During the two-year period, Ye Xiaosheng completed the EMBA and possessed the basic qualities of a qualified professional manager. During his EMBA program, he met some excellent managers and mentors. From them, he learned a truth: in the workplace, choice is more important than hard work, and the most important ability that determines how long a professional manager can go in the workplace - leadership.

What is Leadership? It's an ability why your subordinates are willing to follow you to work hard! How to motivate followers to surpass themselves and achieve higher goals!

In the past two years, Qiao Shan has finally secured the position of human resources director. There have been many incidents during this period, but she has indeed grown a lot while learning and doing.

Ding Zelin steadily consolidated his position in accordance with his predetermined goals, and the work was also done. Zhuge Hui has indeed seen a lot of Ye Xiaosheng in the two years he has served as the director of the advertising project department, unlike his predecessors, who only care about the communication with managers, and go deeper into the front line to communicate with employees. He always unexpectedly puts forward some suggestions that need to be improved by the company, such as the approval process for salespeople's reimbursement, the improvement of salespeople's attendance system, and the sales collection system for salespeople. It's all about motivating the enthusiasm of salespeople.

Undoubtedly, Mr. Zhuge won praise in the workplace for his work in the last two years before retirement, and was honored to become a good leader with a beginning and an end. At the farewell party before retirement, Ding Zelin officially gave him a letter of appointment, and he was still hired as a consultant of the company after retirement.

The company is showing a thriving scene, after Zhuge Hui retired. Ye Xiaosheng accelerated the management and improvement of the sales team's performance, and he was bound to win the director position. And also got a hint from Ding Zelin, who was submitting documents to the group recommending his promotion, but also warned him to ensure that no moths were made during this period no matter what, and once it happened, it would be difficult for him to ensure that he successfully achieved his long-cherished wish.

Ye Xiaosheng fought even harder for performance, but in the process, he still adhered to his inner boundaries and principles.

Nie Xiaoyue once told him that there was a business customer who needed real kickbacks, but he asked Nie Xiaoyue to give up the business. Ye Xiaosheng understood that Ding Zelin's warning to him was not only excellent performance, but also Xiao Jian and Huang Lin, who had lessons from the past.

During this period, Qiao Shan intended to introduce her roommate Lan Ting to Ye Xiaosheng, but he refused. Qiao Shan joked that he Xia Yanni has a boyfriend, and he, as a brother, should consider a lifelong event. But Ye Xiaosheng refused, because he became more and more aware of what he wanted? Ye Xiaosheng went to Ye Xin's house to eat a few times at Huang Zheng's invitation, and Ye Xin's wife Huang Zheng also privately arranged for Ye Xiaosheng and Ye An to meet many times, but Ye Xiaosheng knew very well that Ye An was not a suitable person for him. In the matter of marriage, he has too many ideas of his own, in addition to being like-minded with himself, he really wants to use his strength. If you can achieve a bigger breakthrough in your career through marriage, then why not! Of course, he also knows that his current identity, family background and knowledge are not enough for him to reach the peak of his career in the future. So, he could wait, wait for the one who should have appeared in his life. The reason why the fate of many people is prematurely determined is because too many people are impatient. Ye Xiaosheng warned himself that he must be patient!

Ding Zelin took great pains to promote Ye Xiaosheng, and he did his best to help Ye Xiaosheng establish his prestige in the company, even taking him with him as long as he participated in the private gatherings of the group's executives. Moreover, Ding Zelin will deliberately arrange for Ye Xiaosheng to attend meetings with the top decision-makers of some of the company's customers. Ye Xiaosheng gradually learned the way of socializing in the mall.

Ye Xiaosheng only then knew that the workplace and the shopping mall are two different hardcore battlefields, and if you want to be invincible in the workplace, you must have the resources to get your hands on. Once you've mastered the resources, you'll be like an exceptionally good fish that can swim in different pools because of your own special skill – the ability to hunt. If you just make an ordinary fish, you can only swim in the pool you are familiar with. Ye Xiaosheng didn't understand this truth before, but he finally understood why it was difficult for Lao Mo to find his next home quickly during the time he was dismissed. Ye Xiaosheng understands that if his business stays in dealing with people who only have decision-making power in the position among customers, he neglects to deal with people who have real decision-making power. Then he will never be able to change the pool. In a few years, he won't be much more advanced than Lao Mo? At the same time, he also realized a truth, so did Huang Lin and Xiao Jian, their vision and pattern determined that they could only go so far in the workplace, which was the highest limit they could reach.

Ding Zelin did not tell Ye Xiaosheng these truths, but Ye Xiaosheng constantly explored the truths in real practice!

Three months after Zhuge Hui retired, Ye Xiaosheng did not achieve the first place in his team's performance among the five project teams, because Ye Xiaosheng kept his own cognition and bottom line and slowly explored how to do performance is a more stable and lasting way.

Qiao Shan told Ye Xiaosheng that he and another competitor had become candidates for acting executive director of the group. The person's sales performance was ahead of him, and Ye Xiaosheng informed Ding Zelin of the news. Ding Zelin told him not to worry, some things don't have to be in a hurry. If your character and ability are hard enough, you don't have to care if you are a spare tire.

Ye Xiaosheng felt that what Ding Zelin said made sense, and continued his efforts. Before the competition for the post, a new round of candidates' character and performance should be examined for a series of qualifications. During the review process, one of the candidates was also Ye Xiaosheng's opponent because of bribery in performance. Coincidentally, the customer who had the problem turned out to be the customer that Nie Xiaoyue mentioned to Ye Xiaosheng before - Mei Xiangjia. This "black swan" incident broke out in this company because of internal intrigue, and the boss of the finance department sued the boss of the marketing department for receiving kickbacks. Just in time for the competition for the director candidate, it was completely fried in the newspaper. Walking in the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes are sinister. The scandal that came to light at once caught Ye Xiaosheng's competitors off guard. In consideration of the internal and external impacts, the Group ordered him to be suspended to assist in the investigation. While assisting in the investigation, Ye Xiaosheng was named and awarded the position of acting director.

A month later, Ye's rival resigned and left the company.

Half a year later, Ye Xiaosheng was officially appointed as the director of the marketing department, and that day, which happened to be the day when he had been employed for three years, he specially invited Ding Zelin and Qiao Shan to dine together. That day, the stars were shining, and when the three of them finished their meal and said goodbye, Ding Zelin said a meaningful word: "Some of the pits are man-made, and some are self-made, the key depends on the timing of digging and the timing of falling, the two of you must work hard!" ”

The neon lights are flashing all over the street, but the places where the light can't reach are still dark, but the people who are bathed in the lights are not easy to notice......

(Volume 1 Finale)