Chapter 37, The Trap of the Old Clock
Qin Xin reluctantly returned to China.
Qian Dan sent Qin Xin away, returned to the dormitory from the airport, closed the bedroom door, and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze.
The room seemed to be pumped into a vacuum in an instant, and there was no popularity at all. Qian Dan was depressed, listless, and didn't know what he should do?
Finally, he stood up, grabbed a pair of old sneakers that Qin Xin had left at the door, threw them into the garbage bag, and then went out with the garbage bag.
He thought that if he cleaned up the traces left by Qin Xin, he would not be able to see things and think about people, but when he walked out of the door, the streets and alleys of Maiadi were full of Qin Xin's shadow. He walked all the way to 7th Street, bought a Turkish roast chicken, grabbed two bottles of mango juice, and walked back. For him, the entire 7th Street is a new continent discovered by Qin Xin.
Qian Dan's loneliness and emptiness did not last long, and a winter full of accidents came.
Lao Mo's arrival was the first accident of that winter.
Lao Mo is the tricky customer named Mohammed that Qian Dan visited with Lao Wang at ES Telecom in the United Arab Emirates when he first came to the Middle East and North Africa. When the Egyptian ES Telecom 3G new license project was finally about to start, Lao Mo was transferred to its subsidiary in Egypt by ES Telecom Group, still responsible for telecom software products, and was practicing with Qian Dan's team.
The ES project in Egypt is a major global pattern project of Weihua Company, Lao Han attaches great importance to it, Qian Dan does not dare to slack off, he dispatches elite soldiers, arranges Lin Han to serve as the project manager of software products in the project, and hurriedly transfers Wang Haitao back from Iraq to serve as the technical chief responsible for software products.
He wanted to put his local deputy Ammar into the project, but Weihua's battlefield is getting wider and wider, and he has recently captured the telecommunications market of Cyprus, an island nation in the Mediterranean, and the first war project in Cyprus is also calling for artillery fire from Chandan, and Ammar went there on a business trip.
Qian Dan, Lin Han, Wang Haitao and a sales colleague went to ES Telecom Egypt in the "Smart Village" industrial park in Cairo to participate in the project opening meeting of software products.
The two sides exchanged two words, and after sitting down, Lin Han began to explain the project plan, the composition of the project team, and the change management mechanism to the projected T. Lao Mo listened without saying a word, Qian Dan remembered the rudeness when he stopped Weihua's project manager from talking about T more than a year ago, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
After Lin Han finished speaking, Lao Mo said, "Please go back to page 5." β
"What's on page 5?" Qian Dan was recalling in his mind, Lin Han had already turned back, and page 5 was the composition and personnel of the project team.
Lao Mo counted: "You have so many people written on this page, what about people? I only saw the four of you until today, a project manager, a department manager, a salesperson, and only one engineer? β
"Mr. Mohammed, our other engineers will come in according to the project plan. β
Lao Mo was expressionless: "I ask you to have at least 10 engineers on site tomorrow." β
Qian Dan scolded in his heart: "Why is it still this problem? Count the heads as soon as you come up? β
Lin Han said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Mohammed, as the project manager, I will ensure that there are enough human resources on site to ensure that the project is carried out as planned, and there is no need for 10 people to be on site at this stage. β
He pointed at Wang Haitao with his finger: "Wang Haitao is experienced, and he will always be on site with me as the technical director of this project." β
Lao Mo looked at Wang Haitao and strengthened his tone: "This project is very important, I can't delay it for a day, you must ensure enough manpower, you can't be lazy, I will go to the computer room tomorrow morning, you should have 10 engineers there." β
Qian Dan squeezed out a smile: "Mr. Mohammed, how can anyone in this world worry about Chinese being lazy?" We have less than 10 software engineers in Egypt, and all projects are supported by timely deployment of engineers from China and India according to the project plan. Please don't worry, it is my most important job responsibility to ensure that the human resources of the project are not problematic. β
Lin Han added: "The engineers we come to support will prepare their visas in advance and fly in from China and India in due course. Now they haven't got their visas yet, and there's really no way to show up in the computer room tomorrow morning. β
Lao Mo said: "Chinese and Indians have to come as soon as they get their visas, put all your Egyptians in tomorrow, and if I don't see 5 people in the computer room tomorrow morning, I will complain to the management." β
After the meeting, Qian Dan, Lin Han, and Wang Haitao returned to the dormitory of the three of them.
