– Oh, really, what is this? A 65-year-old foreigner who dropped out of high school and has bad credit!
– Is the greeting a joke? I can’t tolerate this. I trusted you and left it to you, but what on earth is this?
As soon as Ahn Jeong-gyu entered the office, he first removed his tie.
I felt the heat rising to the point where my forehead turned red.
At the management meeting, the head of the human resources team began to criticize me about the recent interview.
– I clearly promised to select the right person there, so I took the opportunity to delegate authority. But is there any case where it is done this way?
-Someone has to take responsibility for this.
The human resources team is a fairly conservative group.
There was a lot of debate about the interview method, and as the faces of the selected people were clearly revealed, everyone began to support the HR manager.
There must have been an intention to keep Ahn Jeong-gyu, who was on a roll while enjoying the favor of President Choi Young-jun, in his own way.
In fact, Ahn Jeong-gyu also did not like everything about this appointment, but it was done by Kim Cheol-soo, the person he trusted the most.
It was something he allowed.
So we defended ourselves strongly.
– Have you seen the projects planned by those applicants? You should look at people based on their performance and abilities! How do you select talented people if you look at them like that!
– Once selected, you must keep them for two years. Does it make sense to use these flawed people for a project that just happened to happen?
– Are you a flawed human being? Is that what a human resources manager would say?
– How can I speak informally when I’m young? Do you want to die?
Ahn Jeong-gyu, who was thinking about the situation just now, got heated again and got up from his chair.
‘Damn old bastard.’
Ahn Jeong-gyu, who had been looking out from the window for a while, dialed the number on the office phone and called Kim Cheol-soo.
After some time, Kim Cheol-soo knocked and came in.
“Did you call me, Chief?”
“Oh, are you here? sit down.”
Ahn Jeong-gyu let out a slight sigh and briefly explained what had happened a moment ago.
“··· So, I think we need to bring in the people that Team Leader Kim selected and show them something within three months. “This is the boss’s order.”
Kim Cheol-soo, who had been listening carefully to Ahn Jung-gyu’s story, bowed his head deeply.
“thank you. “Director.”
“How much?”
“And I’m sorry. “It looks like you’re very upset.”
“If I pass out from stress, it’s because of you, man.”
“I will pay the hospital bills.”
The anger in his heart soon subsided, and Ahn Jeong-gyu answered while bursting into laughter.
“done. men and horses. “I did this because I trusted you.”
“sorry.”
“I trusted you, and now I need you to trust me. “Can we achieve results with those people?”
“What happens if I don’t perform well?”
“Two people fired. The corporate operations team was disbanded. And Team Leader Kim will lose my trust.”
“I must show you something.”
“okay. “If you don’t do it, you’ll die.”
Ahn Jeong-gyu stuck out his thick forearms, and Kim Cheol-soo crouched down.
“What are you going to do?”
“I have a plan. However, we need some funds.”
“What are you going to use it for?”
“We are planning to submit a plan soon, but we need to acquire two companies.”
“Two companies?”
“yes. I plan to help Google expand into Korea and take a portion of its shares. “Currently, local portals dominate the Internet, but once SKY Teletech starts releasing smartphones, the game will change completely.”
“Would they invest in a place with such a small market?”
Kim Cheol-soo smiled faintly.
“It will have to be that way.”
**
The following Monday.
Robert, Kyung-Jeon Lee, and Jin-Young Song, who were on their first day at work, stopped by the Human Resources Department for a brief interview and contract writing before heading to their positions in the corporate operations team.
As soon as they entered the HR office, they had to face the HR manager with his legs crossed and a frown on his face.
– If you are that age, you can rest at home while watching your grandchildren play. What are you saying you are going to do?
Robert left the conference room with a dark expression.
It was a situation that I had prepared myself for to some extent, but the head of the human resources team, Managing Director Park Moo-young, poured out harsher words than expected.
– I will have to leave the company in three months.
Although I wanted to leave right away, I remembered team leader Kim Cheol-soo, who believed in me and selected me.
I decided to wait just three months.
Gyeong-Jeon Lee asked, looking at Robert who came out with a stiff expression on his face.
“What happened?”
“Oh, no. “The head of the human resources team was a bit… extreme.”
“Is that so? “My friend never said anything like that.”
