Chapter 179: Our Performance Goals
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"President Tang: I'm sorry, I think I need to answer a phone call first, which is very important. ”
With the ringing of the mobile phone, a person raised his hand and stood up and said to Zhou Ming and Tang Ran that this person Zhou Ming knew, and he was Fu Tao, the company's marketing manager.
Tang Ran was completely unprepared for this situation, so she subconsciously turned her head and wanted to ask Zhou Ming what to do, but at this time, Fu Tao walked out of the conference room while saying sorry, and directly left Zhou Ming and Tang Ran there.
This made Zhou Ming and Tang Ran very surprised, you must know that today is the first day of Tang Ran's meeting as the new president, how can anyone hang the leader on the first day of the meeting and go out to answer the phone by himself? This is also too unruly, but what surprised Zhou Ming even more was the other people in the conference room, they were still doing their own things, and no one took this matter to heart, as if this was a fundamentally inconsequential matter.
"Brother Ming, is this the cultural difference between China and the United States?" Tang Ran asked in a low voice.
In this regard, Zhou Ming shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I think this should be more of a unique cultural difference of Jieke Company." ”
Zhou Ming's words are more euphemistic, but the meaning is very clear, although there are indeed some differences between Eastern and Western cultures, but it only stays at emphasizing individuality and commonality, and it is still the same in terms of respecting superiors and individuals, and you can't disrespect others just because you have personality, especially when the new president has a meeting on the first day, which can't be said anywhere.
Not to mention that the mobile phone must be turned off and muted when the meeting is held, even if there is something really going on, can't we wait until after the meeting?
There are two possibilities for this situation, one is that he was instructed by someone to deliberately give Tang Ran, the new leader, a dismissal, and the other is what Zhou Ming was most worried about before.
In the past, due to the frequent change of leaders of the company, the leaders have long lost their high majesty in the hearts of employees, in their opinion, anyway, you don't know when you will be dismissed, and your position as a leader is not as stable as their employees, so there is no need to be so serious about this kind of thing, just fool around.
Zhou Ming frowned, he didn't know what Fu Tao's situation was, it would be easy if he just got off the horse, but if it was the second one, it would be really bad.
After all, if you want to say that the development of a company is like an army fighting a war, if you want to win, you must be conscientious and responsible, and you must order and prohibit, because if it is a spy who is directly driven away, but if these employees are really so lazy and lazy, they really don't pay attention to the company's leaders at all, and they are more scattered than a plate of loose sand, how can such a team fight to win?
Of course, there is also a possibility that there are both cases, which will make it even worse.
When Zhou Ming thought so, Cheng Qian next to him suggested: "Mr. Zhou Ming, I'm sorry, it's just an accident, let's continue the meeting." ”
Tang Ran was surprised by Cheng Qian's suggestion: "Aren't we waiting for Manager Fu to come back?
"Mr. Tang, I think we can still wait for Manager Fu to come back while having a meeting, and isn't there anyone else in the company here now? Cheng Qian very tactfully expressed to Tang Ran that Fu Tao might not be able to come back for a while and a half, and they would be very embarrassed to wait here.
Tang Ran ran out of ideas, she turned her head to look at Zhou Ming, Zhou Ming thought for a while and helped Tang Ran decide: "Then wait, it depends on how long our important call Manager Fu can make." ”
With Zhou Ming's decision, they waited in the conference room for a quarter of an hour before Fu Tao came back, he pushed the door in and sat in his seat, unaware of what was wrong with his departure just now, and asked blankly: "Where will it go now?"
"The meeting hasn't started yet, and we're all waiting for Manager Fu to come back. Zhou Ming said to him.
"Really?" Fu Tao was a little surprised, "I'm really sorry, I just called from a customer, and he may bring more than 100,000 large orders to the company." ”
Zhou Ming looked at Fu Tao and could see that although he said sorry, he actually didn't have any apologies in his heart.
"I see, it seems that Manager Fu is worthy of being the manager of the company's marketing department, and he is really concerned about his work all the time!"
Tang Ran casually praised Fu Tao according to Zhou Ming's previous arrangement, and then started the meeting and said, "Okay, now that everyone has arrived, I hope you can all concentrate on the meeting." ”
Speaking of this, Tang Ran paused deliberately, she looked around, and only after seeing that everyone looked at her with a very face-saving face, she continued: "First of all, let me introduce myself, although we have already met yesterday, but today I think we still need to introduce again, my name is Tang Ran, and I will officially become the president and CEO of JEC from today." ”
Following Tang Ran's words, Cheng Qian took the lead in applauding and saying that Tang was always good, and then the others also applauded and greeted Tang Ran.
