Chapter 30 Succession is also art

Of course, the information compiled by Ye Shikun is only from the level of company development and business innovation.

Returning to Yuanfeng is not simply a "business issue", but a "political issue" and a "personnel issue".

Ye Shikun wants to really grasp the power of the company, and it is by no means possible to solve it just by reporting a set of "strategic development plans" to the old man.

What's more, he was also impeached by the company's board of directors and had the experience of "losing the wheat city".

If it returns again, how to establish prestige, authority, and power in the company, the preparations that need to be made, and the necessary means are also indispensable......

The succession of the second generation of a family business is actually a very complex "project".

Generally speaking, the first challenge for the successor is how to make a military exploit, establish prestige, and tame the "old ministers" who fought the world together with the first generation of entrepreneurs.

Therefore, there are two things that the successor must personally grasp - business and finance, and if he can make achievements in these two fields, the successor will be invincible.

At the same time, it is also necessary to balance the three levels of "preserving", "removing the old" and "distributing the new".

Transformation is "reverse engineering", for a large and rigid organization, aging personnel, can not carry out top-down surgery-especially a new stage of the successor, in the absence of military merits and prestige to "move the knife", it is easy to cause the result of "policies at the top, countermeasures at the bottom".

There is a "twelve-character motto" in the "Guo Quotations" of Hon Hai Company: formulate strategies, build organizations, deploy manpower, and set up systems. These four steps are chronological. After the strategy is set, we can design an organization with executive power, and only after the organization is designed can we find the most suitable talents, otherwise it is easy to fall into the trap of "setting things for people".

If the reform or innovation of large enterprises is compared to building a house, "setting a strategy" is like laying a foundation, "building an organization" is like a load-bearing wall and pillar, "distributing manpower" is like a partition decoration, and "setting a system" is water, electricity and gas;

And when you want to renovate an old house, you have to do it the other way around.

First of all, it is necessary to adjust or unify the different management systems of different business departments to reduce the difficulty of consolidation; then introduce young professional new blood at the executive level to ensure the intensity of implementation; and establish the successor of middle supervisors. Personnel layout to a certain extent, and then make organizational adjustments or mergers.

At this point, it will be smooth sailing to carry out strategic reforms.

Some time ago, Ye Shikun once read an article about how the warlord Zhang Zuolin trained the "young marshal" Zhang Xueliang to succeed him during the Republic of China:

1. Cultivate your own team: let Zhang Xueliang enter the Feng warlord's own military academy at that time, the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and let him serve as the superintendent of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall after graduation. In terms of personnel development, Zhang Zuolin let Zhang Xueliang call the shots.

Therefore, the more famous generals of the Northeast Army in the future, such as Huang Xiansheng, Xu Gengyang, Niu Yuanfeng, and even the founding generals Lu Zhengcao and Wan Yi all had a teacher-student friendship with Zhang Xueliang. And Guo Songling, He Zhuguo and others began their military careers as instructors in the martial arts hall under Zhang Xueliang.

In this way, Zhang Xueliang initially established his own team based on the instructors and graduates of the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall.

2. Arduous military and political training: Zhang Xueliang was sent to take a well-equipped regiment to suppress bandits and cultivate his self-confidence in fighting; Zhang Xueliang established his prestige in the army in Guo Songling's anti-Feng war; and then in the war between the Feng Department and the Northern Expeditionary Army, Zhang Xueliang was asked to command the main force of the third and fourth army corps; after a series of experiences, Zhang Xueliang also became a decisive figure within the Feng department and even in the whole country.

3. The support of the veterans: have their own team, have qualifications and ability, but this does not become an inevitable condition for succession. There is also a condition for the compromise of the various factions, especially the support of the old school.

The patriarchal faction of the Feng faction was headed by Zhang Zuoxiang at that time, and it was Zhang Zuoxiang who separately persuaded the old faction to support Zhang Xueliang's son to inherit his father's business in order to maintain the unity of the Feng faction. In addition, at that time, there were many strong external enemies in the Feng system, whether it was the Northern Expeditionary Army outside the Guan, or the Northeast Army in the Guan, they were all eyeing each other, in this case, as one of the leaders of the new faction, Zhang Xueliang, who had the righteousness of "inheriting the father's business", was able to take over smoothly.

This is a very successful succession story.

Cultivating one's own team (personnel team), experience (performance and prestige), and the support of the veteran faction (the support of the board of directors and shareholders) are the three conditions for a successful succession.

The previous Ye Shikun had not done a good job in the personnel layout within the company, although he had made certain achievements in promoting the company's successful listing, but he did not appease the veteran faction, so he experienced a failure.

Of course, the most important point, and the core problem facing all successors, is the support of the old man.

In any case, the "old marshal" as the founder and the "young marshal" as the successor are different in thinking, values and world view cognition because of the differences in the growth environment, educational background, and opportunities and challenges of the times faced by the two generations.

In addition, enterprise innovation and transformation are the problems faced by most second-generation successions, and the differences between the two generations on enterprise management and transformation affect the succession process not only from the tension and interaction between the two generations, but also related to the industrial life cycle and the external social and cultural background of the enterprise.

The dual challenges of inheritance and transformation make the succession of the second generation even more difficult.

So this time, Ye Shikun persuaded the old man to get his full support, which was also a crucial first step.

Of course, there's still a lot to do!

Ye Shikun planned to discuss with his father in detail after preparing the information.

Then, I met with the "young Zhuang faction" in the company and the younger generation of cousins to learn about the current situation within the company.

Ye Shiduo, the son of the second uncle, and Ye Shiting and Ye Shixuan, the sons of the third uncle, all worked in the company, or managed the following branches, or served as directors in a certain department of the headquarters, and there were also some talents he promoted back then, which were his previous "team".

As for the situation of the patriarchs, Chen Bo is the best "middleman".

Through him, you can understand what the elders' respective little abacus are, and they can also find a breakthrough, or lure each other with profit, or persuade with reason, in short, after knowing themselves and knowing each other, they can divide and disintegrate, and break them one by one.

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However, what gave him a bit of a headache was that there were obviously a bunch of things to deal with......

The next day, he received a call from Liu Yunxuan.

"Brother Shikun, are you at home? I'm going to play with you today, I haven't seen Uncle Ye and Aunt Xu for a long time!"

Originally, this kind of boring thing, he casually made an excuse, saying that he was too busy and pushed it off.

When I answered the phone, the family was having breakfast.

As soon as Xu Ning heard that it was Liu Yunxuan, he asked him to let the little girl come over quickly, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen that girl from the Liu family for a few years, I remember that girl's sweet mouth......"

Well, the queen mother spoke, and Ye Shikun couldn't help it.

Thinking of the girl's "Brother Shikun", Ye Shikun felt extremely embarrassed.

hung up the phone and looked up, Tong Jiajia, who was sitting on the side, just raised his eyes to look at him, and there was a faint smile in his beautiful eyes that were as clear as water, perhaps sensing his helplessness.

The four eyes looked at each other, and for a moment, Ye Shikun had a tacit understanding that was rarely seen between the two in the past.