Chapter 26 Focus
It was spring. At that time, I was just an intern in Mr. Chen's company, and that night, when I came home as usual, I saw Ma Yike running out of the house in a bit of a hurry and told me that something had happened to Kiki.
Hearing Ma Yike's words, I was extremely shocked, and hurriedly ran into the bedroom, but saw Jiaqi lying on the bed moaning in pain, her pretty little face was full of discomfort, and when she saw me coming back, Jiaqi looked at me with her little eyes open, and said weakly, Papa......
Seeing Jiaqi's strange symptoms, I immediately took her to the hospital with Ma Yike, and when I checked it, it was food poisoning, and the cold weather in spring caused a high fever, which together made her condition more serious.
After knowing Jiaqi's condition, the doctor immediately put Jiaqi on a drip and prescribed medicine. That night, I had been in the hospital with Ma Yike to take care of Jiaqi.
It's just that what I didn't expect was that that night, Jiaqi's condition with two bottles of salt water not only did not improve, but worsened, Jiaqi kept moaning in pain on the hospital bed, calling me with tears, saying papa, I'm in so much pain, papa, I'm not going to be fine......
I comforted Jiaqi and said that it was okay, with Papa, Kiki would be fine.
After finally putting Jiaqi to sleep, I asked the doctor what was going on and why Jiaqi's condition did not improve.
At that time, the hospital was also confused, saying that it did not know the reason, and it stands to reason that there should not be such a situation.
In the end, the hospital still didn't know what the problem was, and it wasn't until I finally re-examined Jiaqi's drip that I was shocked to find that Jiaqi's drip was missing the most important antibiotic, if I didn't happen to work in Mr. Chen's company and knew a little about prescriptions, I really wouldn't have seen it.
At that time, I was furious and immediately asked the hospital the reason, the hospital did not know the reason at that time, and later under the investigation, I learned that the hospital was short of antibiotics for a while, and the nurse with saline added a certain amount less, and they thought that a child's fever and other minor illnesses could be recovered even with a small amount of ingredients, and it was not a big deal. But it was because of the nurse's behavior that the condition worsened.
That night, in a rare outburst, I went to the nurse, grabbed her by the collar and threatened her, "If something happens to Jiaqi, don't think about it." ”
In the end, the people in the hospital persuaded me to immediately re-dispense the saline, and then promised to reduce the medical expenses, and after their hospital was responsible for the matter, I lowered the fire a little, otherwise I really don't know how far the incident would go.
After opening a new saline, Jiaqi gradually got better, and after hanging two people in the hospital, she was finally discharged from the hospital, and the matter was over.
But because of this incident, I deeply understand the importance of the quality of medicine to the life and health of patients, and I deeply understand the pain when I bet my life on the most trusted medicine, only to know that all I am taking is no fake medicine.
That incident taught me such a lesson
There is nothing more important in the world than life, whether it is money or feelings, the basis of existence is life.
So since then, I have always insisted that no matter what kind of medicine or what kind of price, quality is always the most important thing.
Thinking back from the story of Jiaqi and me, I saw Mr. Chen looking at me with his eyes sideways, smiling and slightly expectant:
"Xiaodong, what do you think about this matter?"
"Quality is the most important thing. Mr. Chen, although reducing quality and maintaining competitiveness can bring a lot of benefits to the company, I still think that there is nothing more important than life in the world, whether it is money or feelings, the foundation of existence is life. I replied. "I think that if the patients who have always trusted our company's drugs know that the drugs produced by our company are fake drugs that do not have much effect, then I think they will hate our company to the core. ”
Mr. Chen listened carefully to my words, because these words were completely out of my sincerity, so I did not pretend to be a gesture when I said these paintings, and I said every word very truthfully. Although I knew that what I said as a newcomer did not have much impact, but I still said it from the bottom of my heart, and of course, when I said these words, I also noticed that almost half of the people were frowning and looking at me, and those people were leaders who supported General Manager Qian's plan, and obviously they did not agree with me very much.
