My view on Entrepreneur and Enterprise inspired by Peter Shoore

      Frank Li  June 25, 2013, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

       Updated in Mar. 11, 2015, Mar 29,  May 6, Sept 17,18, 20, 25 & 27; Dec. 21, 2018. Feb. 26, Mar. 29,  Apr. 2, 4, 2019. Jan.3, 2020; Mar. 2, 9, 11, 15, 16, 18, 21, 26, 31,  April 3, 9, 16, 17, 2021; May 9, 2022

       Keywords: Sunrise Farms; DC Foods, Li Ka-shing

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   Dr. Peter Shoore, the owner of Sunrise Farms, Vancouver B.C. Canada, who has studied classical music in the Netherlands for seven years to have earned his doctorate in music, however, he becomes an entrepreneur in chicken industry Canada in 3 decades ago. As a doctorate of Music, obviously, the music is his favorite. I could not imagine his feeling when he has to play immetrical music with chicken by giving up own favorite?

   A two times heart attack sufferer from the pressure of business operation, after sold his 20 years operated business, wrote on company's news letter with that: "Now that we have been delegated to the back pages, the pressure is off to be profound, witty, and entertaining at the same time. But that still doesn't stop us from wanting to have something to say, that will inspire and be interesting to read. We can reminisce, about the old days, like your grandfather carrying a bucket of water up hill, in a snowstorm without shoes."

   After reading above, I am tearful. I think, even himself would not understand the meaning his 20 years hard working, two times heart attack, have exchanged as the jobs for many families survival and the revenue for social governing.

   In Canada, I am familiar with some Entrepreneurs, as a result of too much psychological pressure from business operation, among them, besides above two times heart attack sufferer, there one was dead earlier.

   The sadness inspired me wrote article The death of a Canadian business owner. I attached this article at the end of this page or copy the link:  http://www.kwcg.ca/bbs/home.php?mod=space&uid=61910&do=blog&id=3742

  (Special note, yestoday, from a phone chat, I learnt that above entrepreneur of the two times heart attack died in years ago after left his sold business shortly.  The new owner once allowed him working about 6 yeras on his request at my suggestion. Now I am tearful   -   Frank Li;  Morning, July 31, 2021, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) .

   The sad facts cause me to think about the meaning of the enterprises and entrepreneurs.

   The Entrepreneurs run Enterprises to create job position for citizen living making and tax revenue for social governing, from this point of view, the Entrepreneurs are the best civil servants in reality in playing the role of communists.

   However, historically, in worldwide, it has been lacking of concerning and supporting for Entrepreneurs, even, until now, there great many people are with hostile attitude toward them. The law seems to have ignored this group also, but tended to protect employees without updating of the outdated traditional concept of ideology from the times of Industrial Revolution with ignoring that modern society has provided thoughtful social welfare and comprehensive legal protection.

 

   The outdated ideology and practice has badly affected the work ethic of employees and to have made Enterprises difficult for managing, even, encouraging some mindless employees' pranks boldly in the workplace without the fear of being punished. It is not only badly affecting the production efficiency, but more terrible, it even caused the closure of some Enterprises.     

   The article Canada's Corporate Management & Reducing Psychological Pressure (Reproduced in below) was written according to my personal experiences after shocked by the death of my boss of my first worked company in Canada, in which I have taken DEF Company（Anonymous）as example to introduce that a gentleman who was in a very good appearance with good personal accomplishment of civilized, cultured, and polite, but he was teaching others to slow down their work with smile in a production line’s final stage, and to have lowered the production capacity of whole line to 50% around. Thus, made a good Enterprise closed before outbreak of Financial Crisis 2008. He made himself and other 1300 people lost high quality jobs - Prime Minister Stephen Harper once said that he would like to provide, which is good paid with good work environment.

   The company was a branch of listed transnational manufacturer of banking and cashing machine located in Waterloo, On. Ca.. As listed enterprise, the identity of business owner has faded, so the hostile attitude of employee toward the owner of the enterprise should also be watered down. Our jobs were like that of assembling a big computer with the parts that assembled by the teams in top of the production line. This kind of jobs was not heavy physically and it could not work fast also. I am still wondering that why the gentleman did that? His behavior was no any benefit or interest for any others and himself? If it was not what I have seen, I would never believe that was true.

     People may ask that why supervisor did not play its supervising role? Indeed, the supervisor was just nearby every day and was clearly seeing and hearing what was playing in the workplace, but, besides hard works as general operator, he seemed have never taken his supervising role. Maybe, due to my work attitude was different with others, supervisor often talks to me.

     Because of low productivity, every year before Christmas, the company must recruit a lot of temporary workers to complete the backlog of the orders, it was just in such a busy time, one day, the Supervisor told me that he will leave for vacation about two weeks. At first, I was very surprised and even doubted whether I misheard what he said, or he was in joking.

     A few days later, my team colleagues told me that: in other department, the night shift temporary workers collectively made trouble, even to have smashed some equipments after learnt that they were laid off. At that time, I understood the reason that Supervisor left for vacation, he was to dodge for avoiding trouble. 

     Also, we may easily imagine that the Supervisor leaving for vacation might become routine manner at the busy juncture in before Christmas every year.

     It is really an incredible matter. A Supervisor as middle management in a legitimate multinational company, his work should be aboveboard and dignified; however, he had to act as that of criminal to dodge some time every year, but conversely, the criminal manners of those workplace troublemakers were acting as aboveboard and dignified, there no one dared inhibit them. 

     This might be the most absurd thing in the world. It is simply as that of the sky and the earth has been swapped the position.   

     At the entrance of factory, there were often union workers handing out flyers. I asked a colleague in our team and he said that don’t pay attention to them. If you join the union, they will deduct 4% of your salary as membership dues.

      I guess that the gentleman who made the company closed was a union member, the union charged the membership dues; then returns the members by destroying their job position and uprooting the foundation of the existence of human society.

     The appeals that government is a necessary evil and give me liberty, or give me death were all for fighting against colonial government during British colonial rule in the United States; but in today, people are still pick them up as bible play. The individualistic people dug out died thoughts from graves as guidance to fight against government and made government has no place, then people freely ganged up as social societies as replacement.

     Humans are inborn selfish animals, any behavior is driven by selfish instinct, and the more people grouped the more harmful. The civil societies are the most popular model.

     Now the civil society of NGO has reached in shocking numbers of 10 million; they are under the banner of non-profits fighting for public good, however, actually they are all in personal gaining by harming public interest. they are all in looting human society for profit.

     Among those social societies; the worst one was those NGOs that were purposefully used as political tools to purposefully overthrow the legitimate governments of a peaceful country to make people cannot make living in home place to have to enter refugees.

     The so called human rights organizations are in making living by badly interfering with social governance and acted as vampire parasites on society.

     The trade unions charge 4% of members' salaries as dues, and then return by organized striking for more by doing less to uproot survival foundations.

     It said that there 70% of donated money was put in the pockets of charity organizers.

     Among all of people grouping, the partisan one is the evil most, by driving the power of Sate Apparatus as purpose.

     In democracies, regardless quality, as long as any one puts on the cloak of democracy, freedom and human rights, the one will gain the power to command whole world. 

    The facts have been clear, the only role of the democracy, freedom and human rights are enabling social garbage to make a living by endangering social governance and messing the life of people.

     Now, we can see the difficulty of the corporate management. 

     Above is only a simple example of mindless employees’ making trouble in the workplace. As my personal experiences, such acts of sabotaging production are common in Canadian Enterprises, the difference is just the sabotaging forms.

     Those mindless employees have no ability and no mind for doing good job, but with ability and full-hearted for trouble-making endlessly. It is an important cause of production inefficiency with an unpredictable consequences due to no one know what kind of bad idea would be put into production. The result not only harms business owner, but also harms society badly. The basis for Canadian economy is being damaged in such a simple way. 

     Since that I have been concerning about the corporate management, in past 12 years, I specifically worked in different types of enterprises in Canada to have observed their management with the mind that cultured with the culture and philosophies, which experienced before and after economic reform from the rigid planned economy to the market economy of China - the other side of the globe.

     Inspired by the experiences from both China and Canada, I have written some articles regarding the improvement of corporate management. Above mentionedCanada's Corporate Management & Reducing Psychological Pressure is the one of them, in which I introduced some true Enterprises by anonymous as good and poor managed examples.

     Feb. 13, 2013, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) issued the survey report to have given a proof with exact data – Canada's mid-sized firms have declinedby 17% — from 9,370 to 7,814 — from 2006 to 2010, in which, the manufacturing sector reduced more than half, from 2,807 to 1,381 between 2001 and 2010. 

     In the Era of market economy, living space has changed into market space from geographic space of agricultural economy; the decline of Canada’s manufacturing is in destructing the living space of Canadians.

     According to personal observation,  I dare say that the management of great many domestic Canadian businesses is not worth for appreciation. I guess that, the decline of Canada's mid-sized firms was caused by the mismanagement, in which few mindless employees lacking of responsibility, and boldly making trouble plays significant role.   

    The reason of those mindless employees dare do so, I think, firstly is from the hostile attitude toward Entrepreneurs, secondly is lack of management rules and regulations to follow, thirdly is from the interpersonal relationship factors, management staffs dare not manage strictly with the fear of undermining the friendship with employees, and fourthly is from the emboldening of the protection of outdated legislation. 