Lin Han said: "Boss, tomorrow let the two new local employees from the regional department's Hassan, Baha and Egypt representative offices come to the project team?" β
Wang Haitao said: "Tomorrow, the subcontractors will not finish installing the hardware, and they will have nothing to do on site!" β
Qian Dan said: "Let them all go, and watch the subcontractor hardware installation if they have nothing to do." If you can make Lao Mo happy, you can make Lao Mo happy. β
He had doubts in his heart and said: "Although he is a famous old Mo, I always feel that it is strange that he has to count his heads this time." When I met him in the UAE last year, he looked confident and prepared, and he had to ask the R&D personnel to come to the scene. There seems to be some absent-minded, thoughtful look today that we want to throw all the Egyptians into it? He clearly knows that the hardware has not been installed yet, and it is still early before the software commissioning, what do I think he has in mind? β
Lin Han immediately asked, "What attempt?" β
Qian Dan had a different intuition, but he couldn't say why, he said a Cantonese sentence at Lin Han, a Cantonese man: "You ask me, I ask the side?" β
Lin Han praised in time: "Boss, this Cantonese pronunciation is good. β
Qian Dan didn't want to discuss Lao Mo anymore, so he said to Lin Han: "That is, you are allowed to learn Shanghainese, but I am not allowed to learn a few words of Cantonese?" How are you and that little sister in Shanghai? Is there still a connection? β
Lin Han said proudly: "Of course there is a connection!" How is it possible not to get in touch? We often talk to each other. β
Qian Dan asked: "Is she still a suitor in Morocco?" But you're out of sight now, aren't you? β
Lin Han seemed to have thought about life, and he said seriously: "Didn't you say that Xiaoyu is a leaky physique?" There will always be all kinds of strange flowers and plants around her. But there is, I don't care, as long as she is happy, I try to make myself the most secial, I am lucky, I lose my life! β
"Yo, I didn't expect it! Are you so high now? β
"That is, she is still willing to say anything to me, more and more willing."
That night, after the three of them went back to their rooms, Qian Dan sat at the desk and routinely reviewed his "Middle East and North Africa Software Service Human Resources Table", Wang Haitao was half-lying on the bedside to study the information of the products to be installed in the Egyptian ES project, and Faye Wong's singing voice faintly came from Lin Han's room:
Looking back, the moon at that time
Whose heart has ever been represented
The results are all the same
Look, the moon at that time
Overnight, it turned into today's sunshine
If there was nothing at the time
If you have something at that time
What will happen?
Lao Zhong has been in Sudan for almost half a year to carry out organizational changes in the representative office.
For a long time, Weihua's representative offices in various countries have been divided into three lines: account manager, product sales and technical service, and the account manager is responsible for customer relations and is subordinate to the maintenance of different production networks. Everyone's KI is different, the interests are inconsistent, and they can all find the background in the regional department and the company headquarters along their respective industry lines, and the department wall is thick.
In the past, Weihua mainly sold hardware equipment and 'boxes' in China, but now, there are more and more scenarios to sell solutions overseas for the pain points of customers' business operations, and the organizational operation is becoming more and more clumsy.
However, the reason why Weihua Company was able to move from victory to victory is inseparable from its self-critical spirit and strong ability to learn and correct mistakes engraved in its bones. From the agency to the front line, Weihua's supervisors at all levels are always pursuing change, and even some "change fundamentalism". Once Lao Zhong realized that the deployment of troops affected the efficiency of the siege, he carried out organizational changes in the representative office on his own.
Sudan representative office for three different operators set up three system department, in the company's standard organization design in the system department only account manager, Lao Zhong product sales, technical service personnel into the system department, for each customer set up to the director of the system department, product sales supervisor, technical service supervisor as the core management team of the "iron triangle", the three parties are tightly coupled in the same combat team, to undertake the same ki, force out of a hole, out of a hole, the combat efficiency of the entire representative office has been greatly improved, The business is running a lot smoother.
Now that the internal contradictions have been resolved, Lao Zhong is even more determined to win the "Shantou Project" in ST Telecom.
ST Telecom originally had half of the market share of Weihua and Y Company, and Weihua began to guide customers to rebuild a network and go to 3G in the first half of the year. The "Iron Triangle" of the system department takes customers back to China to visit the model site, do high-level exchanges and expert exchanges; Meticulous analysis of customer network and customer pain points; Guide the client's budget and guide the client's bids; Coupled with the high-quality service guarantee of the technical service team, step by step, it finally reached the final stage of bidding.
That afternoon, Zeng Zijian was "killing emails" in the office, and the mobile phone rang, and the old clock was on the other end of the phone: "Zeng Zijian, is Lao Niu in the office?" β
Zeng Zijian's office was outside Lao Niu's small office door, he got up and looked through the glass door, and replied, "Yes, Mr. Zhong." β
The old bell said hurriedly: "What the hell is he doing? I can't get through to him on the phone, you give him your phone, and I want to talk to him about the ST project quote at the end. β
"Okay, Mr. Zhong, don't hang up the phone, I'll give him the phone immediately", Zeng Zijian walked towards Lao Niu's office, and quickly pressed the volume of the mobile phone to the maximum with his thumb.
