Chapter 149: Ten reasons
Just as outsiders struggled to fathom what sort of person Mark Zuckerberg really was-occasionally neurotic, with curly, tousled hair and freckles, looking fifteen or sixteen rather than twenty-something, yet owning a company worth six hundred million dollars.
Su Can, who owned several rapidly growing businesses yet drifted around like an ordinary, idle college student in Nanjing University's environment of unspoken competition, was likewise someone many people could not see through.
Although Su Can favored a leisurely life without regrets, that did not conflict with his policy of giving equal attention to both his business and his studies, and doing well at both. His previous life's habit of drifting along and his present life's philosophy of making the most of every moment blended perfectly. Like the seamless fusion of beggar-style clothing with Dior's latest runway fashions, it was a masterful, untraceable blending that incorporated a certain wisdom about life.
Su Can had always insisted that if living his life over meant working himself to death, he would have been better off not being reborn. Thus, he paid great attention to simplifying complicated business methods in his own distinctive way. The highest truth of modern management was how to streamline your company's organization, obtain the greatest potential through the most direct means, and ensure that orders were carried out rather than working at cross-purposes.
That was the most fundamental goal served by all the theories in those hefty volumes on organizational behavior, psychology and its applied branches, modern business administration, and corporate structures.
Take Blizzard Entertainment, with which Su Can had dealt frequently of late. Both it and Black Isle Studios were giants of single-player RPS games, with technical foundations and production teams capable of rivaling each other. Why, then, was Blizzard so much better known in the