Chieh Huang: Confessions of a recovering micromanager
Chieh Huang: Confissões de um microgestor em recuperação
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
sobre microgestão
over the last few years of my life.
o que é microgestão?
great, wonderful, imaginative people --
pessoas maravilhosas e imaginativas,
alguém já disse isso?
that deal with Times New Roman,
usando a fonte Times New Roman,
provavelmente em nós mesmos
that we probably see in ourselves
mais cansados na vida.
you've ever been in your life, right?
quando trabalharam até mais tarde,
you stayed the latest at work,
came home from a road trip,
de uma longa viagem de carro.
looking over your shoulder,
alguém monitorando suas ações,
when she's over right?
data to support this.
receberam um monitor de atividade
their next 12-hour shift all alone,
de um turno regular de trabalho.
they asked them, "Do you feel fatigued?"
"Vocês estão cansados?"
was actually really interesting.
quem se movimentava mais
the people who moved the most
controle sobre as tarefas.
that didn't have control over their jobs.
isn't really effective,
não é realmente eficaz,
wonderful, imaginative people
maravilhosas e imaginativas
que talvez nem precisemos fazer,
you probably don't even need to ask.
seja roubada no aeroporto?"
your luggage stolen at the airport?"
been asked, right?
dull and unimaginative people?"
idiotas e sem imaginação?"
we better back it up with data.
comprovar com dados.
of people around the country --
de gestores em todo o país:
dull and unimaginative people?
idiotas e sem imaginação?"
dull and unimaginative people.
idiotas e sem imaginação".
understand the question --
não entenderam a pergunta...
contratar idiotas sem imaginação.
dull and unimaginative people.
and so why do we do this still then?
really, really simple
and have actually felt.
sabemos e sentimos.
into an organization --
um escritório de advocacia,
it could be a law firm,
it could be anything --
of the totem pole, right?
para o topo da hierarquia.
at doing the work,
com o que seremos recompensados?
are all great micromanagers.
são ótimos microgestores.
trabalharemos ainda mais,
if you're really good at it,
pessoas que fazem o trabalho.
people doing the work.
what happens after that?
o que acontecerá depois?
who manage the people doing the work,
que gerenciam as que fazem o trabalho.
over the output of your job.
sobre o resultado de nosso trabalho.
por experiência própria.
called Boxed in our garage,
em nossa garagem,
I know it doesn't seem like much --
washer in the back --
when we started this,
de mim quando começamos,
she was really proud of me --
de que ela pegava o telefone
and I'm pretty sure she had her phone up
"Oh, is John from Harvard still single?"
ainda está solteiro?"
gone wrong in the beginning,
que deu errado no começo,
que as vendas pelo celular cresceriam,
mobile commerce is going to be big,
ao cliente mudaria ao longo do tempo.
were going to change over time,
that you don't want to lug home --
que você não quer levar pra casa,
com 24 pacotes de biscoitos Oreo,
of Oreo cookies but the 24-pack
of toilet paper but the 48-pack --
higiênico com 48 rolos,
much like a warehouse club would do
mas só que ele não enviaria.
muito lenta e dissemos:
"OK, this printer is taking forever, man.
that would delight the customer
keep smiling," you know?
the monotony of the job as well
a monotonia do trabalho,
and packing all of the boxes,
por 8, 9, 10 ou 12 horas por dia
for eight, nine, 10, 12 hours a day
of millions of dollars worth of stuff,
de milhões de dólares em produtos
really, really quickly.
my role started to change, too.
também começou a mudar.
doing all the work,
para gerenciar as pessoas que embalavam,
who picked and packed,
que gerenciavam as que embalavam.
picking and packing.
que gerencia os departamentos
who manage the departments
the people picking and packing.
que gerenciam aquelas que embalam.
in time, I lost control.
all of these customers with these notes.
os clientes com aquelas notas.
mais escrever as notas".
write these notes anymore,
como escrever as notas,
how to write these notes.
what you should write,
o que escrever, qual fonte usar,
isso tem que ser desse ou daquele jeito...
this has to be that big.
of raising morale
in the fulfillment center
começaram a reclamar para o RH:
and people started complaining to HR.
has got to get out of my hair, OK?
