Chapter 99 Sharpening the Knife Without Mistakenly Chopping Wood
Zhou Wencheng replied: "I understand, it's because we don't understand each other, so we don't have enough confidence in my ability to work."
Zhao Manfu replied sheepishly: "I'm sorry.
Don't worry too much.
I am not pessimistic about your working ability. On the contrary, I believe in your working ability.
It's just that such a large project is in our hands to manage, and there are so many problems, so the pressure on all aspects is relatively high.
As for me, I am more cautious in doing things, and I am not afraid of facing many problems.
But the habit I have developed is to make decisions first and then act.
As the saying goes, everything will be successful if it is forewarned, and it will be ruined if it is not forewarned."
Zhou Wencheng said: "Okay, Mr. Zhao, I understand. It's just that what I'm good at is doing things, not expressing things. Generally speaking, I do things well, not say things well."
Zhao Manfu said: "I like people like this better. Once I trust you, I will fully authorize you. After I understand your situation in the future, I will know these specific things about your project.
I won’t take the initiative to ask you. As long as you don’t take the initiative to come to me, I will think that there is no problem. Even if there is a problem, it is a problem that your project manager and project department should find a solution for. Only when your
Only when the ability and authority cannot be solved well, you need to come to me to provide help and support."
Zhou Wencheng replied: "I understand.
Mr. Zhao,
look,
During today's meeting, everyone talked about so many issues.
In fact, it can be classified.
A kind of classification is a question of upper and lower.
For the above problems, there are few things to do, but the technical requirements are very high.
For example, Jiang Taoren, the former businessman of the project department, did not know how to clear the bids that the construction party had repeatedly requested. He did not know what to do, so this matter was always there.
I don't understand this either, so this issue has become an insurmountable gap for the project department.
In the process of communicating with the builder, I also expressed that I didn’t understand why the bid must be cleared. The work was all done, how much work was done, how much was paid, and I didn’t ask for overpayment. What’s the problem with overpayment?
As a result, I was given a very clear reply: find your budget person and I will explain it to him.
Then Jiang Taoren left.
The builder asked, are you the estimator?
He doesn't even know what clear standard is, and why does he feel it's not as clear as yours?
You guys, for such a big project, you are still scrambling for work every day, so you can’t get enough people to come here.
I said, what's wrong? This is the budget officer of the company's distribution project department. I'm not professional. Could it be that he is not professional either.
The other party's answer was, I don't know whether he is professional or not.
But communicating with him felt like talking to a duck. Qingbiao is a common professional vocabulary, which includes many things. Anyone who understands it and has experienced it knows it.
If you don’t understand, you’ll have to explain it for a long time, and he can still find many reasons why he doesn’t need to clear the bid.
Yes, this is the case. If it cannot be resolved, payment to us will be suspended.
I can say this, as long as this problem is solved, I can solve all the problems of payment collection on this project."
Zhao Manfu nodded and asked Zhang Yunqing: "What do you think of this issue that Mr. Zhou is worried about?"
Zhang Yunqing felt incomprehensible and asked: "Jiang Taoren has been working in Western Architecture for many years. How come he doesn't even know how to clear the bid?"
Zhou Wencheng replied angrily: "As a so-called budgeter, he doesn't have very strong professional knowledge.
Later, when the construction party's cost manager met with me, he told me about the communication situation between the two of them.
She said, I feel like your budget officer, who knows how to edit data using EXCEL tables, doesn't quite understand anything that involves list specifications, price control, and quotas, and is confused.
Perhaps, it is also because of the combination of these reasons that he can no longer survive here and must leave until the right person comes. Otherwise, the project will be finished.
He has already handled the handover of work with Mr. Zhang.
As for us, let’s not question whether he is right or not, whether he should be right or not.
These will not help us solve the project problems.
Just tell me clearly, can you solve the problem of clearing the mark?"
Zhang Yunqing replied: "According to my understanding, I know how to do the bid clearance work. It turns out that when I was in Xichuan, I also did the bid clearance work for many projects.
But coming here is, after all, across a province.
If you want to solve this problem better.
I need some preconditions."
Zhou Wencheng replied: "What prerequisites are needed?"
Zhang Yunqing replied: "First, I need to meet with the construction party's cost manager to communicate her specific requirements for the bid clearance work."
Zhou Wencheng replied: "You have just arrived today, and you are not familiar with the information on the project.
Just tell me that you will communicate with me immediately tomorrow to understand the situation and get familiar with it for a while before going?"
Zhang Yunqing said: "Mr. Zhou, there is a saying that sharpening the knife does not waste time chopping wood. As long as the construction party does not require us to communicate immediately, we can go again in three days.
Within three days, I had the confidence to understand the project department's contract in my mind, and I had the confidence to have the project department's complete set of construction drawings in my heart.
Once you have such conditions, communication will be more efficient and you will be able to gain the trust of the other party.
Otherwise, in the process of communicating with the other party, if you don’t know everything about it, it will once again reduce the other party’s trust in our company.”
Zhou Wencheng replied: "Okay. What are the other prerequisites?"
Zhang Yunqing replied: "Another prerequisite is that a software version of the current bidding document is required."
Zhou Wencheng replied: "Yes, the person who submitted the bid was arranged by Mr. Hua. I can help get the software version of the bidding document."
Zhang Yunqing continued: "You also need a genuine software lock that can open the software version of the bidding document."
Zhou Wencheng replied: "I don't quite understand software locks. Can this be done like this? After you understand how to buy it, tell me how much it costs, and then I will solve the money problem."
Zhang Yunqing replied: "You can do it this way. This bid clearance requires all the engineering quantities of the drawings corresponding to the bid to be calculated, so a full set of drawings from the bid is required."
Zhou Wencheng replied: "The project department has the complete set of drawings for bidding. We can arrange for the documents to be transferred to you in paper and electronic versions."
Zhang Yunqing continued: "If there is an emergency, I may not have time to calculate a large amount of engineering quantity data on my own. Is there anyone in production who can arrange to calculate the engineering quantities and provide me with calculation formulas? In this case, it can be done from
Speed up the process of bid clearance at a fundamental level.”