Friday, February 28th.

On the last day of February, which was also the last day of Lu Qi’s term as rotating president, Zhang Shuo personally presided over the senior management meeting of Sprout Group.

Participants in the meeting included the group’s rotating presidents Lu Qi and Lu Kai, executive vice president Jiang Yue, senior vice president Gu Mingzhang, vice president Zhao Mingchuan, Fertile Land Research Institute chief scientist Tan Yunsong, group human resources director Wu Sheyuan, financial director Cai Feijuan, and operations director Liu Xiaohui.

Waiting for headquarters executives.

There are also group directors Olivia, independent directors Zhang Wei and Zhai Sheng.

In addition, executives such as Lin Zhengdong, president of Daosui Group, Du Qingqing, president of Pinxixi Group, Tang Xiang, president of Mango Group, Pei Weiping, chairman of Qingcheng Group, and Guan Zai, general manager of Nebula Technology, also attended the meeting online.

The specifications are very rare.

It also reflects the importance of this meeting from the side.

Sure enough, as soon as the meeting began, Zhang Shuo announced a major decision——

Terminate the rotating president system.

"Two and a half years ago, in order to provide the group's executives with a higher experience platform and to select the right leader, the group established a rotating president system."

During this period, Gu Mingzhang, Lu Kai, and Lu Qi all participated in the rotation of rotating presidents.

Gu Mingzhang was the first to exit.

"Today, after internal competition, as well as the inspection and evaluation of the board of directors, it was finally decided that Lu Kai, the executive director of the group, will officially assume the position of president of the group. He will be fully responsible for the daily operating affairs of the Germination Group and report directly to me.

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It is said that it is an inspection and evaluation by the board of directors, but it is actually a reflection of Zhang Shuo's personal will.

In addition to the group president, Lu Kai also serves as the president of Weizhong Group. He will also continue to serve as a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Strategy and Investment Committee of the Board of Directors of Sprout Group.

"Bah bang bang!!!"

As soon as Zhang Shuo finished speaking, bursts of applause rang out in the conference room, everyone congratulating Lu Kai.

It can be seen that this appointment is still very popular.

In fact, the competition for the position of president of Sprout Group began to emerge as early as three years ago, and it has finally come to an end today.

Jiang Yue, who was the first to join the industry and had the best chance of rising to the top, had limited self-control, so he quit first and became the executive vice president, firmly occupying the third position in the group.

It can be said to be extremely smart.

Later, Gu Mingzhang, Lu Qi and others appeared one after another, and then left one after another.

In the end, Lu Kai had the last laugh.

"Thank you, thank you to the chairman for your trust, thank you to the board of directors for your trust, and thank you to all my colleagues for their support." Lu Kai suppressed his excitement and stood up to pay his respects.

Although I had received Zhang Shuo's commitment years ago, I was still very excited when the appointment actually came to fruition.

After taking on the role of president of Sprout Group, according to the president responsibility system, from now on, human resources director Wu Sheyuan, operations director Liu Xiaohui, financial director Cai Feijuan, etc. will all report directly to Lu Kai.

It greatly reduced Zhang Shuo’s work burden.

If Zhang Shuo is willing, he can even accept a separate report from Lu Kai. Others, such as Executive Vice President Jiang Yue, Senior Vice President Gu Mingzhang, etc., can report to Lu Kai instead.

The subsidiaries under the group communicate and negotiate through the president's joint meeting.

Of course, in actual work, because Zhang Shuo also serves as CO of the Germination Group and has not really stepped down from the front line, Jiang Yue, Gu Mingzhang, Lu Qi and others will still report to him.

The group's major decisions and important personnel adjustments still have to be made by Zhang Shuo.

But there is no doubt that with the termination of the rotating president system and after officially assuming the position of group president, Lu Kai's authority has been further improved, truly under one person.

It can be considered as a realization of my long-cherished wish to join Sprout.

In addition to the appointment of Lu Kai, the group's board of directors has also made corresponding arrangements for Lu Qi. Lu Qi will be transferred to the position of director and senior vice president of Sprout Group and will still be in charge of the group's Internet business.

at the same time.

Lu Qi also serves as the president of Qinghe Group.

In terms of actual power, Lu Qi has not been weakened, but unfortunately, he lost to the more superior Lu Kai in the CEO competition, so he could only settle for second best.

This is also a better destination for Lu Qi.

After all, the current scale of Qinghe Group alone, both in terms of revenue and future development potential, is comparable to any of the three giants Ali, Tengda, and Qiandu.

Not to mention, Lu Qi also manages Qingcheng Group and Pinxixi Group.

No matter in terms of momentum or power, Lu Qi's choice in this life is much stronger than joining Qiandu in the original time and space. The key is that he will not be suspected or abandoned.

