Chapter 66 Questions and Answers
Before coming to the airport, Du Qiu met Yang Fan on several photos of Chen Dayou's college photos. In the photos, he was a thin and average person. He was the type that no one would pay attention to when he was left on the street, and he could not see any special place.
However, after seeing the real person, Du Qiu found that the photos taken in the 1980s did not show Yang Fan's true appearance at all. He had thick eyebrows, deep eye sockets, thin cheeks, thin lips, and a well-tailored black long-sleeved shirt with high-end fabrics, giving people a deep and tough feeling, with an elite temperament and personal characteristics.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" says that Sima Yi looks at the wolf, probably this is the face...
No wonder Chen Dayou and Qin Mu were both deeply afraid of this person. In front of him, one looked like a playboy with a good appearance, and the other was like a rustic Xialiba man...
"Yang Fan, welcome." Chen Dayou pointed at Du Qiu and Qin Mu, and said with a smile: "I'll invite my boss and old classmates to pick you up. Is it enough to give you face?"
Yang Fan shook hands with Chen Dayou and Qin Mu in turn like he was attending a formal business meeting, but did not respond to the greetings between them, and did not even give him a smile. He only spoke when he shook hands with Du Qiu: "Hello, Mr. Du."
"Hello, Mr. Yang." Du Qiu let go of his hand, made a call, and said politely: "Mr. Yang is exhausted and must be very tired. I have arranged a hotel and I will send you over to rest now."
"No need to be so troublesome. How much time does it take to get from Yuncheng Airport to the railway station?"
Du Qiu was slightly stunned, but quickly gave the answer and said, "It's about 40 minutes."
"Send me to the train station directly." Yang Fan was left-handed. He dragged his suitcase with his left hand, raised his right hand to show his watch, and said, "If you can convince me within 40 minutes, I will change jobs to Yuncheng. If I can't convince me, I will buy a ticket and go back to Pujiang without wasting each other's time."
So direct...
Something interesting...
Chen Dayou felt that he couldn't bear to worry about his face, so he looked at Qin Mu and said, "Yang Fan, are you too unfavorable?"
"I came to Yuncheng today, which is very interesting." Yang Fan pointed to the airport exit and said, "You two can take a taxi and stop joining in the fun. If Mr. Du and I have agreed, there will be time to reminisce about the past and make friends in the future. If it is not agreed, we should not have any intersection in the future."
“fk!”
Chen Dayou was obviously angry, but he looked a little unexpected. He cursed in English and raised his middle finger and shook it in front of Yang Fan. Then he really left with Qin Mu, who had been unrelated to his attitude from beginning to end.
This was the first time Du Qiu met such a maverick person after traveling through time. He felt very novel. While taking Yang Fan to the parking lot, he said, "Mr. Yang, I'm stupid and not good at speaking. 40 minutes may not be enough."
"Maybe not enough for others, but for Mr. Du, it's enough for Mr. Du." Yang Fan was not tall, only about 1.7 meters away. He looked a little short when walking beside Du Qiu, but his momentum was not weak at all. He said in a very calm tone: "I have seen some of your technical lecture video tapes. They are very concise, not dragging on the mud, and not vague. It means that you are a person with rational thinking and pursuit of efficiency. I don't like to waste time on red tape. Everyone is the same. If you have something to say, cooperate if you want, and if you don't want it, you will part."
This was very much to Du Qiu's appetite. He subconsciously raised his evaluation of Yang Fan. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Xiaolong is just a poor boy in the countryside, and Mr. Yang is a lady from a famous family. Although I was shameless and took the initiative to propose marriage, the choice was not in my hands. It would be better to do this. Let's divide the 40 minutes into the first and second half. The first 20 minutes are the first half. Mr. Yang asked, "I will answer. If the answer is not good, I will beat it apart. If the answer is okay, I will ask, Mr. Yang answer, how about it?"
"Can."
After that, Yang Fan stopped talking. After getting into the car, he asked the first question: "How did Chen Dayou and Qin Mu evaluate me?"
Du Qiu didn't expect that the first question he asked was actually this question. He organized his words in the gap of reversing out of the warehouse and said, "Excellent ability and profit-oriented."
After saying that, he thought about it and added the truth: "Stingy and mean."
