Chapter 1067 The meeting in expectation
Whether it is Fan Heng or Fan Wubing, the father and son are both strong opponents of the competition. Compared with the comprehensive transformation of high-tech industries abroad, they naturally hate these domestic acts of simply using their privileges to engage in official and businessmen's collusion and squandering state-owned mineral resources.
No one can be complacent about monopolizing domestic mineral resources at a very small cost because of the privileges in his hands. This is a very shameless act.
Although this power rent-seeking model exists in most places in China today, which is a collusion between officials and merchants, there is no doubt that this is an important part of power. The low-cost and high-yield monopoly of mineral resources is nothing more suitable for accumulating original capital than it.
For a long time, domestic mineral tycoons were extremely low-key. They rarely showed up except buying luxury cars or purchasing industries overseas. Although they had an astonishing amount of wealth, they knew better how their wealth was obtained and the deep water tycoons hidden behind them.
Once these situations are exposed, it is very likely that it will cause waves of anti-corruption and crackdown on gangs.
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Therefore, everyone enjoys the rapid growth of wealth brought by power in a low-key manner, and is unwilling to seek any false reputation.
The troubles of growth are also permeating the business world this year. The best-selling business book in the United States is the most popular business book in the magazine Jim Collins published, analyzing each company in the top 500 rankings in previous years, thus drawing some surprising conclusions.
Collins now has the change from excellence to excellence, which has nothing to do with whether the industry is in the trend. In fact, even a company engaged in a traditional industry, even if it is initially unknown, it may become outstanding.
Other conclusions he came to include that technology and technology-driven changes cannot actually stimulate the leap from excellence to excellence. Mergers and acquisitions do not play any role in promoting the leap of the company. Revolutionary leap does not necessarily require a revolutionary process. Excellence is not the product of the environment. To a large extent, it is the result of a careful decision-making.
These concepts are undoubtedly shocking for entrepreneurs who once made great strides and are now deeply trapped in the Internet bubble. They make people rethink the path and true meaning of growth.
Collins also described the fifth-level leaders who create outstanding enterprises. They often do not stand in the front and become the darlings of the media, talk about their ideas or become celebrities. Most of them are aliens. They are silent and restrained, do not like to show off, and are even a little shy. They are humble and have a sense of humility and unyielding professionalism. They are hidden behind the team and coordinate the team's symphony.
Such an image description dwarfs the upstarts of Internet who are fond of sex and ostentatious.
In China, people have also begun to seriously chew Collins's thoughts. The performance of a local entrepreneur seems to have seen the shadow of the fifth-level leader.
In January this year, Huawei's Ren Zhengfei was in the winter of Huawei. In the past year, Huawei's sales soared to 22 billion yuan, ranking among the top 100 electronics in the country.
However, he had clearly had a clear premonition of the impact on the telecom market after the bursting of the Internet economy bubble. The entrepreneur, who has always been worried and extremely low-key, asked his employees at the beginning whether all the employees of the company had considered it. If one day the company's sales decline, profits decline or even bankrupt, what should we do? Our company has been peaceful for too long and there are too many officials promoted in peacetime, which may be our disaster. The Titanic is also a sea of cheers, and I believe that this day will definitely come.
Ren Zhengfei then wrote in a striking and sharp style that it is spring, but winter is not far away. We have to think about the problem of winter in spring and summer. Fourth, the winter of the industry may not be winter for other companies, but for Huawei. Huawei's winter may come colder and colder. We are still too young. After ten years of smooth development, our company has not experienced setbacks. Without setbacks, we do not know how to move to the right path. Tribulations are a wealth, but we have not experienced hardships. This is our biggest weakness. We have no psychological preparation and skill preparation to adapt to the unsuccessful development.
In the history of the enterprise, Ren Zhengfei is not the first entrepreneur to write reviews and self-reflection. Jiang Wei from Feilong, Shenyang, Wu Bingxin from Sanzhu, Shandong, and others have all taken the same measures when the company's crisis broke out. However, Ren Zhengfei is the first person to give a red alarm when the company is still in its high growth period.
His warning has achieved results. This year, the global telecom industry has indeed experienced a shocking decline. Huawei's global rival Cisco's business declined severely. The total amount of scrapped inventory was as high as US$2.2 billion throughout the year. Cisco's stock plummeted. It was forced to lay off more than 8,500 employees. Chairman Chambers reduced his basic salary to one dollar.
In such adversity, Huawei, which adjusted in time, achieved a profit of 2.7 billion yuan, completing the leap from excellence to excellence.
In fact, the most painful people this year are not just the elites of the industry.
In the domestic stock market, the market makers in the capital market have fallen into a tough battle, marked by the collapse of Luliang.
Perhaps Fan Wubing's fierce remarks on the capital market have stimulated domestic senior management. After countless investigations into the domestic capital market, the actions of suppressing the dealer and regulating the market have finally begun.
Under the tighter the official regulation, the daily job of dealers is to deal with crises, and the business community has begun to question the capital management model that has been popular for many years. Ning Gaoning, president of China Resources Group, who was elected as the Chinese Economic Person of the Year for a series of successful mergers and acquisitions, said unexpectedly in his award-winning speech. The Chinese business community has created many very harmful words in the past, and the word capital operation is the most. You can't find the word capital operation in all successful companies, especially the Western successful enterprise dictionary.
