Chapter 4: The Dead Company
At around 9:40 a.m. on Monday, Xu Qing and her parents arrived at the Glee Building, a well-known office building in the Bay Area, where Carney Media is located.
The Xu family has its own headquarters building, but it is already crowded with people, and there is no space for Carney Media.
In order to compensate Carney Media, Grandpa rented office space in the very expensive Gregor Building.
Xu Qing and her parents walked into the building and waited for the elevator on the first floor.
Xu Mingzhang said to Xu Qing: "A-Qing, can you really make Carney Media make a lot of money in a short period of time? It is not easy to manage a company, especially Carney Media, which is quite special.
Your grandfather doesn't ask for a profit, even a small loss is fine, but it's hard for a company that doesn't make a profit to stick to it.
Carney Media has been in existence for 3 years and has lost more than $600,000 in total, and if it continues like this, your grandfather will not be able to bear it, and it is likely that the company will be shut down in a few years.
Moreover, it is difficult for Carney Media to recruit excellent talents, and the ability of employees is relatively poor.
Your grandfather used to want to invest more, expand the size of the company, and recruit really good people.
But in the media industry, you can't play without money, even if all the assets of the Xu family are invested in the media industry, it won't stir up much waves.
Your plan is a plan for Carney Media to turn around its losses, but how to implement it is not as simple as you think.
How do you communicate with management and employees, how do you assign work tasks, how do you develop sales channels, how do you deal with peer competition or even malicious suppression?
How do you recruit the best people and keep them? how do you get everyone in the company to work together to accomplish the goals you set, etc.
If you don't solve these problems, you won't be able to manage Carney Media well, let alone turn around its losses. ”
As soon as Xu Mingzhang finished saying this, the elevator door opened, and after Xu Qing waited for the people in the elevator to come out, he was the first to enter the elevator, leaned on the elevator, and said with a relaxed expression:
"Dad, I'm a college student who has just studied business knowledge for half a year, and I haven't finished learning the business knowledge in the course, let alone the real business practice.
Not having any experience managing a company is my biggest drawback, but my two books can help me with most of my problems. ”
"Are those two books really that powerful?" Xu Mingzhang was a little incredulous.
"Yes, and one of the books is a nuclear-class weapon. Xu Qing said with a smile.
The elevator door opened, the 20th floor arrived, the house number of Carney Media was 2003, and I walked out of the elevator and turned a corner, and came to the door of Carney Media.
Davis was about to open the glass door of the company when a fat middle-aged white man wearing a white shirt and a blue tie pushed the door open.
The top buttons of the shirt are not buttoned, the tie is also crooked, and there is a cigarette in his mouth.
The middle-aged white man took a puff of cigarette and was about to spit it out, when he suddenly saw Xu Qing and his party, his pupils dilated rapidly, his face was flushed, he was bent over, covering his mouth with one hand and his stomach with the other, like a boiled shrimp, looking very embarrassed.
Xu Mingzhang saw the appearance of the middle-aged white man, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and immediately scolded:
"Maina! Is there a dress code, is there a smoking policy!Raise your head and answer me loudly!"
"Boss, I, ahem, I ....... ”
As soon as Mina opened his mouth, the smoke in his mouth came out, he quickly closed his mouth, and then tried to answer Xu Mingzhang, but he kept coughing.
Chen Huiyun glanced at Xu Qing and said to Xu Mingzhang: "Mingzhang, let go of this matter first, there are more important things." ”
Xu Mingzhang snorted coldly at Mina, pushed open the glass door, and entered the company first.
Xu Qing followed into the company, and the first thing he saw was the company's front desk, there was a chair behind the front desk, and there were several women's clothes on the chair, and there was no one at the front desk.
There is a corridor on the left and right sides of the front desk, 4 rooms in the corridor on the left and 4 rooms in the corridor on the right, and the doors of each room are closed.
There was a brightly lit place at the end of the two corridors, Xu Qing couldn't see how big these two places were, only saw that they both had a few tables, and there were computers on the tables, but there was still no one in sight.
Xu Qing's first impression of Carney Media was lifeless.
