Real Man

Chapter 632:

But to Yoo-hyun, this was not a problem at all.

He had someone who could fill that gap for him.

Team Leader Na Do Yeon.

She would have known what to do as soon as she saw this member composition.

Yoo-hyun could easily imagine what she would assign him.

And she would not miss what he had in mind.

Finally, Yoo-hyun asked.

“Then why did you assign Deputy Jang Jun Sik to me?”

“To bring out his potential.”

“Yes. Deputy Jang Jun Sik can soar with you. The reason is…”

Yoo-hyun listened carefully to Team Leader Ahn Jae Kyung’s words.

They contained the aspects of Deputy Jang Jun Sik that Yoo-hyun had overlooked.

Team Leader Ahn Jae Kyung reported the issues raised in the meeting to Team Leader Na Do Yeon separately.

He also added the plans he had told Yoo-hyun.

Most of them were related to team management, which could be uncomfortable for the team leader.

But Team Leader Na Do Yeon did not ignore Team Leader Ahn Jae Kyung’s words.

Rather, she pinpointed the core and took action.

The result came as an email, just like last time.

-I have divided the attached task list into five categories. I intend to proceed with the work by distributing the staff as follows.

Marketing, Planning, Production Strategy

In charge: Deputy Director Hong Seung Jae, Deputy Director Choi Kyu Tae

Production, Quality, Distribution

In charge: Deputy Director Kim Sung Deuk, Deputy Kwon Se-jung

Parts Suppliers, Affiliates

In charge: Manager Shin Nak Kyun, Deputy Jung Hyun-woo

Development, Design

In charge: Manager Han Yoo-hyun, Deputy Jang Jun Sik

Organizational Change, Staff Allocation, Decision Making

In charge: Team Leader Na Do Yeon, Manager Ahn Jae Kyung

Team Leader Na Do Yeon added a big picture to this.

She planned to list up and sort out all the problematic parts among the related departments and affiliates and parts companies, such as development, planning, design, production, and quality.

The tasks for each staff were clear.

They had to start from the problem identification that Team Leader Na Do Yeon had described as watermelon licking.

Maintaining the big direction, finding solutions was the next step.

Yoo-hyun skimmed through the content and smiled.

“That’s quite bold.”

She said she would start from zero, but she was going to reorganize the whole organization.

To do this, she might have to overturn the projects that had been done so far.

There would be a lot of resistance.

Still, Team Leader Na Do Yeon trusted the facts she had confirmed with Vice President Yeo Tae-sik and pushed forward.

She ruled out the thought that it wouldn’t work, as time was short.

It was a moment to see her drive.

Maybe because they were all unexpected, the experienced people couldn’t accept them easily.

The content was one thing, but the team composition was also a problem.

Only one person was smiling in the awkward atmosphere.

It was Deputy Jang Jun Sik.

He seemed to be very happy to work closely with Yoo-hyun.

As soon as he checked the email, he approached Yoo-hyun and greeted him warmly.

“I’ll do my best!”

“There’s nothing good about working with me. You’ll suffer.”

“It’s okay. I’ll do whatever you tell me to do.”

He was always cheerful, saying he would do whatever he was told.

And he wasn’t just saying it.

He had always done his assigned tasks on his own.

That was a big help, so Yoo-hyun had left him alone.

But now the situation had changed.

Yoo-hyun sent Deputy Jang Jun Sik away and pondered over the conversation with Manager Ahn Jae Kyung.

-Deputy Jang Jun Sik has a combination of analytical and explorer personality types. This style does not depend on anyone and leads the work proactively.

-He seemed to depend on me a lot.

-That’s why I paradoxically connected him with you. If he can break the mold, he will have great synergy with you.

Manager Ahn Jae Kyung’s intuition saw the potential of Deputy Jang Jun Sik that Yoo-hyun had not seen.

This was not nonsense, as Yoo-hyun’s memory of working with Manager Ahn Jae Kyung proved.

If Deputy Jang Jun Sik could grow as he said?

It would surely be a great help to Yoo-hyun’s power.

He knew this well, but he couldn’t just sit still.

What should he do?

He had several ideas, but the first thing was to fill his shortcomings.

Yoo-hyun called someone who could do that.

It was Han Jae Hee.

After work, Yoo-hyun came home and waited for Han Jae Hee while browsing the news.

On the monitor, there was a special article written by reporter Oh Eun-bi.

She seemed to be very disappointed with Han Sung smartphone, as the title was full of criticism.

The content was even more harsh.

Just by looking at this, he could see how much Han Sung smartphone had messed up last year.

The content was quite detailed, so Yoo-hyun examined the article carefully.

Especially, he focused on the parts about hardware, software, and design.

He was in charge of development and design with Deputy Jang Jun Sik, so he couldn’t help but be interested.

Yoo-hyun summarized the rather rough words in a softer way.

The hardware was not faithful to the basics and pursued excessively unique features.

The software was lagging behind in OS updates and unstable, and had no killer applications.

The appearance was too bulky and heavy, and unnecessarily thick.

The UX was not consistent across smartphones, and still had the remnants of the color phone era, giving an old-fashioned feel.

