Chapter 426: Meritorious Shock
Even if Xu Teng works 40 hours a day, he will never have enough work to deal with, so he can only devote his limited time and energy to making decisions and monitoring the progress of their implementation. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In order to ensure the effectiveness and progress of all decisions, he must share more shares and wealth and create more super-rich.
After the grand event at Marbur Manor.
Xu Teng and dozens of associate partners in the United States held a brief annual meeting of the consortium in the estate to decide on all directional strategies for the second half of 2014.
Since 2012, there has been a new change in the mode of the annual meeting of the Huayin Consortium, which holds a spring annual meeting in mid-January every year to summarize last year's data and set goals for the new year, and a summer annual meeting in July to review the implementation of the goals of the year.
This year is the first time that the Huayin Consortium has held an annual meeting in the United States, which is certainly within the scope of the monitoring of the NSA and the Prism Project, but with the level of confrontation between Huateng Company and the NSA for so many years, the threat of the NSA can basically be ignored.
In 2014, on the whole, it was very smooth, because the development of Huayin Consortium in the field of traditional industry has basically entered Industry 3.0, entering a relatively good virtuous circle, with a higher level of technology bringing better production, sales and profits, and more profits supporting more progress in R&D, equipment and technology.
There are two really complicated issues.
The first is the cooperation between the Huayin consortium and the Swedish consortium, which is already a problem of repeating the same old tune, repeatedly talking about and abandoning, and abandoning and reluctant; second, the integration of Unilever and Yongtai Chemical's daily chemical business, judging from the latest data and research reports compiled in the past few months, some of the work is relatively smooth, most of the work is still in a very initial stage, and some are seriously lagging behind.
Patience!
It is certainly not easy to integrate such a big one, and Xu Teng is also a relatively patient chairman, who can give more time to the "McTesco Wu Yiwei" team, he just puts forward some suggestions with other co-partners from the standpoint of being a bystander, and tries to help Wu Yiwei find a more suitable execution strategy.
This is also a major advantage of the Huayin Consortium, when a joint partner has a problem in the field in charge, and the experience and ability are insufficient, the other joint partners can put forward targeted suggestions, which is basically a group of China's best entrepreneurs to work together to gather sparks of wisdom.
In general, there was nothing particularly important about the 2014 Summer Annual Meeting, and issues such as oil shorting were not discussed within the Annual Meeting...... The joint partners generally know that there is such a thing, and the specific operation is personally presided over by Xu Teng and the parent company of the Huayin Consortium, "China Huateng Industrial Holding Group Company".
So, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., exactly 12 hours, this year's summer annual meeting is over.
Finally, Xu Teng talked about one matter, and voted on the official co-partner qualification of Rupert-Stadt, because Chen Zhixin, chairman of Huateng Automobile Group, will officially retire in September this year.
Chen Zhixin now has two positions: joint partner of Huayin Consortium and chairman of Huateng Automobile Group, and today he will officially resign as joint partner, and then resign as chairman of Huateng Automobile Group in mid-September, and complete all handover work with the new chairman Rupert-Stader.
Chen Zhixin is 67 years old this year, and according to reason, there is no problem in working in the position of chairman for another two years, but this is the Huayin Consortium.
If the name is not right, it is not good.
If Stade does not officially take office for a day, there will still be various undercurrents within Huateng Automobile Group, and many jobs will inevitably encounter a situation where the yang is in line with the yin, and it is not beneficial to always rely on Chen Zhixin to coordinate behind the scenes.
Regarding whether Stader can serve as a joint partner and whether he can serve as the chairman of Huateng Automobile Group, there may be some controversy on the side of Huateng Automobile, but on the side of the consortium council, there is basically no controversy.
There are pros and cons, and the pros outweigh the cons.
