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  • Welcome to the Asian Leadership Series

  • My name is Karen, from the department of management

  • And I'm your MC for this evening

  • Some of you may wonder how this talk come about

  • Actually it is through a conversation between your case manager and myself

  • About how much we want to find a young successful Asian business leader

  • someone who all our undergraduate students can relate to

  • And the hostess said :"Well, Karen ,have you heard of or heard about the founder of POST PRODUCTION OFFICE LIMITED, Nicholas Tse!"

  • And I said :" Perfect!"

  • So, with the tremendous supportwith the tremendous support from the POST PRODUCTION OFFICE LIMITED

  • here we are , delivering to you our first Asian Leadership Series

  • SoThank you very much for coming!

  • So, since this talk is especially for you students, the whole event is going to be hosted by students

  • So, the format is this

  • The first 20 minutes or so Mr. Nicholas Tse is going to share some of his experience and insights with us

  • and that will be followed by an about 45 minutes chatting session between the 3 student interviewers and Mr. Nicholas Tse

  • and then well be round up by a 15 minutes Q&A session

  • So may I now invite the 3 student interviewers, Johnson, Mandy and Nathan to the floor, please

  • So before we officially kick off the event, just friendly reminders of some simple house rules

  • First , can you please switch your mobile phone to silent mode?

  • And secondly, no laptop, computer, no live recording

  • And third, I understand everyone is very excited, but please remain seated during the event

  • And last but not least, if you want to leave the lecture theater during the event, can you please use the door at back

  • So without further ado, may I invite professor ROGER KING, director of the Centre for the Business Case Studies

  • He himself a highly successful business leaderto kick off the event.

  • Thank you all!

  • It's really a great great honor and privilege for HKUST to have Mr. Nicholas Tse here

  • First of all I would like to also thank our president Tony Lee, to be here, and our dean Brandon Chan

  • And of course many many other honored guests

  • But most importantly, you students

  • 但最重要的是,是你們這些同學的到來

  • I think this is probably one of the biggest events we've ever had

  • Just let you know, Nicholas

  • When the registery opened and within hours, it was totally full

  • In fact, this room only holds 400 people

  • Within a day and a half, we have 1700 people signed up

  • And clearly, (they) didn't come to see TONY

  • Nor me

  • But,anyway, I was asked to say a few words about our case centerOk

  • and many of you may or may not be aware of it

  • we have a case center here in HKUST’s business school

  • which is relatively new.

  • And let me just tell you why we actually started this thing

  • It was actually the encouragement of our Dean

  • and basically most of you probably aware of the notion of the case study itself.

  • For those of you who may not understand, or haven't had the chance

  • casestudy actually brings in real-life business situations into the classroom by writing cases on that company usually

  • and but we also back it up with theory, and allow students to actually analyze the situation itself.

  • So by having said that, there are a lot of other schools particularly Harvard, Ivy and Darmouth, and many many other schools do write cases.

  • So why should we be writing cases?

  • Well, one of my colleagues Professor Pang here

  • And, what we did was before I said to LeonardYes we will do this"

  • because he asked me to do it on a proposal base I might say.

  • So I saidWell, before we actually do this let’s take a survey

  • and understand what are we currently doing in our school, and who uses case method.

  • And so we did was we actually took a survey for all the faculty members that are teaching the MBA program itself

  • OK. and what we discovered was first of all at the encouragement of the Dean

  • we actually had 2/3 of the faculty responded to the survey. over 66%

  • and what was discovered was that students actually like classes that have cases in it.

  • NO.1,they gained higher scores for class that had that

  • so for those of you who are teaching this is great news.

  • The second thing is that (they) actually like the professor that’s teaching it.

  • And the third thing was

  • how come we always study western company cases

  • why don’t we have more Asian cases?

  • And therefore our main main focus is now on Asian.

  • In fact, my colleagues and I,Karen Lee as well have now coined the concept----

  • Asian cases, by Asians, for Asians.

  • Noit’s not to say that someone from Harvard they ask for a case we won’t give it to them

  • But I would hope that in a few years, they would actually come to us and ask for cases

  • Why? Because a Harvard professor their thinking-class is very very western

  • They don’t really understand how businesses are conducted in this part

  • And hence that’s our primary goal here

  • And we are also very very lucky that many of our faculties now have been supporting the concept itself

  • and in fact even though the 10 years system in the school

  • doesn’t necessarily recognize those centres involved in writing cases or even teaching cases

  • but we are moving along that long.So this is the purpose of that

  • and in factmany of our cases we are able to invite honoured guest to come

  • but more importantly in the classroom sometimes.

