Out of control

After the first round weakest link clean up, everyone is working very carefully to protect themselves. But according to chinese style, work more careful means they will sit quietly on the meeting without reporting any opinion unless someone really pointing at one of them, "You! please tell me what is your idea."

I am really frustrated about this routine action. We have tons of problems to deal with, but everyone just like playing "hide-and-seek". Once the game starts, I have to build the wall(schedule deadline), set up some trap (evidence from history), put some cheeses around (be friendly with them), bring some net and clamp (together with supervisor), to catch each of the cunning mouse. If they get caught, they will say, "Yes, I am working on it, BUT...", then the loop starts.

Lay-off occurs because we don't have enough order, we don't have enough order because we can't build it, we can't build it because we don't have enough technical support.

We don't have enough technical support, then the product can't ship on time. If the product can't ship on time, the company reputation will drop. If the company reputation drops, the company will get shrunk. If the company get shrunk, lay-off will be occurred.

If top management can't solve the root cause in R&D, I believe the second round will come shortly.

Everything is a loop, a loop from hell.