Zhou Fangyuan's branch, his father's generation, has a total of four brothers and sisters.

They are Zhou Fangyuan's family, as well as the second uncle, third uncle and aunt's family, Zhou Fangyuan really helped, in fact, only the third uncle's family.

The main reason was that the third uncle took the initiative to find the door, and he couldn't stand the face, so he helped the other party. Later, when someone came to him, he basically didn't help much, at most he would mention a few words to the other party. As for saying that some relatives want to work within the group, Zhou Fangyuan will never allow it. He only accepts his relatives' companies as peripheral companies or subsidiaries of the group, and enters the head office or something, and he definitely does not allow it.

There is no other reason than his visceral dislike of the family business.

Family businesses have their advantages, this must be acknowledged, but today it is not the advantages that we are talking about, but the disadvantages of family businesses.

First, xenophobia.

The xenophobic psychology is mainly for the new employees with strong ability, and the family members within the enterprise may not be convinced by the existence of these "outsiders" from the bottom of their hearts, so they find reasons to create obstacles everywhere so that the new employees make mistakes in their work, and the family members take the opportunity to accuse or even demean each other, making it difficult for the new employees to get the ability to trust and even the most basic respect, and finally have to choose to leave. If it can't attract new people to join, the enterprise will not be replenished with fresh blood, and it will not be able to develop as it should and miss the opportunity.

As a family member, you should have a tolerant mentality, give the new employee the greatest help in all aspects, let them get familiar with the working environment and processes as soon as possible, so that they can create more and greater benefits, and the family members should be more tolerant of some mistakes made by the new employee. Of course, new employees should also see the experience of old employees in the industry, and only when both parties respect each other can they work together harmoniously. Build the platform well, and everyone will benefit more.

Second, cronyism.

Family-owned enterprises focus on nepotism in the promotion and reuse of personnel, and it is difficult to achieve "the capable, the mediocre, and the mediocre". The employment mechanism is chaotic and there is no charter, which leads to no opportunities for those who want to do things. There is a clear sense of superiority between family insiders and external employees. As a result, the internal coordination of the enterprise is not smooth, and the sense of belonging of employees is reduced. When the scale of the enterprise is small, this disadvantage is not very obvious, with the gradual expansion of the scale, the problem of employee belonging will be infinitely magnified, resulting in the enterprise self-defeating.

Third, human management.

The common disadvantage of family enterprises is that they value human favors over the system, and the result of this system will make the relationship between employees within the family of the enterprise very harmonious, and bring harmonious benefits to the enterprise. However, the negative effect is that the work is not tracked, difficult to implement, rewarded, and punished. The system is the norm that every employee of the enterprise should abide by. If only external employees comply, rather than all employees comply, it will lead to the emergence of interest groups. As a result, there are too many back areas, and there are crises hidden all the time, even fatal crises.

Fourth, abuse of rights.

Although family members obtain certain rights in the enterprise, these rights are used in the management of the company's business, not in the rectification of individuals, and the management of the enterprise must be right about things and not people, and people who dare to speak out and omission cannot be "beaten to death" with a stick. If the company is left with some sycophants, how will the company develop?

Fifth, there is a lack of incentives.

In order for enterprises to achieve sustainable development, the key is to attract and retain more talents that enterprises need, and the most fundamental characteristic of human capital is effective incentives. However, a common problem in family businesses is that most family businesses rely too much on the lack of fairness and rationality management systems in the organization to constrain the work of employees. For example, extending working hours without overtime pay, or depriving employees of their right to public holidays, resulting in low mood and low motivation of employees.

In the use of incentives, many enterprises see that other enterprises have incentives, and they "rely on the gourd to draw a scoop", and there is a phenomenon of blind incentives. Some managers are more valued by business owners, that is, they get more bonuses, and many family businesses believe that as long as the salary of employees increases, they can maximize their potential, without considering the high-level needs of employees such as spirit. As a result, employees are not highly motivated and do not have more passion to devote themselves to their work.

Sixth, there is a lack of corporate culture.

Family business, especially the family culture of Chinese family business, embodies the outstanding characteristics of Chinese traditional culture, is the core of domestic family business, and also has a significant impact on the formation of family business culture. Corporate culture is a unique cultural image of an organization composed of its values, beliefs, rituals, symbols, and ways of doing things. Its main content is the enterprise system, enterprise spirit and business philosophy, family culture in the enterprise system construction and enterprise spirit construction is difficult to keep up with the development of modern enterprises, the lag of corporate culture will seriously weaken the core competitiveness of enterprises.

