Chapter 1523 President Pei's Four Doubts (Bonus Chapter)

Rui Yuchen was shocked to see this notice.

He quickly opened the heads of departments group chat and found that it was exploding with messages.

"Go to the grassroots?? I'm not seeing things, am I?"

"I'm shocked too. The department heads have to go to other departments to experience life as a grassroots employee, and for three months? That's way too long!"

"I have no problem with experiencing the hardships of the grassroots, but is it necessary to spend so much time? A week should be enough to conduct mutual research and learning. Is three months really necessary?"

"The key is that the timing is a bit off, right? Now is the critical period for fighting the anti-Tengda alliance. Changing the department heads is no small matter. We can't give the opponent a chance to breathe with the situation just opening up!"

"Shortening it by a month by finding a non-Tengda employee to temporarily take over as department head? That's even more outrageous! So, are we department heads just cabbages? Can we just grab anyone off the street to do our jobs?"

"This is unacceptable, it's too irresponsible! I think it would be fine if the work was handed over to the core employees of the department, but what's the point of finding outsiders!"

The department heads of the other departments were just as dumbfounded as Rui Yuchen.

They were simply stunned!

In this situation, it was like an ancient army going on an expedition, with all the soldiers and generals fully armed and ready to fight, only for the emperor to issue an edict ordering all the commanding generals to go to the ranks and become ordinary soldiers, and then promote a group of heroes from the green forests to replace them!

No matter how you look at it, it seemed like a recipe for disaster!

As the saying goes, a bad general can kill a thousand soldiers. Replacing a general can lead to the defeat of an entire battle, let alone replacing several key generals all at once?

It was outrageous!

Originally, these department heads were all highly motivated, thinking that President Pei had gone into seclusion, so this was to see how well they performed!

Everyone had already thought of a counterattack plan and was just waiting to coordinate a little before launching a full-scale attack to win President Pei's praise after his seclusion.

But they never expected that President Pei would suddenly jump out and disrupt everyone's plans!

Didn't you say you were going into seclusion?

We couldn't find you when we were looking for you, and then after we've arranged everything, you suddenly come out and mess things up!

What a坑爹 (kēng diē - pit father, slang for "screwing someone over")!

If this was anyone else, they would definitely be scolded as a foolish ruler.

What's the difference between this behavior and the twelve gold tablets recalling Yue Wu Mu?

But... this person was, after all, President Pei.

The department heads grumbled and complained in the group for a while, then gradually fell silent.

Their first reaction was that there was indeed a big problem, but...

As always, the basic quality of a Tengda department head was to complain less and think more about the deeper meaning behind such unreasonable situations.

Huang Sibo said, "Everyone, please calm down."

"President Pei's seclusion must be real. He's not bored enough to keep jumping back and forth to tease us."

"So, the only explanation for this matter is that President Pei saw our counterattack plan, but he was not satisfied with it."

"And this requirement to go to the grassroots... is probably not as simple as it seems on the surface."

The department head group quickly quieted down.

At first glance, this matter was indeed outrageous.

But it had to be said that every decision President Pei had made in the past was quite outrageous, but in the end, there would always be a reasonable and enlightening explanation.

This time, President Pei's requirement for all department heads to "go to the grassroots" was probably the same.

It was very likely to be inextricably linked to this commercial war with the anti-Tengda alliance!

Otherwise, what else could it be? He wouldn't deliberately try to cause trouble, would he?

Now that they had found the direction, the next thing to do was simple: analyze!

Think carefully about why President Pei made such instructions, and also think carefully about whether there were any loopholes in the methods that everyone had come up with together to deal with these anti-Tengda alliance enterprises.

After a while, Xiao Peng said, "This matter is critical. Those of us still in Jingzhou should meet up as soon as possible and chat in person. Those who are not in Jingzhou, have a video conference. Immediately put down everything else you're doing and figure this out first!"

Everyone quickly expressed their agreement and temporarily put down their work to rush to the arranged conference room!

...

At 3:00 PM, the conference room was already full of people.

Most of the relevant department heads were there, and those who were not in Jingzhou or could not come for special reasons had either opened a video conference or found other core members of their departments to represent them.

For example, Min Jingchao and Tian Mo were still on their suffering trip, so they obviously couldn't come.

But that didn't matter. Tengda's department heads often encountered various dangers, such as being captured for suffering or being eliminated first, so they had to cultivate core members to prepare for emergencies.

These core members were fully capable of acting as department heads, and their participation had the same effect.

Huang Sibo was the most experienced, so he naturally had to take on the responsibility of chairing the meeting.

