Chapter 35 Don’t Be Afraid, Keep Going (4)

Under such an impassioned tone from the president, the general managers of each unit later felt more confident when reporting on their work. The boss said that investment would be increased by 40%, so they must work hard and fast. Anything less would lead to failure.

You must know that the United Group now has performance appraisal and indicator management. It must be inspected and supervised every month. If it is not completed, it will be criticized next month. If the case is serious, the entire group management will be notified. This is really embarrassing.

Of course, breasts are not taken randomly, the results must be confirmed with the strategic plan, and the "simplification and efficiency" route must be highlighted. In other words, next year's plan has been basically determined in December, and by the time the work meeting is held at the end of January I just made some fine-tuning and talked about the main figures in public. It sounds like the statements of each unit are very encouraging:

United Steel: Completed the installation of all equipment and produced the first batch of steel before Christmas;

United Chemical: Completed the infrastructure and equipment debugging of each project, and started trial production in December;

Joint project: Completion of the Genoa-Milan express line, 27% of the northern line project, 20% of the middle line project, and 15% of the southern line (Libya)...

"The joint project needs to add additional indicators..." Contini suddenly interrupted the other party's speech, "New crude oil storage warehouses in Genoa and Venice, each with a storage capacity of not less than 10 million barrels, and the completion rate of the investment progress for the year is not less than 30%…budget adjusted individually”

"Yes!" The temporary increase in quotas is the most frightening thing, but I was relieved to hear "the budget is adjusted individually."

Then United Construction planned to complete 5 million square meters and build 50,000 ordinary residences and 8,000 workers' residences. The plan was also priced.

"The Workers' New Village will be renamed the Leaders' New Village from next year, and the number will be increased to 10,000. At the same time, a Leaders' Park will be set up in the center, with bronze statues placed inside. Special display windows will be set up for the leaders' quotes, instructions, and footprints. We should put up photos and statues of leaders inspecting new villages, talking cordially with workers, and caring about people's lives, so that workers can feel the leaders' meticulous care and concern, and feel the warmth of the three flags."

The person on the other side was dumbfounded, and blurted out the next sentence: "President, it's no problem to build 2,000 more units and build a park, but we haven't collected the leader's updates..."

"I will cooperate with the Joint Construction Office on this matter." Goebbels immediately stepped forward, "I have a complete set of information!"

"I would like to emphasize that everyone must have a sense of the overall situation, a sense of discipline, and a sense of the whole... Now some people outside are criticizing us for doing our own thing and becoming a state within a state. This is something I firmly oppose. Everyone must have a high degree of awareness. Political awareness, the United Group is not a place outside the law, it is a model group for the Youth League and Fascism, it is an Italian national policy group, and an important banner of the party. The fact that this flag does not fall shows that the party's line and principles are correct. We are successful in governing, but what if we are cut down? It is not a matter of one or two individuals, nor is it just a matter of the United Group, it involves the overall situation of the party and the government, and the prestige of the leader.”

Contini changed his tone to a more serious tone, "Many people want to attack us. We can't be tough or soft. We can't be fooled. Anyone who slanders and slanders the image of the leader and the party among the workers will be fired; anyone who makes fun of the party and the group in a weird way will be fired." Anyone who spreads propaganda that is not conducive to unity and does not conform to the concepts and ideas of the Three Flags and the Youth League will be expelled; anyone who engages in other organizational activities, such as socialist party and communist activities, will be expelled! You can write to me in the president's mailbox to scold me as much as you want. You can't be incited to slander or slander the party and the government, and you especially can't make fun of the leader. If you are caught by the media, you can magnify it and put it online. , what did he think when it reached the leader’s ears?”

Everyone was stunned and nodded in agreement.

"In addition to these strictly prohibited behaviors, you must also improve other political awareness... You are all senior managers of the company, many of you are the backbone of the Youth League and the Party, and many are even executive committee members of the League. You cannot simply regard yourselves as Professional managers must have a high degree of political awareness: You have been working in economics and business all your life? Can't you transform? The Youth League is the party's assistant, reserve force and successor. What does it mean to be a successor? You must think carefully about it! Ideological awareness. Last year, leaders came to inspect. Some companies were doing very well. Workers lined the streets to welcome them. The workshops and construction sites were clean and tidy. The slogans and banners were very eye-catching. Many team members came to greet and explain. The leaders were very happy. , I am very satisfied. Some companies are lacking in their work. The welcome ceremony is hasty and the atmosphere is not strong. It doesn’t matter at ordinary times. There is a contrast when there is a comparison at critical moments! ”

Contini knocked on the table and emphasized, "Some people may say that we are not a state-owned enterprise and do not need to go through these red tapes, but I need to remind you that United Group is different from other Italian groups, and it is not me personally. The company is only under my name, but in essence it is the party! It is the party that gives us motivation and support, and is the most important cornerstone of the group! If the foundation is not strong and the ground is shaken, if the party and leaders collapse, do you still believe in the unity? Will the group be unscathed? Do you still believe that you and the 300,000 workers will be counterattacked by our political opponents? If everyone can save their lives, then all options, shares, and dividends are just a dream! You must position yourself right!”

Antonio and Leo sighed below: This is why the president feels uneasy and wants to arm himself desperately. The United Group has risen too fast and has too close political ties. It has not experienced the wind and rain like other old-fashioned consortiums, so it can only survive the dangerous period with an aggressive attitude. If it can be passed down for 2-3 generations, its position will probably be stable. As for the shares not belonging to Contini? Just listen and laugh. It doesn't belong to Contini, but it may belong to his wife, children and lover. Isn't that different!