  • And I recall one of my cases

  • the individual that came to the class, this is the person that actually in the case itself

  • he said to me

  • Roger, you know what? This is great!

  • I’m getting so many good suggestions from students

  • In fact, it’s the cheapest consulting service I’ve ever had

  • so you know the whole idea is you need to participate for you students in this room

  • And it’s a great great opportunity to analyze real-life situations

  • So I’m sure again youre not here because you want to listen to me

  • So it gives me great pleasure

  • and Nicholas really needs no introduction

  • but here today he’s coming as a entrepreneur

  • a business was founded, several years back

  • when he was only , guess how old? 22!

  • That was only yesterday right?

  • And he has a very very successful business now

  • He has an office here in Hong Kong of course, as well as in Shanghai. I understand. Right.

  • So, without further ado, I would like to invite Nicholas to come up.

  • That's not for me, right?

  • Hello. Thank you for the warm welcome.

  • AndLadies and gentlemen welcome and thank you for having me on campus. This is truly overwhelming,Really.

  • I’m instructed to deliver a speech in English

  • So therefore I will be speaking in English

  • But if any of you prefer to speak in Cantonese or mandarin, please feel free to do so

  • I do hope that at the end of the session

  • both partiesyou and I, will gain something out of it

  • and leave behind some,what? kick-ass memory, all right?

  • Wow, this is really intense right now, for me.really.

  • maybe because this is my first time to show up as an entrepreneur, in front of the crowd

  • What is very odd is that I’ve been doing this most of my life

  • I have been giving speeches and performances, and talks around the world

  • The crowds ranging from 30 people to 130,000 people

  • but never have I been so uptight

  • and nerve-racking

  • Maybe it’s because I am simply put in front of a crowd of academics

  • And I feel that I’m now actually out of my……

  • I do feel I’m talking to another caliber I’m left out

  • So the first point is really to tell you

  • I dropped out of school in grade 10

  • And I urge you really to go through your education

  • Most of you I think have gone half way, right?

  • Might as well go all the way and grab that damn piece of paper!

  • If I had the chance to take all the wealth and so called fame and glory that I have now

  • and buy back 15 years of life

  • but keep the knowledge that I have now

  • and relive the physique I had 15 years ago and trade places with you right now

  • I would make that trade in a heartbeat, reallyseriously

  • I dropped out school when I wasmaybe in grade 10

  • and ever since I set foot into the so called business world

  • There has not been a day that has gone by without me hating myself and regretting

  • that I did not fully commit to my education

  • Maybe fine arts, agriculture, architecture, ceramics

  • who knows, I don’t know

  • MBA. But, I dropped

  • And every day that has gone by, I do regret

  • Some of you may not feel it right now.

  • But that diploma when you are trying to close a deal with someone

  • it means just that much more

  • When you are trying to convince someone to an idea, concept, something new

  • that piece of paper will just mean that much more

  • and people will judge you

  • and theyll doubt you that much less

  • That is reality, and it has been hard for me

  • butso I think I’m here to hopefully convince you to

  • go through, go to the education, go all the way

  • grab that piece of paper before you leave. OK?

  • Do not walk the path I’ve ever gone through

  • So and for the people who did not know

  • I have been running a so-called post production business for the past 9 years

  • And that’s what I do apart from the acting or the singing part, the entertainment part

  • There’s also the business part of Nicholas Tse

  • We are based on Hong Kong right now

  • We have a subbranch in Shanghai, it’s going very well

  • We are going to open in Beijing in the endhopefully the end of May.

  • Can I say that, please?

  • Because we are in a rush and everything is really….

  • so I’m looking at my colleague whether we can pull it off at the end of May

  • When I say post production it’s actually to a lot of people a very foreign term

  • So what is post production?