     (As my view, this is the dead harm of liberal democracy, for pleasing voters, democratic players dare support anything mindlessly. Please look at current Brexit of Britain and yellow vest of France , the two countries are in eating the bitter fruits that planted by their ancestors. The fruits made two countries in hopeless and has been ruining world since it was born. It was the Great Britain invented the representative political system with dead flaw that legally encourages free campaign without quality control on players by ignoring that it is not all people in human feature are in human nature, and France Montesquieu invented the separation of powers at the base of despised French Enlightenment Leader Voltaire respected the governance of China, under the imperial power (stable), by imperial examination recruiting social elites as officials to participate in legislation and governance in Technocratic Democracy by prioritizing merit over birth in facing whole country, no matter Rich or Poor.   

      (Maybe, for the sake of exerting own idea, Montesquieu intended ignored the humanized practice of China that selects learned people in Technocratic Democracy that started in 2000 years ago; but maliciously slandered by distorting the humanized facts. In the "The Spirit of the Law", he made a lot of criticisms on the autocracy of the Chinese Empire. It was just the wrongful deeds of the Montesquieu provided the westerners confidence to criticize today’s China as dictatorship in ignoring the fact of the humanized practice of China is in Technocratic Democracy, the lawmakers in central government and the government at all levels are all the globally renowned entrepreneurs and scholars, such as, Jack Ma of Alibaba, Ren Zhengfei of Huawei and Li Shufu of Geely.) 

     (An entrepreneur can run an enterprise to be world renowned in nowadays hot competing market, at first; the entrepreneur has acquired profound knowledge as that of philosopher, strategist, psychologist, military conductor, and more. It is just such unique social elites enable China outstanding among any others. The West is hopeless under unchangeable democratic play. Democracy is a dirty ladder in helping brain defectives to climb on the seats of steering the Apparatus of the country.)     --- Apr. 2, 2019 in Canada.

      (The childish play of the Brexit of Britain and yellow vest of France demonstrated sdaness that the democracy is in dysfunction of government by legally supporting improper democratic play, while the values, the rights, and the freedom are in playing the role as legislated encouraging the individuals, the groups and the political parties put their own interests on the top of the interests of country and public; in facilitating the infinite expansion of personal interests with the infinite shrinkage of national interests.) 

       (The West despises China by self-proud of rich achievements in the thoughts of the enlightenment, politics, philosophies and ideologies, but, actually, those thoughts are precisely the evidence of the chaotic social governance of inhuman civilization, because the initiation of these thoughts were from chaotic barbaric social environment under the social system in which the governing power were mainly religious and imperial mixed, while entangling with the knight classes, the nobilities under long Dark Ages, endless wars and endless religious killing, which did not happen in China at all.) 

      (It was not that there was no potential for budding such stuff, but due to the soil for such budding was destroyed in 221BC after China reunified from 550 years of wars between the enfeoffment states since 771BC Imperial Court out of control; and to be governed in Ministries, Provinces and Counties as that of today by selecting learned people as officials, which was exactly as today's Technocratic Democracy; while strictly control ideologies and took Confucianism as only moral guidance to have cultured people in high quality with collectivism of safeguarding collective interests.) 

      (The inborn beast instincts of human beings are the same, no matter Easterner or Westerner, once get chance everyone will barbaric play. The 550 years of wars in ancient China was a best proof. The tragic life of wars enlightened ancient people of China timely eliminated the soil for the exertion of human beast instinct from the design of political system by eliminating the source of war - stopping the tradition of enfeoffment states that are economic independence to produce uncontrollable military power and strictly controlling the quality of people who participate in social governance.) 

     (In contrast, in the west, in 2000 years later, the civilization of China came to trigered the Renaissance.)   

      (Gavin Menzies, the British submarine lieutenant-commander, as career needs, he once visited many countries and shocked by the ancient monuments that left by Zheng He Fleet of China. After retirement, on own spending, he cost 14 years to have researched on Ming treasure Voyages by visiting historic sites of 120 countries and more than 900 libraries, museums and archives. Then accordingly wrote books 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (2002) and 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (2008).)

     (In book 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, the writer Gavin Menzies wrote that, in 1434, a Chinese fleet, official ambassadors of the emperor, arrived in Tuscany in 1434, where they met with Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. The delegation presented the pope with a wealth of knowledge, from a diverse range of fields: geography (including world maps that the author believes were passed on to Christopher Columbus), astronomy, mathematics, art, printing, architecture, steel manufacturing, civil engineering, military weaponry, surveying, cartography, genetics, and more. This gift of knowledge sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance, including da Vinci’s mechanical creations, the Copernican revolution, Galileo’s discoveries, and more. From 1434 onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions – all which have formed the basis of European civilisation by changing the way we see ourselves, our history, and our world; and all of which form the basis of Western civilization today.)

      (Thanks Mr. Gavin Menzies for discovering the truce of history. But, the Renaissance trigered French Revolution caused bloody massacre, and Britons colluding Frenches fabricated liberal democracy without quality control on the players with fabricated and still in fabricating large amount of confused inhuman philosophies and ideologies that enable low quality people to confidently ruin the world, the world has been pushed into new Dark Ages again.)    

      (Please look at the barbaric deeds of the West: Feb. 20, 2015, America Has Been at War 93% of the Time – 222 out of 239 Years – Since 1776;   Aug. 22, 2008, The White Man's Burden: Why the West to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill So Little Good.)    --- Morning 2:29 am, Apr. 4, 2019 in Canada; updated in Mar. 9, 11, 12, 18,19, 23, and June 19, 2021.  

    In viewing of above, I have wrote Family Business and Management Board, My View on the Argument of Social Polarization with the purpose to reduce or avoid the hostility of Employees toward the Entrepreneurs by properly understanding the Rich, in which I indicated that the money of those Rich is not in handy for self enjoyment but mostly being used in the business' running with creating employment and revenue. Therefore, in fact, it is being shared by public actually in playing the role of public wealth. 

    In some extent, in fact, the Enterprise is a life boat that is shared to make living by Employees & Employers together.

    To view in this practical way, we can draw a general conclusion: it is that the means of production is not personal consuming goods, no matter who owns it, the owner only possess the power of disposal or organization of the production of social material wealth. Actually, the Enterprise and the means of production is shared socially as public wealth.

    To view in this practical way, the Poor are not poor as some people complained; and the Rich are not rich as some people fantasized at all.  

    For well understanding this issue, I will reprint an article that introduce Peter Shoore, the owner of Sunrise Farms, Vancouver Canada, a private business that primary focus on processing and distribution of quality poultry and other fine protein products. I hope that from the hard experience of Peter Shoore to help public to further understand the nature of the Rich and their money, the nature of Entrepreneur and Enterprise, thereby to improve their work ethic and to care every thing in enterprise as that of at home.  

    Perhaps, for business owners, the purpose for launching a business, initially, is just for breadwinner, for a better life of their families. However, even if the business’ scale is gradually larger, even if they got enough money, the majority of the entrepreneurs and their families are still very frugal in daily life. The consumption of their families is similar with those of general employees. The money they earned was to be invested to make business stable and to expand the production.

    However, compared with common employees, those Entrepreneurs and their families are taking high psychological pressures on their business running, such as, business managing, marketing, financing, etc. The more terrible stress may come from the worries for potential legal responsibilities in unseen.

    In consideration of social effect, the Entrepreneurs running the Enterprises are to create job position and tax revenue for Community. Thus, the meaning of their personal behaviors was sublimated from the parochial self-interest originally to the public interest actually.

    There are s lot of facts showing that the majority of Entrepreneurs are more concerning the macro-social issue and the life of their Employees, but rather than their own personal interests. This is the big different between Entrepreneurs and Employees.

    From this point of view, the Entrepreneurs are the best civil servants, and the communists in reality.     

     Forbes  makes The World's Billionaires List every year, I think that they may be ignored the nature of the Rich and their money. The World's Billionaires List  has been playing a role to arouse public aware of Social Polarization from time to time. It may easily cause misunderstanding and to induce public hatred mentality toward the Entrepreneurs.

    The concept of Social Polarization is worth serious reflection. It is playing a bad role to harm the society in many ways.

    Now, I would like to take Peter Shoore as example to show the nature of the Social Polarization.

    After 30 years hard working, now Peter Shoore has qualified as so-called -Billionaire, but, as Entrouprenour, his money is used in the means of production with nearly 20 foods processing branches and the daily running, with provides jod for social employment and the tax revenue for social governance, rather than in handy for self enjoyment.

    On other hand, he has studied classical music in the Netherlands for seven years to have earned his doctorate in music, but he becomes an entrepreneur in chicken industry Canada. As a doctorate of Music, obviously, the music is his favorite. I could not imagine his feelings when he has to play immetrical music with chicken by giving up his favorite?

    One point is clear, when our ideal conflicts with the reality, we tend to, to have to give up the ideal, to surrender to the reality, because of, and first of all, we need to survive. However, when we obtained the economic capacity to engage in our favourite, the prime time of our life has been past. Maybe, this is the sad and helpless of life.

    I am tearful.

    However, as smart people, whatever engaged, they will be doing well. In particular, for Peter Shoore, who is rich in musical talent, and he has written an alternative life movement with successful running Sunrise Farms, with rapid expansion, and innovations.

    In Top 100 private companies in B.C. in 2011, Sunrise Farms is ranked as 41, in Top 100 private companies in BC in 2012, Sunrise Farms is ranked as 40, which is according to the annual revenue of the fiscal year.

    Above I have mentioned that the majority of Entrepreneurs are more concerning the macro-social issue and the life of their Employees also was inspired by Dr. Peter Shoore.

    I am working in a branch of his business, recently the payment of all staff here was increased and the walls of workshop were newly decorated when other companies are tightening spending.

