美国的我比,不能同日而语。自然也不是mba的功劳。因为三年之前我主持电话会议,两年之前我在超过50人前作presentation,一年之前对超过100人的销售队伍说话,我还会感觉butterfly in my stomach,就算I know everything I talk about and I am the subjective expert。时至今日,我自然还会紧张,但我也开始enjoy,并且我还会有sense of humor。和每一个过去的我相比,这都是进步,就算只是baby steps。(虽然,每一次做完超过一个小时的presentation,我总是要叫,好累啊!)
     
    it does not matter what you say, it is the way you say it。虽然作为中国人,从小受到的教育都是内容至上。但是无可否认,被更多人认可的是形式。同样,作为中国人,steorotype是你一定是subject matter expert,既然如此,那就让我们在delivery方式上来较量一下吧。
    March 04

    回到工作上来

     
    最近显然有点无聊,以至于在豆瓣上开了一个窝。上面就是link。好处是找书,电影都特别方便。可惜我的视野比较狭窄,不看不评无用之书,看的书都没啥共鸣。
     
    又去见了我们做的很不错的同胞,我认识的人中间很少的在美国作marketing的,(当然Helen是一个)。每一次和这个人会面都会有一些新的体会,正好可以乘这个momentum再做一点事情。我一向自负有global perspective,现在真是又得好好检讨自己,明明有些现实就摆在眼前,却视而不见。一定是和我们的sales混的时间太多了以至于我也变得短视起来。所谓sustainable growth,真是转瞬间就忘了。
     
    在我的机器上装了SAS,明明知道技术不是我要发展的方向,但考虑到我的新老板的机器上也装了SAS,那还是学一点吧。反正多一点技术榜身也没啥不好的,就算技术类工作有可能outsource到印度去,我们自己也是发展中国家来得不是?
     
    借了几本满有意思的书。估计传记类会放一放了。其中一本HBR1996年出的1980-1990年的论文集,可是居然现在看来也一点也不过时,看来我一直以为business的时效性不是那么时效的。10多20年前管理学者们指出的弊病,今天还是比比皆是。大公司的好处是,啥都见过,坏处是,啥都不能改变。可见人类的惰性是总是在那里的,人性或者psycological barrier,要克服和技术的进步并无直接联系。还借了本P&G老总说的如何turnaround,才看了几章,还没有明显的tranferrable的meat。不能只是把写书作为军功状的阿。
     
    最近时间过的真快啊。
     
     
    February 20

    Intern interview

    又到了每年招intern的时间,我们公司一贯很无聊,这些年除了mba只找harvard,mit(还有我和另外某些自以为了不起的人这样的落网鱼),college的intern只找本地小朋友,结果是不仅不是名校,而且一般都是似乎满奇怪的学校(我对美国本科50名以外或者非state university的就没有听说过,所以是不是名校我也不知道)。而且因为事情实在太小,HR根本就不过问。然后也不给别的support,所以我手里面只有可怜的四份简历。小秘说她已经filter过,也许已经扔掉一些简历了。老板说,都是内部refer的;我只好心领神会“是不是family and friends“啊?果然,第一份是某个finance头的女儿,第二份的也是有人推荐的...小秘赶紧补一句说她前面还有一个是HR的最大头推荐的,不过实在是不合适。
     
    我和20出头的小朋友接触时间已很少,去年来做的intern长相甜美,也还算能干可靠,简直是意外惊喜,用了三个月后我都和她说如果以后要referenc尽管开口。考虑到一用就要两三个月,虽然秘书说她已经打过电话,我想反正我也可以调剂一下,不如也打过去看看如何。考虑到和那个finance的ED低头不见抬头见,我决定他们家小孩就先不问了。问了psu的小朋友,满energetic,也有一定corporate工作的经验(去年在另外一家药厂做过),好像说话也算有条理,说了3,5分钟,我就觉得满靠谱,就挂了。小朋友还是非常兴奋,说他家姐姐就是在我们公司工作,然后她家妈妈就是在她去年工作的那家药厂工作。(真象所谓的职工子女阿)。
     
