Chieh Huang: Confessions of a recovering micromanager
Chieh Huang: Egy talpraálló mikromenedzser vallomásai
Chieh Huang is cofounder and CEO of Boxed.com, a company that's disrupting the wholesale shopping club experience. Full bio
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is talk to you about micromanagement
hogy a mikromenedzsmentről beszéljek,
over the last few years of my life.
életem elmúlt pár évében.
great, wonderful, imaginative people --
remek, csodás, ötletes emberek –
that deal with Times New Roman,
az üzletet Times New Romannal,
that we probably see in ourselves
you've ever been in your life, right?
you stayed the latest at work,
came home from a road trip,
looking over your shoulder,
when she's over right?
data to support this.
adatai is alátámasztják.
their next 12-hour shift all alone,
tizenkét órás műszakjukat.
they asked them, "Do you feel fatigued?"
was actually really interesting.
the people who moved the most
that didn't have control over their jobs.
isn't really effective,
wonderful, imaginative people
you probably don't even need to ask.
bőröndjét a reptéren?"
your luggage stolen at the airport?"
been asked, right?
dull and unimaginative people?"
akar alkalmazni?"
adatokkal jobb alátámasztani.
we better back it up with data.
of people around the country --
dull and unimaginative people?
butákat és ötletteleneket?
és ötletteleneket alkalmazni.
dull and unimaginative people.
understand the question --
nem értette a kérdést –
dull and unimaginative people.
akkor miért csináljuk mégis?
and so why do we do this still then?
really, really simple
and have actually felt.
és éreztük is már.
into an organization --
it could be a law firm,
it could be anything --
of the totem pole, right?
at doing the work,
are all great micromanagers.
if you're really good at it,
people doing the work.
what happens after that?
mi történik ezután?
who manage the people doing the work,
kezdik menedzselni.
over the output of your job.
eredménye fölötti irányítást.
called Boxed in our garage,
a Boxed nevű céget.
I know it doesn't seem like much --
washer in the back --
when we started this,
nagyon büszke volt rám.
she was really proud of me --
and I'm pretty sure she had her phone up
telefonjával kezében gondolta:
"Oh, is John from Harvard still single?"
gone wrong in the beginning,
kezdeti befuccsolása lett volna,
a mobilkereskedelem berobban,
mobile commerce is going to be big,
were going to change over time,
idővel változni fognak.
nem akarják hazacipelni –
that you don't want to lug home --
of Oreo cookies but the 24-pack
hanem a huszonnégyest,
of toilet paper but the 48-pack --
hanem a negyvennyolcasat –
much like a warehouse club would do
majd azt mondtuk:
"OK, this printer is taking forever, man.
that would delight the customer
keep smiling," you know?
the monotony of the job as well
a munka egyhangúsága,
and packing all of the boxes,
for eight, nine, 10, 12 hours a day
kilenc, 10, 12 órába naponta,
of millions of dollars worth of stuff,
adtunk el dolgokat.
really, really quickly.
my role started to change, too.
doing all the work,
who picked and packed,
munkája menedzserévé,
picking and packing.
who manage the departments
menedzselő menedzserek.
the people picking and packing.
in time, I lost control.
az irányítás kezeim közül.
all of these customers with these notes.
rabul ejtik ezek a szövegek.
write these notes anymore,
how to write these notes.
színt használjanak,
what you should write,
this has to be that big.
of raising morale
elleni pezsdítő szándék
in the fulfillment center
and people started complaining to HR.
has got to get out of my hair, OK?
ne üsse bele az orrát, oké?
we said, "OK, you know?
a remek csodás embereket,
that's 'delight the customer,'
a "vásárlói rabulejtést",
and that's these notes -- have at it."
írják maguktól a szövegeket."
was actually pretty startling.
these really ornate minimurals on them.
rajzoltak hozzájuk.
you'd get really fun notes like this:
ilyen vicces szövegeket kaptak hozzá:
if they bought a bigger size,
nagyobb méretet vettek, azt írták:
went off the rails a few times.
hogy párszor kisiklott az egész.
"Thx, thx," all the time,
"Köszi, köszi", állandóan.
my boss used to write that to me,"
a főnök szokta nekem írni."
things on the other side.
we sell everything in bulk:
big packs of toilet paper,
of contraception,
40-pack of condoms.
40-es óvszercsomag.
four 40-packs of condoms --
"I know how to delight the customer."
így az összekészítő.
or to promote him, but he's still there.
vagy léptessük-e elő, de ott van még.
a little bit off the rails
conflicted in all of this.
that I counted on being here,
amire számítottam,
a really bad sense of humor,
was conflicted, right?
we started doing things
of our core mission
should we let them fail?
we should celebrate failure.
that says, "Let's celebrate failure."
"Ünnepeljük a kudarcot!".
if we would go all the way there,
ha egészen addig mennénk,
egyik tag sem mondja:
"Hey, Chieh, you failed last quarter,
an organization like that,
to sit in on that meeting.
many people celebrate failure,
is actually pretty necessary
that you give them at hand.
teljesítéséért vannak.
be seen as a milestone
az az általános nézet,
that you might fail more often,
and it's pretty great.
cost millions of dollars to build,
megépítése dollármilliókba kerül,
hatékonyabbá tudják tenni,
without spending millions of dollars?"
this is not photoshopped,
what format it needed to be.
milyen formában építsenek.
the first prototype:
sztereoszkópiával, lézerradarral.
stereoscopic cameras, lidar systems.
the efficiency of a conveyor belt
kiváltja a szállítószalagot,
of a conveyor belt.
just stop with engineers.
get the word out; do the right thing."
helyesen cselekedjetek."
on the marketing team.
ez a csodás hölgy, Nitasha.
we doing about the pink tax?"
what is this pink tax?"
it's really interesting.
Amerika 32 államában
that in 32 states across America,
on women's products
are taxed like luxury goods items.
luxusterméknek számítanak.
bring some pads on the way home,"
"Drágám, hazajövet beugranál betétért",
épp kereskedelmi háború van,
there's a trade war going on,
de a következőben, ígérem,
but next month I promise --
visszaigénylik az adót,
they rebate the tax
méltánytalanul szedünk be.
that we unfairly have to collect.
you might be thinking,
of not micromanaging?"
a mikromenedzsmentnek?",
the Pink Tax" campaign.
kampány nem az enyém.
taking all the credit for it.
és kapom értük az elismerést.
de az elismerést az övé.
and takes all the credit for it.
He's really got it down."
100 percent pat,
the most fundamentally challenging lesson
ami legjobban feladja a leckét,
to micromanagement ...
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chieh Huang - EntrepreneurChieh Huang is cofounder and CEO of Boxed.com, a company that's disrupting the wholesale shopping club experience.
Why you should listen
Started in Chieh Huang's garage five years ago, Boxed now has hundreds of employees in facilities all over the United States. Since the garage, the company has sold hundreds of millions of dollars of products and has raised over a quarter billion dollars in funding to date. Forbes named Boxed one of the next "billion-dollar startups."
Prior to Boxed, Huang served as the CEO of Astro Ape, one of the first mobile social gaming studios. His personal honors include being named to Bloomberg 50 (Bloomberg Businessweek's 50 people to watch in 2018), National Retail Federation's list of "People Shaping Retail’s Future, Crain's "40 Under 40" and Goldman Sachs's list of "100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs." He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and received his JD from Fordham University.
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