Chapter 11 Chapter VIII Professional Questioning and Threatened Miscarriage

The budget report went to the United States, but it was not approved.The real estate department replied that the budget report did not use the company's global format, was written too briefly, lacked the necessary data analysis, and did not follow the normal steps to consider the relevance of each link in the project. Ross, the director of the U.S. Department of Real Estate, questioned: "DB China has applied for renovation on the one hand, but on the other hand, it has not completed the renewal of the lease. If the renewal price is too high, you should consider changing to another office building instead of negotiating a renewal. Under the premise of contract, rashly decide on the decoration plan of the existing site. Moreover, there is a potential risk that the owner may not agree to continue to lease the property to DB, or the owner sees that DB has already invested in decoration. Just raise the price on the ground, and DB will fall into a passive position.”

Ross further pointed out that there is no data support in the report on why the DB China headquarters needs 4,500 square meters of office space.In the next three years, how many employees will work in this office and why there are so many people are not mentioned in the application report.We must first understand why we need a large area, so as to avoid renting a site that is too large or too small. When Ross's mail was sent to Liszt, he also copied it to He Haode and Ke Bide, and Liszt felt very embarrassed.After thinking about it, he found that the administrative director of the Shanghai office under Rose was a loyal and useless person, and he was useless. Right now, he could only temporarily transfer Lala from Guangzhou to Shanghai to participate in the project.

Liszt talked to Rose and told her that she was afraid that she would be too busy, and suggested to call Lala to assist her. Rose thanked her silently. Liszt called Lala himself again, and he told Lala that the company decided to give her a chance to exercise and transfer her to the headquarters to assist Rose, so she could take this opportunity to learn management experience in large projects. Lala usually rarely had the turn to talk to Liszt, but this time the boss called her personally, which flattered her, and she immediately felt that what Liszt said was very true, so she hurriedly packed her luggage when she went home, and the weekend was over.

On the day Lala arrived in Shanghai, Rose talked to Liszt and said that she was pregnant and had a severe threatened miscarriage and needed to rest in bed for three months.She is in her thirties, and has been having difficulty conceiving after marriage. She thought there was no hope for offspring, but unexpectedly she became pregnant. As Rose said, tears welled up in her eyes. Liszt looked at the leave note issued by the hospital, and his head suddenly grew two sizes. Liszt feels very embarrassed. A large professional company like DB has always advocated a balance between life and work, "Life

work "balance" (life and work balance) slogan is hung on the wall of the office, he can't let Rose risk a miscarriage to come to work. On the other hand, DB is also very strict in the control of headcount, which is typical of large European and American companies.Rose is still working, and the position of this manager has not been vacated, so he has no quota to recruit another manager. And he himself is not familiar with this kind of project, he urgently needs a professional and dedicated administrative manager to take charge of this project. Of course, he can also talk to He Haode about his difficulties, and ask He Haode to approve a head for him.However, Liszt was not pleasing to He Haode, He Haode did not give Liszt a high score last year, and the year-end bonus was not very good.

He Haode, in his early 40s, is a young man in the company who is determined to make a big business in China; while Liszt’s first task is to retire safely, and all his actions are based on safety as the basic principle, and he is more than calm. Fear of change, and innovation is basically out of the question. He Haode disliked Liszt's reluctance to make decisions when he encountered problems.Since Liszt is about to retire, he can't say much, but Liszt's request at work is often rejected by him.With more obstacles, Liszt avoided asking him for additional resources. Liszt thought about it for a long time, and the only person in the administrative team who is likely to take over is Lala, and he has no confidence in Lala: managing such a large project requires not only professionalism and dedication, but also the project leader needs to communicate with many Dealing with high-level people - he felt that Lala was too immature to communicate effectively with high-level employees.Liszt thought that the world that Lala had seen was not comparable to that of Rose, and he wondered whether she could speak clearly in front of He Haode and Kebid.

On the one hand, he hopes that Rose's physical condition can be stabilized as soon as possible, but on the other hand, he also knows that he can't count on this.Moreover, he also realized that Rose's pregnancy itself was a suspicious matter, but he couldn't prove it. Once he went to check it, it would be tantamount to tearing everyone's face apart, and there was no room for maneuver. strategy. After Rose became pregnant, according to the labor law, female employees are protected by law during pregnancy and breastfeeding, that is to say, as long as she doesn’t make a big mistake, she can’t be fired within 22 months, and he can’t demote someone because she’s pregnant. He is the head of HR. If he dares to do this, then whenever an employee in the company is pregnant, the supervisor of the pregnant woman can ask for her to be demoted. How can Liszt still do this HR?

Liszt thought, if he went to He Haode to criticize the recruitment of a manager, He Haode would definitely ask him: What if one more manager comes out of the next two managers? After weighing for a long time, Liszt made up his mind: he had to try his best to question He Haode and challenge his ability to control the team. Can't pass. He Haode was in a meeting in Singapore, and Liszt decided to wait for him to return to Shanghai before interviewing him.At the same time, Liszt ordered the headhunting company to urgently search for suitable administrative manager candidates in the market, and he started the interview first.

During the interview, he always asked the applicant the same question: If you were to prepare a decoration budget of this level, how much would you prepare for the cost per square meter? As a result, several candidates from large companies told him: about 1,500 yuan. He could hear his heart pounding. Liszt approached Lala and asked Lala cordially: "When the renovation was done in Guangzhou, the unit price per square meter was 1,000 yuan. Why do you think the unit price in Shanghai will reach 1,500 yuan this time?" Lala said: "The Guangzhou office has not replaced the switching system. The furniture is also used. Moreover, in the Guangzhou office, the proportion of high-level employees is much lower than that in the Shanghai headquarters, so there is no need to build as many manager rooms as in the Shanghai office. This saves a lot of money.”

Liszt said: "Can Shanghai not change the switch system?" Lala said: "I went to the computer room with an engineer from the maintenance company to check. The system is already fully loaded and cannot be expanded. Should we renew the contract this time to maintain the current area, or to expand the area by 10%? Will the number increase? Knowing this, we can know whether we need to expand or not.” Lala’s question touched Liszt’s heart, which is exactly what the U.S. Department of Real Estate criticized him for: the number of employees will reach in the next two or three years, and the corresponding office area will be required. Neither of these two pieces of information It is shown in the report that - before the renewal of the lease agreement has been negotiated, the renovation plan has been discussed.

Liszt said: "Assuming that the number of people is increased by 10%, and the area is increased by 10%, is the capacity of the switch insufficient? Can you find a way to adjust it?" Lara thought for a while and said, "What kind of employees are the 10% employees? If they are mainly sales personnel below the manager level, it is better. The company does not set up fixed office positions for them, and if they are other Function (functional departments), such as finance, marketing, and development departments, must give them a phone extension—it needs specific analysis.” Liszt realized more and more that administration, which he had always looked down upon, actually had a lot of professional content.He felt that this was too dangerous, and he didn't know which link was going to be missed. Before, he thought about finding a supervision company, paying some supervision fees, and buying a security.With the deepening of his participation in the project, he became more and more aware that the project supervisor must be very familiar with the internal process and organizational structure of DB. This is not something that a supervision company can do. I can't get on.