Chapter XXVI Managers of Firms
Like many trading houses on the mainland, Daqi Trading Company has a wide range of businesses, including clothing, jewelry, porcelain, ornaments, medicinal herbs, wine, food, etc., all of which add up to more than a dozen kinds of products.
In the proposal, John suggested narrowing the scope of the business, focusing on a few products, and focusing on discovering the uniqueness of the product, rather than blindly producing the product.
This brings him to another suggestion to focus on the quality of the product rather than the quantity of the product, and that ten inferior products are not as good as one good product, and John suggested that the workshop staff should focus on product innovation rather than on product reproduction.
He also proposed that the supply and demand of products should always uphold the principle of supply less than demand, and even temporarily produce products according to customer needs, rather than producing many products at once, which cannot be sold but piled up there to cause a waste of resources and costs, and will affect the flow of funds for a long time.
In terms of people management, John advises firms to bring in a lot of senior talent, and although it costs a lot of money to hire senior talent, the value they create is also amazing.
In addition, the promotion of personnel should rely on ability and the value he creates for the firm, rather than by relationships or other means, in order to enhance the enthusiasm of employees, the firm should uphold the principle of fairness to deal with things, and should also provide some benefits for employees appropriately.
In addition, John also pointed out that the company's various systems need to be improved, and a sound system is the fundamental guarantee for the good operation of the firm, and in order to ensure that the system can be effectively implemented, the senior management must play an exemplary role
Although he had only taken a cursory look at the proposal, he was already amazed, he had come to this world from the reincarnation of the earth in the 21st century, so it was not surprising to know this, but John was different, he could not have experienced the same as himself.
In Szeto's view, the continent of Ceylon was actually very backward in some respects, similar to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Europe on the previous earth, and like John's suggestions, Stuart dared to say that no trading house on the whole continent would implement them.
On the one hand, it is not possible to do this, and the interests within any company or business house are very complex, which also leads to an extreme decentralization of power, which John proposes can only be achieved by the top management with a high concentration of power.
On the other hand, because they were incomprehensible, John's suggestions seemed simple and easy to understand in Szeto's eyes, but the rest of the world would not be like Stuart, and their management philosophy had not yet risen to this level.
"You wrote all this?" Although John had said that he had written them before, Situ Jin was still uncertain and asked again.
Seeing that Situ Jin hurriedly read it, John didn't have much hope, it seemed that no one was really interested in these suggestions he put forward, and when he heard Situ Jin's question, he just nodded in disappointment.
At this moment, the door to the manager's office was opened from the inside, and a blonde girl who looked to be in her 20s walked out, wearing the clothes of a comptoir, her face flushed, and her hair was a little disheveled.
Seeing a few people standing at the door, the girl's face turned even redder, and she didn't even dare to raise her eyes to look at the faces of these people carefully, so she hurried around with her head down, and then walked to another room on this floor.
The girl's behavior made John even more embarrassed, as if he had done something unseemly, and glanced at Situ Jin, John said in an unnatural tone: "Eh, I'm sorry, I think our manager should have time now." ”
Situ Jin nodded, and then stretched out his hand to push open the door of the manager's office, and just as his hand was about to touch the door, he turned his head and said to John, "You can come in too." Then he pushed the door open and walked in.
Situ Jin's words made John a little confused, he didn't know why the other party pushed the door directly, and he didn't know why the other party asked him to go in too, it stands to reason that the manager received the guests He was not present.
"Oh, my proposal!" suddenly realized that his proposal had been taken in by Situ Jin, and John followed him directly without thinking about it.
In the office, a middle-aged man who looks to be in his 40s is lying comfortably on a leather chair behind a desk.
This person is Zack, the manager of the firm, I saw that he was not tall, fat, with a round face and a pair of small ears, which made him look a little shrewd, and his short thick fingers were on his round belly, and he patted them again and again, revealing the satisfaction he had just obtained from the girl.
Seeing someone push the door in, Zack's eyes narrowed, and he was about to see if it was the guy who didn't open his eyes so unruly, and then Situ Jin, dressed in aristocratic clothes, walked in, followed by Xiu and John.
Zack knew this, hurriedly got up from the chair, and said with an enthusiastic face: "Oh! Hello, my dear noble young master, you are here to discuss business on behalf of the family, right?
As he spoke, Zach stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please to the sofa in the office, he glanced at John who was standing behind Stuart, although he didn't know why the kid followed, but now there was no place for him to stay: "John, you go out first!" Zach said to John.
"Eh" noticed that he had rushed in, and John also felt that something was wrong, and Zach gave him another order, he planned to go out first, and wait for Situ Jin at the door to go out before getting his proposal back.
Just as John raised his foot and was about to walk out of the manager's office, a voice suddenly remembered, "John, right? ”
John was stunned for a moment, looked at Situ Jin, and didn't know why the other party said to let him stay, but Situ Jin didn't look back.
Zach was also stunned by Situ Jin's sudden words, he didn't know what the handsome young man in front of him meant, and at this moment, the young man spoke: "You are Tom Zucker, the current manager of this firm, right?"
Although he was a little upset by Situ Jin's tone, Zach knew that the children of the nobles were not something he could provoke, so he nodded and said, "That's right, I am." ”
Situ Jin nodded, and then looked at Zack, which inexplicably made Zack feel a little uneasy: "Okay, then I declare that from this moment on, you are no longer the manager of Dutch Firm, Mr. Tom Zucker." ”
"What?" When Zach heard this, he was startled at first, and then sneered angrily: "This little young master, if you want to play a prank, please change places, you are not welcome in Daqi Trading House." Zach felt like he was being played.
"Heh!" Situ Jin chuckled, "Mr. Zack, I don't have time to play pranks with you. After speaking, Situ Jin suddenly shouted: "Xiu." ”
The next second that Situ Jin called out Xiu's name, Xiu immediately understood, he stepped forward and took out a stack of materials from his clothes and handed it to Zack.
Zach suspiciously took the information handed over by Xiu, and after turning a few pages at random, his face changed drastically.
The young man in front of him was Situ Jin, the eldest son of the Earl, and the current owner of this trading house? He first felt a pang of disbelief, and then a wave of fear immediately rose in his heart.
What Xiu handed to Zack was the written proof that the firm belonged to Situ Jin.
Speaking of which, Zach also knew about the fact that Daqi Trading House and its three workshops were transferred by Situ Nan to his eldest son Situ Jin three years ago.
It's just that in the past three years, this Situ Jin has never shown up, and in Zack's heart, he has long regarded Situ Jin as a careless gentleman, how could he have thought that this little boss who has never shown up would suddenly appear? Or at this time, what he just did in the office was not heard by this little boss, right?