    完后我和小秘说,那就她和finance头的女儿好了。结果小米说我们只有一个名额了。原来在某处又被扣去了一个。没办法我只好重新去问那个finance头的小孩。小姑娘迟迟疑疑,原来马上就要上课了。我说没有关系,你说个时间我再打过来好了。后来再打过去,发现迟迟疑疑是小女孩的一贯风格,说自己喜欢consumer behaviors的课,我说为啥呢,小姑娘又说不出所以然来。然后我再问她过去的两年夏天在本公司的intern情况(显然是那些人都在卖她妈的帐),说的那个干巴巴,简直不像一般的美国小女孩。我只好和小米说我们得和这个女孩子说no了。虽然说他家妈妈是finance部门的ED,但那也不等于她也能干。拿小秘的话说,我们又不是来做baby sitter的。到也是。
     
    真快啊,没想到我也到了挑挑拣拣人家的时候了,虽然做interview也不是一次两次,不过不做准备举起电话两三分钟就下结论也就最近的事情。五六年前我自己做internship,做电话interview如履薄冰战战兢兢仿佛就在昨日,而我自己在那些小姑娘的年纪我一定是远远不如这些女孩子伶俐的,不说别的,连份简历都写不好,也不知道为啥选择自己的专业。
     
    人的成长虽然不是在一瞬间,但是出国之后还是算有些进步的,至少在毕业后的这些年还是在加速变成老油条的。所谓见了一点儿市面,知道所谓的精英阿是怎么一回事,就算自己不是,也断断不会被人给迷糊了去。尤其最近的这一年多,成天和sales打交道,甜言蜜语也罢,恐吓威胁也罢,好歹也都折腾了无数次,我也习惯了强迫人接受我的一套让人回到我的agenda来(虽然我工作还是较别人辛苦,我也还是比一般人更认真一点)。只要大家还是文明人,按牌理出牌,就communication而言我还是不怕的。
    January 28

    Snow Day

    我tutor一个7岁的小男孩(Jaden is his name)已经差不多有半年了(阿,我真是愿意做一些对社会有意义的事情啊)。这个是group tutoring session,有一次问所有的小朋友:Who likes staying at home when it is a snow day?所有的小朋友都举起手来。
     
    叹一口气,大人们也是一样。
     
    这类的overnight snow days其实不算多,不然东北部和中西部的公司都应该倒掉了。而且这里对铲雪还是很有经验的。2007年我刚回来的时候,一个极大的雪天还巴巴的跑去上班,结果到了门口被告知今天closed了。我以前的老板Sandra说,You never changed!现在如果她再看见我估计不会那样说了。
     
    话说回来,我还是很喜欢在办公室正经的上班. work from home is a joke。我才不信有人会专心致志的在家做足8小时。所以古板传统的我对那样的人非常看不上。尤其有些人干脆把电话会议也取消,几个小时不回email和任何信息。
    January 14

    Performance review

    Finally I got something positive to record about the job.  My boss told me that he would give me a 3.3 for my 2008 review.  I had expected that I might be a 2.3 (worse sceario) or 3.2 (better scenario) for 2008, but 3.3 is certainly the best.  According to him, he has given less than 10 people a 3.3 during the last 7 years.  It is pretty encouraging to me.  
     
    Finally my efforts were paid off.  I was thinking that I could get a 3 back in 2006 when I worked so hard for 2005, but unfortunatly I was heavily disappointed.   I did not got a good boss.   (or I got a few horrible female managers to work for back in my time there).
     
    Now that I am working with a team full of Americans.  Work at a capacity that emphasizes communication ability.  I do not think I work harder than I was three years ago, or I am smarter.  It might be the fact that I am smarter than the rest of them, or my working attitude is better than the rest of them, or I am willing to get more things out of the challenges.   Anyway, this time I am lucky.  Finally.  I got my first 3.
    November 13

    The importance of presentation skills

    Every day of this week we lock ourselves in a dark room and evaluate another vendor for their capability on an important project.  The investment of this project is quite big.  When I was in my previous role, my annual project budget was maximum $3mm, and this project is a few times of my previous projects.  And, hey, it is a cost-center, not a revenue center.  No wonder we have to take a group approach and evaluate it as a team - or no one is willing to take the responsibility individually.
     
