North Farm GM Wu Fang-Ming: What Really Needed to Loosen Wasn’t the System — It Was the Sentence “I’ve Done This for 30 Years”

This year, North Farm's General Manager Wu Fang-Ming did two things most companies wouldn't dare: in June, he brought three section chiefs into a CSM classroom; in August, he sent all 30 of his senior executives into the same room — a group whose average tenure exceeds 30 years. Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Co., the 52-year-old company that has kept Taipei's produce supply running for half a century, chose to operate on its own most senior people first. What actually needs to loosen isn't the system. It's the unspoken sentence: "I've done this for 30 years." Is this company ready to speak a different language?



