1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 324 The Water in Dahua is a Bit Deep
Dahua Asset Management Company has been listed for nearly a month, but except for the proposal submitted by the fourth business department, which everyone with a discerning eye could see was submitted under the instructions of Yang Mo, none of the proposals from the other three business departments as well as the Innovation Investment Department and the Capital Market Department could be reviewed and approved.

So at the weekly routine meeting of middle and senior management, Song Wenxuan, the director of the board office, couldn't help but jump out.

"Minister Yang, since the company was listed, the approval rate of the eight core operating departments, including the four business operation departments, the innovation investment department, the capital market department, and the asset protection department, is only 11.5%; this has seriously delayed the achievement of the company's work goals and seriously affected the morale of employees."

"Although the Business Review Department itself has the responsibility to check the projects, and we are very happy that Minister Yang is so conscientious, the number of proposals submitted by various departments this month is as high as 113, and the elimination rate is as high as nearly %... Minister Yang, aren't you too strict?"

Song Wenxuan's tone was very calm, so calm that it had a weird feeling.

As for the company's management, none of the dozens of people attending the meeting did not know how the 11.5% approval rate came about.

Thinking of the seven or eight and as many as nearly twenty plans that their departments had worked hard on overnight, all of them were rejected without exception. The faces of the ministers, represented by Du Chuanming, were so gloomy that they seemed to be dripping with water.

Hearing this guy calling him "Minister Yang" instead of "Vice President Yang", Yang Mo knew what this kind of position anchoring meant.

Ah……

Use his spear to break his shield?
Yang Mo casually glanced at the guy's handsome face and nodded with a smile: "Thank you Director Song for your recognition... The company has just been established, and the employees have not fully understood the spirit of the company's documents and lack of running-in at work. It is reasonable for me to be strict here."

Should?
What do you mean?
So you think I'm praising you?
Song Wenxuan's eyes twitched. "Minister Yang, you are the one with the highest business achievements and the most professional skills in the company, so everyone has the highest expectations of you as the Minister of Business Review Department. Even if the plans of various departments are rejected by you again and again, no one has any extra ideas. "

"However, as the person with the highest commercial achievements in the company, it's fine for you to reject the project plans of other departments, but can you consider pointing out the problems in the plans and also give some advice on how to improve these plans?"

At this point, Song Wenxuan looked at Yang Mo sincerely and said, "Minister Yang, the company has a heavy burden this year. Although the 13.5 billion yuan in funds on the books is a lot, it is not enough compared to the tasks that the company needs to complete. Only when everyone in Dahua unites and overcomes difficulties together can we hand in a satisfactory answer."

After a slight pause, Song Wenxuan acted as if he was a newcomer and said, "We all know that Minister Yang is skilled in business and has outstanding abilities, but there is strength in numbers. It is a good thing to help other departments grow. At the very least, it would be good to help Minister Yang share some of the basic work."

Yang Mo smiled as he watched his performance which seemed real but was actually roasting himself on the fire.

Although everyone knew that his main identity was the vice president in charge of business management, Song Wenxuan kept calling Yang Mo "Minister Yang" left and right, and implicitly described the other departments as small fry that the business review department looked down upon. This undoubtedly pushed Yang Mo to the opposite side of everyone emotionally... In the state-owned enterprise system, face is the most important thing. The higher the position, the more you cannot step on others in front of them.

Haha, it seems that these people really want to save the situation and want to seize some of the initiative in Dahua Company.

After all, Dahua is an asset management company. No matter what it looks like on the surface, whoever controls more projects and has more funds will have greater initiative.

All of this requires a prerequisite... You must have projects on hand. If you don’t have projects, even if the board office, finance department and audit department want to help you, they won’t find a reason to do so.

Huh~
This is a combination of first suppressing and then praising, and then confronting, and it even involves the issue of ideological stance. It is indeed a very lethal combo, but Comrade Song Wenxuan, your timing is obviously not enough.

If I were you, I would never say the last sentence. The meaning has been conveyed, and it is the right way to be implicit. You added a paragraph like this, which makes it seem like you are trying to sow discord.

Tsk tsk, the young comrade is still a little young.

Thinking of this, Yang Mo smiled and said, "As the director of the Business Review Department, I am actually happy to communicate sincerely with various departments about the problems and improvement suggestions of those plans... But all of this must be based on the willingness of various departments!"

After a brief pause and a glance at the people whose expressions began to change, Yang Mo's expression became serious: "Director Song is right. Dahua has a heavy burden this year... But the more so, the more we can't just recklessly launch projects just to get results!"

