Chapter 136 Learn from the People's Liberation Army

On November 1, 1985, a building in Central, Hong Kong.

This is a building in the most prosperous area of ​​Hong Kong. On the twelfth floor of this thirty-story building, it is the location of MSI Technology Group's Hong Kong headquarters. At this moment, six shareholders are discussing future plans and work arrangements.

Brothers settle accounts clearly, this is the ancient saint saying. Money will blind people. You can't see what he doesn't want to see, nor will you think about what he doesn't want to think about. The pride and ambition when starting a business will make everyone live together through thick and thin, endure hardships and suffer together. It doesn't matter. You have the energy to work together and think about it together. But when entrepreneurs have great fortunes, things happen: some people always think that they have gained too little compared to what they have paid, and others always take too much, and they have forgotten that everyone was a pauper at the beginning, and friendship has made people forget that only interests, power and desires are left.

Countless corporate history at home and abroad has told us this.

For example, in 1955, William Shockley, the "father of transistors", left Bell Labs to create Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, and attracted many talented young scientists such as Gordon Moore to join. However, soon, Gordon Moore and others were dissatisfied and resigned and co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor Company in October 1957. Later, Gordon Moore was dissatisfied with the internal management of Fairchild Company, and on July 16, 1968, he co-founded Intel Company in the name of integrated circuits.

For Li Siming, he must have absolute control over all capital, so he will not be too humble from the beginning of equity distribution, nor will he deal with it vaguely. In fact, Zeng Zhi and others will not have any objections, because basically the money is earned by Li Siming, but friendship and common ideals have brought them together. Li Siming hopes that the foundation will last forever and the brothers will be united. If unfortunately, when the brothers separate, those who leave can only get the part they deserve.

"The company has set up an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands - MSI Holdings. The company has six shareholders, Amin owns 50% of the shares, and each of the others is 10% of the shares. The subordinates wholly own MSI Technology and Xiangjiang Electric Appliances. These two companies are registered locally in Hong Kong and are protected by Hong Kong laws. They are called MSI Technology Group. The registered shareholders are me and Watanabe. However, we signed the agreement privately and have received the fairness of the most famous lawyers' team in Hong Kong. This is the guarantee of your interests." Zeng Zhi distributed a copy of the legal documents in hand. "Then the company invested in Shenzhen in the name of MSI Technology Group. The film company and its investment in the United States are held in the name of MSI Holdings. I serve as the chairman and president of MSI Holdings and MSI Group, Dashuai serves as executive vice presidents, Xiaohua, Yuan Hou, Watanabe and Amin serves as vice presidents. The company's establishment and equity are the overall situation."

Zeng Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. He has been busy with these things these days, including the Hong Kong government, the law firm, Shenzhen, the Guangdong Provincial Government, including the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Trade, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and other relevant departments. Especially in the mainland, although the government welcomes foreign investment, Zeng Zhi stamped a total of 125 official seals in order to complete the license and various approval documents, so he couldn't break his legs. It can be imagined that this is a difficult task. It's better to rely on the relationship to go through the back door, otherwise you can just wait.

The reason why I registered in Hong Kong was to only fill in the names of the two shareholders Zeng Zhi and Watanabe was mainly because Li Siming and others were unwilling to give up their Chinese nationality, and the four of them were party members. Domestic policies have not been too relaxed, especially when party members run companies. Li Siming did this for those who "do not know the truth". In fact, many people do this.

"As the boss and president of the company, I am responsible for the company's external public relations and image. Well, this job is my. I am stationed in the Hong Kong headquarters and conducting public relations for the mainland government departments and the Hong Kong business community. Dashua is the executive vice president. He is actually responsible for all the company's affairs and focuses on domestic sales expansion. Zhang Hua is responsible for production and procurement, especially domestic procurement. Monkey, Oh, you shouldn't call it that way, and you won't have the chance to call it that way in the future. It should be our Mr. Yuan Hou, who is mainly responsible for finance and our steward. As for Watanabe, he is also here, responsible for the research and development of the international market. The current focus is on international procurement and technology introduction. Basically, according to the director's arrangements, as for Ah Ming, you should say it yourself!" Zeng Zhi said, "Well, I am a boss, I am sad enough!"

"Our company has been officially established today. Well, it's really hard to describe it." Li Siming said with a smile, "Everyone knows very well that we have worked hard for today for a few years. Everyone must be deeply touched, right?"

"That's all there is to say?" Watanabe said, touching his increasingly bright head, "You'll know when you look at my hair."

Everyone laughed.

"However, I hope that twenty years later, the six of us will sit here and chat and laugh, that is, the foundation will last forever. I hope that no matter what ups and downs we go through, we will always be a team, which is also the reason for subdividing equity at the beginning of our company's establishment. We are not only shareholders, but we are also striving for our careers. I hope our career will always flourish!" Li Siming said. Some things he really can't say. As friends, everyone can say whatever they want, but once they become business partners, they will have interest relationships, but Li Siming feels it is necessary to establish some principles.

