Li Dong immediately rejected the proposal.
It was not that he wanted to go against Yuan Chengdao, but there were pros and cons to joining a franchise.
Overall, it was not worth it for large chain companies to join a franchise.
Small and medium-sized companies chose to join a franchise to expand their influence and also to make a sum of money.
To them, brands were still too far away.
Big companies that really valued their brands did not like to join a franchise.
On one hand, supervision was troublesome. A single mistake could have a negative impact on the company. On the other hand, it was chaotic.
Franchise stores were of different sizes, and it was difficult to have a unified plan.
When a large company wanted to join a franchise, it was not only the number of stores, but also the overall planning and distribution of each store.
In Feng Yu's previous life, there were many supermarkets that did franchise stores, such as Suguo, RT-Mart, and Hualian.
But after a period of time, these companies realized the drawbacks.
Soon, all the franchises were withdrawn. In the end, only a small number of convenience stores were allowed to join, and there were almost no large-scale franchise stores left.
Not only the supermarket industry, but other industries were also the same.
For example, SF Express had been expanding rapidly for a period of time, and they were looking for franchises everywhere. But in the end, Wang Wei almost failed because of this.
If Wang Wei had not taken over SF Express and kicked all the franchises out of SF Express, it would be hard to say if SF Express would still exist.
Now, to save on expenses, Yuan Chengdao wanted to start a franchise model, but Li Dong would not agree easily.
Seeing Li Dong's rejection, Yuan Chengdao said reluctantly. "General Manager Li, there are a lot of benefits to joining a franchise. Some overseas large chains …"
Yuan Chengdao rattled off a bunch of benefits and gave many examples.
Li Dong did not interrupt him. He waited for him to finish and said calmly. "Overseas is overseas, and domestic is domestic. The market is different."
"Don't talk about the franchise anymore. I will not agree."
Yuan Chengdao frowned and thought for a while. "General Manager Li, do you want to ask for everyone's opinion?"
Since the board of directors had been set up, in Yuan Chengdao's opinion, Li Dong shouldn't be the only one making decisions.
If Li Dong continued to act on his own, would there still be a need for a board of directors?
Moreover, when Li Dong asked him to take over as CEO, he had also stated that his authority would be delegated.
Now that Li Dong directly rejected his proposal, Yuan Chengdao could only turn his attention to the board of directors.
Hearing him say this, Li Dong did not get angry. He smiled faintly and said, "Then everyone can speak their opinions freely. If everyone agrees, I will consider it."
The others looked at each other in dismay, but no one was in a hurry to speak.
Seeing this, Li Dong smiled and said, "General Manager Sun, you know the supermarket the best. Tell me about it first."
Sun Tao coughed lightly and glanced at Yuan Chengdao. He thought for a while and said, "There are pros and cons to joining a franchise. Actually, if General Manager Yuan wants to implement the franchise policy in Jiangbei or Sunan, I will agree. We have a lot of stores in these two provinces. Joining some small stores as an extension of our business will help improve our overall competitiveness.
Also, it will be easy to supervise them because they are right under our noses.
But in Hubei and Shancheng, we have no influence at all. Let's not talk about whether they are willing to join us.
Even if they are willing, we can't do anything about it.
Supervision requires a lot of manpower, and even if there is a problem, it will be easy to fool them.
In the end, the other party may even turn the tables and completely break away from our system.
So, I think it is not suitable to implement the franchise policy in Hubei and Shancheng. "
After Sun Tao finished speaking, Li Dong looked at Qin Hai and asked, "General Manager Qin, what do you think?"
Qin Hai shook his head and said, "I don't know much about the supermarket business, so I won't comment on this matter. But since General Manager Sun said so, I think it makes sense."
"What about General Manager Shen?"
Shen Qian didn't even raise her head and said casually, "Definitely not. I think General Manager Yuan should reconsider this matter."
After asking three people in a row, Li Dong stopped asking and looked at Yuan Chengdao.
Yuan Chengdao's face didn't look good. When he saw Li Dong looking at him, he sighed softly and said, "Since everyone thinks so, I will reconsider. But General Manager Li, since joining us is not possible, we can only expand ourselves. Do you want to delay it until we stabilize the situation in the second half of the year? "
"Yes, it will be too late in the second half of the year."
"But in the first half of the year, we …"
Li Dong frowned and interrupted, "General Manager Yuan, this matter has been decided before, so there is no point in discussing it now. Since I said it will be in the first half of the year, I must have my reasons. "
Yuan Chengdao let out a sigh and didn't say anything in the end.
