Chapter 1 Clearly, Qiu Hong harbored deep resentment towards his past failures. Initially, he could maintain a calm demeanor, but soon, his tone shifted from stating facts to complaining.

Pei Qian could sense Qiu Hong's suppressed anger.

As a game producer with successful projects under his belt, Qiu Hong's game design skills were undoubtedly solid.

Of course, his game design skills specifically referred to his ability to design domestic pay-to-win games; he had virtually no experience with other types of games.

But the problem was, Qiu Hong had never considered making other types of games. His goal had always been very clear: to create pay-to-win online games and make money.

Clearly, his entrepreneurial failure had nothing to do with his design skills. It could only be said that he didn't make a good boss.

The "project management" issues that Qiu Hong repeatedly emphasized were the most crucial factors in his entrepreneurial failure. He had a lot to say on this point.

Qiu Hong also shared with "Ma Yang" a series of measures he took to strengthen project management.

For example, forcing employees to clock in and out, arriving early and leaving late every day to supervise employees, and deciding to distribute 10% of the game's profits to employees as bonuses, and so on.

These measures did improve the company's situation and increased efficiency to some extent, but they still couldn't avert the disaster of failure.

Pei Qian felt a slight ache.

It sounded like this was indeed a contributing factor to the failure.

However, it didn't seem to apply to him…

His employees were already a bunch of eager beavers, and he had deliberately decoupled project bonuses from project profitability and linked them to reputation, precisely to prevent them from focusing solely on making money.

If he were to give employees bonuses based on game profits, wouldn't that be a disaster?

The key was that Qiu Hong said the reason for the failure was employee laziness.

And Pei Qian's dilemma was that he had tried every means to encourage his employees to be lazy, but they just wouldn't!

What to do?

Although he knew the correct answer, he had no feasible solution or steps to solve the problem!

The more Qiu Hong talked, the more emotional he became, and Pei Qian was too embarrassed to interrupt him.

Finally, Qiu Hong seemed to be tired of talking and paused to take a sip of coffee.

Pei Qian tentatively asked, "Then, may I venture to ask, do you know what kind of regulations might cause employees to be lazy and project progress to get out of control?"

Qiu Hong was stunned. "Huh? Isn't laziness innate? You don't have to do anything, and they will naturally be lazy."

Pei Qian: "…"

That's not right. That doesn't match my experience.

There was a time when I really didn't care at all, and I was only in the office for two or three hours a day, but my game projects were still completed on schedule?

Pei Qian asked again, "Then, if I let all employees not clock in at all, provide unlimited snacks and drinks, strictly prohibit overtime, completely disconnect project bonuses from project profits, and never ask about project development progress… but the game is still completed on schedule and even makes money, is there any possibility of that?"

The expression on Qiu Hong's face was wonderful, a look that said, "Are you kidding me?"

"Absolutely impossible!"

"President Ma, if you want to daydream, I suggest you have the kind of daydream where you win the lottery. The probability of that happening is relatively higher."

Pei Qian clapped his hands, feeling like he had met a kindred spirit. "That's right, that's what I think too! It should be absolutely impossible!"

"But as far as I know, our company's game department seems to be… doing just that."

Qiu Hong didn't answer immediately, but shook his head slightly and took a sip of coffee.

Then, he said with a hint of bitterness in his voice, "President Ma, that's just the appearance you're seeing."

"That shows that the project management ability of the leader of Tenda's game department has reached perfection, surpassing the level you can understand and achieving a state of returning to simplicity."

"This kind of top-notch project management ability is not something that everyone can learn."

"It's like in some martial arts novels, the protagonist says that having no moves is better than having moves, but if you also forget all your moves, you'll be beaten black and blue immediately."

"President Ma, take my advice and forget about Tenda's game department. You can't learn this ability."

"Of course, I'm not targeting you. I can't learn it either. Most people in this world can't learn it."

"A business genius like President Pei is one in a million. This kind of person's experience can't be used as a reference."

Pei Qian: "…"

Forget about Tenda's game department?

No, I'm trying to solve the problems of the game department right now. How can you advise me to give up?!

And what's with returning to simplicity and reaching perfection? What are you talking about!

Pei Qian was speechless. He was supposed to be sharing failure experiences!

How did it turn into self-flagellation again!

Qiu Hong looked at his watch. "Ah, it's time."

"President Ma, I'm very happy to chat with you. I haven't had such a畅谈 with anyone in a long time. The depression in my chest has been swept away!"

Pei Qian: "…"

The depression in your chest has been swept away?

But the depression in my chest doesn't seem to have improved at all, but has worsened…

Pei Qian asked, "So, next time you come, you'll talk about new failure factors, right?"

Qiu Hong nodded. "Of course, I vaguely feel that President Ma can become my confidant. We both have a certain characteristic."

"What characteristic is it…"

"It seems that we both have a belly full of ambition, but nowhere to display it; we have a goal, but no one to cooperate with."

"President Ma, don't worry, we will definitely overcome the difficulties!"

"In short, I will definitely tell you everything I know! We will make progress together!"

Having a goal, but no one to cooperate with?

You're so right!

Pei Qian thought to himself, although his and Qiu Hong's goals were different, they were both working hard to break free from the quagmire of failure and move towards a bright future!

From this point of view, could they really become confidants?

Pei Qian couldn't help but be moved, and shook hands with Qiu Hong tightly. "Okay, let's work hard together!"

