Woman In Irish Linen Shirt

Chapter 18:

An interesting thing happened at today’s meeting: Sanjay, who is beloved by all parties and works hard, has also begun to play the negative response.

Because he was too enthusiastic and cooperative before, this gap in attitude was immediately noticed by everyone. Another manager on Kevin’s side took over his job, and Sanjay himself was only responsible for answering questions-how negative is this? The only person on our side who is “only responsible for answering questions” is Lao Huang.

It was also Sanjay’s sudden change that made me realize why Miss Pende was sitting here. She appears at the conference once a week and occasionally participates in small meetings of the middle and high level, but the number of active speeches is only a handful. At first I thought this was a trade-off between the Shanghai office and the Singapore office, but now it seems to be the opposite. Miss Pan De is definitely not sitting here as a mascot.

One of her partners is not busy with business development, and stays on the project all day, which can explain the problem in itself.

“I want to make one thing clear—” Miss Pande said, and everyone fell silent. “The new team and I are here not to make the situation worse.”

Of course it’s not to make the situation worse. I wonder.

“We have been working together for two weeks, but unfortunately, until now, there is still no agreement on the problem definition process. This is a waste.” Miss Pan De looked at Kevin, her eyes turned to the boss, and looked around. In a circle. She might really want to remind the people around her.

Next to her is the position of the big boss, with Jocelyn sitting on it.

Miss Pande paused for a few seconds and said, “We are here to help.”

Jocelyn said: “We are very happy about this.”

I was taken aback, it was really yin and yang.

But she behaved very sincerely, as if she had no meaning in her words just now, and then she said: “Lisong is not satisfied with the current progress. Kevin, Rudra—Of course, I understand that in the current routine work, you The team has a lot of work to deal with. Considering the COVID pandemic—bless those who are afflicted with the disease—the additional workload has increased, which is inevitable.”

She tossed for another two or three minutes on these kinds of car talks, and then said: “But resource integration is a very critical and important project. Lisong hopes that you will actively cooperate.”

“Of course.” Kevin was the first to answer.

The boss also said: “I will make sure that we allocate more staff in this area.” He changed the subject, “Yao, can you introduce the phased results of our internal discussions in the past two weeks?”

When did we hold this kind of seminar?

I stood up: “Okay. I hope you don’t mind looking at the whiteboard.”

The BCG party obviously didn’t expect this, and the smile was slightly lagging behind, and the timing that appeared on his face was embarrassing. Miss Pan De calmly looked at me and raised her eyebrows, and the chair moved back a bit.

I turned over the whiteboard with my back and took off the pen cover. From this angle, it is still possible for Jocelyn or Miss Pande to see my expression. God knows how much I want to take a deep breath. This is no longer a question of impromptu speech: it is entirely for me to cook without rice. I turned around very quickly. Maybe it’s because God can’t stand it and borrowed me a few leopard guts, right? I try to slow down my speech, but not to say suspiciously: “I think you all know that we have been experiencing pains since the division of the department for a year. In some core positions, such as data analysts, two Everyone in the project team is facing a shortage of manpower.”

This is why Kevin wants to be in peace, while our side, with relatively deep background, can directly receive support from other departments.

“However, this is not the most fundamental problem we are facing.” I wrote a few keywords on the whiteboard roughly according to the geographical distribution and circled them. “Under the premise of extremely high degree of homogeneity of work content, only Because we are in charge of the European, Asian and Brazilian markets, our two project teams, from the same company, actually need to go through a lot of communication processes. When it comes to cross-regional cooperation, many unnecessary costs are consumed in this process. .”

One of the instigators is Kevin.

I paused for two or three seconds. This is time for everyone to think. Then, I drew two lines between “Europe” and “Asia”, and I should barely be able to see that it was a pipeline. At this time, I found that the lower-ranking colleagues sitting behind were also more energetic, but I dared not look at the boss at all, I was afraid of being discouraged. Immediately afterwards, I said: “Communication. After a long but substantial discussion, our group feels that communication is what we need, and we can start building it-and in terms of channel building, we will be very happy to listen to BCG’s plan.”

Miss Pan De’s face eased a little. It may also be just an illusion: she always maintains a focused but alienated smile. She turned around and looked at Kevin and them, but did not speak.

Jocelyn gave a step in time: “Kevin, have you hosted a similar meeting?”

Kevin’s mouth was closed tightly, and he looked at Sanjay slightly sideways. I don’t know what kind of look he gave Sanjay. In short, Sanjay said twice, but didn’t take the initiative to say anything. Kevin turned back, looked at me, looked at Miss Pan De and said, “Of course. What Yao mentioned is also the pain point we think, I have nothing to add.”