    I always know that vendors usually will send their A team to presentation, and over time we learn differentiate the presentation skills from the capability of the vendors.   Difficult as it may sound, it works most of the time.  However, I was still surprised with the effect of a good presenter (or person) can make.
     
    The vendor who presented yesterday was one of the industry leaders.  As such, I was shocked that they had such a lousy presenter who (unforunately, a 30+ woman) did not know how to present, poor selling skills, and horrible handle of the questions from audiences.  After 30 minutes down the presention, she completely lost me, and the rest of the room.  I felt the underlying application she and her colleagues (the other people by the way are OK) tried to show us might be a fine one, however it is not likely we would invite them again for the next round.  Before this formal presentation, we have met her colleagues multiple times, I came in with very good impression of them, however, she being the main presenter is just a disaster.
     
    I walked away yesterday with frustration, as the first three days presented the three leaders, and so far we did not see any applications which can meet even 80% of our requirement.   Every one has their issues.  There is no best alternative, while status quo is not acceptable.
     
    Today was a completely different story.   The vendor we talked to have zero industry experiences.  However every industry has their similarities.  The presenter was phenomenal, knowing his stuff, skillfully showing us all the potential tasks we could use their platform for, engaging audiences in the conversation.  The application itself is very flexible but as the same time not complex, which is a unique combination of features.  It is such a small company that it has to partner with another big consulting company in order to knock at our door.  However the other big company had vague, if any usefullness during the presentation, and not sure about their role of the engagement either.  I started to realize that this small company's value is of course in their excellent product, but as important are their people.  One question we asked was "how many of you are in your company" which caused pleasant laugh.
     
    Although I doubt we would actually work with them at the end.  Conservative as we are, we rarely put our bet in unstable situation.  If it is my own project or my own company, I am willing to invest on this small company.  I probably will keep an eye on them - if they are able to keep their people and further develop their business, I am certain in a couple of years they would become a formidable player in their function area.
    November 03

    西风不识相

    盗用三毛的这个散文标题,其实说的是在工作中的同胞。
     
    当年读那散文,奇怪三毛为啥和同胞这样过意不去:我那时候才又明白了一个道理,对洋鬼子可以不忍,对自己同胞,可要百忍,吃下一百个忍字,不去回嘴。
     
    等到我自己去国若干年,每一年都会见到一两个让我很头痛的新的同胞,我才知道,原来如此。
     
    上一周非常frustrating的报告,终于在周五作完了,结果今天——报告错了,而且是在我已经publish后发现的问题。其中的一个关键部分,不过是和我合作的中国同事没有作检查,到了我的手中,我的assumptions当然她一定是对过了的。anyway,长话短说,作为owner,我得完全重做。在corporate工作的人都知道,作group report,最重要的是teamwork,如果中间一个环节出问题,接下来只能完全重来。我的中国同事睁着无辜的眼睛,好像很奇怪这个为啥会发生。如果换成是美国同事,我会说, I hope that you take the responsibility and make sure that it will never happen again.
     
    在瑞士的时候,也曾经有过一位team member是中国同事,and he is the last one I wanted to team with, simple as that。我当然不是唯一一个抱怨的人,可惜任何一个公司要fire 人都是难上加难,等到他终于被赶走的时候,我已经回到美国了。
     
    在美国生活的伊始,我曾经和一个中国女孩做过室友,让我之痛苦,我几乎要写一篇“我的芳邻“来控诉。
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    October 30

    Down time

    These few days are the down time for me at job.   Boring, number-crunching, frustrating, time-consuming, which makes me hate my job so much, although at this moment, I really have no choice.
     
    Silver line of the clouds:  The monthly training of the new sales team is still one highlight of my job.  We have had hiring freeze for a while and we recently have had the restructure.  However, we still have a few new members from outside of the company.   When talking to them, I would always see the excitement of the new blood, their passion, and their anxiety of embracing the new job, regardless of the age group I am talking to.   I would also enjoy my own show time of being the expert, an honest insider who is willing to share the information with them.  More and more often I have the comfortable level of being myself, with a sense of humor beyond the original culture and language difference we have had.  As such, even though it is just one hour and I have to drive down the training center, I am still willing to take the time and get to know them, even most time I would not see them again.  (I was pleasantly surprised when one of the managers from Texas recogznied me in one teleconference as we met last year, even though it took me a while for me to remember who she was. )
    August 18

    lack of leadership

    I have lost two nights of sleep over this, caz I realized that lack of leadership led me to this.
     
