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Jumping from 41st floor is not that wise, but I did that 19 times.
Yea, and that was only one or 2 feet away from breaking my neck
That’s the Convention Centre.
It’s funny they say you can put these paddings on, but wherever you hit, it
never hits the pad, it hits you.
NIC: Now I tell you my son will not understand this message for another 20
years.
Thank god I’m still here one piece, but that’s how far I’m willing to go
for what I love. Of course, I’m not asking you to go jump off buildings.
Q: I’ve actually seen this video about ten times. (really?) yeah! It still
gives my goose bumps every time I watch it. It’s very emotionally touching, but
shifting the focus on these students, and you have definitely found your
passion, but how would advise us for finding our dreams and our passions?
NIC: like I said, I think be honest to yourself. So, I don’t think anyone
can answer that question for you, it’s what you feel every day, you have to live
with it, you have to smell it, you have to feel it, you have to touch it, it’s
everything around you, something that never bores you, I guess, if you are
hesitating for something, give it a second thought, but I’m here mainly to trial
and error, and I guess that’s part of life,
you only start losing things when you start growing, but that’s
contradictive, philosophical part of life ,so like when we 12 ,we are so eager
to be 18 and say that I am old enough to stay up, I am old enough to go
clubbing, I am old enough to click the porn button, but ,but when you do get
older, like I am now, we lose the standard, we stared losing a lot of reflexes,
speed, power, all of that, then, we start treasuring stuff, but ,what you love
the most, ask yourself, I don’t think anyone can really tell you that question
,or the answer.
Q: well, but like sometimes if we find our own dream, we may not follow,
like we cannot listen to our hearts ,because our social norms, or expectations
from our parents, so what if I, can you give us students on really pursuing on
your dream and stick to your mind.
NIC: I don’t think anyone, unless your dream is something that is so
destructive that you’re hurting someone else, I don’t think anybody would stop u
from pursuing your dreams, right? if it’s something constructive, or something
we don’t normal, I would say, it should be OK, you are not trying to kill
someone, and ,and make a statement ,that’s what I did in my stunts, you know ,I
didn’t just go about talking to the director saying, I wanna do action movies,
someone jump off. I trained, and I start going little stunts, I started to train
weapons, my fitness, the whole thing, it has to start from scratch, so you want
to prove someone wrong, prove them wrong.
Q: regarding this as Asian leadership series for you, we invite you to talk
about your passion, your leadership experience, then what do you think is the
one key leadership quality that you think is the most important to you to
success?
NIC: one of the most important leadership qualities, I think, is to know
yourself, and to place the correct people in the correct position, you know,
really, after I’ve started this company, a lot of people say, they ask me, right
to the point, what the hell do you know about post production?
And, to be honest, if you ask me to sit in front of a multimillion dollar
machine, and ask me to … will I do as my staff, I will not. I will fail. I will
crash. But, I don’t know how many of you follow football, but for example, let’s
say, last night Chelsea and Manchester United play a game, see we’ve got
people’s reactions now.
The manager of Manchester United, MR. Ferguson, he is not going on the
field doing corner kicks and free kicks and the taking ball, he is placing the
correct people in the correct position, if Rooney scored a goal, is it purely
Rooney’s glory that he scored the goal, or was it also because MR Ferguson
placed him in the correct position, so he had the chance to be assisted then to
score? So I think to place correct people in correct position to do their work,
do the jobs, and to inspire, to dedicate, to motivate, all that together seam
through your staff. Being honest to yourself, your work and your staff. All the
things together, I think is good.
Q: Speaking of your human resources, cooperation, we have about 350
students sitting here today, and they might just happens to be interested to
applying for your company. (feel free, please, please, please) Just maybe! Just
maybe! So, For qualities of your employees, what’s your specific qualities of
your employees you’ll be looking for?
NIC: Creative thinking. Because in a business like ours, it’s imperative,
that every job is unique, we cannot duplicate jobs. Actually I’m not quite happy
with my business model because of that, because it makes very tough. We’re not
in a job, where robots and machines, can just keep printing and make money of
that product. Each job is unique. So when I look for people, in our staffs, I
look for creative thinking, motivation, energy that they want to bring into the
image, and of course, technique, and maybe some inward sense or talents.