After that, everyone discussed some other matters separately. In the end, Yuan Chengdao announced the end of the meeting, and everyone got up and prepared to leave.
Seeing that Li Dong was about to leave, Yuan Chengdao shouted, "General Manager Li, I still have something to tell you."
Li Dong stopped in his tracks. After everyone left, Li Dong smiled and said, "What is it?"
Yuan Chengdao took out a document from his folder and handed it to Li Dong. "General Manager Li, please take a look first."
Li Dong took a look and looked at Yuan Chengdao. Yuan Chengdao's expression didn't change, and he nodded slightly at him.
Li Dong didn't say anything and lowered his head to look at the document for a while.
This was a new employee assessment plan. If it was just a simple employee assessment, Yuan Chengdao didn't need to specially let Li Dong look at it.
But this plan didn't just involve ordinary employees and middle and lower management, it also included the group's senior management.
This senior management referred to people like Shen Qian, Sun Tao, and Yuan Chengdao himself.
Of course, Li Dong wasn't included.
Yuan Chengdao wouldn't be stupid enough to assess Li Dong. It was impossible for him to kick Li Dong out.
Li Dong looked at it for a while, and his focus was on the assessment plan for the senior management.
By the time he finished reading the document, half an hour had passed.
Li Dong didn't rush to express his opinion, but asked, "Did you come up with this?"
Yuan Chengdao shook his head and said, "This is a new plan made by the Human Resources Department, but I added some suggestions, including the assessment of the board members. As for the specific plan, I have consulted some well-known HR people, including some of my senior brothers and sisters.
So far away, the company is in the stage of development and transformation, and the existing management system is very messy.
Human resources are overlapping, and the management is disorderly.
All these need to be changed. The employees at the bottom have to change, and so do the company's senior management.
Especially the senior management, because we don't have enough manpower in the early stage, although many of the senior management are the company's veterans, they might not be able to keep up.
It's not that we want to burn the bridge after crossing the river, but the company is the company, and feelings are feelings.
The capable go up, and the mediocre go down. This is the pain of every company that wants to grow.
To let the capable people see hope, and to let them see the company's future and fairness, I think it's necessary to treat everyone equally.
It doesn't mean that they can enjoy the credit just because they contributed to the company.
We will not deprive them of the benefits and treatment they deserve, and we can even reduce the difficulty of their assessment, but we can give them complete freedom. I don't think this is possible! "
Li Dong thought for a while and said, "I agree with this. I don't want to see them just sitting around and waiting to die. But … "
Yuan Chengdao's face tightened. In fact, the senior management was not his main goal.
The people he really wanted to supervise were the company's core personnel, such as Shen Qian, Qin Hai, Sun Tao …
Although these people were his subordinates in name, in reality, Yuan Chengdao did not have the right to supervise them.
Even if he felt that their plans were not suitable, their actions were not good, or their mistakes were wrong, he could just mention it, but it was not up to him to decide whether to change it or not.
Just like Shen Qian, if she wanted to implement some policies and organize some activities in the city, she had so much autonomy that she did not need to ask for Yuan Chengdao's opinion at all.
Even the transfer of tens of millions of funds, these subsidiary companies' CEO could also have complete autonomy, and there was no need for the company's approval.
To Yuan Chengdao, this was something he could not tolerate!
It was true that Shen Qian was his junior, it was also true that he entered the company because of Shen Qian, and it was also true that Sun Tao recommended him.
However, Yuan Chengdao did not care about these things. He was just like what Shen Qian said, he had obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In the eyes of Yuan Chengdao, personal relationships were personal relationships, and favors were favors. However, in public, he was now the group's CEO, the number one person in the group under Li Dong.
In this case, the rest of the group should listen to him, including Shen Qian and the others.
Not like now, with several independent small kingdoms formed in the group, completely out of his control.
Li Dong knocked on the table, and there was some hesitation on his face.
In fact, this time, Yuan Chengdao's starting point was indeed good, and it was very pertinent. It was reasonable to bring the subsidiaries under the jurisdiction of the group headquarters.
However, due to various reasons in the early days, the subsidiaries of Faraway Group were actually somewhat abnormal.
Among the several CEO's who controlled the subsidiaries, Qin Hai was his father-in-law, Sun Tao was his comrade, and Shen Qian was his woman. Except for Wu Shengnan, who did not have a deep relationship with him, the other three were very close.
If the three of them were included in the assessment at this time, how would they be assessed?
Once they did not meet the assessment standards, would it really be like what Yuan Chengdao said, they would be directly demoted or fired?