“It appears to be blocking people. Well, I guess it’s fortunate that I wasn’t told to leave right away.”
Kyungjeon Lee nodded and entered the interview room.
– Kyung-Jeon Lee is the type of talent the company wants. He only heard about what happened at his previous company. Well, he might be a bit temperamental. I hope to go along well.
After completing the interview in a friendly and gentle atmosphere, Kyung-Jeon Lee left the interview room with his head tilted.
“how is it?”
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When Song Jin-young asked, Lee Gyeong-jeon nodded his head loudly and answered.
“He seemed like a nice guy.”
“hmm···. The treatment of the two people is completely different. I don’t feel very good. “Aren’t we already being discriminated against?”
Kyung-jeon Lee looked at Robert with a shocked face.
Robert smiled awkwardly and shook his head.
“Probably not. “I don’t know if that’s just how I feel.”
Song Jin-young suppressed his rising anxiety and entered the interview room.
Managing Director Park Moo-young shuffled through the documents without saying a word.
For more than five minutes after Song Jinyoung entered the conference room, he did not even raise his head to look at her.
“I···.”
As soon as she could speak, Park Moo-young spoke.
“I dropped out of high school. “People with poor credit.”
“yes?”
“Does this seem like such an easy company?”
Park Moo-young got up and approached Song Jin-young.
Then he said, putting his hand on her shoulder.
“Well, it’s not like there’s no way to survive.”
Sensing Park Moo-young’s glowing gaze, Song Jin-young clenched his molars and slowly pulled back.
‘Here’s an estimate. ‘This is complete bullshit, isn’t it?’
Park Moo-young laughed bitterly and threw the documents at Song Jin-young.
“You’d better think well. “If you have bad credit… aren’t you desperate for a salary?”
How old are you?
New employees from the human resources team were promoted to the corporate operations team of Sales Division 3.
Kim Cheol-soo took them around to different teams and briefly introduced them.
Some people were concerned, some were curious, but fortunately most welcomed them.
Kim Cheol-soo brought them into the small reserved conference room.
They all had dark expressions.
Kim Cheol-su looked at each of their faces and opened his mouth.
“What’s wrong?”
As soon as those words came out, Song Jinyoung spoke.
“Lee Kyung-jeon is the only one who has a two-year contract, and Robert and I have a three-month contract.”
Kim Cheol-soo nodded and looked at Song Jin-young.
“I was just about to tell you, but I’m glad you found out first. But you know it’s conditional, right?”
Since this was somewhat expected, Robert was not very shaken.
“yes. “It was stated in the contract.”
Kim Cheol-soo looked at Song Jin-young and Robert alternately and said.
“I’m sure you won’t only be working for three months…”
“of course!”
Unlike Song Jin-young, who answered actively, Robert just smiled calmly.
Kim Cheol-soo smiled slightly as he looked at Robert, and then remembered the contents of the message Han Jeong-rim sent a while ago.
– I don’t know why our team leader is doing this alone. Other team members say it’s refreshing.
– Well, the ideal talent does not include education or age. I think enough people were selected who were worthy of being selected.
– I kept rejecting anyone who tried to get involved in 6-Sigma.
– Oh. Please keep my sending of this message a secret.
“There are a lot of people supporting me. “I will think of it as the last interview and give it a try within 3 months.”
Kim Cheol-soo was full of confidence.
“By the end of the three months, no one will look down on you. No, I will make that happen.”
Robert smiled at those words, and Song Jinyoung also sighed lightly.
While we were having a brief conversation, a knock was heard and Park Dong-gyu entered the conference room.
Park Dong-gyu quietly sat down next to Song Jin-young, and Kim Cheol-soo clapped his hands lightly to brighten the mood in the conference room.
Manager Robert, Assistant Manager Kyung-Jeon Lee, Employee Dong-Gyu Park, and Employee Jin-Young Song.
First of all, the positions contracted by the human resources department were as follows.
“Now, let’s come up with an English name for each person one by one.”
“Is it your English name?”
“Yes, from now on we will only use that English name in our team meetings.”
Lee Gyeong-jeon tilted his head.
“Please don’t call me team leader, call me Charles.”
“···.”
Except for Robert and Park Dong-gyu, everyone looked puzzled.
“When our teams have conversations or meetings with each other, we will do so on an equal footing.”