    Dr. Peter Shoore said that, I would like to see my employees work in a comfortable environment.

    Please remember: Peter Shoore - a Billionaire Entrepreneur, his first concerning is his Employees rather than that of money.  

             --- Frank Li   Jun 25 2013 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  

 

Some daily thoughts sfter writing this topic

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    The humanized design in social elements  in regardless of human quality made the European based Western Individualistic Civilization went out of old Dark Ages into new version of Dark Ages to continuously stay in the inhuman state under the Law of Jungle.

Company is the basic organization for creating people a prosperous life and a stable society

The covid-19 virus sadly discovered that human civilization is far from humanized yet

   The means of production are not personal consuming goods, no matter who owns it, the owner only possess the power for disposal or organization of the production of material wealth of life necessaries for supporting people survival. 

 

   Views in this practical way, the Companies are shared socially as public wealth; the Poor is not poor as people complained; and the Rich is not rich as people fantasized at all. The so called Social Polarization is a false proposition. 

   As a typical false proposition, the Social Polarization has been playing extremely bad role by inducing people to hate entrepreneurs and undermine employees’ production enthusiasm to badly damage the efficiency of productivity.

   The World's Billionaires List has been playing a misleading role to arouse public aware of Social Polarization from time to time. It may easily cause misunderstanding and to induce public hatred mentality toward the Entrepreneurs.

   Above behaviors revealed a fact that the cause of the Deceptive Civilization is nothing else but the civilization mal-cultured too many people with distorted mentality in making livings by extraordinary imagination fabricating social poisons.       

       --- Frank Li, June 18, 2021, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

  

  In writing, some paragraphs named for the convenience of reading without edited carefully. I apologize for poor wording......   

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  1...  The death of a Canadian business owner 

                Frank  Sep. 11, 2014 in Waterloo, On. Ca.

                   Updated Oct. 23, 26, & 29, 2019  

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   People will experience many things in the lifetime, many of them would be forgotten, but some of them can never be forgotten, and often, they are haunting in the mind, some of them are happy, but the most of them are sad. Maybe, this is the part of life. it is such a feeling motivates me writing this topic.

                              ---  Frank Oct. 23, 2019  in Waterloo, On. Ca.

            Contents

 

   1.. The hardship of Canadian business owner

   2.. A supervisor makes trouble for business owner

   3.. The death of my former boss Jerry

   4.. The separation of the business founder

   5.. The friendship with the busses owners and my supervisor 

 

   Birth, sickness, aging and death is the law of nature, it may be the only equality and fairness that can be enjoyed by every human member on this chaotic globe, whether Easterner or Westerner, the Rich or the Poor.

   I often think of my Grandpa(s), Grandma(s), Dad, and Mama, though they have died in decades or years ago, however, their figures and faces are still able to clearly show in my mind.

   The saddest was the death of my Mom. My Mom has been in stroking hemiplegia for 25 years, and died in a sudden large area of myocardial infarction in China, at that time, I live in Canada and had years not meet my Mom besides phone calls about twice a week.

   For my mother's death, at the first, I was no strong feelings of sadness, in most of time, I was in the hallucinations that my Mom is still alive, until about two years later, the fact that I have lost my Mama was fixed in my mind and since then I am easier tearful, even when facing a slight sad matter that has no any relation with me.

   I miss them, I tear for them, because they once paid me a lot of love and I loved them very much also, which is with kinship that cannot be separated.

   However, there a figure and face of a foreign man is also often showing in my mind and also making me tearful.

   He was Jerry who was an Armenian from former Soviet Union and died years ago in Toronto.

   Jerry was my first boss of my first job after I newly landed in Canada as an independent technical immigrant with a senior engineer background.

   I miss him; I tear for him, am not due to the kinship reason, but, was the tough life of him, as an immigrant and a business owner of Canada.

   I never forget that, in the fourth day of my working in his business, we met each other at first time, he increased my payment initially based on that has been settled in job interview days ago. I guessed that might be due to we were both immigrant in sharing same feeling of difficult life. His hard experiences made him easily understand the difficulty of me as a new immigrant.

   My grandparents and parents died due to irresistible natural aging at their age of about 80 with enjoyed their later years. But, Jerry died due to psychological pressure from business operation at his prime age of about 60 without enjoying his later years.

   His kindness and hardship in business operation induced me long thinking for the meaning of the enterprises and entrepreneurs. 

   This is why that I mentioned him again and again in my articles, and today, I specially recall him with a special title.

   Now, I am tearful again.

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   1.. The hardship of Canadian business owner

   Jerry was the big boss and was too busy to see him in the workplace; we were rare chance for chatting, so that I cannot tell more about him directly. However, from some of my experiences we can imagine the hardship of his life as a Canadian business owner. 

   April 11, 2013, in my article Why am I concerning the corporate management?, there a section relates with Jerry, I excerpt some as follow.

   Jerry and Adam were the owners of Auto Parts Company in Toronto, after landed in Canada, my first job was in their company, and Albert was my supervisor.

   Jerry was the big boss, and Adam was the second boss. Jerry was too busy on business running to see him in workplace. Adam was aged with full head of white hair and all day busy in the warehouse.  

   In the second day of my newly working in the company, I heard Adam scream loudly, I looked toward the place of he was working; found that he sat down on an Auto Parts box. I ran to see him.

   His right arm was lifted, and his left palm was under the right elbow, which seemed to want to touch but dared not touch. The pain made his face grimacing with sweating profusely. I did not know what should I do, and froze there with scare. 

   After a while, Adam recovered from the pain. He asked me that, have you scared, right? I nodded my head as answer with tears in my eyes.

   He said that, 30 years ago, he and Jerry escaped from Armenia, former Soviet Union to Turkey and Iraq in the period of the reign of Stalin. Then they moved to Canada. In order to make livings, he and Jerry started to make auto parts. At that time, the most of the jobs were heavy physical one. He and Jerry was both suffered arthritis on the elbow of the right arm. After said that, he rolled up the sleeve of his clothe and untied wrapped gauze on the right arm, to expose the elbow.

   Previously, I had read the article about arthritis causing femoral head deformation and effusion. However, when I saw it in true one, I was shocked, the bone ends grew up in heavy deformed to form a large gap between the two side bones. The water of joint effusion caused the skin falling; it looked like a yellow light bulb in bout 6 cm height.

   He said that he was old enough for retirement. However, he could not stand without the smells of lubricants oil and the noise of CNC Lathe. He had to work in the warehouse every day, otherwise, he would sick.

   He continued, when his working, he often forgot the arthritis on the elbow to use right hand, and repeatedly made painful as that of today.

   I said: “in the future, if you have something to do, please call me, I am your right arm and hand.”

   Since then, we became good friend. Also, since I worked with full heart, and became good friend of my supervisor Albert. Until now, I left the company for more than 8 years already, but, we are still in contacting each other, and concerning each other. 

   As same as most of aged people, Adam was also talkative. Every time, when he came in workplace, he would loudly shout my name.

   At the start, I exchanged with my supervisor by eyes, later, I directly went to work with Adam, when my supervisor needs my help, he would show me the work list and said that was urgent, and I showed it to Adam and then worked on the task of my supervisor.  

   At that time, I understood that why Jerry was always wrapped right elbow with bandage, when taking short-sleeved shirt in summer. And his right arm was never pendulous straight.

Maybe, he also often made himself painful as that of Adam today when working or in daily life.

   Also, Jerry has to taking the pressure for financing, production organizing, marketing……, he would worry when was short of order, he would worry for production when were too much orders….., while suffering elbow pain from time to time……

   The common people never understood the hardship as business owner.

   I am tearful…….

   It was the experience in this company, especially the hard experience of Jerry, Adam and Albert in business running; I began to focus on the business management in Canada.

   Apr 11, 2013, in my article Family Business and Management Board, also there some relates with Jerry, I excerpt some as follow. 

   Some employee, though, are not the family member, but, because of there is merit or great contribution for the business, will be produced in the same trouble as that of the family members.

 

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   2.. A supervisor makes trouble for business owner

   In the Auto Parts Company, there was a supervisor John who was taking charge of shipping, receiving and a group of people of packaging. he said that he worked with Jerry from the business' starting on his 15 years old in 30 years ago. 

   He came to work at around 10:30 - 11:00 am every day, sometimes did not show up. Some operators had to do his job temporally. 

   The reason for John dared do so, I thought, it was that he thought himself to have contributed too much for the foundation of the Company, so he should enjoy the treatment as that of the father of the owners.

   Maybe, as the same reason, for the preposterous behavior of John, the owner dared say nothing besides had to hire another supervisor - Albert to take part of his job, especially for some important jobs, such as, the shipping and receiving when John did not show up. 

   At that time, I worked with Albert. John told me that he was big supervisor, and all people there should follow that what he said. He always made trouble for Albert. Such as:

   He often put received auto parts on the walkways of the area that was my supervisor taking the responsibility. Of course, that had badly affected the normal work of many others, they miss-complained that it was the fault of my supervisor. Sometimes, my supervisor was even tearful.

   Finally, John was fired due to that he sold auto parts privately on the way for delivering.

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   3.. The death of my former boss Jerry

   Years ago, when I visiting my supervisor Albert, I learnt that the big boss Jerry died. With the business decline helplessly, his health condition was also declined helplessly and finally on an operation bed he never stand up.

   I will never forget the scene that day my Supervisor told me that Jerry has died: he was pointing a big photo of Jerry and the president of Armenia that hangs on the wall at entrance where was as the office and a retail store also. His red eyes with moist, we kept silent for many minutes.  