"Amin, we understand what you mean. As the saying goes, brothers settle accounts clearly. Although this sounds sad. However, a company with rigorous management only treats things but not people. It must follow market laws and management principles. If one day I am fired, I have no objection! Everyone can testify!" The coach said everyone's voice.

"The capital is the most, I completely obey the leadership's arrangements!" Watanabe expressed his opinion in the most Chinese language.

"Of course, Amin, you have always been our backbone. This was the case before, this is the case now, and this is the case in the future." Zhang Hua also expressed his opinion.

Li Siming cleared his throat and said:

"Okay, that's the case. I'm going to determine some principles at the board level:

First, from today on, you are a shareholder of the company and have a say in any aspect of the company. When you have different opinions, you must be consistent.

Second, as senior management personnel of the company, we must strictly abide by the company's systems and policies, and always consider issues from the perspective of the company. Within our own management scope, we must always keep a clear mind and become an expert in this field. If there are better professional managers in the future, we will withdraw from the direct management position. This is professionalism.

Third, I will not interfere in general management in the future, but I will pay attention to the company's strategic direction and major policies. Once I make a decision, it must be implemented unconditionally. If I need to explain, I will give my explanation. This is principle.

Well, I just think so much for the time being.”

If an enterprise wants to develop smoothly, it must have a consistent decision-making body. During the rapid development period of many enterprises, there will often be a strong person "arbitrary" to ensure the speed of decision-making and execution of the entire organization. Li Siming has a clear understanding of future technological directions and market competition, so this ensures the correctness of his judgment.

The Grand Marshal and others deliberately stretched out their hands and gave warm applause, just like they used to listen to advanced models in the Great Northern Wilderness to give reports. Whether they were sincerely inspired or followed the crowd, they all received warm applause.

"The business and academic circles are studying what kind of enterprises are excellent enterprises or even great enterprises, and what kind of enterprises can survive. Those large enterprises over fifty years have proudly claimed that they are the best enterprises, and in their hearts they may think they are the greatest in the industry. The research results show that excellent enterprises have various highlights and are difficult to frame with a model. But if we follow the so-called experts, we will be at a loss because many so-called experiences are even contradictory.

For example, Watanabe and other Japanese companies emphasize unconditional obedience between the top and bottom, while American companies emphasize so-called "equality and communication". Therefore, we can refer to other people's methods that suit us, but we cannot imitate and copy them for the sake of learning. For a new company like us, we must learn and grow quickly. Some people always say that Greece and Rome, as if the civilization of foreigners is greater than our history. In fact, there are many around us worthy of our summary, such as the People's Liberation Army." Li Siming said.

"Learn from the People's Liberation Army?" Dashuai and others were stunned.

"Not surprising. Didn't we often say this before? But what I want to say is not to defend our country, but to absorb some concepts and nutrition from military management experience in managing enterprises. I heard that last year a Japanese company specially organized its managers to go to the former site of the "Gutian Conference" in Fujian to learn the spirit of the Red Army's hard-working business. A few years ago in Texas, USA, I met a military academy student of American pastry on a train. Later, I specially found some books on pastry research, which was very inspiring.

In the United States, the largest and best "business school" is not Harvard or Stanford, but West Point Military Academy. Since World War II, West Point has trained more than 1,000 chairmen, more than 2,000 vice chairmen and more than 5,000 presidents. I don’t know how authentic this number is, but many entrepreneurial entrepreneurs in the world today are from military personnel, such as the well-known founder of McDonald's and KFC. The founder of the American retailer Walmart, Sam Walton, started the journey of the first retail empire with a $5,000 demobilization fee.

There is also a story about the "Ten Blue Bloods" in the American management community, all of which are military backgrounds. American companies also highly respect the spirit of the Red Army's Long March. The US military once clearly proposed to "learn from the People's Liberation Army". This is not learning our tactics, but directly drawing nourishment from the People's Liberation Army's management philosophy from internal management and other aspects.

Why? As an organization, the army is the most rigorous organization in the world. Its efficiency, organizational principles, loyalty and the inheritance of a certain spirit, and its execution ability should be said to be the first. There is no organization in this world that can rival the army, right?"

"It sounds like something!" Zeng Zhi smiled, "Then we want to know what we can learn from the cutest people?"