Xu Mingzhang and Chen Huiyun's faces were very ugly, Xu Mingzhang left the front desk, walked to the corridor on the right, and knocked the door in front of a room that said the general manager's office.
After a long while, a rough man's voice came from inside: "Come in." ”
Xu Mingzhang pushed open the door without saying a word, and Xu Qing hurriedly followed into the general manager's office.
Then Xu Qing saw a middle-aged Asian man with a very ordinary appearance and an ordinary figure sitting on a chair with sleepy eyes, and there was a blood-red patch on the left half of his face, obviously this man was sleeping in the office just now.
"Boss, you, why are you here. ”
When the middle-aged Asian man saw Xu Mingzhang, he looked very frightened, and immediately walked out from behind the desk.
"Jiang Lu, if I didn't come, you can continue to sleep on the table. Xu Mingzhang said coldly.
"Boss, it's not like this, I, I was wrong. Jiang Lu hesitated for a moment and simply admitted his mistake.
"You know what I saw in front of the front door of the company just now, I saw Miner, the sales manager of Carney Media, smoking a cigarette in disheveled clothes.
Seeing him like this, I was thinking, how dare Miner do such a thing in the company, and now seeing you, the general manager, I think I already know the answer. ”
Xu Mingzhang criticized Jiang Lu mercilessly, and what he saw today made him very angry.
Because Carney Media has very few assets and does not require profits, he rarely comes to Carney Media, but today he sees these messy things.
Chen Huiyun pulled Xu Mingzhang's hand, Xu Mingzhang's angry face quickly calmed down, and said to Xu Qing next to him: "Let's go and see what the employees of Carney Media are doing now." ”
Then he turned his head to look at Jiang Lu: "Summoning the management staff to have a meeting in the conference room in 5 minutes." ”
"Okay, boss. Jiang Lu hurriedly nodded and replied.
Xu Qing and his parents left the general manager's office and went to the corridor on the right, where Xu Qing saw the nameplates of each manager's office hanging on the door of the room on the side of the corridor.
Xu Mingzhang did not knock on the door of the office of these managers and continued to walk forward.
Carney Media has two major departments, one is Carney Newspaper and the other is Carney Press.
Now Xu Qing and the others went to the office area of the employees of the Carney newspaper, and before they walked out of the corridor, they heard a commotion.
Xu Mingzhang didn't seem to hear these voices, his face was very calm, not as angry as he was when he saw Mina and Jiang Lu before.
After walking a few more steps, Xu Qing and the others came to the office area of the newspaper staff and saw a very lively scene.
Except for a few employees working in front of the computer, other employees left their seats to fight and chase each other, and one employee even stepped on the desk, waving his hands and having a very good time.
The entire office area was turned into an amusement park, and these employees were visitors.
Xu Mingzhang didn't seem to see the behavior of these employees, his face was still very calm, he clapped his hands, these employees turned their heads and saw Xu Mingzhang, and their expressions instantly froze.
The expressions of these employees are very rich, there are surprised expressions, panicked expressions, indifferent expressions, and ashamed expressions...... Various expressions are displayed on the faces of these employees.
After a while, these employees came to life, and one by one they found their place to sit as quickly as possible, while the employee standing at the desk stepped on the air in panic and fell directly to the ground.
Xu Mingzhang walked over to help the employee and asked if there was anything wrong, the employee looked at Xu Mingzhang in a daze, his lips moved for a while, and finally said thank you to the boss and returned to his seat.
Xu Mingzhang clapped his hands again, and said in a loud voice: "This is your new general manager Xu Qing, everyone applauds and welcomes." ”
After speaking, they applauded, Chen Huiyun, Xu Qing and the bodyguards also applauded.
The staff of the newspaper reacted for a moment, slapped their palms hard, and the applause was very loud, louder than any applause Xu Qing had ever heard.
After introducing Xu Qing to the newspaper staff, Xu Mingzhang took Xu Qing to the place at the end of the corridor on the left.
This is the office area of the publishing house staff, and the expressions of the publishing house staff are very funny, just like the reaction of the newspaper staff.