Chapter 32: Don't Be Afraid, Keep Going (1)
PS: A bit wrong, revising
The calendar for 1926 quickly flipped over, and although the annual losses were already estimated, Contini was still a little surprised when he saw the preliminary statements on January 27, which showed that the losses for the previous year had reached 1.23 billion lira, equivalent to more than $60 million, almost one-third of Italy's annual military spending, and slightly more than 45% of Germany's annual military spending—and this was because Italy had renewed its Caracciolo class and other armaments under Contini's tricks. At the same time, Germany conscripted 25,000 Wehrmacht troops and suppressed the Munich operation.
According to the rules set by the United Group, the annual work meeting will be held for three days from January 29 to 31 every year to deploy a new round of annual goals and work plans.
Although the rise of Internet + has long broken the tradition of strategic planning and questioning - 3 months of environmental change is enough to turn the entire plan into a mess of waste paper, but in traditional enterprises, especially in the 20s of the 20th century, this approach is quite scientific and advanced, and no one in Italy does it except for the United Group.
In the strategic planning, each sub-section should design and consider itself in accordance with the strategic introduction and ideas proposed by the President's Office, which is mainly Contini's ideas, and put forward a variety of resource allocation needs: capital, credit, equipment, personnel, and technology. Then, according to the development concepts and specific plans put forward by each section, the strategic plan of the president's office of the group is summarized and sublimated, and then it becomes something displayed in the United House - this is for the outside world to see, which is more abstract and vague, and there will be no specific figures.
Internally, it is publicized and implemented layer by layer, the first level is Contini himself to 20-22 management, mainly plate heads), and occasionally expanded to the general manager level of key subsidiaries; The second layer is that the person in charge of the section will publicize the overall strategic concept of the group and the future development ideas of this section to the management of the subsidiary; The third layer is the promotion and implementation of the management of the subsidiary to the middle-level and grass-roots managers; There is also a fourth layer for particularly large enterprises, that is, the head of the workshop or department conveys to the grassroots employees, and the small scale is to hold an annual work meeting together to convey it in place.
In this era, business management is just a concept, to put it bluntly, more business tycoons are operating with experience, instinct, professional ethics and habits, and there are almost no people who play like United Group. But they have to admit that through this system of reporting and implementation at all levels, Contini has firmly grasped the huge syndicate in his hands, while not getting bogged down in specific day-to-day affairs.
In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the decree, he set up a huge team of secretaries, and the president's office can be stabbed to the end; A management meeting system has been set up to continuously strengthen the awareness of goals by holding meetings once every two months; In order to prevent each sub-section from fighting its own battle and only being responsible for Contini and ignoring other businesses, he also set up a director exchange meeting, which is held once a month, and each time two rotating directors are responsible for coordinating and resolving parallel issues involving each other but across sectors, and then the president's office will supervise the topics and sort out the meeting minutes.
Working in the president's office is very powerful, very high-status, very responsible, and very demanding of people, and all of them can work in it are the best graduates of top Italian universities - usually they do not get this kind of opportunity in other companies.
Contini's criteria for selecting people are very simple: first, they must be energetic, college graduates in their 20s are the time when they are rich enough to do business, if they are loose and only know how to enjoy, no matter how much they have the ability, they can't use it; Second, we must be loyal and ideally compatible, the president's office is all the backbone of the support and belief in the three-flag theory, and all of them are the hardcore of the Youth Alliance. The third is to have a full and comprehensive calculation spirit and communication and coordination ability, calculation is to strengthen their numerical management ability, communication and coordination is to highlight their ability to solve disputes and problems.
Everyone knows that it is enough to go to the level of the director of the plate in daily affairs, and only come to Antonio or Contini when they encounter matters that they can't decide, but this does not mean that His Excellency the president does not know anything about the numbers of his subordinate enterprises, and Contini himself is a completely different face when he goes to the grassroots level to investigate and inspect - never talks about theories and beliefs, it is completely a long list of numbers. He believes that a middle and senior manager is not even familiar with the figures he is responsible for the business, which shows that his management is extensive and chaotic, and from time to time there is news that a senior manager is being pushed to the end because he can't answer the question.
Therefore, the grassroots are now very afraid of the president to investigate, as long as the president comes, it is impossible not to shed a few layers of skin, but he also thinks about the president coming, as long as Contini sees the right eye, answers fluently in the research, and has a clear view of the future, he will not hesitate to reuse it. It was in this situation that Göring's fiancée, Betty, was quickly promoted and appointed, and when she was the head of the newspaper's office, she was able to manage everything in order, take care of the distribution, internal and external coordination, and take care of administrative affairs
Computing is to strengthen their numerical management skills, and communication and coordination are to highlight their ability to resolve disputes and problems.
Everyone knows that it is enough to go to the level of the director of the plate in daily affairs, and only come to Antonio or Contini when they encounter matters that they can't decide, but this does not mean that His Excellency the president does not know anything about the numbers of his subordinate enterprises, and Contini himself is a completely different face when he goes to the grassroots level to investigate and inspect - never talks about theories and beliefs, it is completely a long list of numbers. He believes that a middle and senior manager is not even familiar with the figures he is responsible for the business, which shows that his management is extensive and chaotic, and from time to time there is news that a senior manager is being pushed to the end because he can't answer the question.
Therefore, the grassroots are now very afraid of the president to investigate, as long as the president comes, it is impossible not to shed a few layers of skin, but he also thinks about the president coming, as long as Contini sees the right eye, answers fluently in the research, and has a clear view of the future, he will not hesitate to reuse it. It was in this situation that Göring's fiancée, Betty, was quickly promoted and appointed, and when she was the head of the newspaper's office, she was able to manage everything in order, take care of the distribution, internal and external coordination, and take care of administrative affairs
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