Chapter 532 - Three Experiences of Failure (2/2)

Qiu Hong smiled slightly and continued. “A boss definitely cannot do everything. He would be dog-tired if he were to do that, and he wouldn’t be able to do a good job. At this point, you should find various people-in-charge for various businesses.

“There is a difference between this point and project management. Project management is how to utilize talents while what we are referring to now is how to find talents! Relatively speaking, it is more difficult to find talents.

“Many projects fail because the leader does not have good vision. He could be deceived by some boastful scammers who entrusted him with important tasks but with no practical ability at all.”

Pei Qian nodded his head vigorously. “So, where are these scammers?”

Qiu Hong did not know how to answer for a while. “Uh… they are hidden in the vast crowd.”

Pei Qian asked. “Then, in theory, there should be quite a lot of such scammers, right?”.

Qiu Hong thought about it. “Who knows? No one has done data analytics in this area. But I think it should be okay. Most people encounter a scammer or two when they start their businesses, right?”

Pei Qian was really speechless. Does that mean I’ve bad luck then?

Then, it still would not work. This one seems to be useless. After all, I really did not possess any talent for identifying scammers. Zhang Wang was the best example.

Pei Qian coughed slightly. “Em, Boss Qiu, that does not seem to be much help as well…”

Qiu Hong was taken aback. “Em… nevermind, Boss Ma, I’ll change one more. I don’t have many successful experiences but plenty of failed experiences!”

Pei Qian: “…”

What was going on with this inexplicable feeling of sympathy? Qiu Hong thought for a while. “Then, I’ll talk about the concept of ‘deviation from common sense’ next!”

Pei Qian nodded, feeling that this theory seemed good and should be of help to him!

Qiu Hong explained. “In a game company, we will often hear phrases like this: “The boss is an SB(1). He knows nothing and can do nothing’ or ‘The newly recruited planner is too stupid. He has been fired by me.’

“Such dialogue happens in many game companies. Their tones are very similar as well. Then, why do people in the game circle always think that they do not understand anything?

“An experienced chief planner and a producer who can attract investors should all be experienced. Both sides maintain that the other party ‘did not understand anything’, so who would not understand?

“This is the ‘deviation from common sense’. That means to say that everyone’s common sense is different. We are both thinking about the same thing, but the common sense I think I possess and the common sense you think you possess are totally different. Therefore, both of us will think that the other party does not understand at all.

“For example, the thing with ‘Cottage Game’. They are proven successes to both the capital venturist and the boss so why don’t they do it? To most businesses, what future is there in doing something that others had already done too much of?

“Of course, this is a very simple example. In actual working conditions, such ‘deviation from common sense’ will only be serious, and it would have an impact on all aspects of the company’s operations in the process of making games and ultimately completely deviate from the original intention of the project.” Pei Qian blinked blankly.

Wasn’t that exactly what I was going through?!

A real confidante!

Pei Qian grasped Qiu Hong’s hand. “Yes, yes, yes! That’s exactly how I feel! I’m so conflicted about this! So, how shall we solve this problem of ‘deviation from common sense’?”

Qiu Hong smiled. “Well, this is easy to say but difficult to do. It is to establish good communication with each other.

“The root cause of ‘deviation from common sense’ is not understanding each other. As long as they can communicate well, let the other party understand their true thoughts, and form a joint force in the same direction; then the problem arising from ‘deviation from common sense’ could be resolved to a certain extent.”

Pei Qian: “…”

The enthusiasm was extinguished again.

Why was it yet another solution that I could not use at all?!

Communicate well and let the other party understand what you really think? I want to do that too, but the system did not allow it!

I could not let anyone know that I’m making losses on purpose! What was worse was that my employees seemed to have formed some kind of synergy, but they were all in the opposite direction…

Pei Qian was instantly discouraged. The three experiences for failure that he had learned today could be said to be rather rewarding.

However… none of them could be used!

Qiu Hong looked at his watch. His time today was almost up; he sighed in his heart.

Har, Boss Ma had such high expectations. If it was not because I was prepared with my massive amount of failed experience, then it was really possible that this course could not go on today. What was with this sad feeling…?

Luckily, the class was successfully completed today!

Boss Ma looked down in deep thought. He should be rather inspired, right?

Pei Qian raised his head. “Boss Qiu, I have one last question. What will happen ifhypothetically, I mean, hypothetically-if all the three problems that you mentioned were not problems anymore?” Qiu Hong was taken aback but smiled. “Then, congratulations to Boss Ma, you will be able to make money lying down! “Do whatever you want to do without being directed by anyone blindly; choose all the talents and everyone could be independent; there is no deviation from common sense between all the employees, all had the same goals and worked hard in the same place… “If you cannot succeed, who can?”

Pei Qian: “…”

Those words were too heart wrenching.

He was here to learn about failure, but he was in greater despair now that he had learned it!

[1] This is short for ‘ShaBi’, internet slang in China for ‘stupid’.