Oct 15 – Monday. We started the day at the IBM Beijing Pangku Office which is viewable from the Olympic Park. There is so much pride here. We don’t all speak the same language, but we’re IBMers, so we’re connected and we know it. Rode with the client to our worksite in the afternoon and had an amazing homemade lunch. Two of us on SubTeam 4 are pescatarians (Nikki and me) and 1 is vegetarian (Sandip). Many dishes were placed on a lazy susan and eaten family style. You help yourself to small amounts at one time and put on your small plate. When you finish, you get more. Small pieces of food can be eaten directly from the lazy susan, if desired. It feels like years past having family dinner. No one is on their phone, no business is discussed, we talk about the foods we’re enjoying and how they’re prepared. We commune as human beings and get to know one another. It’s wonderful.
After lunch, we discussed changes to the Statement of Work (SOW) and sought to understand what our client really needs. We needed to clarify our roles as process consultants vs Alzheimer’s Disease subject matter experts. Once done, we were able to set the right expectations.
#cscchina42 had dinner as a team in the hotel. We were all beat from our day, the challenging air quality, and the commutes back from our clients. It was Darlene’s (Dada) birthday and we celebrated and sang Happy Birthday in Mandarin and then devoured her cake that Tian brought in. We let Dada keep her 8 cupcakes, but they surely looked good 🙂
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