    I have been a do'er for too long a time and have been way to realistic.  I guess as a leader, I should have just promised everything first, and then leave it to the other people to figure out how to implement.  However, I have been way to conservative and considerate.  That is the biggest issue that I am having.  I really need to fix that.
     
    Let me go back to talk to those agencies.
    1) be transparent with a.  Complimenting a, and ask for feedback
    2) be transparent with b.  Manage expectation
    3) ask help from Liz.
    4) ask feedback from people
     
    In this project it helps me clarify a few things. 
    1) I guess I am learning "pushing" the envelope, but I am still testing the the limit
    2) be optimistic, and embrace the idea of "leadership" being aspire and inspire
    3) manage the relationships
    July 15

    假期后综合症

    这次假期回来后恶忙。这是我自己本来想到的,但还是没有预想到会这样。我自以为multitasking很厉害,不过精力很不如以前。这两天是关于新科技用于mkting上的课,有很多启示,所以我滔滔不绝的谈如果用到现在的branding project尚如何如何(全然不管某人对此没有任何兴趣),这样反复折腾几次到了11点累得很。抽抽嗒嗒去睡觉,其实又睡不着,只好回来。
     
    一直以来我对Pharma的marketing的落后,保守一直深恶痛绝,(尤其是本公司),今天终于能够看到一个的不错的,而且真心实意很有passion,大家都知道我对有热情和干劲,有innovation spirit的人总是青眼有加的。所以我当下作了决定把他们sell给我的老板的老板。so far so good。。。我真是做事情上心阿,不过如果不上心的话还不如不做算了。我讨厌很多美国人不过check box的做法,就比如像John McCain,you have done that, but it does not mean you excel at it!虽然我也一样不喜欢Obama,我花了一个vacation终于看完他的自传,and I still did not get him! 一个缺乏empathy的人,一个为赋新词强说愁的人。
     
     
     
    June 26

    Customer visit

    今天去纽约上州做customer visit,就是访问医生的意思。给我ride的是一个年轻美貌高挑苗条的姑娘。让我觉得自己粗壮而中年Confused。几乎所有的老中少各肤色种族男医生和少见的几个女医生都对我们和声细语,偶忍了又忍还是忍不住写博记之。最可恶的是我们访问的第一个小老头就挑头问偶和小妹妹的年龄。小妹妹说她年方25岁。老头听了我的年龄还不算,还得问偶婚否Confused,婚了几年。据以前做的调研显示平均一个医生和rep花的时间不过平均两分钟。我哀叹我美好的科学和医学的两分钟就花在美好的八卦对白过去了。不过托美女的福,我们和医生花的时间远远超过两分钟。美女显然还在职业的蜜月期,做事情极其规矩上心。让我忍不住想起家中的若干弟妹,如果能有她的一半(不是美貌阿)就好了。
    June 22

    Judy

    我和朱迪(Judy)并不熟,我过来了几个月她就退休了,一共就那末几次交往。如果她从此以后就过上退休无忧的生活,或许我对她的印象就到此而至,可是从她退休到到去世,也就一个多月时间:退休的第一天,她送急诊被查出癌症,当即开始化疗;化疗两周,没有任何效果,再求纽约Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,也算是最好的癌症治疗医院,医生看完诊断后常常叹息,只能说不;第三周,保险公司已经拒绝给她的治疗付款;第四周是她女儿的16岁生日,过渡了那个生日,她不久就去了。一转眼,已经过去5个月。而我们这些曾经的同事,朱迪也不过变成一个我们嘴边的名字,仿佛她还在享受退休生活,只是我们不再见到她而已。只是事实上,这个世界上没有朱迪,她的女儿没有妈妈,她的先生没有太太已经5个月。

    5个月说长不长,只是我的若干同事们经历了几乎平均一个月一起的小车祸(总是他人疏忽的责任),A同事某夜bathroom突然着火,B同事basement漏水若干次,C同事不得不上庭去defend公司的某项政策因为有人告。总之事件不断。当昨天偶刚换不久的轮胎被扎了个钉子爆胎,我的D同事的先生被卡车撞,他们家的Passat完全被撞毁——最后所幸人无事。我们会说:幸而朱迪在天上看护着我们...