   On the photo, the two gentlemen were smiling with closely holding the hands of each other.

   The President of Armenia might only know that his compatriot successfully running a business in Canada, but he might never know that what hardships of his countrymen has experienced in Canada......

   Now, I think of a shocking experience in years ago, when driving, I saw a duck in the middle of the road in my front, after closer, I found a pile of squashed feathers with similar color of the duck. The duck was just wandering around the feathers with a low voice tweet. Obviously, it was not too long ago, a duck was killed by a car and then, there were a lot of cars rolling again and again.

   What was the relation of the duck with the duck of the feathers on road? Was husband? Was wife? Was child? Or just was the companion......

   The grief for dying is not limited in human

   I knew that the death of Jerry was a huge psychological blow for Albert - years of friendship, peer’s farewell, forever......

   Here, it is worth to mention that, when I worked in the Auto parts Company, the most people who worked there were Jerry's fellow man from same country - Armenia, former Soviet Union. Thus, the Auto Parts Company played a role as a refuge for those displaced compatriots to survive in Canada. As a normal human sense of morality, those who had to replaced people from the same country should thank for the merit of Jerry.

   However, I felt that, for the great help of Jerry, his compatriots had no sense of gratitude for him at all. Especially supervisor John, at the time as a 15-year-old child, if there was no the help of Jerry, how could he live a decent life. I thought, it was due to that those Armenian believed that Jerry was making money by exploiting of their labor. 

   For this point, that deliberately made nonsense of supervisor John was a good example.

   It is the common sense for majority of the people world widely, that operation of company is for making money, with failed to recognize the social significance that company in playing - to provide jobs for people making livings and revenue for social governance.

   It was such a absurd ideology that resulted in supervisor John's absurd behavior.

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   The difficulties in business management

 

   Here, there was example to show the difficult in business management of Canada.

   With the increase of imported cheaper quality auto parts from Taiwan China, company stopped the production of own CNC lathes and prepared to layoff the operators.

   My supervisor had two Indian guys of CNC operators to work in my workplace.

   One day, my supervisor told me that he will be off in next morning until noontime, and he told me to direct the work of two Indian guys with a list of work tasks.

   Next morning, I prepared for work of our three in separated area.

   They found that supervisor did not come, the Indian guys went to smoke and chat at the area between shelves of auto parts with a little job finished.

   Afternoon, my supervisor came back and happily asked me about the jobs of finished, I pointed the work of the two Indian guys finished; the happier expression on the face of my supervisor disappeared immediately, and since next morning, I never see the two Indian guys in the plant.

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   4.. The separation of the business founder

   There were three founders of the auto parts Company; they were all running own family retails of auto parts.

   Maybe due to the good relation with all people there, they often ask the help from me. This reason made me experienced the sadness of the separation of the business founder.

   One day in morning, the big buss Terry handed me a list and led me to a skid that put some auto parts in mess with broken boxes and dust, said please to pick up for me according to listed.

   In about 10 minutes later, the second buss Adam came to handed me a list and said please do this one at first.  

   In about 20 minutes later, Jerry came and asked me that did you finish them all? I said no while showed him with the list of Adam. Soon, I heard that two bosses happened fiercely argument in Russian, and later, I heard Adam said I quit, and Jerry said ok, that’s fine.

   Adam one gave me a phone number and said the gentleman was his neighbor from Hong Kong, he was very nice, and suggested me to make friend with him. But I never made phone call. Now, it was really useful.

   I called by phone number and learnt that Adam fallen in heavy sick and said that his business was robbed.

   One day, in the workplace, I heard the argument between Jerry and Arto of his son in law. From what they talked, I guessed that Adam requested Arto to persuade his father-in-law to make concessions and allow him to return to business, but, from the arguing loudly, I realize that the effort of Arto has failed.

   Why did Arto so hard help Adam? I imaged that as business copartners, the kids of each other have been treated as own, the intimate connection as blood relative has been established between each other.

   The decades of friendship of business co-partners were so easily broken.

                  --- Above section was added in Oct. 23, 2019. 

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   5.. The friendship with the busses owners and my supervisor

   In the fourth day of my working in the auto parts company, when I taking two auto parts with two hands to go down on a tall metal ladder, maybe the loud sound caused by my fast step hitting the steel ladder, Jerry suddenly rushed to my front from the back of the parts shelf and pointing the parts in my hands to ask me: “which number?” After I showed him the papers with the parts number, he went away immediately, and just after several steps he turned back again, and told me that:”Give you one dollar more pays, keep in mind don’t tell others”, and then he went away with fast paces immediately.

   One dollar more pays meant additional expenditure of 40 Canadian dollars per week. At the time, I guessed, maybe the second boss Adam introduced our talks in one day ago, and he learnt that I was a new immigrant, once worked as senior engineer with a good educational background, and a lot of rewarding certificates, which I showed to my job interviewer.

   Anyway, as an old immigrant, jerry have experienced tough life, and understood the hard of me as a new immigrant.

   Months later, my supervisor Albert told me that: Company cannot increase your payment any more, your payment is higher than others who came company at the same period; I knew that you need money as a new immigrant, please come in Saturday morning to work half day and to get four hours over time pay, and please tell me what you would like to eat and drink, I make phone call to order for you.

   He also proudly said that: there are so many people in company, only I have right to sign for ordering foods and drinks. At that time, I came to understand why that at the lunch time, often there some people pulled and pushed him to go out with loudly laughing.

   From here, we can feel the trust of the Jerry for Albert, and the sudden death of Jerry was a big blow for Albert.

   There was still one thing that I must talk here.

   After I left the Auto Parts Company, I moved to other city where my son entered University. I have to send resume looking for new jobs. Each time, the phone call to ask my reference, Albert has told me in detailed.

   The enthusiasm and concern of Albert deeply inspired me and gave me courage to overcome difficulties in the new city as immigrant.

   Please remember that Jerry and Albert was both Armenian, from former Soviet Union, and I was from China, we never met each other before I work with them.

   This was the reason that I visited my supervisor after years left Company, and learnt the death of Jerry, thereby made the hardships of Canadian business owners was lingering in my memory, and forced me to write this article to commemorate.

   I am tearful again.

 

   This is probably the reason of my greater concern in business management in Canada with many articles to discuss about such issues.

   My first writing in English on corporate management was discussing how to reduce psychological pressure in the workplace - Canada's Corporate Management & Reducing Psychological Pressure in Workplace in Dec. 21 2010.

   Now, to review back, the motivation for writing the article might be inspired by the death of Jerry. Follow is some excerpt of the article.

   "Many modern studies have shown that stress or psychological pressure is the main inducement for most diseases."

   "Pathogenic role of stress cannot be changed; however, the stress can be reduced even avoided. This article is try to discuss how to reducing the psychological pressure."

   "Nearly 1 / 3 of the prime time of our life are spent in the workplace, and that's where a lot of psychological pressure comes from. Therefore, there is necessary to consider seriously."  

   In June 25, 2013 article My view on Entrepreneurs and Enterprises inspired by Peter Shoore, I comment with that:

   "A two times heart attack sufferer by the pressure from business running, after sold his 20 years running business, wrote on company's news letter with that: 'Now that we have been delegated to the back pages, the pressure is off to be profound, witty, and entertaining at the same time. But that still doesn't stop us from wanting to have something to say, that will inspire and be interesting to read. We can reminisce, about the old days, like your grandfather carrying a bucket of water up hill, in a snowstorm without shoes.'"

   "Enterprise is the important organization of social production to create material wealth for human survival, and the entrepreneur invests their money to run the enterprise with a frugal living and risk taking, to provide employment for public living and revenue for social governing."

   "The entrepreneur is the best social servant and the communist in the reality."  

   "However, historically, in worldwide, it has been lacking of concerning and supporting for Entrepreneurs, even, until now, there great many people are with hostile attitude toward them. The law seems to have ignored this group also, but tended to protect employees without updating of the outdated concept from the times of Industrial Revolution with ignoring that modern society has provided thoughtful social welfare and comprehensive legal protection." 

   "The outdated ideology and practice has badly affected the work ethic of employees and to have made Enterprises difficult for managing, even, encouraging some mindless employees' pranks boldly in the workplace without the fear of being punished. It not only badly affecting the production efficiency, but more terrible, it even caused the closure of some Enterprises."

   In Feb. 09, 2014 article Management is the Art of Playing Human Nature, I comment with that:

   "Essentially, the Enterprise is the lifeboat to be sharing by owner and employee to struggle for survival in nowadays hard time."  

   Feb. 2012, I learnt that my supervisor Albert and his son had left the company together. I worried about very much and contacted him by email immediately. He returned me a new address in Toronto. I drove there eagerly. He has his son Sasoun as the manager opened an auto parts retail store.

 

   Best Way Auto Parts, 416 499 2378  

     info@bestwayautoparts.com

   25 Glendinning Ave. Unit 5, Scarborough, Toronto.  

 

   Here, it is necessary to make some explanation. When I landed in Canada newly, due to my poor oral English, it was difficult to get a job. One day, I found a job post of an auto parts company; I sent my resume with my senior engineer background on metallic profession.

   The interviewer was the third boss of the company, before interviewing, he has prepared many parts on table, and asked me about the materials and technology for manufacturing, of course, I was successful, while, I showed him with my certificates of education, professional qualifications, professional training, and many rewards for my outstanding work …...

   Maybe, that was the reason that Jerry increased my payment in first time met me, and my supervisor treated me as old friend.     

