The awesome adventures of Jack Chi: Foodora CA Experience November 2015-November 2016

The foodora CA experience has been tremendously helpful to my self-development. I learned about communication, office politics, results based work and most of all hustle and self-reliance this year.

In the office I loved to observe and just absorb everything. Every single person is there on merit and had something to teach me.

My main reporting officer was Mike the Head of Operations. He was my guide and model for this year. I observed his every action, from his swaggering walk to the way he talks to us. My biggest take away from Mike was talk small but carry a big stick. His communication skills are what I admire about him the most. In a particular vivid episode of coaching, I was pitching an idea to our head office in Germany. I sent in the email to Mike for criticism. He coached me as we exchanged comments and edits back and forth. Finally I trimmed down my paragraph to simply 2 sentences. The biggest take away from that day was this: “Successful people don’t need to be sucked up to, less fluff.” (sic probably a paraphrase as opposed to word for word)– Mike M.

In the end Mike was let go, for reasons unknown to most people in the company. But whatever his shortcomings might be I respected him as a boss and leadership style. He was one of the best bosses I have ever had.