In the American business world this year, the only thing to be proud of is that Apple's Jobs launched the world-stunning Feng Network Music Player, which soon became one of the most popular new products by the media after Sony's...North Little Smile" in Japan.
Another very influential thing is that the domestic carbonated beverage market has been opened. Coca-Cola and PepsiCoxin have implemented very resolutely and solitary actions.
The joint venture model of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in China is worth studying. Since Coca-Cola first entered China, foreign investment in carbonated beverages has been directly approved by the central government. From how many filling plants are established, where to set up factories to the supply price of concentrates, etc., it is decided by the government.
Around 1993, the Light Industry Federation also signed a memorandum of joint beverage exhibitions with Coca-Cola and Pepsi respectively. It required that the two Coke companies must transform the original domestic famous beverage manufacturers while establishing filling plants. The joint ventures they established must produce at least 30% of domestic brand beverages. This joint venture model has caused many conflicts between China and foreign countries. Now it is finally time to break up.
These two things are of great significance to Fan's Investment Group; on the one hand, because Fan's has always been the largest underwriter of international brands of electronic products, Fan Wubing is very interested in the Si and is ordering people to negotiate sales with Apple. On the other hand, because the two Coke companies have let go of their hands and have a relatively fierce competition with their own Fan's Coke.
In short, Fan's Investment Group will face more opportunities and challenges this year, and there is another very, very important thing. Fan Wubing is not sure whether he will die at this time, but he has already begun to call on investment institutions in the United States to start shrinking funds, especially the staff in financial services, who have left several major financial centers and started to enter several bases built by Fan's Investment Group in the United States for a 20-day overall training.
Although when receiving this order, executives of the financial management team in the United States said that doing so seemed a bit incomprehensible. Although it is the off-season now, employees who shuttle between major financial centers every day are still around a few hundred people. Suddenly making such a decision means that everyone has to conduct a semi-closed gathering.
"This will affect us who make less money," said the US executive.
Fan Wubing had no room for bargaining. He clearly expressed his opinion, "It's just a twenty-day gathering, making money is a small matter. But this time, Mao training is a big deal, and it is related to the layout of our overseas team of Fan's Investment Group in the next few years. Or, due to the current economic downturn, Mao may also make a decision to lay off employees. So, you should clearly convey my meaning and take the lead in completing this training. You know, my layoffs are not different from the level of the position."
When the United States heard Fan Wubing say this, he immediately knew that he could only obey. Although Fan Wubing only gave them a tendency to express their opinions most of the time and did not care much about specific matters, once they were told, it would be unquestionable. In addition, twenty days, it would probably not have much impact on American companies. After all, most of the businesses can now be processed through the Internet.
During this period, Apple's Jobs proposed a meeting with Fan Wubian.
Fan Wubing expressed his willingness to agree, but he invited Jobs to visit China recently and said that the Chinese government can also issue a formal invitation letter, which is indeed not a big deal for him. He is very familiar with the State Council, and the important influence of Fan's Investment Group and Jobs himself is a world-renowned figure. This is just a matter of one sentence.
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Jobs also wanted to come to China, so he accepted the invitation from Fan Wubing and the Chinese government. He arrived in Beijing on September 6 and started a week-long visit to China. During this period, he planned to attend a welcome ceremony arranged by the State Council. He then visited several high-tech companies of Fan's Investment Group and visited the Beautiful Electronic Product Sales Behemoth, and then went to Peking University to have a face-to-face exchange with students. In short, he would have a relatively earnest meeting with Fan Wubing to determine the comprehensive cooperation between the two sides in the next few years.
Fan Wubing has always looked down on Jobs, believing that he is a legendary figure.
Jobs was born in San Francisco, USA and was ruthlessly abandoned by his father, a university professor and his mother, a Gu Huai School artist. Fortunately, a kind-hearted couple took in the poor illegitimate son.
Although he was an adopted son, his adoptive parents treated him very well, just like a parent-child. When he was a student, Jobs was smart, naughty, and unscrupulous. He often liked to create ridiculous pranks ingenious ways. However, his academic performance was outstanding.
At that time, Jobs lived near the famous Silicon Valley, and his neighbors were employees of the Silicon Valley veteran HP Company. Under the influence of these people, Jobs was obsessed with electronics since he was a child. Seeing that he was so obsessed with him, a HP engineer recommended him to join the HP Incident Club.
When he was in junior high school, Jobs met with Watz, who was five years older than him at a class reunion. Watz was the president of the school’s electronics club and had a great interest in electronics. The two hit it off at first sight, and eight years later they founded Apple Computer Company.
In 1980, Apple's shares were listed publicly, and within less than an hour, all 4.6 million shares were sold out, and closed at $29 per share that day.
Based on this closing price, Apple executives have produced four billionaires and more than forty millionaires, and Jobs is of course ranked first as the founder of the company.
Because of his great success, Jobs received the national technical medal awarded by President Reagan. However, success came too quickly and there was a strong crisis behind the excessive honors. Because Jobs's business philosophy was different from most managers at that time, and the Blue Giant Sigang Company also began to wake up and launched personal computers to seize the blockbuster market, causing Jobs' newly opened computers to fail repeatedly. The general manager and directors blamed the chairman Jobs, who revoked his operating power in 1985 through the board of directors' resolution.
Jobs tried to regain power several times but failed, so he angrily resigned as chairman of Apple.
Chapter completed!