After Reborn, I Become a Billionaire novel Chapter 380

The atmosphere in the conference room had become stiff ever since the voices of doubt.

Standing on the stage, the executive of the finance department said with a little embarrassment, “Right, Mr Moss was right...I did only analyze the income and expenses within my department and didn’t do a horizontal comparison of our marketing share in competitive markets. And I’ll improve it after the presentation.”

“I don’t want to see this inane financial statement again,” said Simon Moss seriously.

“Yes,” the executive was kind of embarrassed because of his words.

But as senior management, he dared not speak against Simon, and the only thing he could do was to listen.

“You can finish it now.” It was Miguel Cooper who gave him an out. But he also wasn’t against Simon’s point of view.

The whole presentation only focused on the internal data of the group, which was kind of stupid in large part—the market defined the survival ability of a company and was the ultimate measure.

“We shouldn’t pay any attention to the next financial analysis report at present. I think we have to talk about why we lost the project of the South Bay New Town when all the top executives are here today. This is a typical failure of our market competition. To put it bluntly, no matter how much our turnover increased year-to-year or sequentially, we’re suffering losses in the market!” Simon’s face clouded.

Hannah had gathered that the failure of this project wouldn’t be let go easily.

“Mr Cooper, I personally think that the failure of this project shouldn’t end up like this. And we have to learn lessons from it or we’ll lose other projects in the same way next time.” Simon said with seriousness.

Before Miguel started speaking, a top executive agreed and said, “Mr Moss is right. The project of South Bay New Town is the largest in the last five years in Kensbury City. And we should reflect on our mistakes as we have lost this important one.”

“This is only part of the story.” Another executive said, “We must not forget to punish people who are responsible. Otherwise, if projects can fail with no consequences, then nobody will have the pressure or motivation to work out the projects.”

For a while, the people in the conference room began talking at once. Hannah still kept silent. She didn’t speak up for herself at all yet she didn’t admit her mistakes either.

It was Miguel who said with over seriousness, “The failure of the South Bay New Town Project shouldn’t be attributed to any person in particular. But it’s a breach of responsibility of the whole company and the whole team. First, this project was reported by Hannah in front of all the top executives. And if I remembered clearly, it was passed unanimously. It means that we’re all responsible for the project’s failure, and it’s not someone’s fault. If you want to punish the responsible person, all of us would be involved.”

Wayne could hardly hide the smug smile on his face. He eagerly looked forward to seeing her like a mess. Now he just wanted to see if Hannah had some tricks to help her escape unscathed from this meeting.

“You didn’t report your failure and the reason to the company when you lost the project. What did you do? Run away? I can say you have no sense of responsibility in your character. Be serious, the good news is that you’re only in charge on an interim basis now. And I’ll worry about the development of the company if you become the vice president. Regardless of the company’s future, I doubt that you want to run away if something goes run with the company!” Simon scolded.

Hannah slightly compressed her lips. She had predicted what would happen today, so she could be composed. Before she said any words, another shareholder said loudly, “I admit that Hannah has the abilities. But I disagree with her sense of responsibility. Of cause, we can think she just graduated from college and climb into society, so she’s too young to understand the market and, she does as she wants. For this reason, I think she still needs time to learn. Therefore, I personally suggest we should change her off the position of the interim head, and even off the name list of vice president.”

“I agree,” Simon said immediately.

“So who do you think is better suited for this position?” Hannah didn’t want to argue anymore, so she went with what they said and asked, “Wayne? Just like his father.”

Wayne was excited as soon as he heard the name of himself. But Charles had told him that he couldn’t be impatient. Thus, he planned to drag Hannah into the mire this time, which didn’t mean he had to replace her immediately though. If he did so, he might leave a bad impression on the management. So the best way was not to accept the position as the vice-president of the company. And he could get there by right of his abilities in the future.

As for the abilities, of course, Charles would prepare for him as he had promised.