First, the most important point is that he quickly integrated Audi during his tenure and persuaded most of the middle and senior management within Audi to integrate into Huateng Automobile Group as a whole; second, HBF "Huabaofu Automobile Credit Financing Service Co., Ltd." was successfully integrated and established, providing a wide range of automobile financing services for the products of Huateng, BMW, Ford, Changan, Shanghai Automobile, Dongqi, FAW and Geely.
3. Persuade Scania to agree to the integration plan of Huateng Automobile Group.
Regarding Scania, Xu Teng originally had high expectations, but after he spent a lot of money and paid a lot of money to help Scania get out of the Volkswagen Group and MAN Company, the other party played BMW's strategy of technology as king, and used the Swedish legal protection system to wrestle with him, wanting to coerce Huateng Automobile Group to maintain a completely independent operation qualification.
Xu Teng hates this arrogance and conceit of Europeans, the sacred and inviolable rules of private property rights are set by you, take my money, and want to continue to be high, thinking that we Chinese are easy to bully, right?
Xu Teng clearly told Scania's senior management at that time that if you continue this cunning strategy, I'm sorry, he will treat the money as if it was thrown away, and he will fight with you until you are all unemployed and bankrupt.
When all these people's protective contracts expired, he kicked them all out, and from executives to workers, he took the brand and technology product line, and reinvested in the factory.
Of course, this is just a negative word from Xu Teng, an attitude of pressure.
On the basis of not being able to effectively restructure, his real decision was to first exert pressure to strive for a slightly more favorable situation, deceive the other party into coming up with the latest technology platform, and then poach some of the personnel, and finally sell Scania to the BMW Group, using the surplus value of the other party in exchange for more BMW Group shares.
After all, it is a big investment of $4 billion, and even if the investment fails, he must find a way to stop the loss.
In such a big situation, in the case of the complete failure of the restructuring negotiations between the two sides, Ruppert-Stadler thought of many ways, including arranging for Scania employees to travel to China in batches, visiting the headquarters and R&D centers of Huayin Consortium and Huateng Automobile Company.
This person understands the ideas of Westerners about the Chinese and is very patient, and finally persuaded Scania to accept the new restructuring plan and fully integrate with Huateng Automobile Group in the four fields of R&D, design, production and marketing.
It took a long time and a lot of energy, but it was still done beautifully.
What is competence?
A person's ability is not how smart he is, nor how much knowledge and knowledge he has, but whether he can get things done.
If you can handle things that no one else can handle, you will be capable!
Therefore, although there are still some controversies within Huateng Automobile Company, especially within the senior management, Xu Teng and the board of directors of the consortium have decided that this person's ability is competent for this position, and the advantages are very clear, which is very beneficial to the internationalization process of Huateng Automobile Group.
Even if Rupert-Stadler is a CFO and a financial background, and has insufficient experience in the field of automotive technology and industry chain, he can make up for his shortcomings by adding a design director and setting up multiple project directors through the matching of other senior partners.
Xu Teng and the Board of Directors of the Huayin Consortium have summarized a lot of excellent corporate management strategies over the years, once the joint partners are selected, the entire senior management team, and the dream team of the entire industry field must be matched around the characteristics of the joint partners, including the system of the enterprise can be adjusted accordingly.
Xu Teng's experience is very simple, for an enterprise, the most important thing is always people, not the enterprise structure and system, an excellent entrepreneur, an excellent product research and development team, the value is better than a thousand enterprise regulations.
At this moment, all the joint partners within the board of directors participated in the voting, and finally went to Xu Teng to count the voting results, 22 votes in favor, 5 abstentions, passed Xu Teng's proposal, and officially appointed Rupert-Stader as the new joint partner of the board of directors of the Huayin Consortium.
Everyone applauded and congratulated, and Xu Teng also said a few words of congratulations as the chairman, and then everyone looked at Chen Zhixin.
Lao Chen is officially retiring, and will retain the honor of lifelong partner in the future, but will no longer participate in the decision-making of the consortium council.