"This is not only because the funds on Dahua's books are actually far less abundant than others think...More importantly, it is because we are a central enterprise!"

"It is a central enterprise that the leaders of the headquarters have high hopes for, a central enterprise that the leaders of the drilling company have high hopes for, a central enterprise that countless oil system employees have high hopes for, and even a central enterprise... that the competent authorities of DZ City and the general public have high hopes for!"

Knocking on the table, Yang Mo's voice was filled with a trace of regret: "We all have experience in tertiary industry projects. We should know what the consequences will be if we are not careful in setting up the project... This will not only waste Dahua's precious funds, but also make those diverted employees who have obtained jobs and can live a worry-free life return to the state of waiting for work again!"

"More importantly, if the number of such failed projects increases, the competent authorities in Texas are likely to talk to us and even cancel the series of support policies promised in the past... Everyone should be clear about what the cancellation of support policies means to us... It means that our future work will become more difficult and it will be more difficult to complete the task!"

At this point, Yang Mo looked distressed: "Comrades, I want to emphasize again that the original intention of establishing Dahua Asset Management Company is to solve the re-employment problems of all laid-off employees as much as possible; and the reduction of staff and increase of efficiency action at the headquarters must be maintained for at least five years!"

"Five years! Hundreds of thousands of workers will be suspended or on standby, and will come to us in droves, hoping that we can help them find reemployment... With so many workers and such a long time span, how can we be so shortsighted as to only focus on whether this year's tasks are completed?"

"If we just want to complete this year's tasks, or more precisely, just to complete the tasks for the first quarter, and just to add hundreds or thousands of projects, and even ignore the fact that these projects will become financial black holes after a short period of prosperity... that is a crime!"

"We are committing a crime against Dahua Company! We are committing a crime against the headquarters and the drilling company! We are committing a crime against the hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of employees who are about to be laid off!"

Yang Mo knocked on the table excitedly and swept his eyes over several ministers with unnatural expressions: "Everyone should understand the principle that if you don't plan ahead, you won't succeed. In fact, as long as there are no serious mistakes or strategic deviations in the plans submitted by various departments, I will review them and even clearly point out the problems in their plans."

"I originally thought that they would go back and study the problems in the plan, and then the whole department would work together to correct the errors in the plan and submit it again after it was improved... But to my disappointment, the departments did not modify the plan. Instead, they submitted a brand new project in less than three days, intending to quickly start the next stage of work... What disappointed me even more was that these new projects were not even on the same track as the previously rejected projects."

With deep regret in his eyes, Yang Mo sighed heavily: "Confucius said: If you are not angry, you will not be enlightened."

"The managers of the business departments have not yet realized where their real problems lie. They are just anxious to get their plans approved in just two or three days... As the director of the Business Review Department, how could I dare to take the initiative to communicate with them to revise these plans now!?"

“If the intention is not pure, there will be disasters in the future… To be frank, I know better than everyone here that plans like this are basically modified by others. Even if they are approved and implemented, there will be a lot of problems in the implementation process. They may even unconsciously return to the old path and become a financial black hole that cannot be saved or not saved!”

Having said that, Yang Mo glanced at everyone, then turned his gaze back to Song Wenxuan: "So, Director Song, can you understand my difficulties now?"

Song Wenxuan's face looked extremely ugly.

Yang Mo's words were very straightforward. If the business departments still fail to take the initiative to think seriously, conduct careful research, and deduce carefully, and only think about getting the projects approved quickly, then even if they submit many projects, they will only be rejected.

Although it is a bit difficult for core middle-level managers at the ministerial level to set up a project after comprehensive consideration, Dahua Company is responsible for the reemployment of hundreds of thousands of employees, and its work is inherently very sensitive. Therefore, Yang Mo's request cannot be said to be too harsh.

It just so happens that this guy's other identity is the company's vice president in charge of business management. Therefore, on the basis of raising his position, he said these words condescendingly, which made many people feel that it was "easy to talk without any pain", and there was nothing inappropriate about it.

But if that were all, it would be fine.

The most annoying thing is what this guy said, "I won't be enlightened unless I'm angry."

This is simply telling everyone: "You want your project to pass the review? That's easy, come and beg me, be humble and ask me for advice!"

What does it mean to lower yourself and beg him?

How simple it is. If you change your stance and join him, and become his person, won’t he teach you how to modify these plans and then help you get the project approved?
This blatant act of poaching is not only a slap in the face, but is also a top-notch taboo in the workplace.

But no matter how unhappy you are, you have to just bear with it.