Q: You have many staffs in your company, so how do you encourage creative
thinking in your company?
NIC: We have over 130 staff now, and after opening Beijing we might raise
the number a lot. I actually, I participate in their daily routine of their
lives. It might surprise you, but actually sometimes I cook for them. I make
them desserts. Some of you may have read on newspapers we just had just went on
a pretty fancy vacation. Do you have the video here? OK
I gained weight.
Q: That’s a very amazing trip. As we can see from the video, we know that
you actually have a very good relationship with your employees, your workers,
I’m wondering what is your company’s philosophy regarding work. Do you often go
to overseas trip with your employees?
NIC: Yes, I do. Yes, I do. I try to participate as much as I can. And…trips
like this is very good to come by these days, and I’m not just throwing a
multi-million dollar trip for them and say hey, you know, take this, go and
enjoy yourself. You got to be part of it. You got to be live through their eyes,
see what they are going through, solve the problem before it actually hits the
rock. Before the collision starts, solve the problem and you will earn the
utmost respect. The difference I think between a world class company and
mediocre company…if you are feared, your staff will only work as hard as to do
not get fired, but if you are respected, not only will you have staff, you have
a team. Not only you have the team, you have an army. And they will go that
extra mile, they will push that extra mile for you, for the company. And that is
the difference between a world class company and…just…that’s not bad.
Q: You’ve mentioned earlier that trust is important in your company, so how
do you build trust with your employees among Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong
Kong.
NIC: We have a…we actually take turns. We send some of our senior partners
and our senior engineers up to mainland China, and we trained new people. Our
business is actually very creative and human based business, whereas we need a
lot of people. That’s whereas the next challenge for me lies, is to find people
like you, who are young, who have potential to enhance better graphics. And have
that motivation to say “I can take this up to the next level.” I think the whole
business is…I think the whole world is asking for people like you right now.
Steven Spielberg in 2011, last year, and now he’s decided he is gonna dump in
1.5 billion dollars into Shanghai, doing post production in dream works. To me,
yes, that is scary, that is a big pressure, but I’m happy that…just to know that
there’s such a high demand, so therefore…supply is also needed, so…
Q: Could you explain to us your vision statement of your company?
NIC: We or I, myself, I hope to…I really hope to give something back to the
society in terms of visualize since I’ve been in this entertainment business for
over 14 years now. I want to give something back to what is being broadcasted
and to…this is my time to but re-educate the next generation, my kids, to know
what is a better quality, look at Korea, look at Japan. We are always following
the footsteps of their images. I think it’s time for us, and that’s why we are
here today for Asian leadership, to tell the western people that “hey, I can
tell you right now, that if you want Nicholas Tse to do Titanic 3D, I can do it,
just give me that time and give me that preparation. Post production alone
cannot make a piece of blank paper into magic…We need the whole process of
preproduction along with us to merge together, then we can…I’m pretty sure that
we can achieve 3D Titanic. Don’t think that we can’t do it. We can. But
ultimately…I’m looking for education. If there’s a kid like me, a random kid
like me in Hong Kong, that wants to learn about animation or that likes to play
video games. I’m sure a lot of you do. You have different angles and visions of
things that people don’t have. So times that by the number of the population in
the whole mainland China. Only if 1 percent of mainland China people wanted to
learn animation or post production, that would mean 130 million students. How
can we not do 3D Titanic, I’ll do 8D Titanic.
Q: We’ve already talked about your vision, and we’ve also talked about how
you build trust with your employees, how do you ensure that you share the vision
from different offices in Shanghai, in Hong Kong, or in Beijing?
