Chapter XXV Meetings

After thinking about it, I still calmed my mind first, thinking back to myself when I was arguing with General Manager Qian just now, I felt that I had indeed lost my mind a little, it is true that General Manager Qian is not a nightmare who can be reasonable, but I was still too reckless and did not give myself the opportunity to make more decisions. Now Mr. Chen promised me to convince General Manager Qian, which means that I still have a chance.

I should really be very grateful to Mr. Chen for being able to do this for me, and if I insist on resigning, then I will be too childish.

I just stood at the exit of the office building and thought about it for a while, and finally I decided to stay first. Anyway, I have also been working in Sanxin Company for so long, and the people and things here have made me have a trace of inseparable emotion.

In the end, I decided to stay.

As for the evening meeting, I decided to listen to Mr. Chen's words and go to it.

After making the decision, I didn't go back to my office, but walked out of the office and went to the city center for a walk to relieve myself. I walked around the city for an afternoon until the evening.

At that time, I called Ma Yike and said that I would be back late tonight, so I won't go back to eat, you and Jiaqi will eat first.

After that, I went to a nearby restaurant to eat some fast food, where, while eating dinner, I thought about the countermeasures that could be taken in the face of the rising price of medicinal materials, and after thinking about it for nearly an hour, I thought of some ways that might be effective, and I looked at the time at that time, it was already more than six o'clock, and it was close to the meeting time that Mr. Chen said, so I left the restaurant and returned to Sanxin Company.

At that time, after an afternoon of distraction, my mood had calmed down a lot, and I would no longer be as impulsive as I was during the day.

Just like that, I walked into the office building, and when I took the elevator, I also met a few directors and managers that I was familiar with, and when they saw me, they were also a little surprised to greet me and asked me why I came to the company so late, when I told them that I was at the request of Mr. Chen, they were even more surprised, saying that I was terrible, this meeting can only be attended by the company's senior management, and I was able to participate in such a meeting not long after entering the company, which shows that I have a very heavy weight in the company. At that time, I just smiled and said that Mr. Chen just looked at me young, so let me come to have a long experience and open my eyes, and there was nothing else.

I just talked politely to the managers when I was in the elevator. I'm glad I didn't meet General Manager Qian during the elevator, otherwise I really don't know how to deal with such a deadlock.

So I went into the conference room on the fifth floor with the other company leaders.

When I entered the conference room, I found that there were already quite a few people there, and more than half of them were already seated at the round conference table.

At the time, I thought I had misremembered the time, but when I looked at my watch, it was only 6:40, and I wasn't late.

It's just that at this time, I don't have much thought about whether I am late, because when I retracted my gaze from my watch, I saw Mr. Chen sitting in front of the conference table looking at me, and when I saw Mr. Chen looking at me, I hurriedly squeezed out a smile, facing my little face, Mr. Chen also smiled at me and nodded, and then his eyes slanted slightly, and the corner of his eye fell on an empty seat on his right.

Mr. Chan made it very clear that I should sit on his right.

I was a little surprised when I saw Mr. Chen's hint to me, and there were two reasons, one was that I understood that the seat on Mr. Chen's right hand was probably not something that ordinary people could sit on, right?

Of course, Mr. Chen's actions made me a little puzzled at best, but it was not enough to surprise me too much, what really surprised me was that on Mr. Chen's left-hand side, there was General Manager Qian with the word "gloomy" on his face.

I was a little hesitant to see General Manager Qian sitting on Mr. Chen's left, but I looked at the smile that Mr. Chen passed to me, and after thinking about it, I understood that Mr. Chen had deliberately arranged it this way.

Mr. Chen deliberately asked me to sit next to him, and it is clear that Mr. Chen had already said something to General Manager Qian not long ago, and at least temporarily reconciled the unpleasant incident that happened between me and General Manager Qian this morning.

Knowing what Mr. Chen meant, I walked forward with some embarrassment and sat down on Mr. Chen's right.

When I sat down to Mr. Chen's right, I saw General Manager Qian's somewhat grim gaze glance at me lightly, and then he looked straight ahead and never looked at me again.