“That’s it, Jocelyn,” Ms. Pande said. “In the past, we found that the problem is not limited to the communication channel. The technical experts of the Rudra project team gave us feedback on many professional issues. Of course, the design of the scheme is also in progress… We are judging that there may be better optimization schemes in the overall framework.”

This is equivalent to naming Lao Huang’s name, but what is terrifying is her last sentence.

The boss will definitely not take the initiative. I am a little embarrassed to stand here, why, if Lao Huang doesn’t stand up, will she put me on the fire?

Jocelyn turned to me: “Thank you, Yao, your efforts are very helpful to the progress of today’s meeting.”

“Thank you.” I gave Jocelyn a grateful look, then went back and sat down.

Then Jocelyn said, “I think everyone would be happy to hear your judgment.”

Seeing Miss Pan De cast a look, Xu Xin said: “It is safe to say that the two project teams are one of the most important departments of the company. However, due to structural issues and many restrictions on authority, work efficiency has gradually touched the ceiling. According to We have communicated with some technical experts and middle-level managers, and we found that the parallel form of the two departments has brought about a de facto efficiency reduction, which is the consensus of almost everyone. If the structural authority opening is thoroughly adjusted, We believe that at least a 32% to 36% increase in efficiency can be brought about-this is only a preliminary estimate.”

I’m sure that the number was just figured out by him just now, and there is no basis at all.

“I’m sure Lisson will be very happy to hear this.” Jocelyn was noncommittal. She smiled and said, “Could you please tell me, what does ‘overall optimization of the framework’ mean, Sonia? I noticed that some new adverbs of degree are used.”

Miss Pan De kept her smile and said: “This is what we will work together in the future.”

“Li Song and the board of directors will be very interested in this result.” Jocelyn said.

The meeting ended in gunpowder.

Everyone went out very quickly, as if they didn’t want to stay here for a single moment. I also want to retreat quickly, but my seat is very inside, and the whiteboard has not been wiped yet. It is not a good idea to leave this work to the next batch of people who use this conference room. Jocelyn probably wanted to say something to me, but Miss Pande didn’t move, so she just said goodbye to her, smiled and nodded at me before leaving. I knew it well, I knew I would go to the big boss later.

“I’m sorry, Yao,” Miss Pan De called to me. “The discussion was very intense. I forgot to thank you for the first time.”

“It’s not too late to say’thank you.'” I laughed and raised my eyebrows.

She opened her lips slightly, looked at me, and said, “Thank you for your explanation.”

I smiled politely. Ya just grilled me on the fire, I still remember.

“You really like to use the whiteboard for presentations.” She leaned a little closer. At this time, there were only two of us in the meeting room. “Is it because your handwriting is very beautiful?”

“Thank you.” My English words are very common, but they are definitely better than ordinary Americans. They don’t pay attention to this at all. “I just think it’s more efficient.”

“But how do you manage to sort out your ideas quickly? Without the help of slides,” she seemed very interested. “Organizing language itself is a difficult thing.”

Because every time I catch the ducks on the shelves! But I said: “Maybe because I am very good at passing exams. It is more important to read a book than to take notes, and it is more straightforward to take notes through steel notes than through a keyboard.”

This is equivalent to avoiding her problem of sorting out her thinking. I feel that there is a hole in it, but Miss Pende has not dug a hole for me so far, so I try not to think about it that way.

Fortunately, she seemed to just ask casually, following my gaze, I saw the graffiti on the back of the paper that hadn’t had time to clean up on the table.

“Mind if I take a look?” Seeing me shrug, Miss Pan De picked up the paper. I wrote some key information mentioned by the BCG party during today’s meeting in shorthand above. As for the speculation behind the information, I wrote it on the computer.

“Very beautiful writing.” She put it back and said, “Very beautiful pen.”

“Thank you.” My inspiration flashed. “The downside of using your own pen in the office is that sometimes it disappears when you use it.”

“This one got your heart.”

“Yes.” I said with a smile, “this is a gift my mother gave me when I was in college.”

She affirmed: “Very memorable.”

“That’s it. But it has other meanings, depending on how you look at it.” I said, “I have a gift for you.”

Miss Pan De was a little surprised, but still said, “Thank you!”

Then he looked at my hand.

I also turned my hand over and looked at my palm. Of course there was nothing there-then I looked up at her and said, “You will get it next time you see me.”

“What’s so mysterious?” She frowned slightly, her eyes became deeper.

I was in a trance, and when I came into contact in private, I easily forgot my purpose. I just blinked and said, “I think you will like it.”