NIC: Each year I gave annual speech to them, and so far I’m very very
thankful to say that we have reached each year’s goal. We have moved from…Our
office was in a basement, a building in Causeway Bay, last year before April
2nd. And after April 2nd we moved to a quite luxurious building right now in
Cubus No.1, 5 storey building. But…what is means, each year we’re meeting our
goals, and then two years ago, I announced that we are the first company to
cross border with mainland China to have a sub branch in Shanghai and in Hong
Kong. And we have achieved that goal. And within a year, I’m very proud to
announce that we are going to open in Beijing, which is no other company, post
company has done in the history of Hong Kong. So for the staff, I always tell
them I’m not asking you to work for me, I’m asking you to work for yourself. And
it is important to make them feel like that they are at home; they want to go to
work, and they see their future. Not am I only getting the salary paid, Wow…This
guy is actually… he’s making every promise come true. And for them, that is so
important because they are not… everything is coming true, and they see further.
And I think that is very important for everyone.
Q: Working in creative media industry, I suppose there could be some
divergent opinions amongst your work. When you actually face such type of
situation, how would you settle those disagreements?
NIC: Uh, well, you know, Post production is really a passive, sadly to say
very passive business. We…for the past maybe few hundred years, I think post
production is to do what we are ordered to do, by the producers or the directors
of people who shoot these commercials. But we have managed somewhat to turn it
around, to take the initiative… to actually go to the meeting with the
directors, and say, is this what you are trying to achieve or what are you
trying to achieve, why don’t we go this way? So now we are participating more
into the pre-production to ensure that we’ll get good quality out of the post
production. That is mainly what we do.
Q: Has there ever been a time when other companies try to steal employees
from you? Since I guess, there could be some intense competition to get the
right talents.
NIC: Yes, there has been and I think it was about five or six years ago.
One of our competitors was willing to pay five times the payroll for 20 of my
staff to walk away from my company. I’ll tell you the truth, I mean, 5 times the
payroll…I myself will think twice. But out of twenty people, only one left. I
don’t blame anybody for leaving; they must have their own reasons. But I am very
proud to say that we kept 19 of them. And I did ask why. I said so, really, you
know, why are you staying. What is it that makes you stay in my company? I am
not paying you any more than other people? And they replied simply that, “We are
happy when we’re here, we feel like home. We know how to bring a smile to our
work”. That actually shocked me quite a bit on how the new generation values
their life today. Not only do they wish for a high salary, but they need to be
respected, loved, cared for and feel this is our home. There was once when we
were moving to our new company. I called on a vacation. I said, “Guys, stop
today, we are not gonna work”. They said, “what are we gonna do? I said,” we are
gonna go look for our new office together”. And they were actually quite
shocked. And the whole army of us just, you know, we were strolling through all
these buildings. And they asked why are we looking at this? Because you are the
ones who are gonna be sitting here 8 hours per day, not me, I want you to feel
like you are at home. I want you to wake up and feel motivated to say, I want go
back. And fix that, I think I can do better. These little things accumulate to a
better crew.
Q: That’s really inspiring. So it is inevitable that there are ups and
downs in our life. So how do you stay positive?
NIC: Uh, stay positive. I consider myself very lucky. And we all should.
All this you have right now is really a privilege. I remind myself that every
day, the fact that I am just alive, you know those crazy stunts…I am thankful. I
just keep reminding myself that every day, as simple as that.
Q: As a final question to wrap up from us three. What is the most important
message you want us to take from this Asian Leadership Series?
NIC: You know all this is great. I don’t know how you feel. Thank you for
all this warm welcome. But all this 谢霆锋 Nicholas Tse stuff, right? I am not
asking any of you to totally embrace this guy’s personality or the way he works,
or the way he does his job, not to replicate or duplicate, but to find yourself
or pick up from this guy, what is useful to you and your lifestyle, make
compatible and find yourself. So from me, I hope that you can find a little bit
of use, to put into your lifestyle and create your own dreams, because my dream
is to make the make believe believable, and I will keep on doing that for a long
long time.
Q: Although I said that was a final question. I do have another one. Uhh,
you’ve actually mentioned a lot of qualities, you talk about being charismatic,
how you lead your team, how you make them like you. Well, you don’t make them
like you, they just like you. You talk about bringing them to different places.
So what are some really important leadership qualities that a leader must
have?
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