My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1563: Chapter 635: Tactics of Managing People, Midnight Visit

"Then forget it. I only know a tiny bit about pharmaceuticals, but the entertainment industry is way deeper. If Golden Entertainment Interactive Company ends up in my hands, I’ll probably run it into the ground in under two months."

Zhou Can shrank his neck in fright when he heard Li Lao suggest he manage Golden Entertainment Interactive Company.

Being the boss of an entertainment company sounds great—you can rake in absurd amounts of money, and you’re surrounded by hordes of beautiful female singers and actresses every day. With a company as big as Golden Entertainment Interactive Company, if he wanted to sleep with a different pretty girl every night, it wouldn’t even be a problem.

But the water in the entertainment circle is far deeper, and Zhou Can was afraid he’d drown in it.

He still preferred being a hands-off shareholder like now, taking monthly dividends, counting money until his hands cramped—those are the most comfortable days.

"HR has already recruited people for you. There are a few quite capable talents in there. When the time comes, you can use them to quickly get a firm grip on the pharmaceutical department. The water in the pharmaceutical department might look deep, but in truth there are only one or two big crocodiles. Dig them out and deal with them, and there won’t be much left to worry about. My advice is: cut off the head of the evil, don’t try to wipe everyone out in one go. Otherwise, if you take down most of the pharmaceutical department’s management, the whole department will basically be paralyzed."

Li Lao wasn’t about to let his good brother face all the difficulties on his own.

He helped Zhou Can strategize, point out the direction, and at the same time recruited troops for him, preparing a batch of elite talent.

"You’ve got the talent lined up for me already, that’s great. I’m just worried that once you pull one thread, the whole thing unravels. These people are tied together root to root, clumped into a single block. If you don’t yank them out root and branch, the pharmaceutical department will still be the same old mess."

Zhou Can was having a headache over this.

Hearing that recruitment was already done made him genuinely happy.

As long as he had enough people to replace those old slick operators like Director Huang, he wasn’t worried about failing to get control of the pharmaceutical department.

It was just a matter of time, at most.

Just like Li Lao said, hammering the entire pharmaceutical department into ruins would be like crippling yourself.

A lot of core technologies were firmly held in the hands of upper management. Touch them, and they might sell those technologies off, or just sit on them and refuse to hand them over. The acquired pharmaceutical department would turn into an empty shell.

"You’ve heard of boiling a frog in warm water, right? Why don’t you just boil them to death slowly? Handle things step by step. You—everything about you is fine. You’ve got the makings of a general now, and you’re steady in how you do things. It’s just that you can’t stand even a grain of sand in your eyes. Once you spot a bad guy, you’re dying to slaughter them all. That mindset is perfect for being a doctor—when you detect disease, you want to completely eliminate it."

"But using that mindset for management doesn’t really fit. Aren’t you now a middle manager at the hospital? Whether it’s a single department or the whole hospital, you get all kinds of people. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Some are selfish, but highly competent; some are honest and loyal, but only average in ability. You need to let these people complement each other, you get that?"

Li Lao was, after all, ten to twenty years older than Zhou Can, and he’d served as a vice president at Tianyu Interactive. Whether in vision or in understanding of management, he was at least a level above Zhou Can.

It made sense—starting out by leveraging someone as ordinary as the third-tier singer Su Qianqian, in just a few years he turned Golden Entertainment Interactive Company into the top entertainment company in the central-southern region.

It had even begun to generate a siphon effect, with the authorities strongly backing Golden Entertainment Interactive Company, hoping it would scale new heights.

They wanted to turn it into the second Hengdian in the South.

By then, it would form a much larger industrial chain, creating greater economic and cultural value.

And of course, it would provide more jobs.

If Li Lao didn’t have real ability, how could he have advanced like a hot knife through butter, galloping all the way with hardly any major stumbling?

The only big crisis he’d faced was when the capital shark Hu Haikun tried to rob him through trickery.

In the end, Zhou Can used his self-developed No. 0 neuro-agent to successfully take down a traitor, then through layer upon layer of schemes, directly toppled Hu Haikun.

From then on, Golden Entertainment Interactive Company ran unimpeded, its momentum sky-high, and ultimately established a near-hegemony in the province’s entertainment scene.

On the outside, there was a subtle rumor calling Li Lao a "business prodigy" of the entertainment industry.

Unlike Zhou Can, who liked to do things in ways that defied convention, Li Lao preferred to strike unexpectedly yet carry out his schemes in a perfectly aboveboard manner.

"I get what you mean. It’s like how ancient emperors managed the imperial court—they kept both treacherous ministers and loyal ones under them, letting them counterbalance each other and reach equilibrium."

Zhou Can had excellent comprehension and loved to read, so many principles clicked for him instantly.

"Exactly, exactly! I’ve noticed you’re not only suited to being a doctor—you seem able to pick up anything really quickly. One of these days I ought to consider grooming you. When I’m older and can’t keep going, I’ll let you shoulder the burden and take Golden Entertainment Interactive Company to an even higher level."

Li Lao laughed as he offered heartfelt praise.

"Haha, that’s nice to hear—it feels like I’m walking on cotton. But I’d advise you to give up on that idea. Have your son take over when the time comes, or find a professional manager to run things while you and I just kick back as hands-off bosses. When you’re old, I’ll be old too. We can go fishing together, sit around drinking tea, play a couple games of chess—wouldn’t that be great?"

Zhou Can really didn’t want to become any kind of entrepreneur.

Maybe it had to do with him being a rich second generation—he’d never had to worry about basic living expenses.

Never short of food or clothing, financially comfortable, it had shaped his laid-back, carefree character. He preferred chasing the life he yearned for, never working just for the sake of work.

Even his current love of being a doctor was just another interest and hobby of his.