"First, serve the people. This is the purpose of our army. Chairman Mao said that we come from all over the world and have come together for a common revolutionary goal. It is precisely because of her clear purpose that we are invincible. So for the enterprise organization, the mission and goal are the driving force for creating wealth. Customers are the objects of all our products and services. We provide customers with the best or most appropriate products and attach our best services. This is our goal. If one day, when you ask an ordinary Chinese, Japanese, American, or a Javanese, what is the product and service of our company? If that person has never used our products and has never enjoyed our services, he raises his thumb and says, very good! Then any work we have done before is valuable. In this sense, this is serving the people. We don't say serving the people, we say that technology is people-oriented! Don't use this expression, is I wrong?

Second, three major disciplines and eight points of attention. Except for Watanabe, you, a Japanese, we all sang this when we were educated youth (Watanabe immediately said that he would sing it too), and they were all obedient and so familiar. Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty. From an individual perspective, obedience is not a price, and they do everything possible to accept and execute it; from an organizational perspective, to make members obey, your "order" must be operational. Just like the "Step-to-Step" command, the execution includes the soldiers taking their left leg first after hearing the command, each step is 75 cm; the pace frequency per minute is 116 steps. These contents require the unity and norm of the organization. Without unification and norm, execution is just empty words.

The People's Liberation Army's "all actions obey commands" is based on unity and normativeness. Only institutionalization can make members' "obedience" a habit and consciousness, and can they be killed and survive when they are in desperate situations.

So for our company, our current system seems to be very complete, and it is not certain whether it is suitable or not. But when we struggle through the quagmire, all of us should understand that all our actions are consistent and follow our principles. I don’t want to see Da Zheng say that this plan is good, but Xiao Hua said that the plan is not working at all, and it ends up in nothing. Even the worst plan is much better than an excellent plan that is not implemented properly or not at all. Everyone has watched my movie "Save the Soldier". There was a section in the previous landing war, and a soldier asked the captain what to do? What if the captain didn’t issue any orders, I think everyone can only be dead on the beach! Is it OK? We need to examine it from a professional perspective. This investigation can be verified from the aspects of market competition, technological trends, customer needs, etc. Once a certain principle or plan is confirmed, then we will firmly implement it.

Our six senior executives are generals in the army, and the managers of our departments are division commanders, brigade commanders, regiment commanders, and regiment commanders. These ordinary staff are grassroots platoon leaders. Squad leader and soldiers all need to focus on the same goal and follow consistent tactical principles to attack cities and camps.

Third, organize heart-to-heart talks. A very important part of the internal construction of the People's Liberation Army is communication with the main method. Shortly after the soldiers joined the army, one day after the lights went out, the platoon leader would make an appointment with a soldier, each with a small stool, sitting under the gables of the barracks, watching the moonlight open the family. I think almost everyone who has lived in the People's Liberation Army organization has this same experience. I am afraid that we also had this experience when we were educated youth in Daxing. During the Vietnam War, the conflict between US officers and soldiers was very deep.

The difference in internal cohesion has dropped to the lowest point since the founding of the army. According to the statistics of the US military, 1,013 of the more than 5,600 officers killed in the Vietnam War were killed by their own soldiers, accounting for 18% of the number of casualties. It should be said that the period after the Vietnam War was the darkest period for the construction of the US military. It was from this period that the US military began the largest "rebuilding of the army" activity since the founding of the army. One of the important ones was how to build a harmonious relationship between officers and soldiers. So they learned the methods of the People's Liberation Army's army building.

The People's Liberation Army uses the system and method of heart-to-heart talks to achieve the purpose of establishing organizational communication that any organization hopes to achieve, thereby improving organizational efficiency.

I don’t understand management very well. The PLA’s organizational life system is actually a kind of communication, clarifying the psychological thoughts of each member, clarifying goals and steps, which is the performance of a team. So for our company, all six of us should clearly know what our scientific and technological personnel are thinking, what our managers are thinking, what our ordinary workers need, and more importantly, knowing what our customers need is a very critical issue. Our company’s structure is still very small, because it is a new company. As long as our company does not go bankrupt in the future, the organizational scale will become larger and larger, and the distance between the six of us and ordinary employees will become further and further. This is the level, but I hope this distance is zero distance. We understand this as communication, including internal and external.

Fourth, care about the lives of soldiers. A central leader once said that if you do not pay attention to material interests, you can do it for a few advanced elements, but not for the general public; if you can do it for a period of time, you can do it for a long time. Revolution was born on the basis of material interests. If you only talk about dedication and not material interests, then it is idealism. Who said it? You can check it out. In the past, the revolutionary team called on the local tyrants to divide the land. Many of our ancestors did not join the army and sacrifice blood because of the realization of communism, but just had a bite of food and land to plant. This is human nature, to meet the needs of survival. In order to avoid oppression and exploitation, many people are willing to fight for it.

For our company, we provide much more favorable treatment than others and attract many talents to join our company, which is not allowed to do so. But is this enough? The famous Maslow demand theory tells us that people also need to have a psychological need of belonging, a need to be respected, and a need to realize their own value. If there is a better choice, everyone will go to a better company than us.

