In a consulting firm, a newcomer is called a "consultant" and can be promoted up to "partner".

The promotion system here has a very strict time limit.

When I first joined the company, I was a consultant.

After the first year, you should be promoted to senior consultant.

After the third year, you should be promoted to project manager,

After the fifth year, you should be promoted to associate partner, or intern partner.

After the seventh year, you should be promoted to partner.

There are two key points in this, and that is the promotion of project manager and partner, which are the two thresholds.

What if in the third year, the company evaluates that your level is not enough to be a project manager, that is, you cannot take the lead in a project on your own?

All consulting companies will politely persuade you to leave, i.e. fire you.

These years are the standard years, and they are also the maximum number of years that the company will give you! Occasionally, you can give it a little grace, but it is only for a few months.

When the time comes, you will be promoted or you will leave, and there will be no chance to stand still.

This is also known as "Up or Out".

Although the above standard years cannot be longer, they can be shorter. From time to time in the industry, there will be elites who are promoted all the way up at a high speed and become partners in four or five years, but those are real "prodigies" or "geniuses".

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Nie Xiaoying's project team is a Detroit automaker that plans to move from traditional fuel vehicles to electric vehicles.

This kind of transformation of large manufacturers, of course, will be extremely cautious, do all kinds of preliminary preparations and market research.

McKinsey & Company is one of the consulting firms they commissioned to conduct research and evaluate the sales prospects of pure electric vehicles in the global automotive market.

Mick, the project manager, with three of his subordinates, was in charge of the project.

Starting from the third day of Nie Xiaoying's employment, they spent six weeks doing the following work.

500 resumes of automobile-related industry experts or senior media personnel were selected, and 150 expert interviews were conducted, and the content of the interviews and the interviewers' suggestions were recorded in detail.

It estimates the size and prospects of the electric vehicle market in more than 50 countries around the world.

A detailed review of the policy support and support for electric vehicles in more than 50 major countries and regions around the world.

30 preliminary business case studies were made, how much turnover and profit would be available if the client entered the industry, how long it would take, and so on.

Planned and led three full-day brainstorming sessions with more than 20 regional sales managers from the automaker.

Two presentations were made to the CEO of the automaker, interim and final, and two comprehensive reports were submitted.

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You can imagine that there are only four people, and it took a month and a half to do so much work, and how much work each person does every day!

But projects of this level, in the consulting industry, can only be considered average.

During these six weeks, Nie Xiaoying worked 16 hours a day, and here I am talking about pure working hours, not counting the time spent on meals, rests and on the road.

The maximum amount of time I spend sleeping is four or five hours a day.

Therefore, Nie Xiaoying also learned from her colleagues that on the way to the airport as a taxi, when waiting for the plane, including on the plane, she held a notebook in her hand at any time, sending and receiving emails, doing PPT, and editing Excel non-stop.

In this case, if you want to be lazy at work, that doesn't exist!

When you go to the bathroom and squat on the toilet, you have to check your email with your mobile phone. And in this industry, the number of emails you receive every day is matched by your position.

An intern like Nie Xiaoying is the most leisurely one, sending and receiving forty or fifty emails every day. The average consultant has seventy or eighty emails a day, and the project manager is amazing, with one or two hundred emails to check every day.

As for the higher-ranking partner, Nie Xiaoying heard from her colleague that the average email is one email a minute......

At the beginning, Nie Xiaoying really couldn't adapt to it, and felt that this simply subverted her impression, didn't they all say that European and American companies were the most humane?

When she asked Mick this question, Mick replied with a smile.

"If you want to be successful, you have to put in a lot of effort. Emily, it is not easy for ordinary people to be successful in any country.

If you choose to live a mediocre life, there are certainly plenty of leisurely jobs to do. Supermarket cashiers, fast-food waiters, and factory workers are all jobs that don't require overtime, but they are only paid one-fifth of your monthly salary. ”

Nie Xiaoying finally understood why when she was in school, those outstanding students not only had excellent academic performance, but also were all athletes. In this kind of high-intensity competition, no good body is really unbearable.

After gritting her teeth and finishing this project, Nie Xiaoying really seemed to be reborn, she was still a little lazy in the past, and she was unhurried in doing things.

But now, after a month or two of "hell intensity", I seem to have adapted to this high-intensity work rhythm.

That's the biggest thing she got out of her internship at McKinsey!

Just when Nie Xiaoying was busy and fulfilling her internship, the bad news came that her father Nie Dingwen fell ill.

"Xiaoying, come back quickly, your father...... He was admitted to the hospital with a cerebral hemorrhage. ”

Receiving a call from her mother crying, Nie Xiaoying was stunned all of a sudden, she felt dizzy, and hurriedly leaned against the wall with her hand: "What's the matter? Why did Dad suddenly fall ill." ”

Nie Dingwen became ill when he slept at night, and he was slightly drunk after attending a dinner last night.

