At the moment, Li Dong did not care too much about the attacks on the Internet.
The Internet Water Army behind him no longer pushed for it. At the same time, he would make an example out of it and warn some people. Some of the attacks would naturally end.
To be honest, if it were not for the possibility of involving Shen Qian and Du Anmin this time, Li Dong would not necessarily care about this.
There were many tycoons who had been attacked by netizens, and none of them had lost a piece of flesh.
However, as for Shen Qian, Li Dong did not want her to bear too much pressure from public opinion and be attacked and cursed by too many people.
Originally, Shen Qian had sacrificed too much to get together with Li Dong.
If she had to bear some more infamy, Li Dong felt that he was too useless as a man.
After Li Dong's press conference this time, if anyone wanted to take the opportunity to cause trouble in the future, they would first look for Li Dong. This was also Li Dong's inner thoughts.
It was fine to look for him, as long as it did not involve his family.
Having been in the business world for five years, Li Dong could bear being retaliated against, attacked, and schemed against. He had also done the same to others.
However, he could not involve his family at any time.
Li Dong had dealt with a lot of people and business rivals, but he rarely targeted other people's family.
The Liu Qing and Liu Tang brothers even wanted to kill him, but Li Dong only targeted them. Li Dong had never thought of taking revenge on his wife and children.
Li Dong would only retaliate if someone else had the intention to harm his family.
Cheng Hui was one, and so was Jiang Bin.
In fact, on Jiang Bin's side, when he threatened his son, Li Dong did not have this idea at first. In the end, Shen Qian took the initiative to do it, so Li Dong took the initiative and threatened him.
Li Dong still had a basic bottom line.
However, many people did not have this bottom line. In order to achieve their goals, they would do anything.
When dealing with these people, Li Dong would usually not follow the rules.
After briefly talking about the network, Li Dong looked at Wang Yue and said, "How's the preparation for the management meeting?"
Wang Yue hurriedly said, "Everything is ready. Everyone has been informed. Those who can make it are already in place. Those who really can't make it have already prepared a video conference. "
Li Dong nodded slightly and said, "Then you should prepare for the meeting later."
Wang Yue nodded and went to prepare.
After she left, Li Dong turned to look at Zhou Haidong.
After a few years of experience, the boorish man in the past now looked more like an elite in the business world.
Li Dong watched for a while and said after a while, "Now that Gome is a newcomer, we need to use both the carrot and the stick to deal with Gome. Only when the carrot and stick were used together could the internal fluctuations of the Gome be suppressed. It was not a good idea to just rely on benefits and compromises. "Managing a business and managing a country are similar. In troubled times, we have to use severe measures. While we appease, we can't ignore deterrence! "You should know what I mean when I asked you to come to Jingcheng to accompany me for a meeting."
Zhou Haidong's face was solemn as he said seriously, "General Manager Li, don't worry. I know all of this.
"Gome actually has its own monitoring system, but I've checked the information and observed the so-called monitoring center.
"In fact, it's useless!
"In the past, Gome was very familial.
"Whoever CEO Huang wants to go up, that person will go up, and whoever he wants to go down, that person will go down.
"When the monitoring center was first established, it did some practical things.
"But in the later stages, it did not do anything at all. In recent years, it has almost become a place for retirement.
"The decline of Gome's competitiveness and profit margins have a lot to do with these things.
"Before I came this time, I wanted to mention to you that we should set up a monitoring branch in Gome."
Li Dong smiled and said, "Since you know what I mean, then I won't say much. I want to re-establish the monitoring center in Gome. "In 2008, Gome's revenue was more than 80 billion, and its net profit was less than 2 billion. A profit margin of 2.5% is unforgivable at this time! "
"If it were a few years later, with the impact of e-commerce, rent increases, labor costs increases, and costs rise, Li Dong could understand this profit margin.
But it was still 2008!
At this time, the profits of retail companies were actually quite good.
Reports were reports. Some companies had low profit margins, but that was because they included some extra expenses, including the transfer of funds by the boss.
Far away, a profit margin of about 7% was actually not too high.
Suning, for example, had a profit margin of more than 7%. With 100 billion in sales, they definitely had an annual profit of 7 billion.
If they did not have that much, Suning would not have the money to expand and acquire overseas companies.