He walked into Lao Niu's office and handed over his mobile phone: "Mr. Niu, Mr. Zhong is looking for you in a hurry." β
Lao Niu stretched out his hand to take the mobile phone and spoke in a loud voice: "Really? How can it not get through? Oops, my phone is dead, I didn't notice. β
The voice of the old bell in the mobile phone was also very loud, Zeng Zijian deliberately took two steps back, and he could still hear it: ",,, I think the last round of reporting 1.4 billion is still high, 135 is more secure, just asked the leader, the leader said let me and you calculate the profit again, I will calculate the ,,, for you"
Lao Niu glanced at Zeng Zijian, and did not signal him to avoid it, but just lowered his voice: "Well, well, well, I think 135 is no problem, the last round, it's decided." β
He hung up the phone and handed the phone back to Zeng Zijian: "Zijian, after the Sudan project is won, let's go have a good drink." β
Zeng Zijian went to the rooftop of the office building, and he dialed Zhang Wang's mobile phone of Company Y: "Brother Wang, has the last round of quotations for your ST Telecom been decided?" β
The other end of the phone was a little surprised: "What? Didn't you say that Jinpan washed his hands and didn't play with me? Changed your mind? β
"Old rules, huh?"
"No problem."
"13.5 billion."
On Friday morning, the warm winter sun is always lazy, and Qian Dan slept until nearly ten o'clock before getting up. After getting up, he called Qin Xin first, and the two of them discussed the matter of marriage, thinking about waiting for Qian Dan to return to China for vacation in the spring of next year, and the marriage was concluded.
After making the call, Qian Dan happily walked out of the bedroom and saw Lin Han and Wang Haitao standing in the kitchen, chatting over the rice cooker. Lin Han saw him: "Boss, cook a pot of rice, steam some sausages, and eat together."
unchοΌ Haitao and I went to the ES Telecom room to work overtime after eating. β
Qian Dan squeezed into the kitchen: "Okay, I don't have much to do today, wait until I go down to 7th Street to buy a chicken, make soup and wait for you to come back in the evening to drink." β
Lin Han said: "Boss, Haitao and I feel that Lao Mo is a little weird these days. β
Qian Dan asked vigilantly, "What's wrong?" β
Wang Haitao said: "He has been chatting with a few of our Egyptian employees these days, not together, but one by one, I went to his office yesterday to look for him, and saw Baha sitting alone in his office, the day before yesterday I saw him and Hassan drinking coffee, I don't know what the conspiracy is?" β
"What conspiracy? Didn't you ask Baha and Hassan what they talked about? β
"Asked, these two guys said that Lao Mo just knew about the situation in Egypt, but we felt demonic."
"You two pay more attention to his movements, and see what he wants to do. However, he has been in the UAE and has just been transferred, so he is not familiar with Egypt, maybe he is really looking for locals to understand Egypt, right? β
Zeng Zijian and Shishi also got up late.
Zeng Zijian brushed his teeth seriously in the bathroom, and Shishi leaned on the bedside and called him loudly: "Zijian, Brother Wang is looking for you by phone." β
He washed his face and dried his hands without hurrying, and then came out and took the phone: "Brother Wang, what's the matter so early?" β
Zhang Wang was very annoyed: "Do you know how much you reported in the last round of ST Telecom?" β
"Isn't it 13.5 billion?"
"It's not! Your company reported 12.5 billion, our company reported 1.3 billion, congratulations, the result is your company's exclusive winning bid! β
"How is that possible?!"
"How could it not be? Are you playing tricks on me? Or have you been tricked? β
Zeng Zijian was very surprised, he suddenly felt a chill in his back, and his white face became even whiter, his intuition was not that the leaders changed their minds at the last moment, but deliberately dug a pit for him, and he accidentally fell into the pit.
But he quickly regained his composure: "Brother Wang, does anyone else over there know about me?" β
"Nope."
"Okay, you can figure out how to get the project back? From now on, if you ask, the two of us don't know each other. β
He hung up the phone, and Shishi asked with concern, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? β
Zeng Zijian said calmly: "It's nothing, I should have fallen into the pit deliberately dug by Lao Zhong and Lao Niu, and the company should have noticed what happened to me and Brother Wang." β
She was nervous: "What should I do then?" β
His hand gently stroked her bulging lower abdomen: "Don't be nervous, it's okay, there won't be any evidence to sue me." Anyone asks you about my work, and you can't tell me clearly; Anyone asks you about your work, and you have to be careful not to talk too much. β