In terms of business achievements, Yang Mo can indeed beat everyone present in seconds, so on the surface he looks like a teacher waiting for his juniors to humbly ask for advice, you can't find any fault with him... The newcomers in the workshop have to buy a bottle of wine and send it to the master with a smile when they learn to tighten screws, so what's wrong with him asking you to correct your learning attitude?
Damn it, this guy is so difficult to deal with!

Song Wenxuan took a deep breath, tried hard to put on a smile, and glanced at the side calmly.

Tian Yuan, the director of the union office, received the message and immediately coughed softly: "Vice President Yang, I don't know much about business management, and I believe you have your own considerations in this regard."

"However, according to our visits and surveys, as work has not been carried out smoothly for nearly a month, most of the more than 700 employees in Dahua have shown obvious negative emotions, and some employees have even become slack. Even though we have tried hard to do ideological work, the effect is not good;"

"Vice President Yang, you have extensive management experience and should know that if this continues, Dahua's internal management will have serious problems."

"So my idea is...can we find a way to get these employees moving first?"

At this point, Tian Yuan explained: "According to our survey, the reason why most employees are like this is that they feel that they have no room to display their talents, but more importantly, they have nothing to do all day... Vice President Yang also knows that nothing will happen without something to worry about. When the employees' negative emotions and dissatisfaction accumulate, it will be troublesome."

Yang Mo glanced at the middle-aged man and naturally knew what the "trouble" he was talking about was.

There are many sub-offices in the board office. According to the organizational framework of state-owned enterprises, the trade union office is inevitably indispensable.

Although the trade unions of many units at this time are actually nursing homes, the trade unions of units like Dahua Asset Management Company still have some weight.

Although the union has a lot of influence, it cannot directly intervene in the company's management decisions.

So as expected, the director of the union office, who was obviously on Song Wenxuan's side, used the old method... to put pressure on Yang Mo by reflecting the demands of the employees.

If Yang Mo is willing to "take the demands of the majority of employees into consideration" and then get those 700-plus employees moving, then naturally they will have to let go and implement some projects from various departments... With projects, the employees will have work to do, and with work to do, they will get moving, and the negative emotions will naturally ease a lot, so they won't make collective protests or take more drastic actions.

If Yang Mo is unwilling to let go...

Well, if the employees do anything extreme out of indignation, the Party Committee Office will definitely have to intervene.

You know, the Party Committee Office is a strong connection to the management of major units, but the operating rules are for two lines of teams.

Once the Party Committee Office officially intervenes, even if Yang Mo is the actual operator of Dahua Asset Management Company, he will be in trouble... No matter how powerful Mu Siyuan is, he will not rashly challenge some red line rules.

Thinking of this, Yang Mo nodded seriously to Tian Yuan: "Well, Director Tian is right. It's my fault for not considering it carefully. It's not right to let the employees of Dahua Company stay here doing nothing all day."

Is this going to be untied?

When everyone heard this, their brows immediately relaxed, and they looked at Song Wenxuan and Tian Yuan with admiration.

It turns out that the old ones are the wisest. Even if Vice President Yang is so unruly, wouldn't he have to submit in the face of Director Tian's implicit red warning?
Just as everyone was looking forward to it, Yang Mo smiled and said, "How about this, since employees tend to get sick if they stay in the office all day, why not send them out to help the key business personnel in the peripheral units that have established cooperative relations with me, and learn from them at the same time."

Eh?
Peripheral units? Are you talking about those satellite companies?

Who still hasn't realized that those peripheral companies are your Vice President Yang's confidants, and why you sent all the employees of Dahua Company to help them?
what's on your mind!?

Yang Mo looked at the dozens of pairs of doubtful eyes and smiled: "I know that the employees in our Dahua Company are all talents transferred from their original units, including college students and graduate students, and even many elites who have returned from studying abroad."

"But academic qualifications are academic qualifications, and ability is ability. After all, business is something that requires long-term fighting on the front line to hone your abilities. "

"So, since the employees in the company have no shortage of theoretical knowledge, the only thing they may lack is practical experience, why not let them follow the backbones of external cooperative units to the front line... After all, even if you have knowledge, you still need to go through practice to turn it into your own ability, don't you agree?"

As he spoke, Yang Mo lifted the white porcelain cup on the table and took a sip of the tea that had long gone cold. After spitting out the tea dregs, he said with a smile, "Don't worry, I will tell those units not to keep it private. I believe that with the knowledge and quality of our Dahua employees, they will definitely grow rapidly after learning from those experienced frontline backbones for a period of time."

"Um……"

"It can not only solve the problem of employees having nothing to do, but also help them grow quickly. It's a good way to have the best of both worlds!"