In the final analysis, it is very difficult to run a business well, Zhou Fangyuan asked himself if he was not a genius in managing the company, he asked himself that he might not be able to balance the relationship between the enterprise and the family, so he simply closed the door for family members to enter, he was worried that he would not be able to control the situation at that time. The Far Away Group has come to this day, it seems simple, but in fact it is not easy, and it is impossible for him to joke with his own hard work.

And the rest of the journey will be even more difficult, and he can't be distracted by something unnecessary.

To be honest, even now, he is trembling and walking on thin ice, otherwise he would have gone to enjoy life a long time ago.

In fact, it is really not easy to control a group enterprise like Yuanfang Group, Zhou Fangyuan already feels a little powerless, and he must continue to strengthen himself.

In addition, there are several elements of business success that must be noted.

First of all, what can make people and enterprises go to ultimate success must be willingness.

Whether you start a business or work part-time, it is very important to have a sense of mission, whether your will is strong or not, and what your heart is. I have invested in so many companies, and I have found that the mission and motivation of the company are already destined from the first day of its establishment. Many companies do not have enough motivation and willingness, and they will fail. If you have enough power and energy, you will persevere in the face of more difficulties in the future.

Where does confidence come from? It comes from the conditions that the individual has and the recognition of the outside world. Many people don't plan to do a career when they are planning to set the right time, place, and people, and 99% of entrepreneurs have no conditions at the beginning.

What should I do if I don't have confidence? To have determination is how much I can wish, how strong I want to succeed, how much I want to solve a problem in a certain industry, and how much I want to do something for this society.

The power of the wish is big or small, enough or empty. Running a business is a small willingness, and you can do a little business, solve small difficulties, and create small value. Great will do great things, solve big difficulties, and create great value.

"Is there any other reason why we live to change the world?" In the 90s of the 20th century, after Jobs returned to Apple, he reshaped Apple's image and culture, telling employees, customers, and the world that Apple exists to make great products, not for how high the stock price and how high the market value is.

Many inventions and creations have been invented and created for mankind by these pioneers who made great aspirations. They think about industry problems, social problems, and world problems, and behind the solution of these problems is a person's great will. It is enough to sustain a person to fight against darkness, difficulty, hardship, and hesitation.

Secondly, people who are really successful are doing it.

The second essential ingredient for success is awareness.

Time is the most balanced asset for all people, different people have different achievements, and the core difference is thought and cognition, which together determine a person's wealth and happiness.

To be honest, Brother Da Ma is not more diligent than us, but his cognitive boundaries are wider than ours, and his ideological height is higher than ours. His thinking is all deep thinking, and his diligence is efficient diligence, so he has reached a higher state than ordinary people. Thinking is hierarchical, so there are countless problems and countless practices. The success of Da Ma Ge is not only the success of hard work, but also the success of thought and cognition.

Thinking higher than others, you can be the boss of the team.

The boss of a company should spend the most of his personal time on improving his self-awareness. Entrepreneurs should pay attention to "hearing the Tao", thinking and learning every day, and improving the cognitive level, the founder must rely on ideas and philosophy to lead the enterprise, rather than relying on how much stronger than the skills of employees. "A skill thing" is a lower-level thing. The higher level is the "technique", that is, the tactics, the higher level is the "law", that is, the systematic way of playing, the higher level is the "Tao", that is, the essence and the law, and the higher level than the "Tao" is the "soul", that is, thought, philosophy and faith.

Relying on "technology," people can earn hundreds of thousands, and relying on "souls," they may be able to do trillions of dollars in business. Da Ma Ge's "three axes", mission, vision, and values, and "three axes", talents, organizations, and KPIs, correspond to the above hierarchical structures. Alibaba's hundreds of billions of dollars of business depends on these.

Again, people who do big things never give up.

The third essential ingredient for success is hard work.

British writer Malcolm Gladwell proposed the "10,000-hour rule" in his book "Outliers", pointing out that the reason why people think that genius is extraordinary is not superhuman talent, but continuous effort.

There is no doubt that no career can be achieved overnight, and it requires long-term and unswerving efforts. Entrepreneurship requires persistence, although hard work is the least core competitiveness, but it is the foundation for getting things done. There is no easy way to walk, what is easy to walk is downhill, and what is easy to get will be easy to lose. The easiest money in the world to make is all written in the Criminal Law, and whoever dares to earn such money will pay the due price.