General Manager Qian's reaction was as I expected. If he could greet me politely in the same way as he did during the day, I would have been surprised.

I sat down in Mr. Chen's seat, but not long after I sat down, I felt that the atmosphere was a little strange, and when I looked around, I found that the eyes of the leaders who entered the conference room were basically all focused on my face, and all of them had somewhat strange expressions.

Obviously, everyone was surprised that I was a newcomer who had never been in a conference before.

As more and more people entered the conference room, I also felt a little uneasy, and there were naturally many experienced directors of companies among the people who came, these people I knew, and I had dealt with them during my work, and of course there were some shareholders I didn't know very well, and those unfamiliar faces brought me a lot of pressure.

Finally, when the time approached 7 o'clock, the conference room was finally almost full, and the door of the conference room was also heavily closed, and the heavy atmosphere instantly enveloped the entire conference room, representing the next major meeting that will determine the company's development prospect is about to begin.

Seeing that the people in the conference room were basically present, Mr. Chen also began to speak.

It's just that what I didn't expect was that Mr. Chen introduced me first.

"Hehe, everyone who is here today basically knows each other, and they are all colleagues, so I won't introduce them. It's just that there is a new face this time that some people may not be familiar with, let me say, this one next to me is Yang Jiandong of the sales department, everyone calls him Xiaodong, what about him, he is a cadre I recently promoted, he has recently made a lot of big business in the company, I believe you have not seen it and heard of it. Xiaodong is the officer I selected, the ability is very good, the sales department has received a lot of business recently, too busy, so I want him to be the deputy manager of the sales department in the near future. ”

Mr. Chen explained to the people present at the meeting unhurriedly, and the others were either a little surprised, or nodded, or suddenly realized, or silently heard Mr. Chen's words.

Of course, none of their reactions could compare to the shock in my heart.

Promote me to assistant manager of sales?

Really?

Why hasn't Mr. Chen mentioned a word to me before?

Or is this just Mr. Chen's remark that he just wants to keep me temporarily?

"Mr. Chen......" I whispered softly in Mr. Chen's ear, but what I got was Mr. Chen smiling and winking at me, seeing Mr. Chen's somewhat vicissitudes of life with a slight apologetic and slightly childlike prank on his face, I understood for a moment that Mr. Chen had already had this plan before the meeting.

For a moment, I was speechless.

"Xiaodong, don't you want to make an introduction?" Mr. Chen reminded me with a smile when he saw my astonishment.

I was shocked, I was still a little hesitant in my heart, but finally stood up and briefly introduced myself, in fact, many people here know me, fade out after all, I am still young, and it is the first time to come to the conference room for a meeting, so the form still has to be brightened.

The content of self-addition is very simple, nothing more than to say my name, report my position and say a few words of care, but because all this is Mr. Chen's temporary work on me, so I am still a little stressed without preparation, but fortunately, the process is not long, and my self-introduction with a smile on my face is over in less than a minute.

After introducing myself, the managers and directors present all looked at me with a slight smile or unchanged face, those smiling leaders are people who know my recent achievements in the company, and the expressions remain the same as those who see me for the first time, but anyway, my self-introduction is okay.

After I sat back in my seat, the eyes of those present finally gradually returned to the conference table and Mr. Chen, and I became an observer again.

At that time, I was a little relieved, Mr. Chen's play really brought me a little surprise and almost caught me off guard.

The moment I sat down, I also paid special attention to General Manager Qian, but found that he was still staring straight ahead, and he didn't even look at me.

I don't know how he feels.

I don't know what General Manager Qian thinks, but I can see how much he thinks. But it is clear that General Manager Qian's mood is definitely worse than in the afternoon.

Seeing General Manager Qian's stiff face, I was still a little depressed.

Retracting my gaze from General Manager Qian's face, I finally fell on Mr. Chen, to be honest, at this moment, what I hope most is that there are only two people in the conference room, me and him, so that I can ask Mr. Chen's thoughts clearly, I want to know what Mr. Chen's sudden move means?

Could it be that he really thinks of me as much as he told me at the beginning?

Or is it just a side of him trying to keep me?

