Chapter 306: Ganging Up

In the Chairman’s office, Masayoshi Kishimoto stood in front of the sand table, gazing at the model of the Hard Gold Group’s future headquarters building located in Roppongi Rokudome, Minato Ward.

Nowadays, it was only a model, but in a few years’ time it would rise up and become a reality. Not only that, the Hard Gold Group’s headquarters building would become a landmark in Roppongi.

Yamada Mirai knocked on the door and walked in, stopping above the chairman’s position within a meter. She said bluntly, “There are media outlets that want to give you an exclusive interview.”

“You politely decline for me!” Masayoshi Kishimoto said with the attention of one pair of eyes still resting on the sand table.

“If it was any other media, I wouldn’t have come to ask you, Chairman. This time it’s TV Tokyo’s economic program channel.” Yamada Mirai had a say in the matter.

Masayoshi Kishimoto understood that this was his own media wanting to do an exclusive interview with himself. Nowadays, the entire Roppongi’s old city reconstruction plan had been announced to the society, and the Hard Gold Group had come out on top.

It goes without saying that there is instant news value. The public naturally wanted to know more about the details of the Hard Gold Group’s plans for Roppongi New Town.

The advantage of this trend is that it can widely publicize Hard Gold Group’s corporate image, dramatically increasing its visibility among the general public.

Masayoshi Kishimoto did not like to show his face and said: “I don’t care about the interview. You ask them to interview President Yamaguchi Katsuhei of Hard Gold Construction. He’s the one directly responsible for the Roppongi Old Town renovation program.

In addition to that, it would be best to have them do a special report on our Hard Gold Group. I’ll leave it to Ryosuke Natsume in the Publicity Department and Ryui Miyazaki in the Planning Department.

There’s only one thing I want to emphasize, the image promo about our group of companies must be shot with a sense of self-importance.”

“Understood. Chairman, is there anything else you need to explain?” Yamada Mirai took out the small notepad he had with him to write it all down, and replied in a serious manner.

Kishimoto walked towards his presidential throne with righteousness, turned around and sat down, “The company has been very busy lately, it’s all because I drank too much at the celebration banquet that night.”

Of course Yamada Mirai understood what he was talking about. She said on the matter, “Actually, I think Chairman, your intention was to praise President Yamaguchi Katsuhei for his excellent work all along, but unexpectedly it was over-interpreted by someone and spread out.

Even if you hadn’t said that, today’s incident would have happened sooner or later. When the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds. Everyone is just trying to have a better future in the future.”

“The matter has come to this. According to you, how to solve it? Should we leave them alone and let them go, or should we issue an official notice and enforce the ban?” Justice Kishimoto calmly said.

“My personal opinion is to let them go, there will always be a time when the winds calm down. I’m afraid that the more they ban it, the more they won’t be able to ban it, and it will even create a rebellious mentality.

Even if an official notice is issued that no further discussion is allowed, it only limits this one thing to the company’s boundaries.

In addition to working hours, there is no guarantee that some people will not talk about it in private. If the company even want to interfere with this, it is really too much.

Besides, ganging up and creating cliques is something that happens in any big company.” Yamada Mirai said as she shared her opinion.

Masayoshi Kishimoto realized that he could seal the mouths of people, but not the mouths of altars. Besides, Japan was another country with freedom of speech.

He is not afraid of subordinates just chatting, he is worried about chatting into internal conflict. It wasn’t like he himself didn’t realize that it wasn’t like such a thing could be avoided.

“You make a good point.” Justice Kishimoto recognized her statement and point of view and said.

“Back then, when I entered to work for the Hard Gold Group from a bankrupt company next door, I also suffered from the unfriendly treatment and ostracization of the old employees of the original Hard Gold Capital.

Nowadays, the divide has been largely bridged above. I believe that it is not time that has washed away those things, but that I have proven my value to the company with my strength.” Mirai Yamada used herself as an example to illustrate.

“You’re ignoring an objective fact, not everyone in the group company can be like you. People with strong abilities can achieve promotion to the maximum extent by working hard and relying on their performance without taking any devious paths.

As the company’s top decision makers often like to use the subordinates who focus on doing things well. But, after all, this is a small number of people. Most people are of average ability.

They also have the same desire for promotion and salary increase. The problem is that there are only a limited number of seats, and it’s unlikely that everyone will be able to get a promotion. Thus, you understand.” Justice Kishimoto said nonchalantly.

“Chairman, you can’t solve the various factions within the company either. Getting everyone to be of one mind and one heart is completely unrealistic!

Even if all of us followed you in the beginning, there will still be a turnover of the old and the new in the future. Currently, our group of companies is developing at such a fast pace, I’m afraid that this one aspect of the problem will become more and more complicated, and all kinds of contradictions will also become more and more prominent.” Yamada Mirai said seriously.

Justice Kishimoto didn’t want to make an assessment, and stopped there, “Alright, I don’t have anything else to do here. You can just go out first!”

Yamada Mirai gave a bow before turning away again and walking out of the president’s office. She was likewise exempt from having a faction. One had to find an alliance in addition to maintaining a high degree of consistency with the chairman.

Otherwise, if she herself made a mistake, not only would there not even be a single person who would take the initiative to stand up for her, but she would also encounter quite a lot of falling stones.

Meanwhile, Masayoshi Kishimoto fell into deep thought. To let them not fight and not grab, it was completely inconsistent with human nature. The history of mankind is to move forward in the midst of competition.

Competition within a company is not always a bad thing. The advantage is that it can maximize their motivation at work.

If you want to get ahead, then you have to produce better results than others. Like China’s state-owned enterprises, the kind of mixed day to day things in their own company do not want to think.

Even if you are an official member of the company, you can force them to leave voluntarily. As for layoffs and the like, they are the norm in companies in developed capitalist countries.

If the performance is not good, what is the point of keeping so many idle people? The company is not a family business for fun. First of all, the figure is a profit.

Subordinates of the gang will naturally follow certain principles. This is not only to find a consensus between each other, but also a common point of interest. They still need to use the art of balance to harness them.