"Alright, stop scaring our Xiaoman."
"She’s still just a young girl. The future isn’t as scary or as complicated as you make it out to be."
"It’s okay, Xiaoman. If you have any small questions, you can come ask me. I’ll tell you everything I know and make sure you’re taught well!"
Su Ruoxi rolled her eyes at Lin Feng, a flirtatious glint in them.
Lin Xiaoman might be just a young girl who didn’t understand anything, but that didn’t mean Su Ruoxi was just as clueless.
While managing a company required strong leadership skills, those were things that came with time and experience.
But for Lin Xiaoman right now, what she needed more was self-confidence and a systematic management structure.
Building that structure wasn’t something that could be done by one person alone.
It required a team and multifaceted, multi-directional cooperation.
So, in the end, what Lin Xiaoman needed most was to learn how to manage talent!
"Okay, Sis!"
"Hmph! So much for keeping secrets from me. I have my sister-in-law, another highly capable person, to help me!"
Hearing this, Lin Xiaoman gave a smug little smirk, as if showing off to her brother.
"Alright, go ahead and spoil the little girl."
"But as the chairman, I still need to give you a heads-up."
"Starting tomorrow, you need to consciously start reaching out to various headhunting firms. Get in touch with people who have special skills and have made contributions in their respective fields. This will give you more targets when it’s time to poach talent in the future!"
Lin Feng could only shake his head helplessly.
He knew Su Ruoxi doted on Lin Xiaoman, but she was his own sister, after all. Having his girlfriend spoil her sister-in-law like this was a symbol of a happy, harmonious family.
However, Lin Feng also held the same view: you absolutely needed talented people. Success in any sense of the word was always achieved through the successful management of talent after they joined.
"The so-called art of managing people is about having a group of individuals who are highly professional, completely loyal to you, and most importantly, who believe in your convictions and the company’s values!"
Lin Feng’s words were delivered with force and conviction.
He was truly passing on the experience he had learned from swimming in the so-called ’sea of business’ to Lin Xiaoman.
"But I don’t know where to start looking. Right now, I only know my streamer friends. Forget about headhunters, I’m not even sure what headhunting firms actually do."
Although she was afraid her brother would mock her, there was nothing she could do. Lin Xiaoman knew she had spent all these years living in her own little world. She hadn’t tried to learn other things, nor had she made herself absorb knowledge from other industries like a sponge.
After all, she didn’t have the anxieties most young people her age had—the so-called worries about buying a house or a car, what her future career would be, whether she could take care of herself, or even take care of her family.
How to achieve her personal dreams, realize her own worth, become a useful member of society, and be the pride and joy of her parents.
Lin Xiaoman never had to consider these things, because all she had to do was be a ’salted fish’.
Her colossal, superman-like brother would always be out front, solving every single problem for the family and for her.
So all she had to do was be a useless little rich kid at home, occasionally putting on an act like she was looking for job opportunities or figuring out her future career path.
She really didn’t need to be too hard on herself, nor did she have to exhaust herself or force herself to experience the hardships of society.
Even her eventual interest in the live-streaming industry was just because she’d watched too many short-form videos and too many streamer videos, and she suddenly grew envious of these streamers who could make money just by opening their mouths.
So not only was she clueless about other industries, she didn’t even have a clear understanding of how the entire supply chain for the live-streaming industry, from upstream to downstream, actually worked.
This really left Lin Feng at a loss for words.
Although he felt another surge of anger about to erupt, looking at his helpless and self-reproachful sister, Lin Feng couldn’t bring himself to scold her.
"Oh, come on, don’t be too hard on Lin Xiaoman."
"She’s just a young girl who recently became an adult. It’s perfectly normal for her not to know or understand a lot of things."
"It’s okay, Xiaoman. You don’t have to blame yourself so much."
"This isn’t your fault. When I was your age, forget about headhunting firms, I didn’t even know what I wanted to do with my future."
Su Ruoxi was still very protective of her little sister-in-law.
But this statement of hers was truly a bit too modest. As the descendant of a prestigious family, her family background was already impressive, and her parents had started consciously grooming Su Ruoxi from a very young age.
So, at Lin Xiaoman’s age, Su Ruoxi was already an outstanding young woman.
And with her beautiful face and refreshingly elegant demeanor, she had not only won the admiration of many of her peers, but even older people couldn’t help but sigh in admiration upon seeing her, remarking that the girl was bound for a limitless future.
But of course, she couldn’t say any of this to Lin Xiaoman~
"Alright, I won’t demand too much from you then. Like I said, you’re the one in actual control of this company, so I won’t meddle in how it’s run. However, I still have to give you a reminder—a piece of advice from a brother to his sister!"
Lin Feng felt quite helpless.
"From now on, I’m going to give you a reading list regularly. You need to finish all the books on schedule. Don’t worry about whether you like them or not, and rest assured, I won’t ask you to memorize every word or understand every paragraph."
"You just need to read these books from cover to cover. Later on, I’ll even share some videos and tutorials with you, and you have to watch all of them too."
"I don’t expect you to understand everything completely, nor do I expect you to achieve a thorough mastery of the material."
"But you must go through it all at least once. At a minimum, you should be familiar with the concepts. As long as these things are somewhere in your brain, that’s enough. A leader doesn’t need to have extremely strong expertise in one specific area, but they must have a wide range of knowledge. And their big-picture perspective and insight must be 100 times, even 1,000 times stronger than an ordinary person’s!"
’At this point, Lin Feng felt he wasn’t just an older brother anymore.’
’He was more like a cheerleader, rooting for Lin Xiaoman from the sidelines.’
’When she did poorly, he only offered words of encouragement. He even gave her all sorts of opportunities and found various ways to help Lin Xiaoman grow.’
’After all, teaching someone you consider to be slow and completely inexperienced is an extremely painful task!’
’But Lin Feng also understood that he had to let Lin Xiaoman learn and succeed on her own.’
’Otherwise, if he stepped in to solve every little problem for her all the time, his sister would never be able to grow.’
’And to be selfish about it, Lin Xiaoman’s habit of needing help at every turn would also significantly impact his own future development.’
’After all, he could look after her for a while, but not for a lifetime.’
’He still had many crises of his own to face. It was impossible to devote one hundred percent of his time to Lin Xiaoman, nor could he throw himself into this emerging live-streaming industry for the rest of his life.’

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