"Mr. Chen, this is the last time you will attend the annual meeting, and everyone is reluctant, so please say a few words. Xu Teng's heart is also complicated, because there is one thing that he didn't tell everyone, because Chen Zhixin's son has intestinal cancer and was just diagnosed a few months ago.
Xu Teng used some connections to send the other party to 301 for treatment, he just had surgery last month, and so far, the operation has been very successful, and it is estimated that he will live for 5 to 10 years, so Chen Zhixin's retirement is a year earlier than planned.
Life is complicated.
Chen Zhixin's health has not been very good, mainly diabetes and high blood pressure, both are chronic diseases, there is no major threat overall, his son is only in his forties, the physical examination report has been very good, there is nothing wrong, and the work pressure is not great, and suddenly he has a terminal illness.
In addition to several senior co-partners of the consortium, Chen Zhixin does not plan to tell more people about this matter for the time being.
The old man is in a good mood, after all, he is used to seeing big ups and downs, and there is no great joy or sorrow.
"The chairman asked me to say a few words, then I will say two words, in fact, I really have nothing to say, and I have no regrets in my heart. Many things, you know in your heart when you reach my age. The important thing in life is the process of being together and the process of achieving something. ”
Chen Zhixin has been away from Shanghai Automobile for more than ten years, and he still retains an obvious state-owned enterprise leadership style for so many years, holding a big teacup in his hand, carefully recalling his life, "In the 80s, I was sent to study in Germany, I was thirty years old at the time, and then I was sent to Volkswagen in Germany for an internship for one year, and then I began to be in charge of the Santana joint venture project. At that time, I always thought that it was really difficult for China's auto industry to catch up with Europe and the United States, and it would be good if a truly self-designed domestic car could reach the level of Santana. In 02, the old chairman found me and said that he wanted to build a Chinese automobile group that could compete with Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, and I didn't feel very good at the time, because this plan was too difficult to achieve, and for our generation, I was afraid that it was a blow, and I really felt that the old chairman was making a fuss. ”
Now that I think about it, for an old comrade like me, who was born after the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially for an old comrade who experienced the almost hopeless industrial gap between China and Japan in the 80s and 90s, I can only say that if there is a miracle in this world, it must be our China Red, because we are capable, willing to work, hard work, and skillful. ”
"In the end, I hope that everyone will continue to work hard, work hard, follow our chairman to sweep Liuhe, defeat all competitors, let China's industry rise, let them Japanese, let them Germans also despair once. Chen Zhixin said and said, his mood was inevitably a little excited, and after he finished speaking, he felt a little wrong, and looked at Stadler next to him, oops, this is an authentic German.
Everyone was excited and applauded.
Xu Teng looked at Rupert-Stader and found that he was also applauding warmly, so he asked the other party, "Do you understand?"
"Most of them understand, my Chinese level is very good now, as for us Germans, we have despaired many times, not worse this time. Ruppert-Stader didn't take it seriously when he smiled, his current level of Chinese can basically be heard but not spoken, and when he speaks, no one understands, it is better to speak English.
Most of the co-partners present are wearing headphones for AI simultaneous translation, and the rest of them have a good level of English.
Everyone can understand Rupert-Stadler's words, and they all laugh.
"What Lao Chen means, everyone understands that our goal is to achieve China's industrial 4.0, and to integrate the global industrial chain and conquer the world with the Huayin Consortium as the main body. Xu Teng reinterpreted Chen Zhixin's parting speech, which is more in line with the overall thinking of the Huayin Consortium, of course, Chen Lao's meaning is more direct, more concise, and everyone understands it in their hearts.
This is indeed Chen Zhixin's last annual meeting, and he has a lot to say, but he also knows that everything is in plain sight.
The Board of Directors of the Huayin Consortium is the dream team of China's economy, a truly good team, bringing together the best entrepreneurs in the country to strive for a common goal.
He arrived at the station and got off, but it didn't matter, as long as the others were still there, as long as Xu Teng was still there, the Huayin Consortium would still move forward, and the Huateng Industrial Complex would still move forward.