But Gome's revenue was not worse than Suning's, and its reputation was even greater than Suning's.
But the profits were simply incomparable!
To say that it was terrible was to praise Gome.
Previously, when Old Huang was arrested, the outside world began to question where Gome's funds went.
Did anyone do anything behind the scenes?
Why were the dividends of the shareholders getting less and less?
Although the Huang family did not misappropriate the funds, it was not the right time to pursue the matter.
But no matter what the truth was, it was not good to pursue it now. In short, a profit margin of less than 2.5% was absolutely as low as it could get.
The problem of the middle and upper management was more serious.
The problem of the lower management was also more serious.
The supervision was lax, and the loss rate was over and over again. But no one pursued the matter, which made the lower management more and more unscrupulous.
As far as Li Dong knew, it was common for some store managers or other management to use the company's name to seek benefits for themselves, to pull connections, and to do favors for themselves.
This was an old company that was more than 20 years old, and this problem was getting more and more serious.
Every year, because of this, Gome suffered losses of up to billions. It was simply unimaginable!
At this time, Li Dong had no choice but to be prepared to deal with it heavily.
On the one hand, Old Huang had no other choice. On the other hand, he also cared about old friendships. Coupled with the constraints of the shareholders, he chose to ignore it in the end.
When it came to Li Dong, he had no feelings for the old people in Gome. He would not continue to let it go.
When Zhou Haidong heard Li Dong's approval, he thought for a moment and said, "The surveillance center needs to be re-established. It needs to be established and deterred. The people in Gome have complicated relationships. I don't recommend using them again. I mean, mobilize the people in Far away. In addition, I will personally come to Gome to lead the reconstruction of the surveillance center! "
Li Dong narrowed his eyes and said with a faint smile, "You are a director of Faraway Group. Wang Yue is already here. If you come, then our few directors will all come here.
Far away is much larger than Gome. Far away can't do without you.
How about this, after the New Year, transfer Wang Jie to Gome as the director of the surveillance center.
As a deputy minister, he can't just take his salary without doing any work and stay at home to play with the child every day.
He has been in charge of the surveillance department for a few years. It's time for him to take charge of some things.
He will be in charge of Gome for the time being.
Old Zhou, what do you think? "
Zhou Haidong's heart skipped a beat. These words did not sound like much, but after thinking about it carefully, Li Dong seemed to have a deeper meaning.
Wang Jie was personally shoved into the surveillance department by Li Dong. He was once prepared to replace Zhou Haidong as the director of the surveillance department.
But later on, Li Dong took care of Zhou Haidong's emotions. In addition, Wang Jie was still young, so he kept him as the deputy minister.
But no matter what, he was Li Dong's trusted aide.
Even if he was the deputy minister, he should still hold great power.
But now, Li Dong said that Wang Jie was too free and only knew how to stay at home to take care of the child. Was he implying that he, Zhou Haidong, was suppressing Wang Jie?
Although he was also Li Dong's trusted aide and had once served as Li Dong's driver and bodyguard, he had a similar role as Tan Yong.
But he had left Li Dong and taken up an administrative position for several years.
In terms of closeness, he was not as close as Tan Yong. At least, Tan Yong had done many things for Li Dong that Zhou Haidong had not experienced.
In terms of relationship, Wang Jie was actually much closer than him.
Wang Jie was Li Dong's classmate and friend. Li Dong had even recognized Wang Jie's son as his godson.
In the past two years, Wang Jie's reputation had not been prominent. He had kept a low profile and was almost forgotten. Was Li Dong warning him because of this?
Zhou Haidong was a little nervous, but he still said, "General Manager Li, let me do it. Far away's monitoring system has actually been perfected. It is more appropriate to let Minister Wang stay at the headquarters to oversee the overall situation. Moreover, Minister Wang's child is too young. It is too unreasonable to let Minister Wang come over now. "
Li Dong waved his hand and said with a smile, "There is nothing unreasonable about it. He is still young. How can he not do something practical?
The child is young, so he has to endure it.
He wants to have a career and take care of his family. I can't even enjoy such a good thing, and now he wants to enjoy it?
Besides, he has children. You have more children in your family. Your eldest son is in university, right? There are also a few younger ones who are more tired than him.
That's settled. I will talk to him personally later.