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2... Canada’s Corporate Management & Reducing Psychological Pressure in Workplace

        Frank Li   Mar. 1, 2008,  in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

        Updated in Nov. 9, 2010,  2013, Oct. 23, 2019; Mar. 15, 2021

        http://www.kwcg.ca/bbs/home.php?mod=space&uid=61910&do=blog&id=1550 

 

             Contents

Introduction

1…Grote Electronics, a best managed company

2…Sunrise Farms – DC Foods, a best managed company

3…Extruded products Company

4…The closure of Triton Company

5…The relocation to Mexico of NCR Waterloo

    5.1…A NCR’s supervisor dared not supervise in work

6…Mrs. Joyce, a sober lady

 

Note: In 2010, the death of the boss of my first job shocked me very much, I wrote article Canada’s Corporate Management & Reducing Psychological Pressure in Workplace with the hope to help business owners, and later I wrote many articles with the hope of improving business management in Canada, and then enlarged the writing scope to Political, Economical, Religion, Philosophy, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

For some good managed businesses that cited in article Canada’s Corporate Management & Reducing Psychological Pressure in Workplace, I want to use true name, and I went to DC Foods to ask for permission, Monica said that needs read my article at first, and soon I got permission to use any name of company and people.

Later, I applied to work in DC Foods, one day after job interviewed by Monica, when we went out from meeting room, the former owner Rob was waiting there and asked Monica: Ready? Monica said: Yes. Then Rob held my hand to a office where former owner Don shaked my hand and said that: “I appreciate your article very much.”

That was the first time that I met Don and Rob.

Later, I sent some of my writings to Don.

 

Introduction

Many modern studies have shown that stress or psychological pressure is the main inducement for most diseases.

Jan. 8th 2008, a report Stress Causes Everything said that “Stress, to put it bluntly, is bad for you. It can kill you, in fact. A study reveals that stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to everything from the common cold to cancer. Thanks to new research crossing the disciplines of psychology, medicine, neuroscience, and genetics, the mechanisms underlying the connection are rapidly becoming understood.”

Pathogenic role of stress cannot be changed, however, it can be reduced even avoided. This article is try to discuss how to reducing the psychological pressure.

Reducing psychological pressure in workplace

Nearly 1 / 3 of the prime time of our life are spent in the workplace, and that’s where a lot of psychological pressure comes from. Therefore, there is necessary to consider seriously.

Nowadays, more and more people are greedy for financial wealth with belittling the material wealth and moral wealth. However, no matter how the world changes, the wealth of material and moral are the prerequisites for human survival. Financial wealth would be a mirage once it loses the support of material wealth.

The material wealth production has a by-product – psychological pressure. It is invisible but severely influencing our emotional well-beings that is determining our healthy or not. So it is important to minimize its producing when optimizing the efficiency of material wealth production.

The objective world is constantly changing whether we are willing or not. The stuff inside the book is always lags behind the reality. Theory and practice is always biased in more or less. Truth only produces from practice.

For searching good method of enterprises management from practice, more than 10 years, I am intentionally as an ordinary operator to work in different Companies. The owner includes Russian, American, German and Canadian. Although, nowadays, there are many recognized successful management methods could be used to optimize the production efficiency. However, they were not being well adopted in many Companies.

In an immigrant-based multicultural country, the enterprises run by the people from different countries are inevitably in more or less maintaining the culture of their mother country. Management methods are different and the results are different. My observations suggest that whether an enterprise success is not entirely depending on the capital or market, but determined by management philosophy.

Human is an emotional animal that is sensitive to the psychological factors. The physical ability will be impacted by their psychological state. Thus, the process of optimizing production efficiency actually is a kind of psychological warfare. Besides reasonable payment that respects employees’ psychological feeling is crucial. Smart employer takes staff as the partners that invested by their labors of intellectual or manual to share the profit together associated with their contribution, thereby employees would do their best stimulated by enjoyable psychology and produce telepathy with employer to make them think together, make effort together and enjoy the fruits together. Such an enterprise will be invincible.

Now I’ll try to discuss it by some typical Companies as example with anonymous of company name.

I have no mean to offend any Companies or individuals only with a best wish trying to rationalize some smart managing methods.

Here, I only want to say a few words off the subject in somewhat, it is that the closure of many businesses, according to my personal experiences,  is not due to fail in market competing, but, it was due to some mindless employees made trouble in workplace.

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1…Grote Electronics, a best managed company

A branch of a transnational Company in manufacturing lightening products, the commendable point is that distinguishes the employees’ work performance accurately by computers, which can promote the production in highest efficiency with lesser psychological pressure producing.

In the production site, those needs to be processed semi-products are being put in the containers with a Work Log that provides the products’ information: name, quantity, batch number, barcode, a brief instruction of operations and the place for operator’s signature and stamp with a ID number stamp.

Usually, the operators take the semi-products to work individually without any people’s tasking in advance. This will save some work time.

The first step of operators was to take the Work Log to go to a scan-machine that looks like a telephone hangs on the wall, to scan own palm print, enter own work ID numbers and scan Work Log barcode, and then start to work.

After finished whole container of products, sign own name and stamp with a stamp of ID number on the Work Log and to repeat the first step again as an important procedure to entirely finish one container products. And then put them on a shelf for finished products before working on other products.

Team leader only acts as a nice teacher and consultant. Due to the employees’ team is stable; everyone knew how to do the best job. So, in most of time, in the workplace, you cannot distinguish who is team leader and who is general operator. The team leader is doing the same job with general operator together rather than as doing in the most of other Companies – just walking and looking around. Here, no one was doing this kind job that is directing with an old management method inherited from slavery. The method should be rest in their grave after the slavery was abolished long time ago.

In the working time, everyone is focusing on own job without free talking unless the operation needed because that of work efficiency of the individual is being calculated and recorded between the two time’s scan before and after finishing one container products, which is acting as an invisible eyes to supervise people to force them working harder without the negative feeling that produced under the slavery-like supervision.

Because of the work performance evaluated by computer based on the daily records, no one would doubt its impartiality. Thereby reduce the displeasure or even argument between the staffs or staff with management personnel, which is the main generator of psychological pressure.

The records may be used to peacefully solve the thorniest issue – layoff people when Company downsizing without hatred causing. Because the layoff process is based on the work performance backed by daily records. People would be self-convinced that they were being laid off by own work performance rather than by improper judgments of any individuals.

Of course, there is some room for improvement in this Company. Such as, take the Work Log as a ticket from start to terminal accompanying with a batch products going through the whole production process by recording the name of the operators in different processing procedure, so that the responsibility of defect products could be tracked clearly in case of some individual could not work well. The container should be marked with numbers, so that they can be recorded on Work Log to travel together without missing each other, and so on, there are much detailed job should and can be done with potential of further optimizing productivity.

Maybe you think that everyone works consciously without supervision is the most humanized. The idea is perfect but, it is impossible at all, because the nature of people is different, not everyone could work faithfully, especially in an immigrant-based multicultural country. Non-visually supervising is perfect and necessary for running well any enterprises.

No doubt that reasonable staff performance evaluation is the ideal way to promote the production efficiency to highest level with lesser stress causing. It is well run in Grote Electronics mainly due to their countable products. Their current experience* may not be able to be directly copied by most of other Companies.

However, management is an art rather than a rigid dogma. There is plenty of room for artistic creation. But, the art of management is unique because the creations must meet the practical situation of the business. It needs managers with the sense of taking the management position as a sacred duty rather than as a performing stage to personal soloing and dancing.

Two heads are better than one; since that more heads would produce more useful wisdom.

There would be many smart methods adoptable from employees’ mind rather than from textbook dogmatically, which could overcome any barrier in the practical production. Such as that invites employees to discuss the standard of work performance evaluation and update from time to time. Even if this method is still not work. We still have other method to study. DC foods is a good example, their human resource manager, Ms. Monica is an outstanding management artist that is worthy to be taken as a good model for establishing a humanized wok environment.

There is a necessary to point out the reason of my saying their current experience* in above. It is because of the Grote Electronics has the potential to develop new product and could flexibly develop well matched managing approach that would be worthily studied again regardless the product is countable or not according to my observation for their management team and their smart management manner in many other aspects.

Here was a story. They has quarterly update meeting to sum up the past and look to the future. Once, the top director asked the meeting attendees to raise some unclear issue regarding his quarter statement, but no one answered. For easing the embarrassing situation, I asked him about the new product development that was a question not being carefully prepared. However, the top director stepped close to me, listened and answered carefully.

Since then, I felt the top director paid much attention on me – a general operator. Also I felt him a person who is paying full attention on Company future and I got an idea that he will never be limited in current products.

I remember that I once saw information about a patent of Grote Electronics on Internet with the name of the top director.

Here needs special to mention that, when completely finished one batch of products, after repeated the first step, in the bottom of the screen of scan-machine will appear the words of Rank, and followed by a number. I guess that it was the work-efficient rankings.

I worked in night shift with about 30 people. In more than a year’s time, there were about 20 people from the Job Agency to have left. The shortest working period was only one day, the longest was two weeks. Those people, some individual capacity were not suitable for the job, some are capable, but did not try to do their best. Some even got smart.

A girl, in first day, was testing whether light-emitting of the diode on circuit board with test-instrument. Typically, a batch of products needed about 3.5 hours to complete. She only took half an hour to complete and put the products on the shelf of finished products. Obviously, she was not 100% tested. Since next day, I never saw her again.

It is suggested that accurate assessment methods in Grote Electronics can quickly identify and remove incompetent person.