  • Post-production is… I mean by

  • audio dubbing, online editing, offline editing

  • compositing, animation, computer graphicsall that good stuff

  • Actually, everything you see right now on television,

  • advertising Broads, or in the cinema, or even on the Internet

  • Every visual image you see right now

  • is actuallyit hasit should have undergone the process of post-production

  • in order to achieve a certain standard of broadcast quality

  • And just by saying that I’m very very happy to say that

  • it has already obvious very high demand

  • or else I will not be here today

  • And sofor a more visual explanation of what I do

  • I would like to show the company reel

  • andThese are some of the brands that we do represent in Hong Kong or in the mainland China right now

  • Some of you may recognize or may not recognize it. OK?

  • Thank you. That’s some of these brands that we represent at the moment

  • butwhat you have just seen is the pretty side of the production

  • I would actually like to show you some of

  • the before and after

  • as to actually how we make a living

  • So what I’m about to show you, is a…something called the Canon G12 model.

  • It is an advertisement shot 2 years ago by a very famous crew

  • But, why don’t I show you?

  • Here you see in front of the green screen, just a…

  • it’s merely a model holding a camera.

  • And all it is

  • I'm sorry. It’s just actually a track back show of this model

  • it’s not quite up to the entertaining part

  • This is the source that we got when we first accepted this project

  • We have taken the initiative to talk to the producer and director and say

  • hey, why don’t we do something more interesting

  • and something that is to the next level

  • graphic wise and so

  • can we please show the next layer?

  • So with audio and visual enhancement...

  • each layer by layer, you can see, that inch by inch

  • this is what we do to enhance the visual effectfor the outcome

  • After 1160 and some more layers and modelling put onto this image

  • you got the finished product

  • That’s it. All rightthat’s one more full version or finished version.

  • There you have it. And that’s what we do for a living

  • For people do not know, post productionthat’s what we do

  • andso any question so far?

  • Why don't I ask you a question?

  • Who in here wants to be successful?

  • Raise your hand if you wanna succeed

  • Coz I’m sure as I'll do.

  • What's preventing you from raising hand?

  • Anyway

  • Second question, and the more important one: who’s lying?

  • Because I’m pretty sure you go out there and you ask people

  • who wants to be successful?”

  • 99% of people would tell you: I want to succeed

  • I want to be the best basketball player

  • I want to be the best hockey player; I want to be the best artist, engineer, whateverThey will talk

  • But most of you want to succeed

  • But are you truly being honest to yourself?

  • Where has you found your passionyou know your strength and weaknesses

  • where to place yourself in the market, how you want people to see you and how to project yourself in a market

  • I founded this company because

  • at the age of 22 and 3, between that time, I was on set, on a movie set

  • And, I saw the director go up to the CG, computer graphics guy in the department

  • and ask them:“ could weactually, I wanna do thistake the computer graphic image and do this… ”

  • and, he hesitated, froze, and I thought,:wow

  • So, that stalled for an hour or so

  • But, ticking, tick tick tick, all that is money

  • And he called back to his headquarters

  • and asked for the allowance to say: They want to do this and that, so can we please

  • After days of freezing, multi million dollars was lost during that process

  • And at the time I was releasing a lot of music videos

  • I was doing a lot concerts, advertisements, and movies

  • I wanted to enhance the visual effects myself

  • and I thought: wow, this should be our realm

  • That’s our profession, why are we doing so poor in it?

  • So then

  • if some of you have read through, may have read through my interviews

  • that I did sell my property, for a certain amount of money to invest in this business

  • I started off with 4-6 people

  • and I bought 1 or 2 second hand machines to start it off

  • And, luckily, I am here today

  • But, what message I wanna get through is

  • it seems like Nicholas Tse gambled everything away for the future

  • I didn't

  • It is a gamble, but

  • before I bought those second hand machines

  • I actually calculated and talked to a few producers and we signed contracts

  • for 3 movies, 2 advertisements, and 3 music videos

  • so that we’d cover my one and a half years overhead, ahead of time

  • So if I was to fail, I somewhat had a safety net that I won’t just kill myself.

  • because

  • I sold my house, sold everything, what do I have left?

  • So I did have a bit of a safety net

  • I don’t want to give the wrong message out to the public that

  • he just sold everything, so we can do that too.” Please do not. OK

  • So, when I was saying, be honest to yourself if you want to be successful

  • Because, some of us say we want to be successful

  • but we don’t wanna succeed more than we wanna sleep

  • We don't wanna succeed more than we look cooland go to the ..tonight

  • we don't want to succeed more than hanging out with friendsgoing to a cinema

  • you must be honest to yourself and find your ultimate passion

  • so therefore, are you willing to sacrifice all these temptations to prevent you from practicing your art?