The last to come on stage was United Defense. They didn't say much about the others, because most of them were developed in secret, but they mentioned bullets: "...2 million rounds of 65 bullets, 1 million rounds of 79 bullets..."

Contini couldn't help but interrupt again: "65 bullets will be discontinued, and all efforts will be made to produce new bullets, 5 million rounds per year, including 4 million 79 ammunition and 1 million 12.7 ammunition, and double to 10 million rounds next year!"

"President, there are not so many orders?"

"There will be, just don't fail to complete it by then!" Contini smiled at the other party, "Those machine guns are not for decoration!"

Many people understood: the scale of the war of the North African oil guards may be larger than they imagined.

The last item on the agenda of the three-day meeting was comprehensive assessment and honorary commendation, which was also an advanced concept introduced by Contini from later generations. The entire group's subsidiaries were assessed and evaluated against the performance responsibility letter, divided into four levels: a, b, c, and d. Category a means exceeding the performance target and receiving good social response; category b means completing or basically completing the performance; category c means not completing, but the gap is not large or can be improved; category d means seriously not completing and receiving bad social response.

In the assessment system, category a is generally distributed at 10-15%, and employees receive an additional 15% salary at the end of the year; category b is distributed at 75-80%, and salaries are implemented according to the budget; category c is distributed at 10%, and salaries are deducted by 20%; the above three categories are distributed compulsorily, and category d does not implement compulsory distribution, but implements a one-vote veto for the person in charge to step down and employees reduce their salaries by 25%.

Generally speaking, for two consecutive years, category c will adjust the position of the person in charge, and at the same time implement the last-place elimination system. Now business schools like to learn from the United Group, and they vividly describe the last-place elimination system as an eleven-draw kill order.

The reason for introducing these systems is that after the rapid expansion of the United Group, there is a problem of management out of control. Contini cannot stop and wait for the management to be standardized. He can only continuously introduce experts from the outside to help implement the management concept he introduced from the later generations. In fact, he himself often does not understand it. He is just a chief member of the expert group in the company. He knows about company operations and management. The limited knowledge is still hearsay.

But even with such fragmentary management knowledge, in this era when corporate management is far from being a thing, he can be touted as a management master by experts.

This year, the A-level indicator was given to the cultural and creative sector in charge of Goebbels. Not only did all the subsidiaries make profits, but the films they shot were well received. Even the Prime Minister's Office sent a letter to express gratitude; another indicator was given to the financial sector in charge of Rio. The comprehensive financing cost was reduced by 0.4 percentage points, and the issuance of 1 billion corporate construction bonds was successfully realized. In addition, under the leadership of Francesco, the United Bank successfully swallowed the Southern Bank and became the third largest bank in Italy.

Betty's United Radio and TV was in Class A last year, but this year it didn't have any particularly impressive results, so it was included in Class B along with most companies.

Finally, Class C was announced. In fact, after Class A and Class B were announced, Class C became clear:

The first Class C winner was United Milan: the club ranked first in the league in terms of investment, but ranked only 9th at the end of the season, lost twice in the derby, and lost and tied once against Juventus. The assessment committee unanimously agreed to award it Class C. But the special thing about United Milan is that Contini is the club president himself, so he had to stand up and review in front of everyone, criticizing himself for not caring enough about the team. He didn't have time to accompany Vivian in Switzerland, let alone watch the game on site. He couldn't even recognize all the new players in the team. It was quite impressive to be ranked ninth.

Contini vowed: "The Milan Stadium will be officially completed next year. I believe we can make a comeback and at least bring back a trophy!"

The people below are just happy about the president's review, because the salaries of the employees below have been deducted long ago, and it doesn't matter whether the president's salary is deducted or not. The key is that the president's review is more fun, which shows that the assessment committee is fair.

The second C-category winner is United Building Materials: United Group disdains to produce ordinary products such as bricks and tiles. The main business of United Building Materials is glass, concrete, coatings, paints and tiles. As a result, it was complained by United Construction and United Real Estate for three consecutive months, saying that some of the glass they produced was not good and had a lot of bubbles. Then the supervision team and quality inspection team intervened and found that the paint and some coatings also had problems and needed to be reworked. To prevent fraud, Contini hired foreign experts from Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, the United States, etc. to prevent collusion.

In fact, the other economic indicators of United Building Materials were completed very well, and the output exceeded the budget, but it was because of the excessive pursuit of output and speed that the quality control was not strict in the end. Faced with the glaring C-class yellow card, the person in charge could only hold his head and smile bitterly: the indicators that were completed with great effort were not enough to be deducted for the C-class penalty, but he did not dare to complain about his construction and real estate companies, because if they did not complain, they would be complained about problems after delivery in the future, and then the main body of responsibility would be on them. It doesn't matter if the general manager deducts some money, but if he works hard for a year and tells the employees that their salary will be deducted by 20%, he will explode!

You must know that salary deduction alone is not enough. After being rated as C-class, the number of excellent places for annual internal assessment will be reduced, the number of places for the allocation of workers' new villages will be reduced in the next year, and the promotion and salary increase of management will be frozen, which are all a series of problems. So he could only watch Goebbels, Leo, Francisco and others go to receive the president's special award worth 1 million lira gold bars, and he was thinking about how to go back and make a self-examination with the workers. This is really hard to open...

ps: big chapter, 3500...