"It's just that... the tasks of those cooperative units are very full, and the work on the front line is very hard. I hope that the employees of Dahua will not complain about the hardship when the time comes!"

Everyone's face changed when they heard this.

Isn't this nonsense? How can you ask people from Party A to run errands for Party B?

Regardless of whether it is appropriate or not...do they want us to be alone?

When some people were about to say something, Ding Xiang, who had been sitting quietly in the first seat, suddenly spoke:

"Boss Yang, you plan to quickly improve the professional level of Dahua employees, which is great. It is also good to let the backbones of peripheral companies take them to the front line one-on-one to experience it... Come from the masses and go to the masses. This is our traditional style. It is great to pick up the traditional style again and even carry it forward!"

After saying a few official words with a look of satisfaction, Ding Xiang's originally kind face suddenly showed a hint of hesitation: "However, as far as I know, those cooperative units are currently carrying out some work that has nothing to do with our tertiary industry project. Although I believe that Mr. Yang has his own considerations, these works are also in preparation for Dahua Company to play a platform role in the future, but..."

After a slight pause, Ding Xiang looked at Yang Mo calmly: "But, while we focus on the future, can we also take the present into consideration?"

"As far as I know, none of the tertiary industry projects at the headquarters have received support from our Dahua company, and we have not helped the headquarters to create any jobs."

At this point, Ding Xiang sighed: "Just the day before yesterday, the headquarters called us to ask if we have any way to relocate the hundreds of employees who have just been laid off... Oh, I am ashamed of the leadership's attention!"

When everyone heard this, they immediately exclaimed how amazing it was.

Since Yang Mo had already made a crooked suggestion, there was no point in arguing with him about how to mobilize the company's more than 700 employees.

If we do things according to his idea, everyone will be sidelined, which is obviously unacceptable to everyone.

But if his suggestion is ultimately rejected, even if the 700-plus employees make trouble, the responsibility cannot be entirely placed on him... Others have already proposed a solution, and you just disagree. If the employees really make trouble, can you blame him entirely?

Therefore, rather than being led into a crooked alley by him and getting entangled, it is better to hit the vital point directly.

Don't you always have something to say about everything?
OK, I won’t bother with you about these verbal things, let’s get straight to the point and talk about grades.

The headquarters' documents and requirements are there, and we invited you here to solve the operational problems of a number of tertiary industry projects and the reemployment of laid-off employees. There's no way around it, right?
Well,

Let me ask you, apart from that unattainable pie you threw out at the beginning, what other achievements have you made?

Upon hearing this, Yang Mo looked at Ding Xiang, who had a heavy face, with a slightly strange expression, and then looked at Ma Bin, the director of the Planning and Finance Department, calmly.

When Yang Mo found out that this man was just as his name suggested, a middle-aged man with a horse face who was sitting there with a neutral expression, the corners of his mouth twitched.

I knew it, old comrade Mu Siyuan is not so selfless, it seems that his own people are sitting here.

After complaining about Mu Siyuan for a full minute, Yang Mo stared at Ding Xiang for a long time with a puzzled look on his face. When Ding Xiang frowned slightly, he said cautiously: "Mr. Ding...did you forget to check the report?"

???

Ding Xiang was stunned for a moment, looking at Yang Mo in confusion: "What report?"

Yang Mo's mouth twitched slightly exaggeratedly: "Financial statements!"

Ding Xiang was even more puzzled: "What does this have to do with financial statements?"

Yang Mo's expression began to look strange, and after a while he sighed softly: "Boss Ding, for those tertiary industry projects, my established strategy is to first recover as much capital flow as possible by means of destocking; then conduct initial product screening and improvement through sinking channels, so that some projects can start to make profits."

"To put it simply, the task of the first phase is to reduce inventory so that these tertiary industry projects will not starve to death, and to allow some tertiary industry projects with certain market potential to generate income;"

"As long as the tertiary industry projects are not starving to death, there will be no more re-employment pressure for the time being; as long as some tertiary industry projects start to generate income, it will not be a problem to solve the problem of diverting the hundreds of employees of the headquarters this month."

"As far as I know, after the joint coordination and efforts of more than ten external cooperation units, 24 tertiary industry units have begun to enter the profit stage this month... Although it is only a small profit, and they have a lot of historical debts, the important thing is that with Dahua Company as a guarantee, their cash flow has begun to circulate positively;"

"As long as this situation lasts for a few more days, and the morale of the employees in these units stabilizes a little, there will be no problem in adding a few hundred jobs to accommodate the transferred employees."

