When engineering blends into business

4 years in engineering school moulds me into one who likes the bird's eye view. I like to understand the entire system before going to the ground to further do the work. I also like to build the branches that help to develop the future. And I am heavily influenced to the word "sustainability", be it in terms of growth, operation or sales. To me, this word means a lot; it kinda feels like an automated system that is self-nurture and gives compounding growth, as if it breaks the 1st law of thermodynamic, where energy can now be created because of constant work that results in better result which in return motivates the work to be done on an even larger and efficient way. And bigger result. We sometimes call it the viscous cycle.

That is the belief I always have. So this is how Pott Glasses develops and will be developing. What is it now for Pott Glasses? We are now focusing on developing new sales channel which can drive recurring if not consistent sales. We are also focusing on duplicating what are in place, at the same time optimising them. To be able to do things like this, it requires a lot of learning, studying, getting reference and a lot of cross-discipline application. Unorthodox way of doing thing is really fun without getting limited by any norm or constrained by the dogma. But of course, there comes a constant fight with doubts and nothing to bench mark against. It all boils down to the risk taking mentality.

We are really not doing anything that we are used to or we had done before, at least not the speed of growth and hiring. And all these lie on one and only one thing, the vision of self sustainable business. So when I zoom into the details, thankfully the entire thing does not obey 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics or come to think about it, it really obeys, but the attributes are now different.

With human resource in place, we can create energy and transform all these energy to our work. When the work gives us result, it motivates us and makes us further committed to creating the bigger impact. The key here is to be able to envision what the future should look like, and align the team members' personal goal to the company goal. Work has to have more essence than just financially sounds. We need to make sure the part where we add value to the customer is where it makes us feels rewarding at the same time. Think of it as a mutual gain that gives a long term healthy relationship.

I always believe that empowering human is the way to go in growing and running the company. We need a goal that resonates with everyone's one in order to have the utmost commitment and energy. Moving forward, we are going to face more obstacles and words from naysayers. But I guess that is what makes the journey exciting.