In Korea, there are both polite and informal words in the grammar itself.
Also, because of the Confucian culture of the agricultural era that permeates every aspect of daily life, subordinates often follow the words of their superiors.
If there is a good leader, the organization can achieve tremendous performance.
The average leader is smart, has a good personality, and is even older.
However, if the leader is not like that, things can get messy.
‘Just like the last interview, he’s a really open person.’
Robert spoke first.
“I guess I don’t really need an English name, haha.”
“Right, Robert?”
“sure. Charles.”
As the two naturally exchanged English names, Park Dong-gyu joined in.
“Please call me Jordan. “He’s my favorite basketball player.”
“nice to meet you. Jordan!”
“Nice to meet you too, Robert.”
Lee Gyeong-jeon was just scratching his head at the unfamiliar method.
“Can I really do this?”
“I am the team leader. “How I run the team is up to me.”
“mom···. “Then I’ll go with the silhouette…”
“Is that an English name?”
“It’s a French name. It was the name of the French finance minister. “It’s called silhouette.”
Lee Gyeong-jeon shrugged his shoulders at Song Jin-young’s words.
“He was a person who emphasized extreme economy and argued that black was sufficient for portraits.”
“It sounds like a woman’s name…”
“no···. That’s it. What are you going to do, Song Jin-young?”
Song Jin-young looked at his teammates and imagined them.
He blows off the head of the unlucky head of the human resources team, Managing Director Park Moo-young, with a single blow.
“How amazing…”
“I’ll take the guillotine.”
“Puuup!”
Lee Gyeong-jeon squirted out the same water he had been drinking.
The others also pursed their lips as if they were holding back laughter.
Lee Gyeong-jeon, who gave an example, said in a hoarse voice.
“Hmm, what is that? “It’s not even protein…”
“The doctor who created the guillotine is named Guillotine. “It was a fairly elegant execution device at the time.”
“Is that so?”
“yes. “It was a device used only by nobles because it allowed them to die painlessly with a single blow.”
“That’s what you meant! “I like stories like this, Guillotine.”
“Thank you, Jordan.”
When a new person was selected, it was common to just look at them without saying a word as they tried to figure out the situation.
It usually takes a week to get used to it, and it takes about a month to start working in earnest.
However, because they had been interviewing together for a long time from the beginning, this atmosphere was possible from the first day of employment.
Kim Cheol-soo smiled slightly as he saw that the conversation was continuing naturally.
“great. Excellent. “You adapt quickly.”
“Charles. “This method is more fun than I thought.”
As time goes by, Lee Gyeong-jeon feels that it is more natural as the age groups are similar to each other.
‘It’s not the meeting method I’ve experienced, but… it’s not bad, right?’
“Okay, let’s move on. This is the basic concept that will become the way our team operates.”
Everyone looked at Kim Cheol-soo with focused eyes.
“First, trust. “We must trust each other’s abilities, not our individual character.”
Song Jinyoung quickly took out his notebook.
“Secondly, there is conflict. I absolutely hate yes men. If you’re just going to shout yes, you’re no different from someone you don’t mind having. “We must constantly express our opinions and clash endlessly.”
Lee Gyeong-jeon nodded.
“That’s how we find the best answer. In order to create this conflict, we removed the rank from the title and gave it an English name.”
Kim Cheol-soo looked at his teammates who were concentrating on him.
Park Dong-gyu was also listening and writing down various things in his diary.
“Third, dedication. “Once a goal and method are set, the entire team must work hard to achieve it.”
Song Jin-young read the first letters of the three concepts he wrote down.
‘Shin Chung-heon.’
“This is the beginning and end of how we run this team.”
Kim Cheol-soo smiled slightly as he looked at his teammate nodding his head.
“Of course, this should only be done within the team. “Outwardly, things are a little different.”
“There must be a sense of disconnect.”
Kim Cheol-soo also nodded at Lee Kyung-jeon’s words.
“It will be like that for a while. But if we start to achieve peak performance with this way of running teams, our approach will start to get noticed. “The highest goals of a company are performance and money.”
There was silence in the conference room for a moment.
“One day we will change the culture of this company. “When that time comes, everyone here will be the most notable people in this company.”
Song Jinyoung, who had been listening quietly, slowly opened his mouth.
“Charles.”
“yes.”
“··· How old are you?”
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