At that time, what would Li Dong do?
But if they were not included in the supervision, Yuan Chengdao could do very little as the CEO, and it would not be in line with Li Dong's original intention.
With a sigh, Li Dong thought about it again and again before saying, "How about we first go through the assessment to the director level, including the deputy CEO level of the major subsidiaries. As for the level of deputy CEO and subsidiary general manager, I will personally conduct the year-end assessment. Do you think that is okay?"
Li Dong's tone of discussion made Yuan Chengdao happy, but he pretended to hesitate. Yuan Chengdao hurriedly nodded and said, "Since General Manager Li said so, then I will change the plan later."
In fact, being able to achieve this goal, Yuan Chengdao was already overjoyed.
Li Dong's meaning was obvious. Passing the assessment to the director and deputy CEO level meant that the group's personnel authority had been handed over to him.
Although Shen Qian and the others were still not under his control, what could a few people change?
If the subsidiaries were to mess around, Yuan Chengdao could completely replace these people until they were obedient.
At that time, even if Shen Qian and the others wanted to do something, they must get the approval of the headquarters.
Without the approval of the headquarters, the plan could not be implemented at all. What was the use?
Seeing Yuan Chengdao smiling happily, Li Dong was a little dispirited.
In fact, he agreed with Yuan Chengdao's suggestion in his heart, and he even thought about it before.
However, it was a little bad for him. Sometimes, he cared too much about other people's opinions and thoughts.
In fact, many of the company's veterans could not keep up with the pace now. But Li Dong cared about old friendships and had not said anything.
However, one mistake could be remedied, two mistakes could be remedied, but repeated mistakes could hurt the company.
Yuan Chengdao was a knife that Li Dong used to cover his shame. The company was undergoing a major change, and some people would definitely be eliminated.
Whether it was deceiving oneself or others, it was fine.
In Li Dong's mind, these were not done by him, but by Yuan Chengdao. If everyone wanted to hate someone, they should hate Yuan Chengdao.
In fact, in his heart, he knew that there was no difference between hating Yuan Chengdao or hating himself.
But the bit of selfishness in his heart still made Li Dong choose to pretend to be ignorant.
After saying this, Li Dong waved his hand and said, "Then I'll leave first. I won't come to the company if there's nothing important. I need to deal with the association's matters and the cooperation with Suning. You handle the company yourself. Also, the assessment plan will be implemented from this year. "
"I understand!"
Yuan Chengdao nodded heavily. Of course, he understood what Li Dong meant.
If Li Dong did not come to the company for the time being, then he could act decisively.
At that time, even if everyone wanted to ask for help from Li Dong, they would not be able to find Li Dong. Even if they found Li Dong, he could say that he did not know anything, and then he would have a way out.
…
When he left the conference room, Shen Qian was waiting at the door.
Seeing him go out, Shen Qian said, "Come to my office, I have something to tell you."
Li Dong nodded and followed her into the office.
As soon as he entered the door, Shen Qian frowned and said, "Why did you agree to Zhang Mingduo taking over the supermarket?"
Li Dong found a place to sit down and took a deep breath. "I know what you mean, but since Yuan Chengdao is the CEO, he can't just hold on to the power and not let go. Since he wants to build his own team, then let him try. In fact, even if Zhang Mingduo takes over, there won't be much impact. The supermarket has always been under my control. Sun Tao, Wang Yue, Qi Yunna, as well as some city managers and store managers, are all arranged by me. If Yuan Chengdao and Zhang Mingduo can do well, then I'm happy. If they don't do well, there won't be much impact on the supermarket. Since that's the case, it doesn't make a difference whether I agree or not. "
Hearing that, Shen Qian thought for a while and said, "That's true. But ever since Senior Yuan became the CEO, he has changed a lot."
"That's normal. Yuan Chengdao is actually more rational than you and I. This is also what I value about him. Sometimes, it's better to be rational. "
Shen Qian pondered over the meaning of his words and finally nodded.
Indeed, as Li Dong said, she and Li Dong were actually emotional people.
From the beginning to the big business, it couldn't be separated from their emotions.
But now, if they continued to be emotional, it wouldn't be suitable.
And Yuan Chengdao could fill in the rational part of them. This was probably the reason why Li Dong repeatedly gave in.
At the end of the day, everyone wanted the business to be big.
Sometimes, there was no need to pay too much attention to the gains and losses of personal interests.
Especially Li Dong, the Faraway Group was his own. If the group could really grow in the hands of Yuan Chengdao, he would benefit in the end.
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