"So... Mr. Ding, you didn't report this to your superiors?"

Hearing Yang Mo's words, Ding Xiang was stunned.

Shouldn't these things be reported by the major business departments, especially Business Department 4? What do they have to do with the financial statements?
Seeing Ding Xiang staring at him, Zhang Bo, director of the fourth business department, quickly explained: "Boss Ding, in the absence of capital injection or escrow, this kind of thing falls within the scope of the asset protection department's functions."

Li Ming, the director of the second asset preservation department, immediately said, "Boss Ding, according to the spirit of the meeting two weeks ago, before the company has a large self-operated project, the asset preservation department's statements do not need to be listed separately and reported to you. Instead, they will be combined into a unified statement by the Finance Department."

Seeing Ding Xiang was a little confused, Ma Bin, the head of the Finance Department, said respectfully, "Boss Ding, the revenue of the 24 tertiary production units, including Xingyue Clothing and Suhua Food, has indeed increased slightly in the past two weeks. These data have been reflected in the report."

The implication is very clear. I did not falsify or omit any information. It's just that you didn't see it.

Ding Xiang's face suddenly turned dark.

During this period, the summary figures on the financial statements submitted by Dahua were all negative. In addition, he also knew that Yang Mo was constantly spending money through the fourth business department to do some strange things, so he had no mood to look at the details.

But the problem is that, under normal circumstances, as a trusted department, the Finance Department will often accompany the weekly reports submitted to the General Manager with relevant financial analysis, and will also make special explanations for some abnormal data fluctuations.

But Ma Bin didn't have that.

It is impossible that the other party's business level is not up to standard and they cannot see the meaning of these data fluctuations. If you know anything about the old accountants in the state-owned enterprise system, you will understand that even in later generations, six out of ten of the top financial personnel are in state-owned enterprises.

Since it is not a problem of business ability, there is only one possibility.

This important finance minister was not from their faction, and he never took Ding Xiang, who only looked good on the surface, seriously.

Realizing this, Ding Xiang calmly withdrew his gaze.

There is a mix of good and bad people in Dahua Asset Management Company. There are many second-generation people like Song Wenxuan, Miss Mu, and Lin Luosu; there are also many cadres who seem ordinary but have deep backgrounds. Therefore, it is normal that people don't take him, a department-level cadre with no real background, as a big deal.

It just so happens that the original roster was finally finalized after several revisions, and the personnel sources also involved dozens of different units. You can imagine how complicated it is just by thinking about it.

Since it is called a small hill, it means that the big goal is the same, but the small thoughts are different;
Moreover, the people in these small gangs are not as pure as most people think. On the surface, there are many people who are A's right-hand men, but in fact, they have already defected to B.

Therefore, since someone could instruct him to seize the opportunity and use Song Wenxuan as a springboard to gradually take control of Dahua Company, it would be only natural for Mu Siyuan, or Mu Siyuan's staunch allies to insert their confidants to protect Yang Mo... Of course, whether the actual situation was like this was not something that people of his level could know.

only……

When did Yang Mo get involved in the management of those tertiary industry projects?

What are the down-market channels he mentioned?
Why don’t you know it yourself?
In addition, he also had some understanding of the general situation of those tertiary industry projects. How did he make these projects profitable in just over half a month?

With deep doubts, Ding Xiang looked at Yang Mo with complicated eyes, but suddenly laughed: "Boss Yang is indeed a talented person. He quietly helped the company solve the biggest problem at the moment... It seems that I can report the good news to the headquarters tonight."

After that, Ding Xiang paused for a moment and continued, "The fact that we were able to solve the revenue problem of the tertiary industry project and the reemployment problem of the hundreds of laid-off workers so easily must have been due to the contributions of the units that had just established cooperative relations some time ago... In this way, Mr. Yang's proposal just now is also very appropriate... In order to prevent Dahua Company from being laughed at in the future, I think we should let go of the more than 700 employees who do not have important work for the time being and let the backbones of those units lead them!"

When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked.

Did Mr. Ding take the wrong medicine?
Doesn't he know that if he does this, his people will probably be sidelined?

Ding Xiang, however, had a selfless expression on his face and looked at everyone calmly.

Huh~
The so-called fishing in troubled waters, fishing in troubled waters, after all, the water must be muddied before there is a chance to fish.

The waters of Dahua Company are too deep. If I continue to sit here like a clay figure, I am afraid that I will not be able to achieve any results. Only by taking advantage of the company's early establishment and using my position to let Yang Mo disrupt all the structures, will I, who is like Emperor Xian of Han, have the possibility of forming alliances...

(End of this chapter)