And I also deliberately paid attention to General Manager Qian's reaction, but I saw that he just looked ahead, smiling contemptuously at the corner of his mouth, noncommittal, that kind of expression, as if listening to a child saying some innocent stupid things, made people angry when they saw it.
What surprised me even more, though, was Mr. Chen's reaction.
"I think the same as you. Mr. Chen said with a smile, "Actually, I also think that quality is the foundation of the company's life, and companies that have lost quality and reputation are not far from going out of business." However, Xiaodong, the situation is a little different now, if you only pay attention to quality, it will be detrimental to the company, you ...... I think you're usually quite a bit of a smart guy, and you always have ideas that are different from others, do you have any good ideas this time?"
I didn't expect Mr. Chen to value me so much, and the tone in which Mr. Chen asked me at this moment was not like the tone of a boss to a subordinate, but more like the king of a country asking for good advice from his ministers.
When Mr. Chen asked me this, everyone's eyes immediately focused on my face, because my name has been worn a lot in the mouths of the company staff in recent times, so many people are looking at me with curiosity or suspicion at the moment. I don't know what they're thinking, but it's probably all about me making a fool of myself. In particular, General Manager Qian, after hearing Mr. Chen's approval of me, his eyes narrowed even more, as if he wanted to capture my thoughts, and he even revealed a trace of resentment in his eyes, as if he was dissatisfied with Mr. Chen's attention to me.
At that moment, I deeply understood that Mr. Chen's question to me was not only a serious part of me, but also a test for me.
An invisible test of my ability, if I say that I have nothing to do at this moment, then in the end it can only mean that I am no different from other leaders, and my ability is just like that.
How should I answer Mr. Chan?
I stared at Mr. Chen's face, which was several times older than a few years ago, and looked at his calm and expectant eyes, but my mind gradually recalled the countermeasure I had come up with in the restaurant tonight.
On the question of how to balance quality and price, I thought about countermeasures a few hours ago.
Of course, I didn't come up with any good countermeasures in the restaurant at the time, but at this moment, one more thing came back to my mind.
A small thing about Jiaqi's life, it was because of that little thing that inspired me at this moment and made me think of a plan that might work.
That is the moment I thought of that countermeasure, I understood that it was incomplete to say that I raised Jiaqi and shaped and gave her a personality, in fact, since I adopted Jiaqi, Jiaqi has also changed me and affected my life. Although this change is subtle, it is real.
Jiaqi and I are actually changing each other's life trajectories, and at the same time, they have also more or less influenced other people and things, such as Aunt Bao Juan, for example, my father, for example, Ma Yike.
There is also the current Sanxin company.
Mr. Chen...... I do have a little idea, but I don't know if it's feasible. Facing Mr. Chen, I said with some hesitation.
"Even though the discussion in the meeting is free, just say whatever comes to mind. "Mr. Chan encouraged me very happily.
I nodded, shifted my gaze to the conference table, opened the conversation, and said: "The increase in the price of medicinal materials is indeed a fact that is difficult to change, because it seems impossible on the surface to maintain the price of medicinal materials without reducing the number of medicinal materials while the price of medicinal materials is rising, but it can also be done under some special circumstances. ”
What I said immediately made the entire conference room quiet, and these words immediately attracted everyone's attention, even General Manager Qian made a rare straight face, and Douzi looked at me without blinking.
Facing everyone's eyes, I continued: "Hehe, I think everyone should know that in terms of medication, children, pregnant women, the elderly and adults take different doses, for example, many drugs are generally adults take one tablet at a time, but children or pregnant women only need to take half a tablet. In general, adults generally take twice as much medication as children for the same period of time...... So I thought, why don't we divide most of the medicines into adult-only and child-only products. The price of adult-only drugs remains the same, and so does the quantity, while the price of children's drugs remains the same, but the quantity is only half that of adults. For example, two bottles of medicine, one bottle is for adults, one is for children, each bottle has 100 tablets, but the volume of each tablet for children only needs to be half of that of adults, so that it actually saves half of the cost of children's tablets, and our company only needs to be marked with the slogan for children's health, and the public will think that our company is very humane and will not think that if it is really calculated according to the quantity, the price of children's special drugs is actually only half of that of adults。 ”
The reason why I came up with this plan is actually to think of a few times when Jiaqi and I both had colds, and the instructions for the cold medicine were written on the instructions for children to take half a tablet and adults to take one tablet.