He will come to the capital for a year or two. He will have more experience and take a look at his ability.
What women like Wang Yue and Yun Na can do, can't he do it as a man?
If he can't do it, then let him retire! "
As soon as this was said, Zhou Haidong did not say anything.
If he continued, it would seem that he was trying to steal the credit.
The reactivation of the Gome surveillance center was both a pressure and a credit. If it was done well, it would be a great contribution and a promising future.
Just like when Qi Yunna first came to open up business in North China, and Wang Yue went to open up business in Central and Southwest China.
They both entered in the early stages and oversaw a region, which was how they were now.
Now, one was the vice president of a group, and the other was the president of North China. Both of them held great power and were not inferior to Zhou Haidong.
In terms of actual power, they were much greater than him. There was nothing to be envious about.
Because they were meritorious officials.
Once Wang Jie did well in Gome and made contributions, coupled with his relationship with Li Dong, he might surpass Zhou Haidong in a few years.
Just as Zhou Haidong's heart was in turmoil and his imagination was running wild, Bai Su knocked on the door and entered. She reported, "General Manager Li, the meeting is ready. You can go now."
Li Dong nodded and stood up. "Let's go and meet the management of Gome."
Zhou Haidong and Bai Su quickly followed.
…
Gome's conference room.
The place where the previous shareholders' meeting was held.
At this time, the number of people in the conference room was no less than the previous shareholders' meeting.
The structure of Gome changed almost every year.
But now, it had gradually formed a more stable system.
The board of directors and the executive committee were the decision-making bodies of Gome.
Below them, the president was in charge of overall affairs, the executive vice president assisted him, and the other vice presidents were in charge of their own things.
Below them, there were seven main centers of the headquarters: administrative center, purchasing center, finance center, monitoring center, operation center, home appliance center, and customer service center.
This was the headquarters system. There were also seven regions: East, North, Central, South, Northwest, Southwest, and Northeast.
There were also the provincial branch general manager, city manager, and store manager.
This was only the store system of Gome. In fact, there was also the logistics system and the real estate system.
This time, Li Dong's acquisition of Gome did not only acquire the home appliance business.
Li Dong also acquired some of the real estate business.
Gome also had Pengrun Real Estate. Of course, Pengrun Real Estate was actually divided into two parts.
One part, Gome's stores and headquarters, as well as some distribution centers and warehouses, were acquired by Li Dong.
The other part of the real estate development was actually still in the hands of Old Huang.
Li Dong did not want this at the beginning because it was meaningless. There were not many vacant land and development properties under Pengrun's name. Far away, there was not much meaning in taking it. Instead, it would increase the cost of the acquisition.
The directors and deputy directors of each department, the presidents, vice presidents, and finance officers of each branch, there were hundreds of people.
And the store manager, the basic management position, had even more people.
Thousands of branches meant thousands of store managers.
Together, there was a management team of nearly 2,000 people.
Other than some people who had to stick to their posts, there were four to five hundred people attending the meeting in person. There were as many as a thousand people in the video conference!
This was probably the largest management meeting in Gome's history.
In the past, the meeting was at most at the city manager level, or even the provincial company general manager level.
But this time, the new owner of Far away, Li Dong, wanted to hold a meeting, which resulted in the start of the largest management meeting.
There were hundreds of people in the meeting room, and it was noisy.
Some were worried, some were excited, and some were at a loss.
Some of the management who rushed over from other places were uneasy at the moment.
The people from the headquarters were fine. At least they had contact with Li Dong.
These management from other places had almost never seen Li Dong before. They did not know what Li Dong was thinking.
Now that there was a sudden big meeting, it was impossible not to be nervous.
The more people there were, the louder the discussion became.
Just as everyone was talking, Wang Yue coughed lightly and shouted into the microphone, "Quiet down, General Manager Li is here."
Everyone in the meeting room looked toward the door.
The sounds of discussion gradually became softer.
After about seven or eight seconds, Li Dong and the others entered the meeting room.
Bai Su, Zhou Haidong, and the others found their seats and sat down. Li Dong walked up to the front desk.
Li Dong looked around and asked, "Is everyone here?"