"I am worthy of being an old classmate, knowing the roots and reaching the nail on the head." Yang Fan was not angry, but smiled, his face that had been cold and relaxed, and asked again: "How does Mr. Du evaluate the work ability of Chen Dayou and Qin Mu?"
This guy is not just watching old classmates jokes...
"Chen Dayou has a good overall view, but he lacks patience and perseverance to study details. Qin Mu has strong execution ability. However, his thinking is relatively conservative, lacks forward-looking and imagination."
"Mr. Du has a good vision of people." Yang Fan hugged his arms and sat in the passenger seat, commenting like a boss: "Chen Dayouzhi is very talented, has no ideas and ability. Just like the wooden dragon carved on the eaves of ancient palaces, whether it can prevent fire depends entirely on luck. Qin Mu is conservative and dared not step beyond the line. Apart from being obedient and willing to do things, his talent is almost zero. Just like the stone lion squatting at the entrance of the temple, whether it can prevent theft depends entirely on face. He is not a person who can do great things. If they did not meet Mr. Du, they would not achieve anything in their lifetime."
It's really sarcastic. Although Chen Dayou and Qin Mu have obvious shortcomings, they are not demoted so uselessly...
"What does Mr. Du think the human resources department should look like?"
Finally, the serious thing was talked about...
"I think if a company is compared to a person, the technical department is the heart, the financial department is the lung, and the human resources department is the stomach. The quality of the stomach directly determines whether a person can grow up healthily." Du Qiu felt that what he said was not accurate, and added: "I mean the entire digestive system represented by the stomach."
Yang Fan shook his head gently and said, "Mr. Du, please don't use analogies. This is too vague and does not have reference value. Please describe it in more accurate words, such as department budget, supervisor's rights and responsibilities, work content, etc.."
Du Qiu let out a sigh of relief, then combined some basic concepts that he knew from his schoolmate before traveling through time and his personal experience when he was working, and mixed them with some management systems of Chinese and foreign Internet giants such as Google, Amazon, Tencent, Alibaba, etc. that he had seen online, and described the ideal human resources department in his heart. It took him about seven or eight minutes to finish.
"Mr. Du, your understanding of human resources has exceeded that of the bosses of most domestic companies, including those large state-owned enterprises, which are closer to the level in the United States." Yang Fan looked at Du Qiu with a noticeable surprise and said, "If you don't study computers by yourself, but study management by yourself, I believe you can still do your own business."
Du Qiu was a little ashamed. What he said just now was all about the superficial knowledge of hearsay. Although the concept was very advanced in 1995, it was very scattered, like a castle in the air, not practical. He said guiltily: "Mr. Yang has been too much, but it is just something that comes up with random thoughts."
"I'm afraid it may not be something that comes up with random thoughts, right?" Yang Fan let out a short laugh, as if he was despising his false clearance, and said: "In the video of the technical lecture in May, you mentioned an okr management method, and took the R&D database as an example to develop a clear and complete management process. It is very innovative and gave me a lot of inspiration. In fact, I agreed to Chen Dayou to come to Yuncheng after watching this video. Can you tell me how it was designed?"
It's actually for this?
It was Du Qiu's turn to be a little surprised.
The full name of okr is a management method that defines and tracks goals and their completion status. Google promoted it after adopting it in 1999. In 2016, many Internet companies at home and abroad used it as an auxiliary management tool. It sounds like a powerful thing that will only be available in the future, but in fact it was invented by Intel in the 1970s and is not considered a new thing.
When Du Qiu started working before traveling through time, his boss came from Google and worked under him for more than two years. He was very familiar with okr, so he moved it out after traveling through time and promoted it within Snapdragon.
OKR said it was simple and it was very troublesome and it had high requirements for the quality of employees. Du Qiu hurriedly explained it in May and went to the United States. The promotion was not smooth, so when he left, Xiao Jialin and others felt that the progress of R&D had slowed down. After he came back, he sorted it out again, so that everyone could understand their R&D direction, and the progress became faster.
After Du Qiu introduced the basic concept of okr, he habitually summarized with analogy: "If the R&D team is compared to a tour group, okr is equivalent to a navigation map and can be used to plan the route and direction of the trip, but it cannot guarantee the speed of the trip because it does not have performance appraisal and cannot be used as a basis for rewarding and punishing employees."
Yang Fan nodded without saying a word, pondered for a moment, then clicked his watch and said, "Mr. Du, it's your time to ask a question."
Chapter completed!