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2…Sunrise Farms – DC Foods, a best managed company

DC Foods, located in Waterloo city, Ontario, Canada, is a federally inspected food processor specializing in the custom processing of Par-Fried Batter Breaded quick-freezing products, it was found  by Mr. Don Kilimnik and Mr. Rob Curik in 1991, and was acquired  by Vancouver based Sunrise Farms on November 27, 2010.

The idea of profit-sharing with employee was initiated by the founder of DC Foods.

At the start, they took 5% of profit as dividend equally to all employees quarterly with the simple purpose of employee can share the fruit of they hard made.

Later, due to staff’s absenteeism seriously affected normal production, then the distribution of profit-sharing linked to the attendance of employees.

As a foods processing Company, in DC Foods, the most jobs are standing with both hands and eyes busy in a minus temperature environment. Working condition is not very good, but humanized management is good.

In nowadays hard life, perhaps, some times, some people might forgotten to celebrate own birthday. However, in DC Foods, you need not to worry about it. Ms. Monica will face you to sing happy birthday to you when your birthday. You may imagine the feeling when Monica is singing facing to you if you are not working there. Would you not be moved? Perhaps it is the happiest birthday in your life besides your mother’s celebrating for you.

In their employee’s team, there are lame, dumb, and even deaf. Every one works happy. Employer’s seeing is, is employee doing the best rather than how much could be contributed. Of course they would assign the job according to the ability of individual employees.

There is about 10% to 35% of total payment being paid as bonus based on the basic payment, which is floating with the profit quarterly. This kind of payment makes the employee produce the feeling as a partner to share the profit with the owner together to cheer them working harder with full heart.

They have an automatic packaging machine that is same model with the one that was using in another company. In that Company, the success rate of packaging was 80% – 85%, there was 15% – 20% of packaging defect boxes being shredded into the trash by the operators. However, in DC foods, the packaging machine has been carefully improved. Their method is extremely simple, only with some Plexiglas cemented on the specific area of the machine to make it functions properly. Thus, the success rate of packaging increased substantially. Even if occasionally produces some packing defect boxes, the operators would fix them manually, so that there is no any box is wasted. This is the positive effect of their smart profit-shared bonus policy. If the production cost is reduced, the profit will be increased, and the bonus will certainly be increased, too. Humanized management make the employees feel in working for their own.       Although, the foods processing is not a high profit industry, the payment could not be very high. However, DC Foods is making up the shortfall with making the employees comfortable psychologically.

Traditional management is mostly to maximize the profit with minimizing the cost in payment, not to mention to let the employees sharing the profit. Now it is outdated. Running a business is like sailing a boat against the water current, it is easily to be forced going backward, which can be only avoided by more people paddling with concerted efforts. Profit-shared payment could make every employee doing their best in paddling to ensure a business boat to keep going forward, especially in nowadays hot market competing environment.    The higher payment could be compensated from improved productivity by attracting and preserving smart and skilled employees and the long term steady development of the business.

The profit-sharing payment does not mean that eat all profit without preserving the fund for long term development of the enterprises. It only reforms the rigid payment style that paid annually or hourly regardless the company’s profit to make employees and employers shared their fate together. The operation may be as that takes a portion from the basic payment to be paid as bonus in floating with profit. The whole payment should be up or down with enterprise’s operating performance that determined by every employee’s work performance.

The profit-sharing payment is facing all the members of the enterprise rather than only facing top managers usually. It may play a leverage effect in promoting employees to exert their potential, which is different with the financial leverage because of only good no hazardous.

Employer should encourage the employee to joint working in development of products and markets with the profit–associated award, such as 20% to 50% of the first year’s profit from a new product or a new market. In information exploded today, the development of new products and new markets is not a matter limited in Company’s technicians and salesperson, every employee has the potential. There would some smart people be attracted in with their new products or potential ideas from outside the enterprise. There would be more products to be developed and more market to be opened from more people willingly to share the headache that is certainly belong to the employer. Doing business is to put up a performance stage for dancing and appreciating with smart people.

In fact, I once worked in DC Foods only 2 weeks from a job agency in 5 years ago, at that time, Ms. Monica was not work there yet. When I heard her story recently, I was tearful. As a personnel manager, her humanized manner is significant. We might have learnt that France Telecom employees committed suicide, Foxconn employees suicide by stepping down from high building. Their suicide is not just the end of their own life; the impact for their family members is fatal. For their colleagues and all of us also is substantial psychological harm. Maybe some people might say that those suicides are depressed. However, we should seriously reflect on that, why are more and more people being depressed in today’s society, a society is being believed as highly civilized. I think, it must be there some thing is not civilized yet.

Tragic reality has presented us with a serious question: What is the purpose to run enterprises? Yes, it is for making profit, but the ultimate goal is to make people live better. If an enterprise can not make employees comfortable, then what is the significance of the enterprise’s existence? The most of human social activities are aimed at a better life with a beautiful hope. Why do we use unbeautiful manner to manage the beautiful activities? We need to call for humanized management. We need more Ms. Monica.

Good Ms. Monica enlightens me to expand the vision to the broader scope beyond the enterprise management.

French finance minister Mrs Lagarde said that, “most women in power, on the other hand, were less ruled by their libido and thus able to make more cool-headed judgments.” I think her comment is reasonable. Compared with the man, woman is more patient and humane due to their maternal instinct. Ms. Monica is a vivid example. Here, there are other examples.

In addition, recently, I am working in DC Foods again. I found good supervisors that worth to mention.

Dave, the supervisor of the day shift. As a production-line’s Supervisor，in all aspects of his work are great. Here, I just want to talk about one thing that he did, but, unrelated his duties. We work in a food processing plant that need to frozen foods with Nitrogen. The door of freezers can not help but have nitrogen leaking. Dave has been using the wet paper to seal the door to block the Nitrogen leaking every day for many years. I appreciate Dave initiatively considering lowering the production cost with practical practice and insisting for many years. His deed is rare and great. I heartily treat him as a good friend.

Paul, the supervisor of evening shift. The position as supervisor is to work by watching and instructing generally. However, Paul is to work as general operator that is busy all shift, once find some operator’ operation is wrong; he will make demonstration rather than instruction orally.  Once some operator can not come to work, he would replace the post to work as a general operator. The rare and great is that he has been insisting doing so for many years.  I heartily treat him as a good friend, too.

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3…Extruded products Company

The operators exchange the job each other after every break, which may help operators to reduce the boring feeling effectively when doing a repeated job following an extruding machine.

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4…The closure of Triton Company

A Canadian PCBs manufacturer once located in Kitchener Ontario, Job assigned by team leader, supervisor supervised there every day. Operators could talk each other whispered, some times some young operators speak loudly, supervisor would condemn them loudly.

As human culture nature, usually, most people have the self-esteem and eagerly to do perfect job to avoid being suspected by the eyes of contempt. In Triton Company no one can keep their self-esteem because they finished products were being put together in two or three operators’ group, which can not distinguish who is defects maker. They have bonus too, but the amount is not linked with the work performance and the profit. There were different in paid amount of bonus between the employees, but the determination was according to the personal impressions of team leader and supervisor without a convincible objective data supported. So, the result was negative. It acted as paying money to lower down the production efficiency with causing argument and psychological pressure.

In most of the time, the old employees worked as a teacher with the new comers because employees quit frequently. I think, the partial reason of those people quitting is due to the confused management can not preserve their self-esteem. In this kind of work mode, the products’ quality is certainly uncontrollable. The Company was being run as a training school paid training fee for their competitors. Finally, a large number of products’ returns happened, then the orders reduced, and then Company’ door was being shut down.

After first time large amount products’ returns, the site director was being fired. At the period of his two weeks’ waiting for leaving, I asked to chat with him with a hope to give him somewhat comfort. Before talking, he asked me to wait couple of minutes, he was going to washroom. Around 10 minutes later, he came back from a 10 steps distance washroom with red eyes and being new washed face. My eyes filled with tear immediately. I worry that as a being fired production director, he could not find a job as same position in future.

He told me that head Company control every thing without any flexible power for him to make decision according to the actual situation in a branch Company located in other province, such as, the salary and bonus, the basic incentive methods to improve the productivity by preserving skilled employees.

I asked him; “What is the plan for future?” “Prepared to open a consulting firm with friends in Toronto.” he answered. I wish him well.

Obviously, the top manager in head Company was dogmatically applying the management theory and controlling the costs without concerning the objective situation. Site director was being punished for others.

Until now, I often think of him. His figure was busy in the workshop and his red eyes after being fired. Here, once again, I remotely wish him every thing going well in Toronto. God bless him and us all.

There a operator named John is worth to special mention in this company, he was a drunkard and heavy smoker. Due to the bad habit damaged his brain, he was unresponsive with hands palsy. He obviously can not do a perfect job, especially the production of PCBs, which needs more mental concentration and deft hands. But, because of that supervisor also was a heavy smoker and at break time they belched out smoke and swallowed fog together.

John could not do any job properly, supervisor changed his job position many time, finally sent him to make final functional testing for PCBs by a test-machine. Obviously, this was a critical position that controls the quality before sending PCBs to customers.

Obviously, that John has played a key role in the closure of the Triton Company. We may say that is a mindless emlployee to have ruined a good business – good products with stable customers. But the key cause was the chaos in the management, it could not exclude such an incompetent staff timely.

I have a suggestion for young people, when you looking for a managing position, be sure firstly to make clear what the size of performing stage provided for you is? Is it large enough for exerting your talent? The payment is second, even ignorable. The exertion of the value of life is over the value of any amount of money. Also, it is important to avoid being fired due to the mistake made by a dogmatic boss and ruin your career earlier.

