Richard "Dickie" Bachmann hit the ground running, making sure that everything is in order even before he formally assumes the chairmanship of the Philippine Sports Commission.

Bachmann, a longtime corporate executive, gave PSC employees a preview of his managerial skills when he reported for work at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex very early on Wednesday – three hours before formally getting sworn in as the 12th chairperson of the government sports agency.

Together with very few PSC employees, Bachmann inspected the Rizal Memorial Stadium, National Squash Center, track oval and other government sports facilities around 7 a.m. before rushing to his 10 a.m. appointment with Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin and Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Hubert Guevarra at Malacañang to take his oath of office as PSC boss.

Then, he went back to the PSC main office to preside over his first board meeting with sports commissioners Olivia "Bong" Coo, Edward Hayco and Walter Torres.

Bachmann said working early is nothing new to him.

"This is a force of habit. I am always early when I used to work for Alaska Milk Corporation," the 54-year-old Bachmann told Daily Tribune in an interview after emerging from a four-hour board meeting.

"With this basically, I also wanted to come early and I wanted to see people down – the security guards, the people cleaning the office. That's what I wanted to do first. When I came in, I saw them, I went all the way straight to my office upstairs and looked around to kinda make it sink in that I'm going to be the PSC chairman in a few hours."

"Without anyone, I wanted to go around the whole PSC and see it for myself. I didn't have anyone with me. It just so happened that when I walked around the PSC office, the training centers, a lot of employees, the security guards started to join."

But Bachmann's first order of business is to sustain the momentum that the country gained from its successful Olympic participation in Tokyo.