  • I don't believe the saying ofPractice makes perfect

  • to me, there is no perfection, there should always be room for improvement

  • practice to me, practice makes permanence

  • you will only have a much higher probability not to mess thing up, but there is no perfection

  • That's to me

  • Any questions, so far?

  • These 3 guys are actually really intimidating right now

  • Because it feels like that at any moment theyre gonna chuck some intellectual question

  • like ninja’s darts

  • this is the question from us.

  • you basically answered about half of questions already, so

  • because the angle you sitting, the angle you sitting

  • So, really thanks for your brief introduction

  • and a warm welcome to today’s Asian leadership series again

  • so just before our conversation begin

  • would you prefer us to call you NIC or just Nicholas (yes...)

  • so, ah, NIC, as we know that you have established a very successful company

  • and we know, we have saw a sample work from Canon

  • we want to know what is the greatest challenge when you starting up your company?

  • The greatest challenge really is to earn the trust of clients at the age of 23

  • because it is a human natural instinct not to believe in

  • someone 10 or 20 years, younger than you

  • and to establish that trust is a reputation

  • but that together, it takes time

  • And we started offer really miniture size work

  • and earned the trust of some directors , and said:

  • "you know, are you guys ready to go to the next level? "

  • I personally say yes

  • but then what I've learnt is that saying yes doesn't mean anything

  • because no one wants to fall

  • and it is a cruel world out there

  • People will start blaming stuff, and say well, nic, he screwed it up, it’s not me

  • So, what I’ve done, I've changed through these years

  • I don't say yes any more

  • I go back and ask my team:" Do you think you can do this?

  • and if so, why don't we do a 30 seconds demo to shut their mouth? "

  • period

  • So the hardest part, the hardest challenge is to

  • I think for any business is to earn the trust

  • actually, mentioning that

  • I myself, I …

  • ever since I was little, I love Hong Kong action movies

  • I still do, I really do, it’s all my passion

  • being honest to myself, I can tell you, I love action movies

  • and I am willing to put my life on the line, literally

  • if it takes, and to protect HK action

  • So 10 years ago ,I made myself a promise

  • that if I'm gonna be in this business

  • I wanna, I wanna be an action star

  • at least participate in one of Jack Cheng's cool movies, or the Jet Li movies or the Donnie Yen movies

  • And, I will show you this, actually

  • it is more a present to my son

  • it is a 2 minutes video for his first birthday

  • some of my favourite stunts

  • please do not try this at home

  • because what youre about to see for the next 2 minutes, I have been training for12 years

  • and a lot of luck is involved

  • that’s why I'm saying practice only makes permanence

  • because the more I do this in this chance, I will die

  • Jumping off the 41st floor is never 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.

  • 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

  • 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 you advise us for finding our dreams and our passions?

  • like I said, I think be honest to yourself

  • No… 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 we 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

  • 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?

  • I don't think anyone

  • unless your dream is something that is so destructive that youre hurting someone else

  • I don't think anybody would stop you from pursuing your dreams, right?

  • if it’s not something constructive, or something we don't normal, I would say

  • it should be OK, you are not trying to kill someone

  • and make a statement

  • that's what I did in my stunts

  • you know ,I didn't just go abouttalking to the director saying , I wanna do action movies

  • someone jumped off. I trained

  • and then I started 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

  • 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?

  • 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 multi million dollar machine

  • and ask me towill I do as well 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, all right?

  • see weve 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 or saving the 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.

  • 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 youll be looking for?

  • 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, whereas

  • Were 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 inborn sense or talents

  • You have many staffs in your company

  • so how do you encourage creative thinking in your company?

  • 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

  • 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 like overseas trip with your employees every…?

  • Yes, I do. Yes, I do. I try to participate as much as I can

  • Andtrips 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 andjustthat’s not bad.

  • Youve mentioned earlier that trust is important in your company

  • so how do you build trust with your employees among Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong.

  • 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 thatjust to know

  • that there’s such a high demand, so thereforesupply is also needed, so

  • Could you explain to us your vision standard of your company?

  • 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 tothis 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 have always been 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

  • Weve already talked about your vision

  • and weve 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?

  • 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

  • Andwhat is means, each year were 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

  • WowThis guy is actuallyhe’s making every promise come true

  • And for them, that is so important because

  • they are noteverything is coming true

  • and they see further

  • And I think that is very important for everyone.