In fact, the products of Triton Company are similar with the products of Grote Electroniks. Only the purposes and the target markets are different. They could copy the management model of Grote in 100%. In production site of Grote, there are two team leaders, both works hardly with ordinary operators together. InTriton Company, there are two team leaders and one supervisor, in most of the time, they chat with operators after finished their production report on computer and answered some possible questions.

Since some individuals’ work harder, so they was hired as permanent employee much earlier than that of others and the bonus was higher than that of others, also those outstanding individuals was troubled by others, not only defamation, even being made defects on their finished products. This is the reasons that people are often willing to flow others and do not want to outstanding. This manner is no problem in daily life interpersonal activities. However, in the large-scale production, it is hazardous because it would reduce overall production efficiency, even force good employees to leave. Sooner or later the enterprise would be destroyed.

Some people have the nature of selfishness and hatred with unique concept of fairness. For example, there is $10 of bonus money for two people, they got $6, other’s $4 is unfair only they got $7, and other’s $3 is fair. Their more energy are not looking at how to work well, in contrast, specializes in how to do a bad job and not be found. Because their energies are not on the job, therefore, their work performances are not good, so that their salaries and bonuses naturally be affected. They do not try to find the cause from their own work attitude, but always feel being unfairly treated, thereby always think of ways to retaliate with endless complaint. The chaotic managed enterprise would provide an opportunity to those people. In their workplace, employee would negatively supervise each other, so that no one dared to work harder, the overall efficiency would be naturally declined. Work performance evaluation system has a function to distinguish such a person; they will soon be eliminated.

In the most of time, the most of people are self-esteemed. They more concerned about is not the money, but eagerly hope to be fairly and dignifiedly treated. A work performance evaluation system is the best way to meet the need perfectly. Grote Electroniks and Triton Company is a vivid example. First one is healthy running and second one was closed silently.

Talk about here, I think of my son’s comment after we landed in Canada couple of months. At that time, his second school teacher gave him homework of reading some English novels as a course to improve his English. After he read a few of the English novel, he had own thoughts. Said, Dad, in addition to the language and appearance, under the sun, the nature, feelings and family relationships of all the people are similar.

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5…The relocation to Mexico of NCR Company

A machine assembles Company with good working environment once loctaed in waterloo Ontario. There is a Labor Union. When I newly work there is with 6 people to assemble a machine. My job is installation of electrical wiries and switches on the empty case-frame of the machine, then other people install the parts insides and make final testing for sending to customers.

The people are very friendly in the work team. After one hour of my first day’s work, a gentleman friendly told me that: “please do not work too hard like this; you may go to washroom to have a rest, or go to other work station to talk with friends. Any way, you should slow down the work.” Then, I noticed that other people were talking and joking with a slow working.

Compared with other Companies, that NCR Company have occupied the top of the food chain with a welcomed end products, it certainly has greater profit margins supported by an enviable team of skilled technicians and operators. So that it should be running better and sustainable. However, it was being shut down earliest before the Financial Crisis 2008.

The loss of more than 1,300 good payment jobs is not a trivial matter for a city of 100 thousands population. Besides local governors, there seems to be no other people concern the negative impact for local economy and the threatening for the life of local people, such as, social security.
Now, looking back the overall production efficiency at that time, in my work team, only reached about 50% of total production capacity.

About half a year later after the NCR Company was shut down; in a supermarket, I met the gentleman who once advised me to work slowly. We were talks a while. At that time, he was looking for a new job after worked for a job agency a couple of months.

Now, from whatever point of view, in NCR Company, he asks others to lower down the work speed are not associated with any reasons for his own interests. his payment was over $ 20/h, but for Job Agency or any other job may less than $12/h.  I wonder that maybe was him to have made the Job Agency closed again, because that is his hobby.

From all aspects of assessment, the gentleman is well self-cultivated showing very nice and friendly without flaws in personality. His attitude on work also is common in most of people universally. As unique means of production with emotion, human beings are born with weakness and strength. One of significant aspect in management is to good use of the strength and avoiding the weakness.

Management is a kind of art rather than a rigid technology, it provides a special stage for performing intelligent dramas, however, some of them may be enjoyable, and some may be not.

Such as, for the shutdown of the NCR Company, one of important reason might be unsatisfactory productivity that caused by that of payment was not associated with the working-performance, which was no different for operators who finished 3 machines or 6 machines in a shift. Obviously, this kind of payment method was acting as a cooler to cool down employees’ working-enthusiasm. It also was one of the reasons that had triggered the collapse of former socialist countries. So I once said that in other article, capitalist countries are following the dust of the road that socialist countries have been past.

The romance of payment and work-efficiency is a good topic for a good management drama.

Suppose that, in the NCR Company, takes 3 machines as basic task of a team per shift, after finished first 3 machines, the fourth one pays $6 to each operator as bonus, the fifth pays $9, the sixth pays $12. Thus would incent the operators to work with full-load. In this way, every day will make extra profits from three extra machines by only extra payment of $189 that may only a little bit compared with gained extra profits. If so, the Company would be still running, that gentleman might still work there with a better payment rather than that of anxious for job-looking.

Here, there a more detailed account can be calculated. When production without bonus, finished 3 machines per shift, suppose the profit margin is 20% after deduction of raw materials, wages, utilities and other basic costs. On this basis, for finishing extra 3 more machines, only need to increase the cost of raw materials and bonuses, then, the profit margins from extra 3 machines may be much higher than that of 20% of from first 3 machines. The bonus possesses magical effect that can satisfy both employees and employers at the same time.

An important step of the success of China’s economic reform was have broken the old wage system that was continuation from that of the Soviet Union, and largely increased the share of payment that associated with individual’s work performance.

Some simple management measures could reduce the severity of the antagonism between employees and employers, and that will be good for all with reducing psychological stress in workplace, also can increase social wealth by improving the efficiency of production. That is the origin of that article.

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5.1…A NCR’s supervisor dared not supervise in work

Here, there is a story that is worth to mention. Before NCR moved to Mexico, every year before Christmas, the company must recruit a lot of temporary workers to complete the backlog of the orders
One day, the Supervisor who took charge of my team told me that he will leave for vacation about two weeks. At first, I was very surprised and even doubted whether I misheard what he said, or he was joking.

Since that the production was so busy with so much new temporary workers, as a Supervisor who takes the main management responsibility, why, at this juncture to leave for vacation?

A few days later, I went to work, my team colleagues asked me that: did you watch the TV this morning, in other department, the night shift temporary workers collectively made trouble, even to have smashed some equipments after learnt that they was laid off.

Some people might doubt that how did this happen?

A few years later after the NCR closed, I talked with an acquaintance who once worked in NCR Waterloo, to have known that, in the NCR, the payment will be more than $14 per hour after hired as full-time employee, which is much higher than that of any other companies.

    Now, we would realize the reason that Supervisor left for vacation in the busy juncture. He was to dodge for avoiding trouble. Also, we may easily imagine that the Supervisor leaving for vacation might become routine manner at the busy juncture in before Christmas every year.

    It is really a incredible matter. A Supervisor as middle management in a legitimate multinational company, his work should be aboveboard and dignified; however, he had to act as that of criminal to dodge some time every year, but conversely, the criminal manners of those workplace troublemakers were acting as aboveboard and dignified, there no one dared inhibit them. This might be the most absurd thing in the world.

It is simply as that of the sky and the earth has been swapped the position.

Indeed, the supervisor never says any thing for that Jim slow down the work. He seemed have never taken his supervising responsibility besides hard work as a general operator.

    Now, we can see the reason of the difficult of the corporate management, which is duo to it pestered with Crowd Psychology.

If you ask common citizen of Waterloo city, maybe there is no one remembers the news on local TV about the mob event that happened in NCR Waterloo years ago. As common citizen, they would not concern the important to keep a local enterprise health running. But if you ask the officials of Waterloo city, they will clearly remember that, because that they had made every effort for the stay of NCR, but failed.

We need a powerful means to prevent such sadness playing continuously. For this point, the ISO standards will play a perfect role.

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6…Mrs. Joyce a sober lady

Here I think of Mrs. Joyce, she is the landlord of my colleague, I visited my colleague in her home in 2005 summer. She eagerly talked to me about 20 minutes, and then she returned to her bedroom. When I ready went away to say goodbye to her in front of the door of her bedroom, she asked us in, I found her lying on the bed. She said welcome me come again and said sorry for that she cannot get up to see me off with a weak voice. When I went back home immediately called my colleague, knew that Joyce had liver cancer and has been a week without eating foods. Since then, I called to ask her illness every day. A few days later, she was admitted to the hospital, and after a period of time, she was gone forever.

More than 5 years past already, I still remember Joyce because her sound: “Ten years ago, Canada had a lot of big companies, but now has few; most of them have been sold to other countries.” This is the only time I heard such a far-sighted comment. It showed worries from a cancer sufferer. As a liver cancer sufferer with a clear mind she might already knew that she would say Goodbye forever soon. However, she still insists on talking to me for 20 minutes. Maybe she was with her last effort in the reception of her tenant’s friend, a never met stranger. Over the years, I always regret for that day I did not find she was a patient and consumed too much of her strength that maybe shortened the valuable time of her staying in this world. Now, I am tearful again.

Yesterday, Nov. 7, 2010, I called my colleague and knew that Joyce once was an accountant with suffering cancer more than 5 years, and later transferred to the liver when her aged about 75. Joyce made me an idea that people who have vision is often strong-willed, too. They will do very good job whatever. Our society is lack of such people.

