City of Amunk.

IBM Headquarters, Office of the Laboratory Director.

In the place that originally belonged to Leon Solan sat a young Chinese, quietly flipping through the report in his hand.

Leon Soran leaned his shoulders forward slightly, his hands hanging in front of him, his right hand grasping his left wrist, and waiting with a smile on his face.

"Solan, that's all?" asked Li Zitao without raising his head.

"Yes, Mr. Lee, all the reports are here. Leon Solan's eyes flashed with fierceness.

The idiots in the laboratory dared to add their own ideas to the report without permission, and who would want to see all the worthless garbage, he had already found it and thrown it away.

"But I remember that there were a couple of people who wanted to get support from the company to develop their own projects, and I promised them to see for themselves, what about the things?"

Seeing Li Zitao raise his head, Leon Solanlen was on the spot, as if there were 10,000 divine beasts rushing past in his heart.

"I, I don't know, sorry sir, I'll go back now. Thinking of the reports that he threw away with his own hands, a cold sweat broke out on Leon Soran's forehead.

The young man in front of him is the largest shareholder of the company, and it can be said that he is his boss, how dare Leon Solan offend.

"Forget it. Waving his hand, Li Zitao said to the door: "Tia, go to the laboratory and ask them to remake a copy and hand it in, and you will give it to me personally." ”

"Okay, boss. The sound of his heels hitting the ground faded away, but Leon Soran looked dead.

He had a hunch that he was going to be in trouble, and at the afternoon executive meeting, Leon Solan's hunch was validated.

"From this moment on, all the project audits in the laboratory must be personally witnessed by me, and no one has the right to send it back, no matter who it is!"

Li Zitao said solemnly in front of all the executives, and by the way, he also looked at Leon Solan with his head buried in his chest, like a fat quail.

"Introducing to you... Tia, from today onwards, she will be in charge of the approval of the laboratory project funds. ”

As Li Zitao announced the end of the meeting, Leon Solan had almost slid under the table.

Although he is still the head of the laboratory, the two most important rights, the establishment of laboratory projects and the approval of funds, are not under his control.

It also means that he, the supervisor, has become a puppet, and his rights have been hollowed out.

Leon Solan is not aware of the board's restrictions on Li Zitao, otherwise, he would have been dismissed by now.

From the company's standpoint, he didn't do anything wrong, but for Li Zitao, he was a stumbling block.

Who made him a person from the company, and the last thing Li Zitao needs now is a barrier between him and the laboratory staff.

In the afternoon, the board of directors of the company.

"Charlie, what does it mean for the company to support their personal projects? it can distract us, delay the project, and increase the cost of funding......"

Sitting in the chair of the board, Thomas J. Watson asked with an ugly face.

Within two days of joining the company, he made the company restless, and a lot of inexplicable projects appeared in the next quarter's expenses.

For the shareholders, the money was completely inexplicable.

"It's not that these projects are without value, but that no one is going to realize its value, we should take a long-term view, as long as one of these projects succeeds,

I think everyone here knows the name Skunk well, but who knows that all of Skunk's R&D projects are found by the researchers themselves,

As long as the concept they come up with has a chance of success, they can find a like-minded team, and they have a detailed schedule and schedule, they will get financial support. ”

Hearing Li Zitao mention Skunk, the shareholders present discussed it one after another, and the success of Skunk was a miracle.

It was also the first corporate laboratory to be supported by government and academies in the field of aviation, and many universities in the United States worked closely with it.

Everyone can see about Skunk's success, but how it was run before it succeeded, few people are clear.

Now hearing Li Zitao say this, many shareholders are moved.

Skunk's R&D has brought hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to Aviation, and if IBM Research Labs can become the second 'Skunk,' they're not going to make a profit.

"Otherwise, let's try it?" someone excitedly suggested.

"I think it can, but it's more than 600,000, and the company is fully capable of it. "Another agreeing shareholder.

Looking at Li Zitao's smiling face, Thomas J Watson seemed to see a smiling fox, but he couldn't find a reason.

He has also seen these project reports with his own eyes, and strictly speaking, they are all accessories related to card machines and statistical machines.

If successful, IBM's products will become more comprehensive and broader, and the company may even use it to set industry standards.

Moreover, Watson didn't think that Li Zitao would deliberately make trouble, and it would not do him any good to bring down IBM.

There are no companies under his name that conflict with IBM products, there is no contradiction between the two, and there is 3.5 million US dollars in real money.

No matter how rich you are, you won't throw millions for nothing, and you may not be able to get 1 million in cash if you are worth tens of millions, let alone 3.5 million dollars.

"Well, I'm in favor of trying it first, we can pick out the good ones from these items, 2... What do you think?"

A total of 13 projects were submitted this time, and Watson was about to cut most of them in one go.

Haikou Li Zitao has already boasted, if he is really allowed to cut off most of it and pass two small projects like charity, what majesty does he have in the laboratory?

This morning, Li Zitao gave Leon Solan a dismissal at the executive meeting, and Watson will give him a dismissal in the afternoon.

"I don't agree that such differential treatment will reduce the motivation and motivation of employees, what we need now is innovation and cohesion.

If we do this, we may lose a lot of good employees, and if they deliberately delay progress in their work, the impact on the company will be even greater. ”

Li Zitao immediately expressed his attitude, very tough and persistent, to do his best, this is the concept he has always upheld.

"Charlie, although the direction of research and development of the laboratory is up to you, it does not include these, and the board of directors has the right to make a choice. Watson said, frowning.

Whether it is good or bad to let Li Zitao join the company, Watson is now a little unsure, and his ambitions may ruin IBM.

"Then, raise your hand to vote!" Li Zitao looked at all the shareholders with the corners of his mouth slightly curled, without the slightest attitude of backing down.

"IBM has a lot of potential, maybe it's the next AT&T, Morgan, yes or UUS, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here, and now it's time for you to choose, whether to create the future of IBM with me, or to wait for it to be surpassed. ”