The next morning, in the largest strategy conference room at the group headquarters, the atmosphere was so heavy it felt as if it could condense into water.
Around the long, oval conference table sat the heads of the group’s major business units, as well as the top brass from core functional departments like Finance, Human Resources, and Legal. Wang Laohu maintained his usual expression—deep as the ocean—his eyes shifting between Li Banjia’s young back and the thick "Group Smart Retail Promotion Master Blueprint (First Draft)" in his hand. The other veteran presidents mostly kept their faces calm, though the occasional glint in their eyes betrayed the turmoil within.
They were all "old foxes" who had spent years clawing their way up within the group. For this "briefing" led by a man in his twenties, they felt, to varying degrees, a sense of scrutiny, skepticism, and even a sliver of imperceptible resistance. After all, "Smart Retail" sounded wonderful, but to implement it with such sweeping force across the entire group would inevitably touch upon the business models and power boundaries they had long grown accustomed to.
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