The administrative director in charge of the meeting hurriedly said, "Members of the board, Director Du is not here. In addition, the financial director, the director of the home appliance business center, and the director of the surveillance center are all busy and have applied for leave in advance. The person in charge of the region and the presidents of the southwest and northwest regions are too far away to come and go. Plus, the business is tight, so they are not here. The general manager of Shanghai, the deputy general manager of Tianjin … "
The administrative director held the folder in his hand and began to report one by one.
After reporting the provincial and municipal managers, the administrative director stopped and looked at Li Dong.
Li Dong smiled faintly and said, "Why are you looking at me? Continue. Are the city managers here?"
The administrative director felt a little bitter. There were hundreds of city managers. Wouldn't it be enough if they were at the provincial level?
If he were to check on them one by one, it would take a long time.
Although he felt helpless, the administrative director did not dare to neglect this new boss who had just chased away Old Huang. He continued to take attendance.
Among the hundreds of city managers, there were many who were not here.
After all, at this level, most people thought that Li Dong would not pay attention to them. Some were too lazy to make the trip and did not come.
By the time the report was done, half an hour had passed.
The administrative director was also exhausted. His forehead was covered in sweat. He looked at Li Dong again.
Don't tell me you want to check on the store manager?
If that was the case, not to mention the meeting, it would take more than an hour just to find out the problems with the thousands of people.
Unexpectedly, Li Dong did not stand on ceremony. He smiled and said, "It seems that there are many who are not here. These people who are not here should include those who did not participate in the video conference, right?"
The administrative director nodded his head with difficulty.
Li Dong smiled and said, "If they didn't come, then they didn't come. Every store manager, report to me again. See how many people saw, how many attended the video conference, and how many didn't come and didn't attend the video conference."
"Cough, cough …"
The administrative director could not help but cough. In the meeting room, everyone frowned.
They were here for the meeting, not to listen to him take attendance!
A team of nearly 2,000 people spent one to two hours on this. Wasn't this a waste of time?
Even Cheng Xiao could not help but cough and reminded, "General Manager Li, why don't we tally it later and get the administrative department to submit the list to you?"
Li Dong raised his eyebrows slightly and said calmly, "No need. Report to me in detail which store manager did not come and did not participate in the video conference! Why, do I not even have this little bit of authority? "
As soon as he said this, many people's hearts trembled and immediately fell silent.
Li Dong looked at Bai Su and said, "Pour a cup of tea for Director Zhou to moisten her throat. If Director Zhou is tired, Bai Su, you do it. Anyway, it's still early. It's only 1 am. The meeting is in the afternoon. I'm not in a hurry. "
Bai Su quickly stood up. When the administrative director heard this, she quickly said, "No need, no need. General Manager Li, I will continue reporting."
Li Dong did not say anything, and Bai Su did not stop either.
Of course, there was no tea, but there was mineral water. Anyway, it was just a gesture, and no one was conflicted over it.
The administrative director's head was dripping with sweat. This new boss was not easy to serve.
Not only her, but everyone in the meeting room, including those who participated in the video conference, felt that this attitude was not too friendly.
As the saying goes, a new broom sweeps. This Li Dong had just taken over Gome. Was he going to start the first fire?
This possibility was very, very high!
It was understandable that they did not attend the meeting. After all, the country was so big, and Li Dong said it was urgent. Some of them were away on business trips, some were far away, and some could not make it.
But if they could not attend the video conference, it would be hard to explain.
Not to mention the store manager, but the higher management did not even have a computer. They could not even take a few hours off.
Everyone secretly guessed that perhaps Li Dong was going to make an example out of people on this matter.
Suddenly, everyone was in danger. Many people secretly started to send text messages to inform those who were not there.
They were guessing. Far away, Zhou Haidong and the others were sure that these people were in trouble.
Far away, Li Dong had used the time of the meeting to make an example.
Until now, Li Dong was in a meeting. Whoever he said had to be there, and they were not allowed to be late for even a minute.
Of course, if there was a suitable reason and there was a necessary need, it meant that the situation was not a big problem.
But once the reason was not up to standard, more than one or two senior management had fallen because of this.
Until now, the meeting with Li Dong's participation was definitely the most crowded, and the meeting venue was the quietest.
The people in Gome were used to being lazy. This time, they might only know Li Dong's style after they suffered a big loss.
Although he was young, his management skills were still quite tough. The people in Gome thought that he was the same as Old Huang, but they were wrong!
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