Chen Zhixin got up, shook hands with Xu Teng beside him first, and couldn't help but pat his shoulder, "Chairman, over the years, I have worked hard, you have worked harder, take care of your body, I believe that in my lifetime, you will definitely lead the Huayin Consortium to achieve China's industrial 4.0!"
Xu Teng nodded.
Over the years, he has also learned a lot from Chen Zhixin.
Over the years, Chen Zhixin has worked hard from a leader of a state-owned enterprise with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands of yuan to a wealthy man with a net worth of 2 billion RMB, and at the same time, he has also created an international automobile giant with a market value of 515 billion RMB for Xu Teng and Huayin Consortium.
In China's auto industry, Chen Zhixin is already a banner.
This is a legend and stage of mutual achievement.
Chen Zhixin and the other co-partners shook hands one by one, encouraged the younger friends to continue their efforts, and advised the older friends to take care of their health, but with Stadt, he had nothing to say.
Chen Zhixin has done everything that should be done, and Stadler was not the successor he hoped for from the beginning, but he understood that the development of Huateng Automobile Group to today's level needs a joint partner who understands the global automotive industry better.
According to Chen Zhixin's meaning, he hopes that Lu Zhifeng will succeed him, Guangqi Honda was born, has been in charge of technology and production for so many years, and has the deepest understanding of the Japanese automobile industry.
The older generation has the idea that the automobile industry, after all, must rely on dry work, and the core thing is always cost and quality control, which is the most powerful part of the Japanese automobile industry.
Over the years, Huateng Automobile has played the Korean set more precisely, and there is no problem with cost control, but there is still a gap in quality control.
Although the gap is not big, this little gap just can't catch up.
This is Chen Zhixin's only regret.
He also said that this Huayin consortium is Xu Teng's master after all, he is old and in poor health, and he can't keep up with Xu Teng's requirements, so he can only accept it when he sees it.
Stadler has done a great job this year, very beautiful...... In short, Chen Zhixin still reserved his opinion, and only stepped into the automotive industry at the age of 30, and worked hard until the age of 67, and finally achieved something.
Contented!
Chen Zhixin wants to return to China as soon as possible, in this aging life, he still has a lot of things to do, a wife to take care of, a son to take care of, and a granddaughter to take care of.
Xu Teng arranged a special flight for Chen Zhixin at night and drove him to the airport in person.
Here, the two shook hands again and said goodbye.
Although he still retains the honorary seat of lifelong partner, Chen Zhixin actually understands in his heart that from today onwards, it will be difficult for him to see Xu Teng again in the future, even if he can make an appointment to meet with a phone call, but why bother.
"The chairman is from Jiangzhou, I am from Gyeongju, according to the old saying of our Jianghuai businessmen, you are the owner, I am the retired treasurer, before parting, I still have a few words to say to you. Chen Zhixin was vaguely reluctant, he liked Xu Teng, a young young owner, in his heart, and it was like watching Xu Teng grow up over the years.
Over the years, Xu Teng has made a lot of mistakes, but he is always cleaning up the mess in the fastest way, stopping losses immediately, and basically not making mistakes in the general direction.
Xu Teng's way of doing business and controlling the wrists of his subordinates are all things that Chen Zhixin admires very much.
Good businessman!
"You say!" Xu Teng was also apprehensive in his heart, he did not force Chen Zhixin to retire, and everyone thought that Chen Zhixin took the initiative to retire, but in fact, there were many things that only he and Chen Zhixin understood.
He never said it clearly, but Chen Zhixin knew that he, the owner, divided feelings and business very clearly, couldn't keep up with his ideas, couldn't meet his requirements, and the joint partners had to take the initiative to quit and don't delay him.
Xu Teng will not say that he will retire when he is over 65 years old, no, he only looks at performance, only to see whether you, the joint partner, meet his requirements.
If you can meet the requirements, he will share the wealth with you, and if you can't meet the requirements, he will silently ask you to leave.
