What made Li He unhappy was that Guo Dongyun had invited outsiders. McKinsey, the world's largest consulting company, was invited by her. The so-called managers were Chinese and foreigners. They all looked like young men in their thirties, and they were not much older than him.
If they were really capable, why didn't they open their own companies and become one of the top 500 companies overnight? A lousy report could sell for millions of dollars. Wasn't that cheating?
When it came to strategy, even if you were wrong, would clients come to you ten years later?
To put it bluntly, the cruel truth was that if a person with an annual salary of 100,000 went to guide other companies, should they give the second boss an annual salary of one million or ten million?
One of them even boasted to Li He that they had a wide range of abilities, expertise, and experience in all major industries, and provided a full range of management consulting services, including strategy, organization, operation, business technology solutions, corporate service transformation, and senior headhunting services.
It seemed that with their participation, Tida Group could become the most powerful company in the world.
Unless there was a considerable number of facts to support it, it was difficult for Li He to trust them. This was the same logic as a junior manager giving advice to his boss.
Li He thought about it and was not in a hurry to deny it. He knew that many ideas were deeply rooted in his mind, and many of these ideas were prejudice. He decided to open up his mind and accept more diverse information.
He had a lot of experience to reach such a high position today, but he did not seem to be as confident as he pretended to be. In the eyes of others, he was full of ambition and confidence.
The truth was, he lacked confidence in many aspects.
He listened to the conversation of these experts and maintained his expressionless face as usual. He never gave them any hints about whether what they said was right or not. Sometimes, he looked unreachable. He did not show any prejudice or preference.
In short, it was quite tiring for him to pretend.
However, Guo Dongyun, who was sitting next to him, did not think so. She whispered to Li He, "If everyone does not reach a consensus internally, we need external knowledge, experience, and opinions to confirm and help most people unify their thinking. This is the biggest reason I invited McKinsey over. No matter what, their way of thinking is very correct. We don't need them to solve the problem, but we need them to find the problem for us. In the past three months, their team has given us a lot of useful help. "
"I'll take a look at the report later." Li He nodded in approval.
The meeting continued, and the people from McKinsey spoke with fervor and assurance.
"Core businesses include banking, retail, electronics, exhibition, real estate, hotels, machinery, medicine, textiles, furniture, audio and video, and automobiles. The diversified business has a good industrial foundation and competitive advantage in the market. Among them, retail, finance, machinery, real estate, and audio and video have established a leading position in the industry. But we have to remind you that your company's audio and video industry is treading on the edge of the law. We are cautious about your company's automobile industry chain. You should know that the international industry is in a very fierce competition situation. BMW does not have complete market competitiveness. "
This time, it was a summary of Li He's properties. He already had a lot of advantages. Dida Group, Golden Deer Group, Yuanda Group, and other miscellaneous properties, if integrated, would have a total assets of 120 billion US dollars, annual profits of 2.3 billion US dollars, and 130,000 employees.
It had an excellent balance sheet, and its products and services permeated all aspects of the GNP: from leather shoes to automobiles, almost everything.
There were many businesses that Li He did not know about. For example, why did he have a paper company, a renovation company, and even a lighter factory, an additive factory, a poker factory, and a breeding farm under his name.
"How can there be 130,000 employees?" This was the biggest confusion for Li He. Could it be that all the workers in his real estate company were included? But there were not 130,000! He asked in a low voice, and it was embarrassing for others to hear him.
Guo Dongyun smiled and said, "These are just the employees of the holding companies. Did you forget that we have a joint venture with the government? Just the Yangzhou Machinery Factory alone is a large factory with 10,000 employees. If we include the investment companies that we do not hold a controlling stake in, we will have even more employees. "
Many people in the room could not help but whisper among themselves. As the McKinsey people sorted out the details, the way they looked at Li He became more and more different.
What kind of a giant corporation would that be?
And the person who controlled this giant company was only 30 years old!
If it were not for the confidentiality agreement, they would have gone out and shouted that the world's richest man was born!
Especially the McKinsey people. They could not believe that the project they had accepted was the world's biggest company, and it was born in China!
This was an international joke!
Even if they were the ones who compiled the information!
When they saw the custody certificates of Goldman Sachs, Dell, IBM, Apple, and other Fortune 500 companies, they immediately collapsed. They had to admit this fact!
Of course, this was a very large conglomerate, but it had nothing to do with being strong. There were all kinds of messy enterprises. They believed that the man in front of them must be an investment maniac. He had all kinds of industries. Anyway, it was all vegetables in a basket.
What was even more unbelievable was that the human resources structure of this company was quite sloppy. Many of the senior management were only in primary school or junior high school!
Only God knew how devastated they were!
Finally, they mentioned the shortcomings of this hodgepodge of companies. This time, it was a tall blonde girl's turn to speak. "It's a common problem in many companies. Whether it's the Golden Deer Group or the Broad Group, there are too many levels of management within them. It's a sloppy and huge bureaucratic organization. In this hierarchy, there are 13 levels between the production project and the chairman's office. Just Golden Deer Group alone has more than 130 managers with the title of Vice President or above. "
"My fault." Li He muttered to himself. He had asked Yu Dehua to run the company without having to do everything himself and to hire professionals to run the business. But he did not expect Yu Dehua to hire so many managers. Moreover, they were all piled up together.
When he heard that Golden Deer Group had 76 business departments, he sighed. But it was understandable. After all, Golden Deer Group started off by exporting. From textile shoes and hats to enamel jars and other daily necessities, it was basically a department for each type of product.
Next, he heard the analysis of Yuanda Group. Yuanda Group had introduced more than 70 internal systems within a year!
Li He finally felt that there was a problem with the company's system.
Perhaps this was the law of history. When Mr. Qian Mu analyzed China's history, he pointed out that the tradition of China's political system was that when one system had a problem, another system would be introduced to prevent it. As time went by, it became more and more complicated. Therefore, some became sicker on top of sicker. The accumulation of more and more complicated systems often led to contradictions. This way, the more complicated the system, the easier it was to have ambiguity, the easier it was to have loopholes, and the easier it was to lose efficiency.
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