Watanabe took the veteran employee from Japan to visit the headquarters building. After settling in his accommodation and resting, he sat in his vice president's office and looked out at the city outside the window.
Although the urban area is dilapidated, the unobstructed view makes you open-minded and relaxed.
When he was in Japan, Watanabe Yuya sat in a small square like the staff in the big office area. After becoming the section chief of the Japan External Trade Organization in the Imperial Capital, he had his first independent office in his life.
But how can a section chief of the Promotion Association be compared with the vice president of the ‘Holy Light’? The former may have a higher reputation, but the latter is really inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people.
Watanabe Ou also worked his way up from being a social worker. He experienced Japan's post-war economic embarrassment and did not have high requirements for living conditions, but he was very sensitive to status.
Being a social worker in Japan will quickly acquire a special skill. You can quickly judge the status of anyone by looking at them. This determines what etiquette should be used and how to speak.
Once you make a mistake, it will be very embarrassing and even ruin the future of years of hard work.
For this reason, Watanabe Yuo, who has worked as a social worker for decades, has a dream that one day he can walk into a beautiful and tall office building and walk into the elevator reserved for superiors in front of countless employees.
During the whole process, he didn't need to be nervous and pay attention to who the other person was?
The elevator can go directly to the top floor of the building, and the respectful secretary and entourage have been waiting outside the elevator.
A spacious and bright office is open to Mr. Watanabe. As long as he presses the intercom button while sitting in it, his secretary can call all the middle-level cadres to a meeting.
Maybe the middle-level cadres of ‘Holy Light’ are not respectful enough, their abilities are often lacking, and they cannot even be beaten and scolded, but Watanabe Oo is really content.
In Japan, there are a lot of old guys who are still ordinary members in their fifties. A bunch of seniors in their sixties are still working hard and striving to become department heads or directors.
An old man in his seventies is still working hard to hold the position of section chief and refuses to retire. A director in his eighties exercises every day, hoping that one day he can outlast his colleagues and become the vice president.
The top president might have been born in the Meiji period. He served as a soldier and fought in wars, experienced World War I and World War II, and survived atomic bombings. He lived to be over ninety, enjoyed the best medical treatment, and lay in the hospital to rely on his health.
A ventilator sustains life.
Every year, the vice president will lead small bosses like Watanabe Yu to express their respect to the old president through the visiting glass of the hospital.
Every year, the old president seems to be dying, and even his words are trembling. But he is still advancing towards the age of 100, and he will not die if he holds the power.
With all these layers laid down, how can Watanabe Yu be happy in Japan?
It’s better to stay in Tianyang!
President Zhou will show up only when he is ‘spreading money’, and basically doesn’t care about the specific affairs of the group. The entire group is currently undergoing a major reorganization, and all production management matters have been left to Watanabe Yu, the full-time vice president.
In the past, Watanabe Ou was alone and could not support himself. Now that a bunch of old social animals with no way out have arrived, things have become much simpler - if wealth and wealth do not return to their hometown, they will be like walking at night in brocade clothes.
The old Japanese had already planned to become an "old friend of the Chinese people" and was unwilling to go back. So he had no choice but to invite a group of people from his hometown to appreciate his achievements.
Really not going back? Of course not!
Why go back? Are you waiting to be destroyed by Japanese society? It’s only 1991, and Japan’s economy will not be good in the next twenty years.
The collapse of the stock market and real estate market has just begun. Americans will tighten their leashes, and the Asian financial crisis will soon come. By 1999, the annual number of suicides in Japan hit a new high.
Young people are too lazy to fall in love, they don’t get married when they fall in love, and they don’t want children when they get married. Don’t look at the variety of Japanese customs, but in fact many people are still babies until they die.
Even if it is more convenient to eat watermelon, it is better to stay in China.
Watanabe Yuo can't see the future, but he knows that it will be good for him to be the vice president of 'Holy Light'. If possible, he hopes to work in this position until he is a hundred years old, and also enjoy working with a ventilator.