…

…

May 3rd, Tuesday.

Otto Technologies.

After the holiday, the employees of Otto Technologies quickly entered work mode on their first day back, working in full swing.

Chang You walked through the office area into his office, his eyes casually sweeping over, taking in the state of the employees.

"Could it be that the influence of the Tenda spirit is really so obvious?"

Chang You was slightly puzzled.

He could feel a subtle change in Otto Technologies.

Otto Technologies had been officially established in November of last year, and half a year had passed.

The core employees, including Chang You, were all from Hongcheng Technology. President Pei had never interfered in the company's daily affairs, and Director Lin, who had been parachuted in, had never interfered in the company's management.

Therefore, the working methods of Otto Technologies at the beginning of its establishment were completely consistent with those of Hongcheng Technology.

But now, the people are still the same people, but everyone's working methods seem to be constantly shifting towards Tenda's working methods.

The most significant manifestation of this is that everyone's working hours have been shortened, but the workload has not changed.

This means that overall work efficiency has improved!

Chang You remembered that when he was in Hongcheng Technology, he would always be able to see someone slacking off when he walked through the employees' office area.

Of course, he wouldn't point it out, because he felt that people couldn't maintain a highly efficient working state all the time, and occasional slacking off was normal.

But now, employees seem to be completing their work efficiently, and rarely slacking off!

These two states can be distinguished at a glance.

Take today as an example. If it were in Hongcheng Technology, everyone would definitely spend the morning sorting out this week's work plans, replying to emails accumulated from last weekend, and then playing with their phones a little, and the morning would be over.

But now, everyone only spends half an hour completing the work of sorting out work plans and replying to emails, and all the other time is spent on working, each more eager than the last.

The most important thing is that President Pei rarely comes here, and has never asked everyone to study the Tenda spirit?

So, how did this subtle influence infiltrate and have a "silent" effect?

The more Chang You thought about it, the more he felt that President Pei had a set of project management skills!

In the past, Chang You always had to check attendance, set goals, and constantly urge them from time to time.

Now, he doesn't need to do that at all. The whole company is simply at his beck and call, and everyone cooperates very well.

With such a brilliant project management method, Chang You felt that he was too comfortable. He no longer needed to waste energy arguing with employees, but could focus on thinking about the company's next business development direction.

"I must ask President Pei, the master of management, for advice when I have time, how exactly did he achieve this 'silent' effect, and does he have his own philosophical concept of project management?"

After completing his daily mental reconstruction of President Pei, Chang You continued with this week's work.

Today, he was going to solve a puzzle left by President Pei.

Previously, when President Pei arranged tasks for Otto Technologies, he proposed a future plan: stop making new mobile phones and extend the time to about 10 months, establish a software laboratory, make some useful Apps, improve the mobile phone system, and optimize the image algorithm.

Chang You had already interpreted this point.

After careful reflection, he felt that President Pei's strategy was very correct!

The Otto e1 mobile phone is a high-end mobile phone with a very high price, but it is also a mobile phone full of flaws.

If you immediately develop a new phone, what will those customers who have already bought the e1 phone think?

I treat this phone as a treasure, but you treat me as韭菜 (leek, i.e. someone being exploited)?

Otto's pricing strategy is never to lower prices, but if new phones are released too frequently, where will the customers of the old phones be placed?

Although trade-in services will be provided, this frequent release of new phones will inevitably dilute the brand value that the mobile phone has worked so hard to build.

Therefore, President Pei wants to spend a year polishing the software, including the operating system, image algorithm, various commonly used Apps, etc., which has at least three meanings.

Fulfilling promises to consumers;

Extending the release cycle of new mobile phones to one year, ensuring that more and more advanced mature technologies can be used by then, so that the next mobile phone will have more gimmicks, and at the same time better preserve the value of the e1 mobile phone;

Invest a lot of time in software research and development, increase the added value of mobile phones, make up for shortcomings, and make consumers feel that it is worth the money.

After figuring out the deep meaning of President Pei's next stage of strategy, Chang You immediately decided to invest heavily in the establishment of an image laboratory, specializing in tuning mobile phone lenses and optimizing image algorithms, and focusing on photography and software!

But not long after he interpreted President Pei's intention, President Pei's new instructions arrived.

This time, Chang You was puzzled.

President Pei actually asked Otto Technologies to develop an App for gym registration?

The functional requirements of this App are very simple, and it was proposed by a person named Guo Licheng. After customers log in to the App, they can view their fitness data, book gym time, etc., and that's all.

Chang You was very puzzled. Is such a simple function worth handing over to Otto Technologies to do?

Our software team is responsible for developing more complex Apps. A broken App for gym registration like this can be done by any team. Why did President Pei specifically ask us to do it?

Moreover, this App has nothing to do with the general direction that President Pei determined before?

The most strange thing is that President Pei specifically emphasized that this software should not be pre-installed on the mobile phone.

Why?

Although Chang You arranged for someone to do it as soon as he received this request, so many days have passed, and he still hasn't been able to figure out the deep meaning behind it.

If he was a person without ambition, he would definitely honestly complete the functions required for the fitness software and be done with it.

But after the success of the Otto e1 mobile phone, Chang You knew very well that even if the task personally assigned by President Pei looked simple, it definitely had another deep meaning.

Otherwise, why would President Pei personally explain it?