Chen Jiaming listened to Gu Nuan’s words and immediately felt the problem was tricky. If Zhong Qiaohui really found a way to convince the Americans to make a movie about the Royal Family or something else, it means Zhong Qiaohui indeed found a unique approach. It’s important to know that the entire film industry nowadays lacks content, not technology or money. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Finding a universally appealing theme, with explosive content that attracts global attention, can be said to be a very difficult problem for film companies worldwide.

Film companies, to put it bluntly, are profit-driven businesses. Without high box office returns, no one would want to make a movie. Besides, investing in United States entertainment companies is, after all, for making money.

In contrast to Zhong Qiaohui’s focus on content provision, Changda’s goal in this investment is to seek more breakthroughs in technology. That is, to further enhance current film display technology and create flashier commercial theaters, integrating with Changda’s existing commercial real estate to complete a perfect entertainment complex.

Originally, they thought this relatively prudent plan would gain favor with the Americans. However, it turned out that the United States film industry had no interest in so-called entertainment and commercial real estate complex projects. Their interest lies solely in high box office returns and developing the surrounding movie industry. Commercial real estate, to them, perhaps doesn’t represent a major profit source, hence their lack of interest.

For business partners, if you can’t present them with a highly profitable prospect, the failure rate of achieving cooperation drastically increases.

Perhaps they really overlooked something this time.

"Does Chairwoman Gu plan to change the plan?" Chen Jiaming asked after contemplating thoroughly.

"It’s too late to change." Gu Nuan’s tone was calm and composed, with her usual steadiness and decisiveness.

Indeed, saying now to change the entire cooperation plan from scratch may not even be able to match Zhong Qiaohui’s team. Moreover, losing the characteristics of their own plan would make it easier for the Americans to have preconceived notions. The worst thing is, it would appear that Changda lacks confidence in its own company and plan.

This is the most fatal point. The Americans looking for partners certainly don’t want someone unconfident and indecisive. Meanwhile, Changda Company’s internal employees would suffer a significant blow because of this, far greater than the blow from canceling the plan. Changing the original intention is equivalent to completely surrendering to and compromising with the other party.

Therefore, a top-level company decision-maker should never casually say to change a plan, especially at the critical moment nearing the plan’s conclusion.

Rather than focusing on whether an agreement can be reached with the partners to complete cooperation, Gu Nuan is more concerned about her company’s team of employees. As a company leader, she knows clearly that without these employees, everything about the company is empty talk. So fostering the employees’ self-confidence and trust in the company is more important than anything else.

A business can fail; if negotiations don’t work, they just don’t work. After all, the business world is like a battlefield; it’s impossible to win every time. These company executives have gone through numerous trials to get to this stage, surely understanding this principle and not suffering larger setbacks because of it.

But to help the employees recover quickly, it’s not about surrendering to the other side but maintaining one’s stance until victory.

The paths in the world are made by people walking them, and to walk this path, persistence is the only way.

Gu Nuan’s employee-centered corporate governance philosophy surprised Chen Jiaming greatly. Solely because Gu Nuan seldom expressed her intentions to others openly, although everyone could see that all reforms and advancements since Gu Nuan took over have centered around functioning with the company’s employees.