After returning home, she took a shower and lay down to sleep, but in the middle of the night, Nie Xiaoying's mother felt that Nie Dingwen was constantly shivering next to her, which woke her up.

"Old Nie, why are you so dishonest when you sleep?"

said a word of disgust and pushed Nie Dingwen, but found that Nie Dingwen did not respond, and even kept trembling.

Hurriedly turned on the light and found that Nie Dingwen's eyes were white, his nose was bleeding, and his body was trembling all the time.

Wake up the maid at home, call 120, and send Nie Dingwen to the hospital for first aid. After all this, the doctor's initial diagnosis is cerebral hemorrhage, and for the sake of prudence, a specialist consultation will be organized before the diagnosis.

Nie Dingwen is the pillar of the family, and when he fell ill, Nie Xiaoying's mother was completely panicked.

She has been a full-time wife for many years, where has she experienced such a storm and waves, Nie Xiaoying's grandparents and grandparents are all seventy or eighty years old, and they don't dare to tell them for the time being.

In case a few old people are in a hurry and fall ill one or two, then the matter will be even greater.

So, I can only call my daughter and let her come back.

Nie Xiaoying didn't hesitate, she was about to go to the company when she received the call, and after hanging up the phone, she immediately bought a ticket to Pengcheng on the Internet that day.

Then she packed her things and headed to the airport, and on the way to the airport, she sent an email to the supervisor, Mick, which was her resignation letter, explaining that something had happened at home and that she needed to rush back immediately.

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Of course, Wang Ye knew about such a big incident in the Nie family, and he also rushed to the Pengcheng First People's Hospital as soon as he learned the news, which is where Nie Dingwen sought medical treatment.

Outside the intensive care unit, Nie Xiaoying's mother was sitting on a bench with a sad face, and a bunch of people were standing next to her, including executives from Starlight Real Estate, as well as relatives and friends of the Nie family.

Seeing Wang Ye coming, people who knew him hurriedly greeted him.

Wang Ye raised his palm and motioned for everyone to calm down, this is outside the ward, and there is no noise.

"Auntie, how is Uncle Nie's condition?" Wang Ye asked with concern.

Nie Xiaoying's mother seemed to have found the backbone of the heart, and took Wang Ye's hand with tears in her eyes: "Ah Ye, what can I do about this?" The doctor said that Lao Nie is now delirious and can't speak. ”

"Auntie, don't worry, now that medicine is prosperous, Uncle Nie will be fine. ”

Although he didn't know the specific situation, Wang Ye could only comfort her first.

At this time, Wang Ye can't do much.

Nie Dingwen's connections are very extensive, and even Secretary Pang came over on behalf of Zhao Hongsheng after the accident, and he notified the hospital to immediately organize an expert consultation and try every means to rescue the person.

As for Nie Dingwen's company, Wang Ye is also inconvenient to interfere, so he can only wait for Nie Xiaoying to come back and exercise the power of the chairman on behalf of her father, and Wang Ye will be there to assist.

Although everything is still calm now, the executives of Starlight Real Estate seem to be loyal, and they have assured that the company will definitely not be chaotic during this period of time, and will help Mr. Nie to be optimistic about the company.

But Wang Ye knew that if Nie Dingwen recovered soon, at least he would be able to speak normally. If you keep lying like this, you don't know what will happen to the company.

After Nie Xiaoying comes back, it is really difficult to say whether she can control such a large real estate company.

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After a long-distance flight of more than ten hours, after Nie Xiaoying arrived at Pengcheng Airport, she didn't care about going home, and came to the hospital directly with her suitcase.

In the ward, seeing her father lying quietly on the hospital bed with her eyes closed, Nie Xiaoying held back her tears and did not fall. She knew that in the past, it was her father who supported the family, but now that her father is sick, she has to support the family.

Meet with the hospital to learn about her father's treatment plan, and the hospital promises to organize an expert consultation within a few days, and Nie Xiaoying has no better way to do it, so she can only wait for the results of the consultation to come out before thinking about what to do next.

Now, in addition to her father's treatment, she also has to face the problem of taking over the family industry.

Xingguang Real Estate is not listed, the company's top management is, of course, the board of directors, and Nie Dingwen is the major shareholder and chairman.

In the past, he decided the company's affairs with his word.

Now that Nie Dingwen is sick, who has the final say in the company's affairs, who is in charge, this has become a big problem!

Although this kind of large company has perfect rules and regulations, and it is okay for the chairman not to show up for a day or two, the helmsman must not be left unattended for a long time.

There are many major issues of decision-making, which must be signed and confirmed by the chairman, can Nie Xiaoying replace her father in this role?

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