The development history of countless foreign companies shows that those who change jobs are not all for money. They may not be respected because they are not respected, or even because of the unintentional words of an executive. Many companies claim to be humanized management companies, but how many companies have done this? I don’t want to say verbally in our company, and we have to do it. With the coming of the technology personnel, we create a good working environment, not only to enable them to realize their potential, but also to identify with our company. They have endless energy every day, endless creativity is generated every day, and in fact, they also create surplus value in us every day! We must be such a 'unpredictable' shareholder!"

Li Siming said so much in one breath, his mouth was dry and his mouth was dry. Watanabe and others worked hard in the meeting record book, as sincere as a primary school student.

Li Siming was a little proud. He suddenly felt that there was no profound reason to manage a company, because like the army or a film crew, the company is an organizational unit. Several principles of management are the same and have some universal principles. The army has already left a deep impression on Li Siming, which deeply influenced the thinking of this once excellent soldier. This is something he cannot get rid of, and of course it is not what he wants to get rid of. Li Siming is very clear about this. Why did so many entrepreneurs who have had military experience in China later?

"It's over?" Watanabe asked, rubbing his numb fingers, and he was still feeling unsatisfied.

"It's over!" Li Siming said in surprise, "What are you doing? What I just said, do you really need to record it so seriously?"

"It's necessary, it's necessary!" Yuan Hou said, "You always claim that you don't understand, but I think you're talking so well! The boss is the boss!"

"Yes, easy to understand, lively and thought-provoking!" Zhang Hua commented, which reminded Li Siming of the instructor's summary of the speeches of the educated youth when he was in the Great Northern Wilderness. Even the words were the same, "very educational!"

"I think one day, I will publish an internal publication called "Quotes from Li Siming". I think it must be very good!" The general said seriously. He could not have imagined that Li Siming could summarize so many things from the army, in other words, knowledge everywhere around him.

Zeng Zhi looked at Li Siming, but said, "I admit that you made sense. But I have a question, why are you so interested in the army?"

"Yes, Amin, a sum of money was transferred from the company's account. I have always wanted to ask in person why. We all support the establishment of the Educational Youth Friendship Foundation without conditions, but why is this "Veteran Foundation"? Is it because you really want to be a great philanthropist? If you learn from the People's Liberation Army, you have to pay for it?" Yuan Hou said.

"I always feel that Xiaodao is very mysterious, and I don't know you!" Zeng Zhi said, "What's wrong with you that you hide from us."

"What does it mean to be unclear? You can eat food randomly, and you should not talk randomly!" Li Siming was extremely dissatisfied with his words and protested, "We are all big men!"

"It is precisely because of two big men that it is strange that if you fall in love with someone else, I have nothing to say to your female secretary!" Watanabe said with a smile.

"Watanabe, you are an old man, you have to be responsible for saying this. I remember that your secretary has changed several times, right?" Li Siming also protested to the uncle-level figure.

"I'm also very surprised. As long as my secretary starts to join the company, he resigns on the grounds of getting pregnant. I can't do anything about it!" Watanabe explained, but unexpectedly, he became darker and darker.

"I suggest that the female employees in the company must be far away from Watanabe!" Zhang Hua suggested solemnly, "This is a historical origin. I will not turn over the historical account back then!"

"I agree!" Everyone supported it.

With this interruption, Xiaodao's matter was thrown into the Pacific Ocean. Li Siming knew that these brothers had many questions in their hearts, but out of respect and trust, there was no question. One day, when the curiosity in their hearts defeated the restraint, they would always break the baton and ask the end.

Learning from the People's Liberation Army is by no means a whim of nonsense. Whether it is his first time in the army in his previous life or his experience as a battlefield commander in this life, he has had many feelings. This is what is called growth, and this may be a life experience that many of us can't reach.

People all understand the great principles, but only those who truly understand the true meaning of it will implement it. Just like a devout believer, they will not retreat due to difficulties and obstacles. We were soldiers, which is the common voice of people like Li Siming. The years of passion are not just in the army, the battlefield, and in this economic tide, another passionate life is moving forward. Some things still need to be persisted and carried forward, and it is worth living for a lifetime. In other words, taking off your military uniform or a soldier, Li Siming is the ideal of moving forward with the times, so he is always a passionate and tireless person.

As for Xiaodao, this guy who was suspected by Li Siming as a villain was absconding with the heart of a villain, was now struggling to move forward in a deep mountain in the mainland, and he sneeze for no reason. The towering mountains were a giant, but at this moment, he felt that his heart was strong and firm. His heart was also supported by some ideal, making him feel that what he did was the most meaningful thing in the world.

He was once a soldier and one of the best people!
Chapter completed!