Many times, there may be no effect if there is a cause, there may be only a small effect if there is a big cause, and there may be only one effect if there are multiple causes. After working hard for a long time, what should I do if I find that I have gained very little? Don't give up, keep working hard, keep paying, and the harvest is just around the corner.

Don't take entrepreneurship as a bitter and sad face all day long, but take it as a kind of practice, a kind of enjoyment, take suffering as pleasure, iterate a little every day, make progress a little every day, live for the process, and live for the result without utilitarianism.

Fourth, 99% of people ignore the key factors that determine success.

"Willingness + cognition + effort" is something that you can solve and act on, but this is still not the fundamental element of success. The fourth point that is the most important and decisive factor for success, which 99% of people will ignore, is the times. Any great achievement does not only rely on self-effort, but also on "colliding" with the pulse and needs of the times, and any great success is given by the times.

The success of WeChat is inseparable from Xiao Ma's resources and Zhang Xiaolong's ability to make products, but the most important thing is that this era needs a "WeChat". Even if it's not "WeChat", it will be other similar product software. It's just that the group of people led by Brother Xiao Ma were well prepared, took advantage of the situation, and succeeded.

In addition, selfish people and selfish enterprises live "short".

A person and a business are valuable because they have the value of being used by others. If neither you nor your business have the value of being used by others, how can you succeed?

The success of an enterprise does not lie in what products and services it does at all, but the business philosophy and values and culture behind it, which is the foundation that leads the development of the enterprise.

There are many reasons why a business fails, but it boils down to two things: away from employees and away from customers.

Jobs never cared about Apple's stock price, he only cared about products, which is why there is a company like Apple. When he proposed that we should build a smartphone with only one button, everyone was against it, why was he so convinced that it would be able to do it? He said that consumers need this kind of willingness and altruism to make the final success.

Business is humane, and doing business is not to earn money, but to win hearts and minds.

Many entrepreneurs' offices are hung with "goodness is like water" and "forever", but few people really understand the meaning behind these two idioms, in fact, these eight words contain all the truth of business, you understand it thoroughly, and it is very easy to do business. If you really understand the "good as water" deeply, you will be shocked by the wisdom contained in it.

People's desire is to go to a higher place, to have higher power, to have more wealth, to have more popularity, this is people's desire, and everyone is like this. However, we should learn from water in reverse, which is called "water flowing to a lower place", "the low-lying area is filled, and the bend can be stretched".

Water is wealth, and the lower you put yourself, the more water flows to you, and the more you receive. Those who don't know how to be humble, don't know how to be low-key, don't know how to forbear, don't know how to give more to others, will never get so much.

If we can comprehend the "eternity" thoroughly, your life will suddenly be bright, relaxed and calm, especially easy to be content, especially easy to be happy, and especially easy to succeed.

Finally, businesses and individuals need evolution, and without evolution, they will eventually be abandoned.

Entrepreneurs need to look at phenomena and think about problems with a historical view, and explore the fundamentals behind them from a macro and micro perspective.

The wheels of the times continue to move forward, and human beings evolved from apes, experienced nearly 2 million years of slash-and-burn primitive society, entered the agricultural society, and began to use bronze, stone, and iron tools for farming. During this period, the four ancient civilizations of China, India and other four major civilizations were thousands of years ahead of other countries and became the center of the world.

After that, into the age of steam, Britain rose, and Europe was almost 300 years ahead. The steam age was only a hundred years, and the world soon entered the electric age, and the country began to rise, and Europe began to lag behind after 300 years of leadership.

The electric age is only a hundred years old, and the world has entered the information age. During the period, the Internet engine appeared, the United States completely dominated the world, China entered this era about 15 years later than Europe and the United States, not only missed the previous two industrial revolutions, but also missed the three and a half era, to the second half of the Internet era, only to catch up, after Copy to China, copying, imitation, innovation, to re-emerge, in the 20 years of mobile Internet era, and the United States is called "double hero".

In the more distant future, the world will enter the era of intelligent interconnection. A new era has been sparked by the ideas and technologies of artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning, and blockchain.

Therefore, Zhou Fangyuan can not relax at all, not only to eliminate hidden dangers, but also to bring Yuanfang Group to a higher level.