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At present, what "Shengguang" needs to do is to increase its production capacity, but it cannot be achieved casually. The group currently mainly produces motorized three-wheelers, low-end construction machinery, and lead-acid batteries. The product line is very limited.
In terms of factory buildings, equipment, management, and employees, the production department of 'Holy Light' is still very crude, and there are too many shortcomings that need to be fixed. But the group does have money and good connections, and the speed of filling the shortcomings is very fast.
For example, the group's engineering department recently expanded to more than a thousand people. There is still an endless stream of technicians who are paid thousands of yuan, and there are people trying to squeeze in every day.
As long as the ability is sufficient, the president is willing to recruit talents and spend money to support idle people. Watanabe admires the president's courage very much, but the management chaos in the engineering department has affected the group's development.
Engineering Director Zheng Ping's ability was obviously insufficient. Professor Zheng voluntarily resigned and gave way to others, focusing solely on engineering machinery matters.
Your Excellency, the President, also made changes whenever he wished, separated technology research and development from production applications, and reorganized the management chain. He was also confident and bold in bringing in people from ministries and commissions.
Director Ma, who was decentralized from the ministries and commissions, has been immersed in the management of the industrial sector for decades. He looks very smooth, but in fact he is familiar with almost all industrial categories. He is also very good at balancing and does not hesitate to be ruthless.
Otherwise Director Ma wouldn't be able to get into that position.
News has spread from the top management of the group that Director Ma will leave his official position to serve as the vice president in charge of research and development at Holy Light. Before he took up the post, he asked the technical staff to form a party branch to unify their thinking and strengthen management.
Not only did the CEO not stop him, but he also offered money. He only stipulated that the fittest would survive within the group, and those who didn't do well would get out. Favors and faces are worthless, so don't engage in a situation where you can be promoted but not demoted.
The group emphasizes both ideological work and practical benefits. As long as you do well, you will receive both money and honor. Both spiritual and material satisfaction will be achieved.
This type of composite management method is unprecedented, and Yudu Watanabe is not sure whether it is good or bad. But judging from the current situation, several R&D project teams in the group already have leaders and are beginning to compete with each other.
This kind of internally coordinated and healthy competition is rare in Japan, and it can even be said that it does not exist - Watanabe Yu is very clear that some things within Japanese companies are extremely rigid and rigid.
For example, ‘lifetime employment’ and ‘seniority sequence’, Japanese companies once regarded them as the secret and pride of their rapid development. This system can stabilize the development of enterprises in the early stage, but it will not take long before a bunch of waste will inevitably appear.
The CEO just can't stand the trash who "occupies the toilet and doesn't shit".
Competition within the group actually costs money.
Other companies can only choose one or two technical routes. But "Shengguang" has recruited a lot of technical personnel and will recruit more, so it can choose several more routes.
The CEO also took full advantage of Director Ma's background and was willing to spend money to have large domestic scientific research institutes conduct research and development for him. This is equivalent to raising thousands of non-staff scientific researchers.
This way of spending money is really exaggerated. Just spend hundreds of millions casually.
As the vice president in charge of production, Watanabe Yuo can see the company's financial statements every month. There are more than a dozen cooperation projects with domestic universities and institutes listed above. The start-up capital for each project alone will not be less than
five million.
The group holds monthly meetings, and the aloof president will track the progress of the project. Once the progress is deemed to be slow or the work is ineffective, he will blacklist the partner.
If it were anyone else, the sunk costs would be too high, and they would hold their noses and continue some bad cooperation. Uncle Zhou would rather waste hundreds or tens of millions than cooperate with rubbish.
Nowadays, the idea of "cans for airplanes" is very popular across the country, and the voice of "Holy Light" has increased dramatically. Everyone must consider the consequences of offending this overbearing president.
This is an extremely competitive environment fueled by excess funds, driving the rapid development of ‘Holy Light’.