Our Glamorous Time

Chapter 48: Yearning

In early April, Ning Weikai travelled to Taiwan.

During his past visits, he liked this place a lot. Warm, moist, prosperous, and chaotic. This confusion was on a spiritual level, hidden under the surface of arrogance and prosperity. In such a place, there were endless opportunities and possibilities; it was where a legend could be created.

However, this time, he wasn't feeling as relaxed and certain as before.

New Bori had branch offices in Taiwan. The moment he stepped off the plane, he was greeted by the local officials. Three black Honda CRVs were running smoothly across the airport freeway at high-speed; low-key but eye-catching.

Assistant Yuan Jun reported to him, "The Sales Director Of South China has already tried to get in touch with Wang Taishi twice."

"Is he still avoiding us?" Ning Weikai raised his eyebrows. The Wang Taishi they spoke of was the general manager of Mind Fabrics, the CEO of Mind, a strange old gentleman who used to be a university professor.

Yuan Jun's face was a bit stiff. "The first time we were shunned; the second time our staff were scolded and kicked out, and this piece of news has spread everywhere."

Ning Weikai's brows squeezed slightly and he said motionlessly, "Well, he did a great job at letting the whole industry know that we want to stab Aida in the back, yet we failed."

Yuan Jun was a bit embarrassed and he didn't reply. At the same time, he felt pity for the director who had screwed it up.

The news also gave Ning Weikai a bit headache. In the past few years, with New Bori growing and expanding, he gradually realized that compared to the past, he actually had less and less knowledge of who were his truly reliable employees.

Most of the managers who followed him back in the days, who excelled at their jobs and created one miracle after another for New Bori, had moved up in the hierarchy, and stepped into senior leadership positions.

An employee's attitude was determined by their job position. People in different positions would have different viewpoints and ways of thinking. For example, when he was a sales manager, he would have disregarded the obstacles and done the extreme, even neglecting his acknowledgement of shame and conscience, in order to secure the project for Ning Weikai. After transitioning into senior leadership, it became a different story. He cared more about what I want, which direction I should follow, and then asked his subordinates to do it. As to the hardships and difficulties involved during execution, it wasn't something he needed to worry about as a senior leader.

The newly appointed group of managers and essential staff lacked the experience for the difficulties in the market, and they hadn't experienced New Bori's rapid growth in the previous years or the process of being on top of the industry neither. Therefore, their ability and experience were bound to be inferior to the older generation. It was decided by the larger scope and had nothing to do with their own qualifications. Use the Mingsheng Project from last year as an example, New Bori chose not to bid in order to maintain its own price balance among other state-owned enterprise projects. Although New Bori indeed could afford to lose the project like that thanks to its supreme financial status, it was still not a good thing that the managers could easily jump into the decision to give up such a project without trying.

Right now, seeing this team struggle with the getting in touch with Mind since the beginning, Ning Weikai was determined to review the company's talent pool. This was the core force for New Bori's continuing growth, and it was also the foundation he used to resist the Zhu Consortium.

Now that he had made the most important decision, the difficulties ahead were no longer a challenge for Ning Weikai. Having had a brief consideration, he issued an order, "Bring over two staff." He specifically appointed two employees. Yuan Jun was slightly surprised, as these two used to be Ning Weikai's subordinates when he first started working for New Bori, as a manager for the sales department. They use to be some of the best known people in the industry. They had now become the first in command for the company's branches.