Chapter 73 The Leader's Problem

"For example, many students are good at criticism and theory, but poor at practice. Workers are generally shallow-minded and unable to take charge. This has led to a lack of qualified propaganda personnel."

"For example, students are planning to create publications and literary works for propaganda purposes. However, they have generally moved to Piltover for a long time and are too deeply influenced by the campus environment. The articles, music, and dramas they create are out of touch with the masses and too elegant."

"Workers are generally illiterate and cannot shoulder the responsibility of literary and artistic propaganda."

"For example, some students did not do enough publicity, so out of sympathy, they gave relief to apprentices who were in financial difficulties. As a result, the workers were generally unaware of the class attributes of the Leaders, and they regarded us as the kind-hearted Piltover masters who did charity."

"Some of the working groups of the Leaders have completely become charity organizations that distribute money. The staff within the group have almost become charity specialists who distribute relief funds."

"The apprentices who came to participate in the activities seemed to come only for the relief money. There was even a strange phenomenon where people came but did not take a seat, and had to pay before they could sit down and listen to the lecture."

"Even worse, some hooligans came here specifically to ask for money. If they couldn't get the money, they would just get together and play dirty. Our staff had to use cold words to intimidate us, and even use Miss Caitlin's relationship to invite law enforcement officers to come, before we could barely control the situation."

The Leader's propaganda against the people of Zaun ended up with the Piltover law enforcement officers having to come to maintain law and order... This is simply black humor.

"These unimaginable situations, in turn, have affected the enthusiasm of leaders. They have caused people to doubt and distrust the public, and have become discouraged about the struggle."

"besides……"

"Opening cheap restaurants and daily necessities stores in Zaun communities and factory areas was originally the best way for us to get closer to Zaun apprentices outside of our own factories."

"But due to the lack of qualified management personnel, there are often problems with pricing standards."

“When the price is low, merchants will sell fish for profit;”

"If the price is high, close to or even higher than the market price, it will not only fail to attract the attention of workers, but will make them suspicious of your purpose."

“…”

Janna asked a lot of questions in one breath.

But when Levi listened carefully, his brows were not furrowed too much.

These problems sound serious, but in fact they are just jokes caused by the leaders' lack of experience.

There's nothing we can do about it.

Leaders has only been around for a week. We can’t expect students to have more than five years of publicity work experience, right?

"I think these problems come at the right time." Levi is quite optimistic.

In his opinion, this is not troublesome and difficult.

This is called blazing a trail through the mountains and forests.

It is good to have problems. Problems can train people.

"These problems will naturally improve over time."

"It is important to let everyone learn lessons and sum up experience in practice, constantly improve and enhance themselves, and then constantly adjust their work strategies according to the actual situations they encounter."

Levi sighed confidently.

But Janna reminded him in a serious tone: "Mr. Summoner, the biggest problem lies right here."

“The current Leaders Association does not seem to have the ability to improve itself or adjust its strategies.”

Improving plans and adjusting strategies means that everyone not only needs to have a strategy, but also needs to be able to reach a consensus on a good strategy and implement it in .

To sum up simply, what it requires is a qualified organizational decision-making mechanism.

But the leader currently has no such mechanism at all.

"We are growing too fast, Mr. Summoner."

"A week ago, the Leaders only had 60 official members. With the direct command of you and Vice President Victor, it can operate flexibly and efficiently."

"And now, we have 521 official members."

With so many people, Levi can't handle it all by himself.

The leader is still the same as it was a week ago. Apart from the president and vice president, it does not even have an internal hierarchical organization or management framework.

“The current management of Leader is very chaotic.”

"We simply divided the work groups into several communities, factories, and schools according to their respective areas of responsibility."

"And based on the principle of internal democracy, the working group did not set up a clear leader or person in charge. The planning and decision-making of issues depended entirely on internal discussions and voting by the group members."

This method worked well at first, because at the beginning each group only had about a dozen people, and if there was something to do, everyone could discuss and get it done.

But within a few days, with the promotion of the Janna faith, these working groups absorbed more and more formal members, and the number of people gradually expanded from a dozen to dozens.

For example, the two working groups responsible for publicity on university campuses now have an astonishing number of hundreds of official members.

"Hundreds of people are in a meeting, but there is no leader and no one has the final say..."

"That scene..." Goddess Janna, who witnessed the scene with her own eyes, couldn't help but complain: "It was even more chaotic than monkeys fighting over food."

"At first they were able to have a good discussion."

"Then they encountered some deeper differences of opinion and they started arguing."

"The argument turned into name calling and even personal attacks."

"Then, the group naturally split into several different factions based on different opinions. They slammed the table, threw shoes, poured cold water on each other in the meeting room... and even had group fights."

"The meeting lasted a whole day, and apart from three people being hospitalized with minor injuries and five people with minor injuries, they didn't make a final decision."

Levi: “…”

My goodness , he’s only led this team for a week... How come they’re even worse than the Piltover Council?

"The problem is still with me." As a leader, Li Wei first reflected:

He originally wanted to let everyone demonstrate their abilities at work first, and then carry out internal organizational construction. This would also make it easier for everyone to select capable cadres who can win the hearts of the people.

But unexpectedly, the leader developed too fast.

The management of two presidents, one principal and one vice president, simply cannot keep up with the management needs after the number of members increases.

Not to mention, these two presidents...

One is in prison, busy writing theoretical articles in prison.

One is a scientist who is busy with weapons research and helping the leader to form an armed force.

On one side is a pen, on the other side is a gun, both are important and cannot be put down.

But human energy has its limits.

The two of them were busy with their own work and had no time to take care of the Leaders Association.

"Not only that." Janna brought even worse news: "The 'moderate version' propaganda pamphlet you compiled earlier has caused serious ideological differences within the Wind Leaders."

Although the veteran members of the Leaders all knew that this was a delaying tactic by Li Wei to build a plank road in the open while secretly attacking Chencang.

They all knew that the Windleader's true purpose was to gain Zaun's independence through armed struggle.

But new members generally don't know.

"Some of them are moderates who believe in all the contents of the manual, but there are also natural radicals who agree with Janna's ideas but do not agree with the 'non-violent' line."

"So we naturally split into moderate and radical factions - they now meet almost every day and waste a lot of time on this topic."

“But within just a few days, the opposition between them became more obvious and the conflict became more serious.”

"It started with a discussion, then an argument, accusations ... In the end, there was even a bizarre scene where someone formally requested a show of hands to expel the dissidents from the leader team."

"Fortunately, Professor Victor stopped it in time and prevented it from actually happening."

"This..." The more Levi listened, the worse it felt.

Differences in ideology, factional conflicts, and a decentralized voting and decision-making mechanism... If there isn't chaos, there must be something fishy going on!

"It seems that I can't stay in this prison any longer."

If he keeps lying here and writing articles, the leader will destroy himself.

These problems must be resolved immediately.

"Has the pardon that Caitlin applied for me been approved?" Levi asked.

“Not yet,” Janna replied, “but Miss Caitlin said her mother has agreed to sign.”

"Okay. Tell everyone—I'm back."

As he spoke, Levi stood up from the narrow bed in the cell.

He also lifted the magic and took off the "vacuum sound-isolating headphones" so that he could hear again.

Then Wei's angry curse sounded again: "Levi, fuck you!"

"Hey, hey...are you still cursing?"

Li Wei pushed open the iron door of the prison helplessly, stepped across the corridor and came in front of Wei.

The two people who had been chatting for a week finally met officially at this time.