What else is there to be dissatisfied with?

In addition to the heavyweight appointments of Lu Kai and Lu Qi, Zhang Shuo finally relented and promoted Dai Yutong to the post of director of the President's Office.

The promotion of Dai Yutong is not only a recognition of Dai Yutong's ability, but also considering that after Lu Kai becomes the group president, the President's Office will play a more important communication and coordination role between Zhang Shuo and Lu Kai.

In a sense, Dai Yutong is Zhang Shuo's spokesperson.

"Thank you, thank you, Chairman, for your trust!"

Dai Yutong, who was taking the minutes of the meeting himself, had not received any news in advance, so he seemed a little surprised when he heard the news.

I can't even speak anymore.

After her mood calmed down a little, she felt a little dazed again, and she finally stood at the level of Sister Xiaowan.

Although the latter has been away for more than a year.

In addition to promoting Dai Yutong, Zhang Shuo also announced that Luo Changan, the former general manager of the investment and M&A department of the group, was promoted to the investment director of the sprout group and the general manager of sprout investment, in charge of the group's investment and financing division.

Previously, this piece was actually handled by Lu Kai himself.

Luo Chang'an, as Lu Kai's right-hand man, has played a backbone role in the previous investments and mergers of the Budding Group. His performance has always been remarkable and he has won Zhang Shuo's trust.

This promotion was also expected.

After all, after Lu Kai became the president of the group, he also held the position of president of Weizhong Group. It was really difficult for him to handle the group's investment business personally.

It's not like he has three heads and six arms.

From then on, Luo Changan, the investment director, and Zhao Mingchuan, the president of the overseas business unit, will share the specific investment business and overseas business for Lu Kai.

This allows Lu Kai to coordinate and manage the business of Sprout Group from an overall perspective.

Truly fulfill the responsibilities of the group president.

Otherwise, if after Lu Kai is promoted to the group president, he will still be mainly responsible for the group's investment and financing business and overseas business, what is the difference from his previous role?

It also does not conform to Zhang Shuo's personnel layout.

This personnel adjustment can be said to be the most significant since the establishment of Sprout, but it did not cause any setbacks and everything seemed to fall into place naturally.

Because before this, Zhang Shuo had already had private conversations with Lu Kai and Lu Qi.

Among the senior executives, those with a keen sense of smell, such as Jiang Yue, were planning to establish Qinghe Group years ago, and then Lu Qi concurrently served as the president of Qinghe Group, and then stepped down as chairman of Qingcheng Group.

Then, although Zhao Mingchuan succeeded Lu Kai as the group's vice president, president of the overseas business unit and president of Jiaoyang Holdings, he still reported to Lu Kai.

All signs indicate that the winner between Lu Kai and Lu Qi has been decided.

That's why it seems so "calm".

After announcing the personnel adjustments, Zhang Shuo delivered a brief speech.

"First of all, the first point is, of course, I hope that you will support Mr. Lu Kai's work, report anything to Mr. Lu in advance, discuss it with him, and try not to bring trouble to me. I still want to retire early."

"Hahaha"

All the executives smiled in agreement, but obviously didn't take it seriously.

Because Zhang Shuo is too young, he is only 28 years old this year. Even in the environment of Internet entrepreneurship, he is still at his most energetic stage.

It's really ridiculous to talk about retirement at this time.

"Don't laugh, I'm serious."

Zhang Shuo actually planned this, explaining, "My plan is to step down from the position of CEO of the group within the next three to five years and truly withdraw from the day-to-day management of Sprout."

In the original time and space, Lao Zhang was only 38 years old when he left office. There was no reason for him to fall behind.

Five years later, Zhang Shuo was actually thirty-three years old, and he was old enough to "retire". He didn't want to work until he was fifty or sixty like the second master, and still do everything himself in the co position.

That’s so tiring!

In addition, after five years, Zhang Shuo's prophetic vision of rebirth has basically come to an end, so it is even more important to prepare for a rainy day and no longer dictate the daily affairs of the group.

Retreating bravely from the rapids is the right path.

"Uh, this..."

Seeing the big boss speaking so seriously, the executives were dumbfounded.

"Chairman, you are still so young, and Germination is still so young. Isn't it too early to talk about this matter now?" Lu Kai was the first to stand up and "admonish".

Although it is said that Zhang Shuo really wants to step down from his position as CO of the group, Lu Kai is the natural candidate to succeed him.

Therefore, they will also be the biggest beneficiaries.

But precisely because of this, Lu Kai had to be the first to stand up and remonstrate, to show that he had no ambition to covet the position of CEO of the group and to completely draw a clear line.
To be continued...