Silent on the Same Channel

In his first week after joining the group, Miao Ning attended a sales meeting with his boss for the first time. At the meeting, Xi Zheng publicly rejected the new market expansion plan proposed by his boss, pointing out that the data was seriously misleading. The entire audience was silent. Only Miao Ning and Xi Zheng looked at the lower right corner of the report when they heard the set of data. Xi Zheng noticed her. The boss asked Miao Ning to evaluate the plan. She did not save face for her boss, but calmly pointed out that Xi Zheng's conclusion was correct, but his way of expressing it would increase implementation resistance. Xi Zheng replied: "Resistance to implementation is a question of ability, not expression." This is the first confrontation between the two. Everyone thought they disliked each other. Only they know that the other person said what they would have said originally. Since then, they have always maintained an appearance of alienation and even tit-for-tat. Miao Ning restricted Xi Zheng's authority as the general assistant, while Xi Zheng continued to challenge the procedures she established. But where no one was paying attention, Miao Ning stopped the internal investigation of the sales system for him, and Xi Zheng fought for key data and decision-making space for her. They all interpreted this favoritism as "maintaining the interests of the company", and they all mistakenly thought that they were disliked because of the other party's business-like attitude. Until a merger and acquisition that was enough to change the company's power structure pushed the two people into real opposites of interest.