509 The Aura of an Overbearing CEO (1/2)

The entire management staff of the U.S. National Track and Field Team, more than a dozen people, were gathered in the meeting room. Among them were the U.S. National Track and Field Team leader cum manager, the team doctor, the physiotherapist, the nutritionist, and even a lawyer. Apart from that, there were also a few assistant coaches.

Affected by the performance-enhancing drug scandal, the coaching team that Sebastian had established had long vanished. As for the second coach, Rivers, he was forced out before he had the chance to develop his team. The current U.S. National Track and Field Team didn't even have even one specialization coach, not to mention an assistant head coach. The only ones left were the assistant coaches they recruited hastily.

The few assistant coaches were whispering among themselves, some of them seemed a little excited.

”That's the new Coach Li, he arrived yesterday morning. He shut himself in his office the whole day, he even ordered takeout for lunch. I haven't seen him till now,” one of them said.

”I saw him yesterday off work. I'll let you in on something, he's here alone,” another person said mysteriously.

”Alone? So what?” Another on the side asked, confused.

”Him being alone means that he hasn't established his coaching team! Who knows, some of us might have a chance to become a specialty coach,” the person answered.

The assistant coaches instantly became interested because assistant coaches were the lowest ranking coaches in the national team. They could only conduct the most basic kinds of the daily training. After the training camp, their work would be completed. It was impossible for them to follow the U.S. national team to the Olympic Games.

If one were to join the coaching team of the head coach, everything would be different. A specialty coach would at least be responsible for a particular event and, as such, would be able to follow the U.S. national team to the Olympic Games.

The others, however, poured cold water on them by saying, ”I think you guys should stop getting ahead of yourselves. There are so many coaches all over the U.S. that, even if the new head coach wanted to build a new team, he wouldn't use us.”

”But the third training camp is going to start soon. Where would the new head coach find time to build a new coaching team? He would still need to rely on us.”

As the U.S. National Track and Field Team head coach, if Dai Li wanted to start his work smoothly, he needed to establish his coaching team. He needed at least two assistants or deputies and, apart from that, he also needed one specialty coach responsible for each of the events. That meant a coach for the sprint, middle and long distance running, the marathon, the high jump, the long jump, hurling, race walking, hurdle, and obstacle course events.

The only thing was that building a coaching team wasn't something one could accomplish in a short amount of time. Sebastian took several weeks to build his coaching team, and now, with so many coaches being involved in the performance-enhancing drug scandal, Dai Li's choices had decreased, making it even harder to create a coaching team.

As the assistant coaches discussed among themselves, they heard a lot of footsteps approaching from the hallway.

Looks like a lot of people arrived, everyone thought as they looked toward the direction of the footsteps. A few seconds later, Dai Li pushed the door open with around eight or nine people behind him.

”Why did he bring so many people?” Everyone looked curiously at Dai Li.

Dai Li coughed and cleared his throat before saying, ”Hello everyone, I'm the new head coach, Dai Li. The people behind me are members of my coaching team, I will introduce them to you in a moment.”

The initially expectant assistant coaches instantly looked gloomy. No one understood how this happened. Just a day before, Dai Li was alone. How did he have an entire coaching team in after only one day?

”Coach Li, who'd have thought you would finish building your coaching team so quickly? However, I sure haven't seen the faces of these coaches before,” the one who spoke was the U.S. National Track and Field Team leader cum manager, Donny. He had previously met with Dai Li.

”These are all coaches from my physical fitness training center.” Dai Li pointed behind him and said, ”Time is of the essence, so I don't have time to contact the other coaches. Besides, a new team would need time to gel, so I might brought my people because we're more familiar with each other. We also established a tacit understanding a long time ago. We'll save time because we already know each other, which will help us get into the work faster.”

”So that's it.” Donny thought in his mind how rich coaches were different. Even building a coaching team was so simple. It was a feat that took others a few weeks to accomplish yet, when it came to Dai Li, he simply accomplished it by getting his subordinates to do the work.

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