Tang Ran then launched Zhou Ming: "This is Zhou Ming, I will hire him as the first vice president of the company, with all the power equal to me, including handling all the company's affairs and external decisions." ”
This decision surprised everyone, although they all understood that since the new president brought someone over, it would definitely be placed in a key position, in fact, the previous presidents had also done such things, but she was directly appointed as the first vice president with all the equal power with herself, this kind of trust is no longer as simple as putting your heart into your heart, is it a mom-and-pop shop?
didn't have time to delve into this issue, Tang Ran introduced again: "Mr. Cheng Qian, I believe you are all old acquaintances, so I don't need to introduce more, he who was originally going to leave the company has now been hired back by me to be the general manager of the company." ”
After a simple character introduction, Tang Ran handed over the right to speak to Zhou Ming, and Zhou Ming smiled and said: "I'm a workaholic, so I only have work when I have meetings." ”
While speaking, Zhou Ming spread out the notebook on the table: "I have read the company's performance report and your resume before I came, I just want to say that you are really bad." ”
"Vice President Zhou, I think you are mistaken, the really bad people have already left the company!"
In the face of Zhou Ming's criticism, Fu Tao, the manager of the marketing department, immediately protested, and with his protest, others also echoed it.
Zhou Ming listened to the voice of you and me in the conference room, he didn't say a word until they were all finished speaking, and then said: "Is it that the bad ones are all gone?" You remind me of a story, that is two thousand years ago, Mencius and King Hui of Liang had a conversation, saying that on the battlefield, two soldiers were afraid of fighting so they fled, one ran fifty steps, the other ran a hundred steps, and the person who ran fifty steps would laugh at the person who ran a hundred steps as a coward. ”
Hearing Zhou Ming's story, all the Chinese in the conference room were silent, but Susan, the accountant, said: "The two soldiers are cowards, they both ran away, and they can't be cowards because they run fifty steps less!"
Zhou Ming was very happy that someone answered: "I think so too, so I was very surprised when I heard someone say that someone who is really bad has left the company......
"Vice President Zhou, please take a good look at our performance first, and don't aimlessly point fingers at Huai, we have worked hard, you can't just say that we are all bad just because the company's performance is not good, this is unreasonable!" Fu Tao interrupted Zhou Ming very dissatisfied.
Zhou Ming was not angry at Fu Tao's sudden interruption, but said with a smile: "Of course, it is unreasonable to really point at Sang and scold Huai aimlessly, but whether it is or not, I think you yourself know better than me." ”
Fu Tao was stunned, and he was about to explain something, but Zhou Ming said first: "But I'm not here to argue with you today about who is worse, I said that I am a person who only has work in my head, so what I need to talk about at this meeting is the company's future work plan." ”
"No matter how much you argue, you can't change the fact that the company's performance is bad, and I want to bring you a change, and you must first change your poor performance, so I set you a goal. ”
Zhou Ming got up from his seat as he spoke, walked to the blackboard behind him, picked up the chalk and wrote down a number, and as the number was written, there was an uproar in the conference room, everyone shouted in unison, and Fu Tao protested again: "Vice President Zhou, I hope this is an April Fool's joke, otherwise you are a stupid bastard!"
Zhou Ming smiled, he spread his hands and said: "I think you can call me a stupid bastard, because I am very serious, and I am not joking, we must complete two million sales from now until the thirtieth of next month." ”
Although this number Zhou Ming had been written on the blackboard in the conference room, when Zhou Ming really said it, it still made everyone gasp.
"Two million? Vice President Zhou, are you crazy? Or have you not looked at our performance last month, only 200,000, which is simply impossible to accomplish! How much will such a high performance be distributed to each of us? This is completely trying to force our rhythm to death......
Listening to the following complaints from you and me, Zhou Ming seemed to think that they were not shocked enough, and then said: "Let me tell you, as far as the sales of these two million are concerned, it is still the figure I came up with after discussing with General Manager Cheng, if it were me, I would want to at least reach this number." ”
Zhou Ming said and wrote the number of 10 million on the blackboard again, which once again stunned everyone, and even this time they were so shocked that they couldn't speak.
There was a deathly silence in the entire conference room, and in the face of the numbers written by Zhou Ming, everyone, including Fu Tao, didn't know what to say at this time, but Zhou Ming was still smiling, and he said after looking around the entire conference room: "This guy must be an unrealistic madman, I know you must all think of me in your hearts now." ”
"You think so, that's because you're used to a performance of 200,000 a month, and you're used to being a loser, what if your performance last month was 20 million?
As Zhou Ming finished speaking, this time it was Fu Tao who stood up and said: "Vice President Zhou, we all understand your reasoning, but the problem is that what you said is based on 20 million, but we don't have this foundation, our performance last month was only 200,000, but you set us a goal of 2 million or even 10 million, which is no longer difficult for a strong man to express, it should be forced to go crazy." ”
"But what if I tell you that this can be done?" Zhou Ming asked rhetorically.