At 8:25, Xu Xincheng arrived at the company, although he only slept on the stone bench for a while last night and had just run another eight kilometers, he still felt full of strength and drive.

When he sat down at his desk and picked up a thermos cup and drank the green tea he had just brewed, there were about 30 minutes left before the start of work.

He turned on the computer, clicked on the work report completed overtime last night, checked it again from beginning to end, and made one last revision and improvement.

In the past two years, he has written a summary every day, a small summary once a week, and a big summary every month.

Based on the summary of all the work accumulated in the past two years as the basic information, coupled with the good writing that he has been practicing for more than ten years, he wrote this work report in great detail, writing more than 5,000 words.

After writing the report last night, in order to standardize the daily work to improve work efficiency, he formulated a "standard flow chart for the work of the general manager's secretary" based on the experience he has accumulated in the past year and a half.

Then, he found the "General Manager's Secretary Job Standard Specification" formulated by the company a year and a half ago, refined and improved many of the clauses, and also proposed five new work contents, suggesting that General Manager Li add them to his scope of responsibility, so that he could better assist him in his work.

At 8:55, when the company's colleagues entered the office one after another, Xu Xincheng sent the work report, the self-made "Work Standard Flow Chart" and the proposed optimization of the "Job Standard Specification" to General Manager Li through the company's internal mailbox.

At 9:30, General Manager Li sat in his office chair, through the transparent glass wall of the office, smiled and beckoned to Xu Xincheng, who was sitting at the desk sorting out documents, and motioned for him to enter.

He hurriedly put the documents in the drawer, got up, walked over quickly, knocked respectfully on the glass door that was knocking, and greeted him warmly as usual: "General Manager Li, good morning!"

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General Manager Li, full name Li Chao, originally from Chaoshan, 39 years old, tall and thin, combing his big back, wearing a pair of black large-framed glasses, looks a little like Hong Kong business tycoon Li Ka-shing, who is also a Chaoshan person, he works very hard, is full of energy every day, and is good at business, so everyone respectfully calls him "Li Chaoren" in private.

General Manager Li's family was very poor when he was a child, and his family was so poor that he often couldn't eat enough.

In addition to studying hard, he has shown extraordinary talent in science and engineering since he was a child, and he followed a relative to learn home appliance maintenance, and it only took half a year for him to learn all, but he was not satisfied with only making money for repairing household appliances.

Having been a business-minded man since he was a child, he saw business opportunities that others didn't see.

At the age of 13, he organized six 11-year-old children in his neighborhood to buy discarded old household appliances, repaired them and carefully renovated them, and then asked the children to sell them everywhere for 5 to 10 times the recycling price.

Half a year later, he used the first pot of gold he earned to open a second-hand home appliance store with an area of 90 square meters, and since then, the business has been better.

He used the money he earned to support his family, so that his family could live a relatively comfortable life, and successfully sent himself and his two younger siblings to college.

During the college entrance examination, he was admitted to the computer department of Shantou University with the first place in the county.

After entering the university, he continued to work hard, winning the school's first-class scholarship every year, and in his senior year, he won the school's fully funded place in the United States with excellent grades and outstanding performance.

After graduating from the University of Michigan with a master's degree in electrical engineering, he received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Two and a half years ago, he resolutely accepted the invitation of Chairman Lu Hongfei of Hongfei Company, returned to China to start a business, and became the general manager of Hongfei's AI Division.

Xu Xincheng admired General Manager Li so much that he regarded him as an idol in his work, and his highest career ideal was to one day, become a company executive and industry elite like him.

Of course, he knows very well that with his current education and ability, he needs to put in at least fifteen or even twenty years of hard work and hard work, but for that day, no matter how difficult it is, he has to go all out; he knows very well that he has almost no connections and resources, and the chance of success is very small, but even if the odds are small, even if it is only 1%, he has to put in 100% effort.

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General Manager Li smiled and nodded to him, and also said good morning, he stood up, left the office area, came to the leisure area, sat on the sofa, and invited him to sit down while sitting.

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General Manager Li's office is not large, with a height of about 3.5 meters, a length of about 8 meters, a width of about 6 meters, and a total area of about 50 square meters.

The decoration is very simple, with a black lacquered roof, white gray walls, the most common white tile floor, the east wall has three left and right sliding glass windows about 1.5 meters high and 1.7 meters wide for lighting, the south wall and the north wall are two white gray walls, the west wall is a full-floor transparent glass wall, and the glass door of the office is open in the middle.

The office furniture in the office is also very simple, on the left hand side of the door is the office area, against the north wall is a set of black combination shelves with bookshelves and storage shelves, in front of the combination shelves is a matching black desk, and on the right hand side of the door is the leisure area, against the south wall is a set of dark gray velvet sofa set that can seat 12 people.

The most striking piece of furniture in the office is the rosewood root tea table in the middle of the sofa set.

The root tea table is about 1.8 meters long, natural wood color, the shape is very much like a piece of tea leaves, small on both sides, wide in the middle, the widest part in the middle is about 0.6 meters, and all kinds of tea utensils are placed on the tea table in a neat and orderly manner.

The whole office seems low-key and simple, objectively speaking, it is too simple, after all, the office here is the general manager of a company, and he, managing more than 2,000 people, runs a high-tech company that has invested more than 2 billion.

When the company opened, Chairman Lu came here to inspect and saw this office, when even if it was suggested to expand the area and upgrade the decoration and office furniture inside, General Manager Li politely declined Chairman Lu's kindness, he smiled and said that this is the standard configuration of the start-up company, saying that his office can be upgraded only after the company has achieved good results and achieved a big upgrade.

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