    我忍不住要写一点东西纪念她。

    这个组并不是我想来的第一选择,过来后不久发现人人都和蔼可亲,虽然聪明才智不亚于其他组但是不是传统的非常competitive的环境,所以反而个人压力并不大,几乎是我工作以来最好的一个工作环境。我最先体会的所谓同志友爱(这个词那末别扭,我还是说teamwork更好吧),还是朱迪给与的。工作一段时间的人都知道,所谓公司的大规则是stated的,而做事的小规则则是implied的,当然和人际关系,politics关系密切。或许我虽然工作了那末若干年但还是面貌显得一派天真,朱迪和我虽然没有工作重叠,但在相熟之后不久就带我去见有工作关系的上下家,熟悉人头。又唠唠叨叨告诉我这个组的history, change etc。在我当时听来,虽然有点用处,但也不过是一个半老太太的啰嗦罢了。虽然我面带微笑表示很有兴趣听。

    又一日中午,我去茶水间,正撞见朱迪拿一本书在那里看。我一贯对美国的流行书不感兴趣,认为除了满足各个年龄段妇女的yy,不过就是good vs. evil的故事。出于礼貌,我问朱迪在看什莫书。朱迪说:I am a big reader...每年要看百十本(我心下倒吸一口气,美国中年无聊妇女,估计就是这个样子,难怪畅销书如此畅销)。然后就给我推荐她当下看的书the time traveler's wife。故事倒是情深意切:男主人公能穿梭时空,只是这是一个疾病,而且不能自我控制。因为他不能带任何东西旅行,每到一处他一定是赤身裸体,若是夏天尚好,若是冬天,则寒饿交加,第一时间就必须要逃走,避免被人发现,而且要迅速找道吃穿。他在各个年龄段一次次穿越总能碰见她,从6岁到30多岁。后来她对他的历史如此之熟悉,自然就成了他的妻。他目睹她的成长,也成为她最好的朋友。因为他每到一处必须要立刻穿戴整齐,所以逃跑成为他最重要的技能之一。在某次他穿越时碰到密歇根的大雪,没有能够立刻取暖,被冻僵,回到他原来的世界就只能被截肢。失去双腿意味着他的逃生技能就从此失去,并且预示着下一次穿梭的时候可能会有灾难。他翻看自己的穿越笔记,果然并没有30多岁以后的纪录...她失去他后自然痛不欲生,不愿意独活。但是过去的他managed一次次穿越,一直到碰见失去他的她,告诉她他一定会在未来回来看她....她在他的陪伴下,(我终于可以和你用另一种方式终老),寂寞而满足的过了一生。

    我写的那末详细,并非是我真的记住了朱迪说的故事,而是过了这件事情后我不得不去看那本书。In retrospect,我不免暗暗惊心。当日朱迪并没有任何疾病的征兆,却是看这样一本书,和毫无关系的我说这样一个故事。我并不热衷于时空转移,但我仍然忍不住希望有无数个朱迪在各个时空中,有一个聪明的可以回来看她的孩子和先生。我却也没有勇气去问她的先生和女儿,是否朱迪真的回来过。

    朱迪或许年轻时候有想过丁克,不然不好解释她和女儿居然查了那末多岁。她的女儿Ariel,也像任何teenager一样没心没肺,自朱迪确诊后,一直采取self-denial的态度,或许对小姑娘来说是一种很好的自我保护,以为妈妈不过是累了住院,总会回来。只是真的不得不面对现实的时候,她的悲伤,让人恻然。我对朱迪最后的印象是她向我询问关于大学的申请。因为她得给她女儿做好一两年后的准备工作。她那日的计划还包括和社区和高中咨询。我到了今天,也不知道是否所有的计划都已经落实。  Ariel这个夏天已经去一个不错的summer camp,还是朱迪很久前定的。不知道小姑娘是不是因此很快的成熟,或许就个性成长而言,还是一件好事。