To put it bluntly, this inspiration still comes from my life with Jiaqi.
I should be grateful to Jiaqi, who gave me inspiration.
At that time, when I came up with this idea, I actually didn't have a bottom in my heart, because the plan had not been carefully calculated, nor had it been tested by clinical trials, it was just wishful thinking.
But what I didn't expect was that after I said this proposal, everyone, including Mr. Chen, frowned and thought about it.
And just about ten seconds later, Mr. Chen's face was full of bright smiles, he clapped his hands heavily, and suddenly laughed very happily, his eyes were full of energy, since I met Mr. Chen, I have not seen Mr. Chen's excitement:
"Xiaodong, I really don't want to say, your countermeasure is really good!"
"Xiaodong, I just heard that I haven't seen your results with my own eyes before, and I still have some doubts in my heart, but now I'm really convinced, Xiaodong, you are really an out-and-out genius!"
Mr. Chen's sudden slightly out of shape complimented me, I was a little flattered, I didn't know how to respond for a while, in fact, at that time I was ready to easily find all kinds of flaws in my plan and negate it, but I didn't expect the result to be Mr. Chen's great approval. After complimenting me, Mr. Chen turned his head and asked a middle-aged lady with glasses who was sitting in the third seat on the right side of the desk, "Xiaoya, you calculate for me, if according to Xiaodong, after balancing the cost of medicinal materials and the size of the granules of medicinal products, how much do you think we can save?"
Xiao Ya used to be Mr. Chen's assistant, and now she has become the director of the finance department, and she is usually responsible for the company's expenditure and income statistics, and she knows the most about the company's income and expenditure calculation, so at this moment Mr. Chen will ask her for the first time.
Asked by Mr. Chen, Xiao Ya picked up the pen and the calculator on the side, calculated it with a snap, and finally said to Mr. Chen without changing his face: "This plan...... If it goes well, according to the ratio of children's medicine to adult medicine to one, we can make more than 10% more profit than before...... However, I think it is too hasty to count children's drugs as half of the adult doses, in fact, children do take less than adults, but the proportion has been difficult to determine, it may be higher than 50%, and the actual effect ratio of each medicine is also different......"
"That's fine, our company's clinical trial report still exists, which can be used as a reference. Mr. Chen immediately added Xiao Ya's last sentence, "But the specific profitability depends on your calculations." As long as the profit is not much lower than the previous level, we have already succeeded. ”
Mr. Chen, word by word, expressed his thoughts to Xiao Ya unhurriedly.
Hearing Mr. Chen's words, I noticed that everyone present was thoughtful and their expressions were solemn.
"Mr. Chen, so to speak, my proposal ......" Seeing these reactions made by Mr. Chen, listening to his words, I couldn't help but ask Mr. Chen.
"Xiaodong, your proposal is very good, and it can be said that it is the most perfect plan for this meeting from the beginning to the present. I don't think anyone else would have come up with such an idea if it weren't for you......"
"Then this plan, what are you going to ......?"
"Well, I think your plan can be used as a priority plan, if it is really feasible in theory after calculation, Xiaodong, I want to say, this time, you have a lot of credit. ”
Mr. Chen smiled at me like never before and showed his recognition of me.
At that moment, I felt like it was the most successful moment of my life.
The meeting ended half an hour later, and in the remaining half an hour, no one's proposal was approved by Mr. Chen like me, and there were more or less big loopholes, and I couldn't take care of both aspects, and a few minutes before the end of the meeting, Mr. Chen still announced in public that I would give priority to my plan, and I immediately became the focus of attention of the audience.