I do not know.

I didn't know Mr. Chen's thoughts and intentions, and I felt the sight around me, no matter how many doubts I had in my heart, I could only stay in my stomach for the first time, sit quietly, and wait for the meeting to begin.

And shortly after I introduced myself, the meeting began. And I had to listen carefully.

The theme of Mr. Chen's meeting is very simple and clear, that is, to discuss how to maintain the market competitiveness of Sanxin Company in the context of the rising cost of medicinal materials.

In the situation of rising costs, should the company pursue quality or price advantage?

Around this topic, there was a lot of debate at the meeting. Because this issue is indeed a major issue related to the development of the company, almost all the people who came to the meeting were prepared, and various ideas and countermeasures were put forward one after another.

For example, some people propose to reduce the number of tablets per bottle without changing the price to stabilize sales, but in the end, this is also the next policy, and the reduction in the number of tablets will definitely be recognized by buyers, causing buyers to be dissatisfied with the drug and buy drugs from other companies.

Although medicine is considered a necessity, even if the number of Chinese medicine tablets per bottle is reduced, buyers will still insist on buying them in order to maintain their health, but the biggest problem is still the competing company. At present, in the face of the current situation of rising prices of medicinal materials, several other competing companies of Sanxin Company have basically adopted the method of reducing the content of medicinal materials but not reducing the quantity to maintain competitiveness, although the quality of their company's medicinal products has declined, but the quantity has been maintained, so that in the case of the price and quantity of other companies are unchanged, only Sanxin Company's pharmaceutical products have reduced the number of tablets, so the general public who do not know the inside story will inevitably turn to buy drugs from other companies other than Sanxin Company as a substitute。

Although in the short term, such a situation has caused a particularly huge loss to the company, but in terms of the trend of rising prices of medicinal materials in recent years, in the long run, the company will definitely lose a lot of market share, and the competitiveness of other companies will take the opportunity to gradually catch up with or even surpass Sanxin Company, which is a great disadvantage to the company's development.

In the face of such a situation, although various countermeasures emerged one after another at the meeting, the voice was the highest, and the most approved was the plan to reduce the types of medicinal materials represented by General Manager Qian, but keep the number and price of tablets unchanged. This plan, in fact, has given up the pursuit of quality and price, in the final analysis, this is already harming the interests of consumers. However, according to the opinion of many people, since several other competing companies have taken such countermeasures, our company, as a giant in this industry, should naturally adopt unified countermeasures in line with the trend of the times to maintain competitiveness.

And because the proposer of this plan is General Manager Qian, many people did not oppose it much, and even some people who didn't seem to agree with it chose to remain silent.

Of course, there are a lot of opposing voices, they believe that the most important thing for the company's development is quality and reputation, as long as the reputation is good, there is no competitiveness.

It's just that word-of-mouth is too difficult to capture, and it takes a long time to see the effect, and most people only see the fact that our company's Chinese medicine tablets have decreased, and they don't care about the actual efficacy. In this way, maintaining quality and reducing quantity will still do more harm than good after all.

As the meeting continued, the meeting gradually divided into two factions, one was in favor of quality, and the other was the competitiveness first led by the former general manager. And in comparison, the number of people who support General Manager Qian is the largest, and from General Manager Qian's tough and quiet words, I seem to feel that the final plan has been finalized as General Manager Qian's plan.

However, throughout the meeting, Mr. Chen, the presiding officer of the meeting, did not express his position, he just quietly listened to everyone's opinions, or nodded, or pointed out the problems, but did not clearly say which side he finally adopted.

Because Mr. Chen did not express his position for a long time, the controversy at the meeting became more intense, and in the debate between conscience and interests, it seems that the call for pursuing interests has gradually gained the upper hand.

Hearing the gradually clear results, I was also a little anxious sitting next to Mr. Chen, and speaking of which, I was against General Manager Qian's side.

As a person, I still pursue reputation and quality.

Because I deeply know the importance of the quality of medicine to the safety of a person's life.

Listening to the fiery discussion in the conference room, I couldn't help but think of the incident that happened to Jiaqi half a year ago.