    (今天是6月22日,是我的外婆去世5周年忌日。虽然时时在想着,常常和某人说,不时也总有梦见,但我终究不能够写一篇东西来纪念她。因为对外婆的记忆是我的幼年,童年,少年的一部分,记忆中的故事太多,我不愿意太伤心,就算有很多是愉快地记忆。幸而朱迪不过在我生命滑过淡淡的一个痕迹,写朱迪要容易很多。希望朱迪和外婆在另外一个世界都好。我们也好,无须挂念。)

    August 07

    明天

    明天要去city。要乘火车的话需要很早起床,决定今天晚上早点睡觉。
     
    如果不出意外,9月底将是我出国5年来第一次回国。并没有近乡情切的欣喜,更多的是茫然。哎,到时候再说吧。希望没有项目的冲突。 
    October 27

    和ZIBA的项目

    今天终于完成和ziba的design project。还是很有成就感的。compared to most of the "normal" projects that I have run in the past, this one is very creative, interesting and challenging.  However, it is certainly a good test of my ability and I am very pleased that I accomplished that.
     
    Although nasty things need to follow up, however, it is such a nice thing to at least catch my breath and feel good about myself.
     
    The weather is beautiful outside - just another normal Friday night, lonely one.
     
    They are an award winning firm according to businessweek. Check out
     
     
    I am sure that I will work with them next time, the guy is certainly very handome - which adds more incentive of the workplace.
    June 28

    屡败屡战,屡战屡败

    Tjun called me this afternoon and I could not recall that I called him earlier - but it was not a good time so we scheduled a later time to talk.
     
    I was really silly so that I thought- OK, I hope he does not want to give me the job for Focalin XR, it is such a tiny brand...he phoned again and the call was actually - sorry Linda, we do not think we are able to extend the offer to you this moment...
     
    I heard my heart sunk.
     
    Earlier today, finally SP replied - what visa does your husband have. if not L or E, we cannot sponsor your visa...
     
    To be honest, as I am, I am not particularly interested in Schering Plough, but the job would be fun anyway, working with Merck...However, I could not stand for that I had to get two No's in one day.
     
    Tjun went on and on for the explainations why he could not give me the offer, well, basically, he cannot force his managers to take me.  That is so outrages, they have Tobi, Zelnorm, Aclasta, Focalin, none of them are important brands, and they could not even give one of them to me.  I do not understand.
     
    I certainly do not understand that I did not even have the chance to speak at all to Jeff Jamer, he never talked to me, how could he know about me at all.  As for Connie Perla...I have no words...what do you mean that I need to push back my brand team.  They are my prime customers, not the US.
     
    I know when I declined my vendors, I will always be very very nice, because I know I need to build the relationship and keep the flow going.   I know so clear that the reason that Tjun was afraid of declining me was he could not be the one that push me away from Novartis, otherwise they (Tjun, Sven, the managers) they have to be responsible for the loss of the "talents".  After all, my appraisal is still OK, despite the fact that someone said one thing or another.  However, if I am that perfect, that "political", I would move to a much higher position already.  I would not be the one that needs to work on the dirty details.
     
    Anyway, I guess the reason that I am not completely disappointed is, I still have oncology as a hope.  I may get there, you never know, I just have to try very very hard.  After all, oncology is the team that I would really want to work with, whether is breast cancer, CML or lung cancer, I am interested and I know I would be able to deliver the result (come on, whatever the team I am working with, I definitely will deliver the results).  I made it with Kate Holloway's earlier case, and I did the ATU, I am going to do with the smoking cessation one tomorrow, and Ian Walker's device project too.  They are ALL difficult projects.  More complex than cardivascular or diabetes - although I would like to work with cardivarsular.
     
    I would not take too much as Tjun said: let's wait for another six month, and re-evaluate it.  No, I am sorry, you have missed me.  If, I could not make oncology this time, then they may have a chance, otherwise, certainly the general medicine is not my top choice, always. even from the very beginning.
    June 07

    离别

    我已经一而再再而三的告诉自己不要把工作和感情混为一谈,可是当我知道Stewart Sharpe要离开的时候,我还是伤心了一下。
     
    伤心的其实无非是为啥我总是最后一个知道消息的人,而可笑的是他几乎是要做Daniel Bacon目前的位置,无所谓升级——我总算明白Daniel说新的总是好的,如果是别人来replace他,我会很怀疑,但是stewart,我当然不认为他们谁比谁更强。不过风格不同。而我永远是那个support function,不被人记得的。
     
    of course I am sad, of course I am emotionally attached to the brand director who hired me in the first place - until now, all the individuals that hired me are moving on - but I am still here.
     
