A great opportunity is in front of him, and if John doesn't make a decisive move, he will really be kicked in the head by a donkey. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Dean Dunant, the Army Air Corps is really in urgent need of training a group of professionals. You see if this is good, no matter how much training fee they give, you will go first, and I will help you find a way to find a way for the missing part. Anyone who hears John's words will think that he is a noble patriot who is willing to sacrifice his personal interests for the sake of "the cause of American national defense."

"That's embarrassing." Dean Dunant first shirked it, and then gave an offer: "Actually, it's not much, if the class starts in April, the training cycle is calculated as 150 days, and two sessions can be held this year, with 80-100 people per session, and about 80,000 US dollars." As for next year, it will be decided according to the scale of training. ”

In these years, a professor's annual salary is only a few thousand dollars, and John knew that the college made a lot of money as soon as he heard it, and Dunant really deserved to be the dean of Harvard Business School.

"All right, just as you say." John agreed very simply. $80,000 is a lot of money for others, and it doesn't matter to John, so he sells one more B-24 and comes back. As for the next few years, that's what John will do. The United States will enter the war next year, and there will naturally be congressional appropriations at that time. He just wanted to find a person to reach into the personnel system of the Statistics Control Office from the beginning, and he did not really come to be the wrongdoer.

Dean Dunant was about to praise him for his "high spirits", but John added: "But I have one more condition." I would like to see a person from the academy who will join the Army Air Corps and who will be fully responsible for the implementation of this training program. ”

Dean Dunant paused for a moment, he didn't understand what John's purpose was in doing this. But for the sake of these years of "happy cooperation" and the $80,000, he still nodded. "Do you have any other requirements for specific candidates? There are several young teachers in our college who have received the medical examination notice for enlistment (receiving the medical notice does not mean that you must enlist in the army, but only to determine whether you are eligible to enlist). ”

Then, Dunant gave a general introduction to the situation of the young teachers. Most of these people are graduate students who have only graduated in recent years and work as teaching assistants in the college. But there was one man whose name caught John's attention.

"Is Mays, the TA for the "Budget Control" course, a student of Professor Walker? "The first collaboration between FedEx and Harvard Business School was led by Professor Ross Walker, an expert in budget control. McNamara and many of the key members of FedEx's Systems Analysis Office are students of the professor.

Moreover, in his previous life, John had also seen the name Max-Mays in that "Blue Blood Ten Heroes", and it seemed that he had a good personal relationship with McNamara, and was one of the first 12 teachers to join the Statistics and Control Office at Harvard Business School.

John remembers that the famous "O Report" in history was written by Mays and McNamara. This report later became the basis for decision-making by the Army Air Corps in wartime on the deployment of aircraft and personnel, the allocation of equipment, the development of training schedules, and the mobilization of troops.

Come to think of it, this Mace should be very good in terms of professional ability. While John doesn't know what happened to Mace after completing the "O-Report" (he is not mentioned again in the various accounts of the Statistics and Control Office, as if he had suddenly disappeared), one thing he can be sure of is that Mays and Thornton are not close to each other and are not members of his core team. When Thornton led a group of cronies to the business world after the war, Mace was no one on his team.

"Yes, both he and McNamara were graduate students brought out by Professor Walker. Originally, they were all going to stay in school to teach, but you abducted one of them. "It's a pity that President Dunant still thinks McNamara, like Mace, is a good material for academic research.

"Then let's hold him for now. You communicate with this Mr. Mace first, and I will arrange for him to join the Army Air Corps. ”

At this point, John's plan for "revenge" was almost halfway complete. The Army Air Corps, for the sake of Harvard Business School and the $80,000 saved, couldn't have turned Mays away anyway. Not only will he not be rejected, John is even confident that he will help Mace fight for the position of lieutenant colonel and deputy director of the Statistics Control Division.

Anyway, as a young scholar at Mays Harvard University, a permanent lieutenant rank after enlisting in the army will definitely not be able to run. In the name of promoting the needs of the Statistical Control Officer Training Program, it is not too out of place to give Metz a temporary rank of lieutenant colonel. The only thing that is a little difficult is the position of Deputy Director of Statistics Control.

But that didn't bother John. Who made Thornton so good at offending people? There were not a few high-ranking people in the Army Air Force who had opinions about him, and if it weren't for General Arnold's more emphasis on the work of the Statistics Control Office, and the looming Assistant Secretary Lovett standing behind Thornton, someone would have taken action to clean him up.

Appointing a deputy director of the Statistics Control Office can at least dilute the power in his hands, even if he cannot override Thornton, and many people should be happy to see this happen.

Even better, Meyer was not completely isolated within the Statistics Control Service. When John was preparing for the Statistics Control Office, McNamara introduced him to a group of undergraduate students. These people are now the backbone of the statistical control office, and Meyer will not worry about no one to help him when he takes office in the future.

Of course, it didn't work if John's idea was good. He also had one of the most important problems to solve, and that was how to get Mace to stand on the opposite side of Thornton as he had planned. It's a technical job, and it can't be done overnight, you have to take it slowly.

Fortunately, with Thornton's stinky temper and desire for control, it is not too difficult to create some conflict between him and Mace. Now, he just needs to give Mace some vaccinations through McNamara, so that he will be wary of Thornton from the beginning, and don't be impressed by the other party's "personality charm" as soon as he comes up.

With this arranged, John was back to square one. The matter of making trouble for Thornton was just a small episode for him, and the logistics reform of the 82nd Division was the main thing. When he called Thornton, he wanted to find someone to summarize and sort out a set of detailed rules for logistics and supply operations. Now that Thornton won't borrow it, John has to find another way.

John had also considered circumventing Thornton and poaching people directly from the Statistics Control Department. In any case, he is also the founder of the department, and the "veterans" in the department were all recruited by him personally. But after much consideration, he gave up. This is because by doing so is openly digging into the corners of the Army Air Force, and it is inevitable that there will be high-level air force officials who will have opinions on this.

Besides, John had his own pride. He didn't believe it, didn't there be a "mulberry butcher", he would have to eat hairy pigs. The ESC set is not all left over from his play at FedEx. Thornton refuses to lend his statisticians like a treasure, won't John train himself?

John took out the roster of officers in the division, and prepared to select a group of low-ranking officers and non-commissioned officers with potential from among them and organize them to be trained. He even thought about the choice of the training teacher, Leith, who had just returned from England.

After a year of training in Britain, Leith is fully mature. His outstanding data analysis and communication and coordination skills have won the praise of the British Labour Secretary Bevan. If John hadn't called him back home, he might have been poached by the British one day.

When Leith returned home, in recognition of his contributions to the company, John gave him a luxury car, a $2,850 Lincoln Continental, and three months of paid vacation. Who would have thought that this "single dog" turned out to be a workaholic, and he couldn't stay idle and always ran to the company during his vacation. In that case, it would be better for him to help John train the logistics officers.