  • 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?

  • 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 initiativeto 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

  • 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

  • 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 were 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 actually

  • 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

  • That's really inspiring

  • So it is inevitable that there are ups and downs in our life

  • So how do you stay positive?

  • 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

  • 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?

  • You know all this is great

  • I don't know how you feel. Thank you for all this warm welcome

  • But all this 謝霆鋒 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 belif believable

  • and I will keep on doing that for a long long time

  • Although I said that was a final question. I do have another one. Uhh

  • youve actually mentioned a lot of qualities, you talk about being charismatic

  • how you lead your team, how you make them like you

  • Or, 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?

  • Well, another one I would say is to

  • Set as an example

  • you can talk all you want

  • I can talk about stunts as I want

  • but when you are really put under the spotlight

  • and you don't know your stuff

  • I don't care how much you talk, you can talk forever

  • but can you make that jump?

  • If you have been training for it, you can

  • But that for me is an ultimate test

  • Whereas in business I may lose money, I may lose a job or two

  • But there, if I was not really honest to myself

  • I would lose a leg, I would lose an arm, I would lose my life

  • It's……it’s knowing your staff

  • like I said again, practice makes only permanence.

  • Thank you very much for sharing with us today

  • Thank you for really encourage our students to pursue our own dreams, our passions

  • and although weve asked quite a few questions, I’m sure the audience here have many more questions to ask you

  • So we will now give the question to the floor

  • Just as a reminder, today’s section is focused on entrepreneurship, leadership

  • This is important

  • keep in mind that today’s section is focus on entrepreneurship, leadership and management

  • So questions fall out of these categories will not entertained

  • Originally, we had about 20 minutes for Q/A sections

  • so keep your questions brief and to the point

  • If they drag on for too long

  • I’m sorry but I’m gonna cut you short and I’m gonna get the questions from some other students

  • so please be respectful to the audience

  • Just another thing

  • when we hand you the microphone after asking a question please pass it back to the staff members so

  • other people can get a chance

  • Thank you for your attention and we will now start taking questions

  • Hi, Hi Nicholas very nice to see you here

  • Actually we all know you as a very successful actor and singer, am I right?

  • instead of being an entrepreneur

  • So I just want to ask

  • how did your great fame affect your occupation, your business?

  • Is there any negative effect? Because there must be some negative effects

  • Thank you very much!

  • That is an awesome question

  • You know, I was gonna say about the category that the questions are gonna come by

  • I was gonna say if anyone was gonna asking for an autograph

  • I would sign you the autograph

  • if you can ask me a question that was a starter

  • because after all were all in the study of MBA

  • so why not study in negotiating

  • But I like that questionYes

  • I did not launch to the public that I had this company

  • that I have this company until April 2nd last year

  • So I have been actually going undercover for 7 years

  • and it has been really hard

  • that’s actually what I forgot to mention

  • It is another challenge for me to be such low-key. And to still participate in the company

  • and why I kept it a secret was because

  • I just thought if I really wanted to prove myself as an entrepreneur

  • first I do not want to use my fame, so-called fame to assist it

  • And also I do think that would actually harm it in a way

  • because the press just gonna eat me up

  • He’s another so-called actor who is trying to do a business

  • but how successful am I really?

  • I myself I want the real answer

  • and therefore I kept it a secret

  • And I hoped my clients are coming in because that

  • they know they can rely on PO

  • and rely on me as the CEO

  • but not as… “Oh, I’m gonna give him a better credit

  • because he just participated in my action movie

  • No I did not want that

  • It has been painful

  • sitting in the office

  • seeing all these people, all the directors come by and say:

  • Oh you~ Hey~ Youre here for?”

  • “I’m here for dubbing…”

  • Eh~ Oh~ Youre here again~”

  • “I’m still here for dubbing…”

  • I have been going there for 8 years

  • and then thank whoever’s up there that’s looking after me

  • Then last year I can present to the public that this is my company

  • and they completely thought that you were dubbing for 8 years?

  • You think I’m mad? Ya~ It’s true

  • Any other questions?