Sei escrever a tal da nota".
we said, "OK, you know?
that's 'delight the customer,'
de 'encantar o cliente',
que são essas notas. Mãos à obra".
and that's these notes -- have at it."
was actually pretty startling.
algumas pessoas começavam a fazer
these really ornate minimurals on them.
you'd get really fun notes like this:
recebiam notas divertidas como esta:
if they bought a bigger size,
escreviam: "Estão crescendo tão rápido".
saíram dos trilhos algumas vezes.
went off the rails a few times.
"Thx, thx," all the time,
my boss used to write that to me,"
costumava escrever isso pra mim".
things on the other side.
interessantes do outro lado.
um pouco criativas demais.
we sell everything in bulk:
vendemos tudo no atacado:
big packs of toilet paper,
e de papel higiênico,
e de biscoitos Oreo.
of contraception,
grandes de preservativos,
40-pack of condoms.
four 40-packs of condoms --
com 40 preservativos...
"I know how to delight the customer."
"Sei como encantar o cliente".
ou promovê-lo, mas ele ainda está lá.
or to promote him, but he's still there.
a little bit off the rails
saíram um pouco dos trilhos,
conflicted in all of this.
em conflito com tudo isso.
that I counted on being here,
que pudesse usar, não seria um erro, né?
a really bad sense of humor,
senso de humor,
was conflicted, right?
estava em conflito.
we started doing things
of our core mission
de nossa missão principal,
should we let them fail?
we should celebrate failure.
that says, "Let's celebrate failure."
se fala: "Vamos comemorar o fracasso".
if we would go all the way there,
os membros nunca dizem algo como:
"Hey, Chieh, you failed last quarter,
no último trimestre.
an organization like that,
de uma empresa assim, me ligue.
to sit in on that meeting.
que muitos comemoram o fracasso,
many people celebrate failure,
seja realmente essencial
is actually pretty necessary
e imaginativas
that you give them at hand.
que damos a elas.
be seen as a milestone
ser visto como um marco
that you might fail more often,
de que podemos fracassar mais vezes,
and it's pretty great.
cost millions of dollars to build,
custaram milhões de dólares,
transportadoras.
sem gastar milhões de dólares?"
without spending millions of dollars?"
não tem nada de Photoshop aqui.
this is not photoshopped,
what format it needed to be.
qual teria de ser o formato.
o primeiro protótipo:
the first prototype:
estereoscópicas, sistemas LIDAR.
stereoscopic cameras, lidar systems.
de uma esteira transportadora
the efficiency of a conveyor belt
of a conveyor belt.
just stop with engineers.
"Divulguem, façam a coisa certa".
get the word out; do the right thing."
on the marketing team.
da equipe de marketing,
"Chieh, o que fazemos com a taxa rosa?"
we doing about the pink tax?"
"Certo, Nitasha, o que é essa taxa rosa?"
what is this pink tax?"
it's really interesting.
que, em 32 estados dos EUA,
that in 32 states across America,
sobre produtos para mulheres,
on women's products
são taxados como artigos de luxo.
are taxed like luxury goods items.
ou se ela me ligasse dizendo:
bring some pads on the way home,"
há uma guerra comercial;
there's a trade war going on,
nada artigos de luxo este mês,
but next month I promise --
prometo que darei uma olhada".
a eles nada quanto ao que fazer,
o imposto que temos de cobrar injustamente
they rebate the tax
that we unfairly have to collect.
you might be thinking,
of not micromanaging?"
de não fazer microgestão?".
não criei o veículo autoguiado
the Pink Tax" campaign.
taking all the credit for it.
recebendo todo o crédito por isso.
and takes all the credit for it.
e leva todo o crédito.
é realmente bom nisso."
He's really got it down."
100 percent pat,
the most fundamentally challenging lesson
desafiadora mais importante
to micromanagement ...
para a microgestão:
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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