    I have to warn myself to be patient - really patient.  After all, I am still young, still only with this industry for a very limited period of time...
    June 02

    纪念日

    今天是一个值得纪念的日子——我的ATUpresentation终于做掉了,而且结果还相当好。
     
    从去年接受这个项目,资金不够,国家繁琐,还有global local alignment,到RE给了我additional fund,到出结果,到不得不推迟报结果,到昨晚我郁闷(虽然是为了其他的事情),到今天终于喜剧收场——我承认自己到最后momentum已经寥寥,但毕竟是我今年上半年作的两个大项目之一。
     
    自己拍拍自己的肩膀,还算不错。虽然永远都有更加值得提高的地方。anja显然不是最好的一个presenter,我的组织也可以做的更好一些,还有present的时候给local的attention显然不够...但我还是庆幸自己终于还算幸运。终于可以暂时画一个句号。
    May 31

    操纵

    我想能够操纵人的感觉肯定很好。比如Dianne,就是不愿意support我去米国,其实不只不support,她根本是在阻碍。可能到了某个时候我只能装可怜,或者干脆破釜沉舟。虽然neither符合我的个性。
    February 01

    不爽

    昨天做完和anastasia的tc, 真的太不开心了.
     
    我回顾了一下, 我该站的立场还是应该站, 虽然她说by location只是secondary的 objective, 但是确实没有完全meet, 我们有理由叫agency再次confirm. Of course, but again, 从目前出来的数字是不够可以说有很明显的理由——
     
    我更痛恨的是Innes同学,如果下次他还这样说anastasia只是在阻碍进程,我会正色说,如果在the other side of atlantic Marc Aquino也这样说我的话,我会非常offended的。我不喜欢把人和事加在一起说,相信没有人会喜欢这样。如果我不tough一些,别人显然会占便宜。就目前的状态,我就是这样的。
     
    我觉得奇怪了,中国人里没有人会不认为我是不tough的,可是和他们比还是差的很远。而且我还居然如此的上心,以至于又要早上5点起床心里不痛快。
     
    tmd,我不想这样不开心了。就豁出去做我认为对的事情,或许还对事情更好些。
     
    重要的不是对人如何直接,而是对事情。
     
    我可以那样和innes communicate: She agrees that this project did not cover as much as we wanted to know, esp. in terms of different Rx source from location.  However it was also the restriction of this project that we could not ask 1)off label usage direct from the doctors, as such we can only ask by if we have FDA approval; in that sense, the label is not different from the doctors' discretion
     
    2) if we compared one with home usage and one without, we can derive the answerthat the home usage will generate very limited Rx. which is very surprising to me in the first place (and I believe it is to you as well).  However, given that it was such a tiny incremental Rx, it is mostly likely that we will come up with the same answer...
     
    3)if we look at the data very carefully, we will still find that the doctors are very conservative with the Rx of home-usage - a)we spent a lot of time in talking about the conservativeness of the US doctors yesterday and the attitudes of doctors just changed dramatically in the last 1-2 yr, esp. after they read the additional note from us (sh*t, I forgot how to spell the word again); b)the same conservativeness that I observed among our US MR colleagues, as they may personally have responsiblity toward the study they run - that is the reason that Anastasia is unwilling to let me share the responsibility;
     
    我不认为说服innes是容易的事情。 这个study的结果本身就是arguable的。我知道这边同事的态度是ticking box,而美国那边显然不一样...
     
    but I could have said to Anas...: given the result is so important, would it be worthwhile for us to double confirm the result by doing the additional questionaires of Rx by location?  (I could not remember if I have aksed about that...but I know she definitely said, it would be nice to have, but the original one got the approval from Innes.)
     
    如果他们认为我出而反而的话,我已经尽力了。That is the best I can do,