"We're holding this emergency meeting today for only one purpose, and that is to analyze the deeper meaning behind President Pei's 'go to the grassroots' decision!"

"Obviously, in President Pei's view, there are loopholes in our current counterattack plan, so he forcibly interrupted our progress."

The other department heads nodded one after another.

As expected of Old Huang, he had characterized the matter and found the direction of research in such a short period of time!

In Tengda, the thing department heads feared most was not a lack of ability, but a failure to understand President Pei's intentions.

People without ability, even if they knew nothing, could succeed as long as they carefully figured out what President Pei wanted them to do and earnestly carried it out.

But conversely, if someone had some ability but didn't understand President Pei's intentions, that would be a disaster.

No matter how smart or capable you are, can you be smarter or more capable than President Pei?

Can you understand President Pei's boundless imagination and powerful strategic abilities?

So, even if you're smart, doing what you think is right without understanding President Pei's intentions will only hold President Pei back.

The mark of a qualified Tengda department head is that no matter how outrageous the request, they will not doubt President Pei's motives, but will carefully analyze the deep meaning of the matter and its feasibility.

Xiao Peng raised his hand and said, "I'll go first."

"Actually, I haven't figured it out yet, but I've roughly summarized a few key points that I can share with everyone, just to get the ball rolling."

"Going to the grassroots to learn is actually a very common behavior. As a department head, if you're high up for too long, you can easily become disconnected from the bottom, so going to the grassroots to investigate and learn from time to time can help you better understand the problems that exist in your department."

"From this point of view, there's nothing wrong with the requirement to 'go to the grassroots'."

"What confuses everyone is nothing more than four points."

"First, is the timing appropriate."

"Second, is it necessary to switch departments."

"Third, is three months too long."

"Fourth, why encourage people outside the company to temporarily take over as department heads."

"As long as we can figure out these four points, this problem should be solved, and we can understand President Pei's deeper meaning."

Huang Sibo nodded. "Okay, let's discuss them one by one. We're all on the same side here, so everyone can speak freely."

Rui Yuchen considered for a moment and said, "I have a guess about the first point."

"Going to the grassroots is to see the problems and shortcomings that exist at the grassroots level of each department and industry. And the current timing is the critical period of the great war between our Tengda Group and the anti-Tengda alliance."

"On the surface, changing generals on the eve of a battle is a major taboo in military strategy, but we must also understand that our goals are different in different stages of the war."

"We need to figure out whether we are in the final battle stage or the probing stage at the beginning of the war?"

"If it's the final battle stage, then we certainly can't act rashly. But if it's the probing stage, we should be even more thorough in plugging loopholes and finding internal problems to prepare for the real final battle stage."

"Many people mistakenly believe that we are now in the final battle stage, which is a mistake of 'quick victoryism', thinking that the anti-Tengda alliance will soon be defeated and collapse."

"But think about it carefully, is that possible? They have a high market share, they have funds, and they also know that if they fail this time, it will be difficult to find a similar great opportunity, so they can't easily back down."

"Therefore, this battle should be protracted. Even if we can achieve a phased victory in a few months, the entire battle will continue for a long time, perhaps for several years."

"Before the real final battle arrives, consolidating the foundation, solving the minor problems that exist within us, and facing the enemy with a more impeccable attitude is what we should be doing most now."

The department heads couldn't help but nod in agreement.

That made sense!

Many people felt that changing department heads at this juncture was like changing generals on the eve of a battle, but the key was, what stage of the great war were they in?

If this great war was going to last for several years and would repeatedly drag on, then letting the generals see the situation at the grassroots level and find internal problems at the beginning of the war was equivalent to consolidating the foundation!

The key was that the sooner this kind of thing was done, the better.

Because the great war had only just begun, if they didn't do this kind of foundation consolidation now, they wouldn't have time to do it later.

Were there problems at the grassroots level of Tengda's various departments?

There definitely were, no one was arrogant enough to think that the structure of Tengda's various departments was perfect.

Since there were, then in this great war, the other side might be able to seize upon them.

So, carrying out grassroots activities at this crucial juncture, finding problems, and correcting them could greatly increase the chances of winning later on!

Xiao Peng seemed to have been inspired and said, "So, letting us switch departments is to let us discover problems better?"

"After all, those involved are confused, while bystanders are clear. On the one hand, if a department head goes to their own department, it's easy for the acting department head to be restricted and unable to use their abilities. On the other hand, it's easy to naturally overlook some problems."

"But switching departments to experience life is easier to find the root cause, supervise each other, and remind each other."