  • Hi, Nicholas~ My name is Johnny

  • and I know that you were doing really great at the age of 22 in the entertainment industry

  • I wanna know what motivated you to establish the post production at the age of 22

  • cause you were enjoying a lot of fame and money

  • So you should have sacrificed quite a lot

  • so what motivated you to establish the company? Thank you

  • Like I mentioned before that

  • little crisis I saw on set with the movie things with the hesitation, with the post production

  • I was quite upset

  • and ultimately I do want to give something back to the society and, say you know, I hope in the near future

  • Well a lot of times when I was trying to sell a concept or an idea for my own music video back to the time,

  • I was always banned

  • I was always given the answer saying: You can’t do that

  • ---why?

  • ----that’s too expensive and we don’t have the technology

  • we've got to go to Hollywood for that

  • I said , Really?

  • Well, Korea just did one quite similar

  • I don’t think they went to Hollywood for it

  • I was you know I was pissed off

  • that we are relying so much on the western technology

  • Whereas We have, to be honest, even today

  • we have exact same machinery that they do

  • It’s just the culture that is different

  • What's the difference between Brazilian soccer and China soccer?

  • We got the same balls, right?

  • But it’s the culture that they live it, they breath it

  • you know each kid isall they have is a soccer ball and they play it every day

  • like our badminton. It's the same

  • it’s different in culture but I wanted to make a difference

  • I wanted to make a statement

  • Yeah, go ahead

  • Mr. Tse, was there ever a time

  • you wanted tolike you felt yourself drifting away from the business

  • like when your company wasn't doing well

  • and as a start-up I guess it’s very tough looking for projects and clients

  • And how do you take time off your acting work to, you know; spend time to your company?

  • And was there ever a time you felt like giving up or just very tired of this whole thing?

  • No, I have not. And I do feel tired sometimes as do my stuff

  • but as much as we love our jobs

  • No we have never thought that you know

  • there’s not a second that has slipped by my mind that I would give up this business

  • because I believe simply I believe

  • and I see it’s a very logical business

  • China last year became the third most movie-productive country in the world

  • first being India, second being the States, third is China

  • We made 716 movies last year

  • that’s almost 2 movies per day

  • how much post production is needed

  • if that much of hours of movies are made each day

  • It’s a very logical business

  • if so much pre-production is made then there must be space for post-production

  • and I don't doubt at all. I see a great future in this business

  • The lady in front

  • You have mention about the challenges your company had before

  • how about the great success of your company?

  • It’s doing OK~

  • I really don't dare to say it’s anything right now

  • it’s nothing compare to lot of my idols like DreamWorks or Pixar

  • but were getting there

  • and I do believe that if no one’s gonna start it off might that it might as well be me

  • So were trying were trying

  • Hi, Nicholas~ You have been successful in different areas

  • like youre a very good actor entrepreneur

  • so how do you manage your time so well? Like you must be very busy

  • I must give this credit to my staff

  • A lot of time I’m on the way and not in Hong Kong, or I’m not in mainland China, all over the places

  • And we have established a trust

  • a kind of a harmony that we are in sync

  • we know what we want to achieve

  • So this I give all the credit to my staff

  • when I’m not here. They would make the harsh decisions

  • and well, through the internet, we will communicate

  • And we are just obeying our rules

  • The guy in shirt at back

  • Hi, Nicholas~ I’m called Nicholas as well

  • and I hope I will be as successful as you one day

  • So we all know about you glory and success

  • And I would like… I’m curious about what mistakes you have done before for you as a leader

  • And what have you done to rectify your mistake as a leader? Thank you~

  • I…… I like that question. It’s hard

  • I have a tendency of rush

  • As to all kids should, actually, maybe when theyre 22 or 23 right?

  • We kind of rush into things

  • and when I first started this business

  • I did not go all the way to know it each and every part or department of how they run the business

  • or I……I had……I had the picture of it

  • But then it came to the part where

  • I had to buy really expensive machinery

  • When I was buying the second-hand piece of a colour corrector

  • I did not……actually I brought a broken piece of machine

  • and that cost us quite, pay a heavy price

  • And we had to……The maintenance for that machine cost us a lot

  • and luckily we were able to survive out of the crisis

  • but yes I did make these mistake

  • and I failed a lot of clients, I failed a lot of staff to trust me or not

  • whether or not to trust me anymore

  • Of course I was cheated also, but you know

  • you can never really blame anybody but yourself as a leader

  • Yes I did fail in buying a wrong piece of equipment. Yes, I did

  • Yeah, the lady in red

  • Hi, Nicho~ Actually I’m from Shanghai and I……

  • I’m wondering where is your office

  • No, no

  • Actually I was wondering Is there any difference between starting a new business in Hongkong and especially like in mainland China

  • I don’t think we should draw a line between any country

  • especially that were as one now

  • If you hold on to the same principles

  • may it be Hong Kong, or mainland China, or the states, or Africa, I think it should be the same

  • And my office is in the 紅方工業區

  • is it very luxurious?