If every people can think the problem like Joyce, conscientiously do own work, then, triton Company and NCR Company would not be closed, we will have more job opportunities. Our life would be much better.

Worthy to mention is that Grote Electroniks and DC Foods are still well running. This seems to be a problem that is no need to mention, because it is a matter of course. I do not know about the extruded products Company. However, I believe it will still be running, this is also a matter of course.

Recently, I read happy news. Canadian government rejected a foreign company’s acquisition of a Canadian mining company. Natural resources are shared by all citizens, involving our future generations, should be well preserved. If Joyce is still alive, she would be very happy with the news.

Above is involved with labor-intensive enterprises. It seems not applicable for intelligence-intensive enterprise. Such as, software programming. Following, I will try to discuss it.

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 3... Follow is a reproduced report about Peter Shoore, the owner of Sunrise Farms, Vancouver B.C. Canada. 

 

                CANADIAN POULTRY — August 2008   

      http://mydigitalpublication.com/article/Business_Profile/46456/5365/article.html 

 

    Business Profile 

    Sunrise Farms With a knack for the chicken processing business and the right timing, Peter Shoore has built the largest individual chicken processing plant in Western Canada.

 

    How did a Vancouverite of Scottish heritage who studied classical music in the Netherlands for seven years become an icon in the Canadian chicken industry?

 

    “Fate” says Peter Shoore, who is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Sunrise Farms, formerly called Sunrise Poultry.

 

   “It’s a case of being in the right place at the right time.” After earning his doctorate in music in the mid-1970s, Shoore decided to return home rather than remain in an overcrowded Europe. Deciding he couldn’t make it as a classical musician, Shoore went to work in his father’s small cannery where, among other things, he canned whole chicken.

 

    That led to an offer from White Spot, a chicken-based restaurant chain then owned by General Foods, to run their small money-losing chicken processing plant in Surrey, B.C. He was an instant success.

    “It clicked with me,” Shoore says.

    “Operating a chicken processing plant turned out to be something I was really good at.” The plant was located on leased property, with the lease set to expire in early 1983. After General Foods made a failed half-hearted attempt to buy the property, Shoore was prompted by his mother to make an attempt of his own.

 

    It was the first of many “gutsy moves” Shoore has made over the past 25 years.

 

    In fact, his holding company is fittingly called “High Noon Enterprises.” (Shoore’s various operations are structured as separate companies, which are in turn owned by the holding company. “My employees are on profit-sharing plans and I only want them to benefit from the company they’re directly involved in rather than the whole operation,” Shoore explains.)

 

    When the lease expired, Shoore simply told White Spot, which itself was in the process of being sold and which remains one of his customers, the lease would not be renewed, effectively daring them to remove their equipment. They didn’t – selling it to him instead.

 

    At the time, the plant was about 20,000 square feet and killed about 25,000 birds/ week. It has since grown to 120,000 square Feet and now kills over 600,000 birds/ week.

 

    While still number three overall in British Columbia. (Lilydale and Hallmark are both bigger processors), Sunrise’s Surrey plant is the largest individual chicken plant in Western Canada. Shoore’s operations also includes a hatchery in the Fraser Valley, a former beef plant which is now used primarily for packaging and storage, a further processing plant in Abbotsford, a massive live haul fleet and, most recently, a hatchery and processing plant in Lethbridge. Among them, the various operations employ about 1,000 people. Shoore also owns three broiler farms in the Fraser Valley.

 

    Shoore admits his timing to get into the business couldn’t have been better, displaying the B.C. Chicken Marketing Board’s annual production graphs to prove it. After flat production in the late ’70s and early ’80s, the market “went stupid” in 1983. Production has increased almost every year since and is now triple what it was 25 years ago.

 

    Others may call it lucky, but Shoore prefers to think “we created the wave.” Unlike many others, he thinks the end is not yet in sight.

 

    “We see a lot more growth in raw,” he says, “it would require looking for new markets but the will to do that doesn’t seem to be there in Canada.” While he recognizes feed prices have skyrocketed and are putting the brakes on growth, he believes that is only temporary.

 

    He insists the increased feed costs are actually good for chicken, saying “the more expensive feeds become, the more reasonable chicken becomes.” He points out that not only is chicken a much more versatile meat, meaning it can be used in a wider variety of dishes than beef or pork, but it takes only two pounds of feed to produce a pound of chicken, as compared to four pounds of feed for a pound of pork and eight pounds of feed for beef.

 

    “Our company is always pushing for more growth. Eventually the hog price will go up and when it does, a lot more chicken will be required.” Because chicken supply is so tightly controlled, he decided “the only way for us to grow is through further Processed.” He therefore built his further processing plant. His forseight was justified: Opened in 1997 with one line, it now operates three cooking lines. The products are sold in both retail and HRI (hotel, restaurant, institutional) markets across Canada.

 

    The further processed plant is just one of Shoore’s innovations. In 1991, Sunrise was the first processor in Canada to go to a tray-catching system, which is not only used with automated catching machines but also allows automated loading of the killing line.

 

    Shoore has seen tremendous change in the past 25 years, not the least of which is change in the chicken itself.

 

    When he started, chicks were sexed and it took cockerels 6 weeks and 3 days and pullets 7 weeks and 3 days to reach 3.8 pounds live weight. Today mixed flocks reach the same weight in just 32 days.

 

    “If we sexed the birds, we could probably bring cockerels in at 28 days,” he states, adding he expects production time to continue to shorten a day/year for the next five years. “We now worry about the size of chick which goes to the barn and the actual time it gets delivered and later picked up.” While he has faced few adversities in his 25 years, Shoore admits he was stumped by when the avian influenza outbreak hit in 2004. “That was my most difficult time in the industry because I literally didn’t know what to do. I left it up to my managers and they decided To bring in birds from outside. It was logistical nightmare but it worked.” While AI was an expensive lesson for all sectors of the industry, Shoore doesn’t believe the lesson has been learned.

 

    “I don’t think anyone has done a good enough job of preventing another recurrence. Producers don’t have any better biosecurity now.” While AI remains a huge threat, urbanization may be an even bigger threat. It not only faces farmers, whose practices are under siege by increasingly urbanized neighbours, but also the processing plants whose once relatively isolated locations are now surrounded by more upscale “clean” industries and even urban residences. Yet Shoore does not relish the prospect of moving.

 

    “If they told (the processing plants) tomorrow we were gone, where would we find land with adequate water and sewer?” he asks.

 

    Shoore admits B.C. processors and B.C. producers continue to have a running battle over price, but has little sympathy for complaints that grower returns are insufficient.

 

    “The fiscal year of our own farms ended in April and we had a record year,” he claims.

 

    He suggests producers having a tough time making it should look inward. “I see returns from a good producer to a bad producer are quite different. There is also a big discrepancy between feed companies. Producers need to put more pressure on there.” After 25 years in the business, Shoore is giving more responsibility to his upper management and starting to groom his son to take over.

 

   “He just finished his first year at the University of the Fraser Valley and we want him to get an MBA.” His son is also learning every aspect of the business.

 

   “He has worked on the catching crew, done chores on the chicken farm, done all the jobs in this plant and is now working in the hatchery.”

 

    But that doesn’t mean Shoore intends to quit the business anytime soon. “

 

    I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if I retired. I hope they carry me out of here.” 

 

    In viewing that there so many readers were interesting this topic, I recommend my other articles that were talking about how to successfully run enterprises under unsatisfied social environment. 

 

     kwcg, Management is the Art of Playing Human Nature.

 

     kwcg, The death of a Canadian business owner

 

     How to save Canada's manufacturing from disappearing

 

     The death of a Canadian business owner 

     A belated thanks for RIM's founders and their families.

     Family Business and Management Board

     Canada's Corporate Management & Reducing Psychological Pressure in Workplace     

 

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     As a smart entrepreneur, whether consideration from the interests of own family, or the interests of whole society, that ensuring the business long-term stable running is much meaningful than that of putting money in own pocket. The money will poison their children and grandchildren, while, the enterprise will act as an evergreen tree to provide shade for the million-generation descendants. 

             --- Frank Li     Oct. 15 2013 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 

 

     Viewing in social significance, the entrepreneurs are the best social servants and the communists in playing the role as the most important cornerstones in supporting human society.  

           --- Frank   May 6, 2018 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 

 

  4... Please look at the heart-monologue of Asia's richest man to feel his endless-concerns as successful entrepreneur:

 

                            

        Photo source: https://cn.apdnews.com/lifestyle/wenhuashiye/yiluxiangxi/243033.html

 

     Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong business magnate, the richest person in Asia, who once said that: "Everyone says that I am very rich, in fact, the part of the wealth that really belongs to me is the life insurance that I bought for myself and my families. Life insurance is the last life-saving straw that prepared to myself and my families for once enterprise encountering crisis, which is legally protected and the creditors can not take away.

 

     As a wise man, with more than 50 years of hard struggle in the marketplace, Mr. Li Ka-shing has long been recognized that, there too many factors are impacting the rise and fall of the enterprise and thereby affect the changes in the wealth, which including the market risk, policy risk, operational risk, personal risk, liability risks, systemic risk, and so on. Some of them are controllable, some are not. Any occurrence of the risk can make the accumulation of lifetime hard working to be vanished instantly.             

              --- Frank   Mar 18 2015 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 

 

      This world will never get rid of being ignorance kidnapped, democratic players are eagerly emphasizing the importance of manufacturing, but neglecting the founders of the manufacturing; and also eagerly emphasizing the importance of productivity, but legislated encouraging organized disruption of the productivity.