A phone that was useless, unstable, bulky, and old-fashioned.

It was a bit exaggerated, but not much different from how the public viewed Han Sung smartphone.

Especially, the part about the design was painfully true.

“Jae Hee would go crazy if she saw this.”

As Yoo-hyun clicked his tongue, a sharp voice came from behind.

“Why are you looking at that if you know it’s going to make me mad? Who are you trying to piss off?”

“What, when did you come?”

“I just came.”

Snap.

Han Jae Hee snatched the mouse and looked at the content again.

Then she spat out the piled up words with a fiery gaze.

“I told you. It’s all because of those bastards in the development center. We did it right.”

“Who said we didn’t do it right?”

Yoo-hyun replied casually, and Han Jae Hee pounded her chest.

“Ugh! It’s frustrating. Aren’t they going to dump their mistakes on us again this time?”

“That’s why I called you.”

“What?”

“I called you to help you solve your problem.”

Han Jae Hee blinked her eyes at Yoo-hyun’s unexpected words.

She hadn’t been involved in smartphone design for long.

She didn’t know the details of the tangled issues between the departments.

But that made her more passionate about confronting the development center, and she felt the problems painfully.

Her vivid testimony would help unravel the twisted problem.

Yoo-hyun was thinking of telling Deputy Jang Jun Sik, who lacked field experience, such facts.

The next day, Yoo-hyun sat Deputy Jang Jun Sik next to him.

He had a lot to fill in, not just the lack of experience.

He pointed to Deputy Director Choi Kyu Tae’s side with that intention.

“Look at Deputy Director Hong and Deputy Director Choi over there.”

“Yes. They are facing each other.”

As Deputy Jang Jun Sik said, the two people who always clashed were having a discussion.

If someone who didn’t know saw them, they wouldn’t look any different from collaborating.

Yoo-hyun asked a question, seeing the unusual sight.

“Why do you think those two are talking without hesitation?”

“Isn’t it because of the JK Communication modem?”

“The modem? Why?”

“It seems like they are trying to figure out how to apply it to the next smartphone.”

It was a newly released content, so it was true that traffic control was needed.

It was also an important part for setting the direction.

Yoo-hyun partly agreed, but also raised a counter argument.

“That might be true. But even so, do they need to discuss like that? They could just sort it out and share it, right?”

“That’s true.”

“Don’t you have any other thoughts?”

“I’m, I’m sorry.”

He just asked, but Deputy Jang Jun Sik lowered his head.

He liked Yoo-hyun so much that he didn’t want to disappoint him.

It was a recurring problem, so Yoo-hyun drew a line.

“What are you sorry for? From now on, sorry is forbidden.”

“So, sorry… Yes. I understand.”

Then he closed his mouth tightly, and Yoo-hyun explained the specific reason to him.

He had never done this before.

“The answer I think is necessary.”

“Necessary?”

“Yes. They have to move the marketing, planning, and strategy department staff secretly until the organizational restructuring, while keeping the core issues secret. The given time is too short.”

“They have to work together in this situation.”

“Right. And they are not just identifying the problem, but also suggesting the direction. They have to be careful, as the whole thing can go wrong.”

“Ah, I understand.”

It was something that could be understood at once if one could draw a big picture, considering all this.

It meant that Deputy Jang Jun Sik could not fully understand it.

He knew it well, but Yoo-hyun didn’t bother to ask.

He could build it up one by one like this.

“Good. Then let’s look at Manager Shin over there.”

“Yes. Deputy Jung is in front of him.”

“What do you think they are doing?”

“Deputy Jung seems to be writing something continuously since a while ago.”

It looked like he was summarizing Manager Shin’s words.

“What do you think it is?”

“I don’t know.”

It was absurd to guess in a situation where he couldn’t see or hear.

But that was what someone who didn’t know would say.

If he knew the background and the given task, he should be able to infer.

“What would you do if you were Manager Shin?”

“First, I would contact the supplier’s manager…”

“Keep going.”

As Yoo-hyun gestured, Deputy Jang Jun Sik paused for a moment and continued.

“I would update the proposed new parts schedule to the latest.”

“And then?”

“I would check the risk situation for each item.”

He also had to check all the existing issues.

There were some shortcomings, but it was a more than 70-point answer.

Yoo-hyun nodded his head right away.

“Hmm, that’s enough for now.”

“Thank you.”

“‘Thank you.’ is also forbidden. You did well.”

“Tha… Yes. I understand.”

Deputy Jang Jun Sik looked very excited by a little compliment.

It was too early to be happy with this.

He had the potential to see much further.

Yoo-hyun went into more detail to widen Deputy Jang Jun Sik’s narrow vision.

It was completely different from the past, when he had left him alone to do well.

“Okay, then let’s go to our work.”

“Our work?”

“Yes. What do we have to do now?”

“We are in charge of development and design, so we have to…”

“Don’t just look at the fragmentary problems…”

Yoo-hyun listened to Jang Jun Sik’s explanation and corrected the wrong parts.

He advised him to draw a picture with his imagination.

He pushed him to see further.