  • It’s OK; we might expand in the summer

  • Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?

  • Hi, Nicholas. Do you have any short term or long term plan on your company or on your personal life?

  • I remember that you are like action movies, are you still going for that?

  • Do you have any plan in the future to have you own film shot?

  • sorry this is irrelevant to entrepreneurship, so

  • ——That’s all right.——Is it OK?

  • Actually you know it’s kind of related

  • and although it’s kind of a… it’s not a business secret but……

  • a lot of people think why did you all a sudden open a post-production company when youre an actor

  • Does it sound that ridiculous?

  • Am I jumping from acting to cooking? I am not

  • Actually if you think about it deeply it’s quite linked together

  • if I have enough bargaining power and trust between the directors and the producers

  • to say look my company can handle this now

  • What about I participate in your next movie, and I do the post

  • Now, isn’t that a win-win situation?

  • So do I have plans? Yes, I do have plans in making new movies

  • and I hope that I can bargain the deal that I can also handle the post production part

  • if……we have all seen that you know the last real big success in Hongkong----《桃姐》.

  • We were really lucky to be able to o the colour correction part

  • although I wasn’t in it

  • But hey we got to the Venice Awards.

  • The lady in the back

  • You were 30… I’m sorry; you were 23 when you founded your company. (MC:22!)

  • So you were so young, did you ever feel like you missed out on life?

  • And how do you deal with these regrets?

  • I tried to think that I lived my life fully

  • That’s why I’m going for everycall me greedy

  • but I’m going for every opportunity and yet why shouldn’t you? Right?

  • A lot of people ask me that question do I regret anything

  • Like I said I would take I would fully commit to my education if I have the chance to buy back 15-year’s life

  • but I don’t

  • I think I have lived my life fully

  • I have two very cute sons and they're healthy

  • I have……I’m just grateful

  • I hope everybody should think out of the box sometimes

  • I’m getting lots of questions whereashow to pursue a dream?” or

  • Is this OK?” “Are we going too far?”

  • Where do you draw a line between reality and visions

  • Leonardo Da Vinci In 1493 I think, it was 1493 that’s a “Judy air screw”----

  • What we know today as a helicopter

  • I’m pretty sure back in the time then people call him crazy

  • what? That thing flies?well whatever

  • Well, 500 years after, we are… I mean it’s a very well-known transportation device

  • It's 1493

  • So don't doubt yourself

  • you may get a lot of negative inputs or comments

  • My mom, my families told me

  • they were seriously, in words

  • You won’t make it, you won’t be a successful businessman.”

  • I got tons of those

  • And my dad you know all worried because

  • it’s just very seldom for one leaving entertainment business actually make it from the scratch in the business world

  • But that’s me, that’s the rebellious side of me

  • I like proving people wrong

  • Sorry well only have time for about two more questions? The lady in the front row there

  • So Nicholas, I wonderyou mention that you have a competitor in Shanghai, right?

  • So how are you going to lead your team to defeat your competitor?

  • Yeah, competitors are everywhere

  • And I……I like the thought of friendly competition

  • Only through that will the clients know who is better

  • and that makes us to excel, to thrive more for excellence

  • If anything was monopolized by only one grand name

  • they won’t fight

  • There is no one to be in the race, you can walk that marathon and still win

  • if you are the only walking or running, right?

  • We just do our job as we should every day

  • Regardless if there is a competitor

  • if there is Steven Spielberg‘s DreamWorks coming into Shanghai or not

  • I’m just doing my job, as should my staff

  • Our last question will go to the guy in the black shirt

  • Hi, Nicholas, my name is Ken

  • as you mentioned the skill of post-production in Hong Kong is not that far from the western industry

  • The only difference is in terms of culture

  • So I want to ask do you have any plans to bring the Post Production Office to the international market by overcoming this barrier.

