This isn’t a feel-good workplace story about an underdog’s triumphant rise. It’s more like a survival guide to the real workplace. Forty-five-year-old low-level employee Li Zhou has nothing but the street smarts he has built up over twenty years of hard knocks. Starting with small talk at a donkey-meat flatbread shop, he gradually makes his way to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the CEO’s office. Within those five years lie lessons every office worker hoping to break through a career bottleneck should understand.
