これはNUS EMBAリーダーシップコースの課後宿題です：2032年からの手紙。一石二鳥で、顺便に公众号の記事も発信します～
Letter from 2032
02 Dec 2032
Hi Renee,
How are you doing?
I am also Renee but from 2032.
First, thank you for all your efforts to improve yourself in the next ten years. I am older but with more experience and wisdom from these ten years.
I know you would have many questions about what happened from 2022 to 2032. So let me draw the picture for you right now.
As you may have already assumed, you have constantly been focusing on the business. Your company has achieved excellent access in the web3 industry; meanwhile, your web2 gaming business has become a cash cow for the company for years.
The key driver of your web2 business is the organization's capacity. And the reason for web3 success is that you never give up and continue to upgrade your recognition in the industry. Let me explain in more detail:
The organization's capacity
You mainly improved your leadership skills after the class to increase the organization's capacity. In addition, you reiterated the company's culture, with three components making it up - Mission, Vision, and Value:
Vision - To help every Guru-er become a real Gure and to make valuable products for users.
Mission - To add more fun to the life of everyone in the world.
Core Values
Individual values: to foster excellence, optimism, and persistence.
Collaborative values: to encourage freedom, accountability, and sharing.
Worldly values: to promote altruism, embrace change, and be result-driven.
You transferred from a manager to a leader. From top-down demands, you encouraged bottom-up innovations. You also changed your mindset from short-time objectives to long-term vision. You don't want to hurry it anymore. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. You just want to get at it slowly but carefully and thoroughly. It was that attitude that found the meaning you are doing the business, nothing else.
However, you still combine leadership skills and managerial knowledge, which is the only way to make an organization energetic and systematic.
The Age of disruption
Web3 has been the most significant creative destruction for the past ten years. To adopt this new trend, you must embrace flexibility and learn fast. In addition, most Web3 team members are DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) members and work remotely worldwide. Therefore, you must continually maintain the culture and leverage all the new SaaS tools.
As video meetings are the only way you communicate with team members from different countries, you have improved your skills in providing effective feedback, cultivating a constructive attitude, and focusing on the specific behavior and its impact. You try to elicit feedback on the feedback and establish a dialogue about feedback instead of only one-way input.
Building a web3 business is building an ecosystem and community. So you respect the differentiations across group boundaries and try to forge common ground for all stakeholders. Innovations and opportunities will be born naturally in this system.
And the diverse culture gives you new insights from different perspectives. You also use the Six Thinking Hats to understand the situation and make decisions.
You have grown a global mindset. You leverage the Chinese engineer dividend to build high-quality mobile apps and web3 Dapps (decentralized apps). However, you will work with team members from other cultures as well. You have understood that people will behave not as you expect as they have different attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, and values. As a result, you began to respect all cultures.
The inspiration from your coach
You explained your confusion during the leadership class. You now have two business units, Web2 and Web3. Web2 is going through the 1-n process, and Web3 is exploring in 0-1. Therefore, you must learn how to manage time and energy.
The coach asked you to review all the past successes you have achieved and what are the key factors. You followed the questions and found the drivers: you hired the right people into the team, continually dipped in the industry, and kept trying and pivoting until you found the promising directions.
These factors have already helped you, so why not use them in the future? You followed the advice, continually looked for talents, and empowered these intelligent people to help you build the business together. You kept learning what was happening in Web3 and used MVP (minimal viable product) to test the users' needs. The web3 company has a very humble beginning, and you have been struggling for years to pivot to find PMF (product market fit) and scale it in the next couple of years.
Live in your way
There will be some conflict between you and the investors. I know you were a person ten years ago who always wanted to exceed others' expectations. But one day, you will find out that you should follow your heart. Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.
Other than your business, you still live a simple life. I know you have been in "Dan Sha Ri" for years, and you would continuously keep this habit. The things you can control are much more than the things you desire. It makes you only focus on the few things that motivate you most and make you peaceful.
It is more difficult to be a loser in a game you set up.
All best lucks to you,
Renee