  • Wow

  • right now, I have to say I don’t have that ability yet

  • because I have put my efforts and investments into, first, handling our whole China

  • But I do believe that

  • you knowwhat’s that movie called? 《金陵十三釵》right?

  • Christian Bill came to us, you know he China-based movie

  • So you know if you ask me about that, that’s something really far away

  • but I hope one day or maybe through IPO

  • will I get the chance to go overseas and reach that goal

  • but me alone I really can only do that much

  • Our last question will go to president Tony Qian. Will you do the honours?

  • Nic is a surprise

  • now can I ask a question not tied to entrepreneurship?

  • Everybody wants to ask that kind of question

  • Sorry, sorry, I won’t entertain this, but I don’t know if he is feeling generous? (BOSS: Please)

  • You know some of us who sitting here are a little bit older than most of the people here

  • And some of us grew up with movies related to your family

  • So, no, but I wasn’t gonna ask about that , I was gonna ask

  • there must be a lot of family pressure, you know, maybe implicit

  • to live up to the family fame

  • You know, maybe founding a new company

  • finding your own place, making your own name

  • I just wonder howyour view on this, how you live through this?

  • Must be a lot of expectation that a lot of our students also feel

  • Before you say you have to find your own passion

  • a lot of our students also feel the pressure from our family. A lot of family expectation

  • So for you with the particular family you have with the fame

  • you must feel that ten times more than the typical student

  • I want to hear what’s your view on this?

  • Uhh, it is a good question, really

  • but I used to hate that shadow that overpowered Nicholas Tse

  • because I am the son of whom and whom

  • but I have learned maybe because I started working at the age of 15 or 16

  • and now did my parents do anything wrong?

  • I have learned to accept and actually be proud of who they are

  • I used to really hate that shadow….

  • 謝賢嘅仔…

  • Seriously!

  • But as you grow, and you go through crisis and all that crap

  • You learn, when you get hit, and life will hit you as hard as he wants to

  • No one will stand by you as close as your family

  • And it is through these little problems and crisis

  • where I have found a way to relieve that shadow as being whoever’s son

  • and embrace it and love it and say:"yes, I am, so what?"

  • We are both doing OK as a human being

  • And in this business and the entertainment business

  • I am proud now to hold my father or my mother’s hands and say

  • weve done our part in this business

  • So really, I know, cause I have kids also

  • And sometimes when I think about it, I ask myself

  • Wow, I’m under a lot of pressure

  • I was under the eyes of 6 million people in Hong Kong watching me grow up as the son of Patrick Tse

  • Now that I think about it, what‘s really unfair is for my kids

  • because now they are under theyou knowthe lens of 1.3 billion people in China

  • My kids are under more pressure than I am

  • But what I hope they will learn from this is

  • if they can just simply grow as a human being

  • and not let my shadow overpower them too much

  • Now that’s being a man

  • now that’s being able to live life as you should

  • Why let anything stand in your way

  • especially if theyre are someone who loves you and that’s unconditional love

  • They expect nothing in return. I bet anything

  • simply because you are sitting here today; they want the best for you

  • This is HKUST, man!

  • That officially ends the Q&A Session, Karen, back to you

  • Ok, let’s give them a round of applause

  • I have to say, Nicholas, this is the second time I meet you. The first time we did a video interview with him

  • And that will be showing in the fourth-coming classes

  • And there was truly inspirational, even though I heard it twice

  • So thank you very much. To show our appreciation

  • may I invite Dean to the stage for a gift-giving ceremony?

  • Please remain on stage

  • May I now invite President Tony Chan and Professor Roger King, and also the three students interviewers, please join Nicholas for a photo

  • I can see there are lots of photos

  • I think Karen, Renee and George should come here

  • Ok, Thank you very much

  • Most of all, thank you all for coming to the event, give yourself a round of applause

  • Now I am sure many of you are very interested in joining Post Production Limited, right?

  • This evening the senior managers are going to stay behind to answer questions, so you can explore job opportunities with them

  • Yes. We have Amanda, Diana who is the managing director, Also, Michael is going to join us with the director

  • So for those who would like to talk to them, please come down later

  • And in the meantime, in the meantime, I am afraid this is the end of our first Asian Leadership Series

  • And I hope to see you again. Goodnight

  • So for those students who would like to talk, can you please come down?

  • It’s a free format thing. Anyone wants a job?

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