At this kind of moment, he doesn't talk about feelings, even for Li Daxiao, Li Dongsheng, Wang Yan, and Liang Weigen, the four senior associate partners who are qualified to call him an "apprentice", he will also talk about things and use data to speak.
"There is an owner, the company's affairs, those things in business, I don't have anything to worry about, it's just that in this world, rabbits and dead dogs are cooked, and birds are hidden. The proprietor is a smart man, you know what I mean, you and the old proprietor must keep a few hands. As the old saying goes, if the merit is high, the prosperity will decline!" Chen Zhixin really wanted to tell Xu Teng was like this.
Now, Xu Teng is going to fight a decisive battle with Japanese industry and chaebol.
The domestic business community and the public may feel that the Huayin Consortium is a bit self-sufficient, but in the eyes of Chen Zhixin, a veteran entrepreneur, the Japanese system is actually easier to defeat than the Korean system, because the Japanese system has long been a thin camel, and only the last bit of life is left in their hands.
The United States' means of dealing with Japan are very simple, grasping military affairs with one hand and finance with the other.
Therefore, for so many years, the Japanese economy has not been able to achieve the kind of breakthrough in the global financial industry as the European economy, and after the 90-year real estate bubble crisis, it was basically at the mercy of Wall Street.
Compared with Germany and Europe, Japan is a developed industrial body that has been emasculated by the United States, and in this kind of confrontation between consortiums, it is simply impossible to match the Huayin consortium.
Chen Zhixin just wanted to remind Xu Teng not to be too fast in dealing with Japan, Europe and the United States, at least not at the speed of the past, and to save a few hands.
"I understand, I'll be careful!" Xu Teng understands, holding Chen Zhixin's hand, he actually has some guilt in his heart, after all, Huateng Automobile can develop to today's scale, Chen Zhixin has made great contributions, but after all, he was "persuaded" to retire.
"The owner is extremely smart, as long as you know it in your heart, I don't have to worry, then I will leave. Chen Zhixin let go of his hand, bowed to Xu Teng, and saluted Xu Teng, the emotionally unemotional chairman, for the last time in the form of a partner.
Chen Zhixin has regrets, he has always wanted to support Lu Zhifeng to take the position, but Xu Teng is not satisfied.
Xu Teng is the owner after all.
Chen Zhixin should have said what he should have said, what he should have reminded, and he has said that today, he can only accept it when he sees it, and it will not ruin the friendship between the two generations.
Xu Teng silently bowed his head in return and watched the old chairman board the plane and leave.
This level.
He passed.
In the next hurdle, his goal is not to replace any of the aging co-partners, but to carry out a large-scale restructuring of the financial business of the entire Huayin consortium.
In China's financial industry, Huayin Consortium owns six small banks, Huaxia Bank, Minsheng Bank, and Yangtze River Bank, and Ping An, Huaxia, and Sunshine of the top ten insurance companies, and the business scale in the two major fields of securities and asset management is also very large, and the biggest problem at present is that it is too scattered.
In the United States a century ago, the "King of Wall Street" JP Morgan had a point of view - big is beautiful.
To this day, this view is still an absolute business axiom.
Xu Teng's big decision on the financial business of the Huayin consortium has not changed in the past few years, and his view is that the commercial banking business can be dispersed, and the three major businesses of insurance, securities and asset management must be unified.
Within the Huayin Consortium, Xu Teng has talked with the co-partners in the financial field many times, and everyone agrees with his views, but as long as it comes to integration, it is impossible to talk about it.
The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and each family wants to integrate others with their own as the mainstay.
Xu Teng realized almost in 2012 that if he continued to quarrel like this, there would be no result if he quarreled for another twenty years, and if he didn't break it, he wouldn't stand.
He also talked to financial authorities at all levels that China still lacks a flagship financial industry that can compete with Wall Street, and that the big four banks, which are state-owned commercial banks and the backbone of national savings and credit, are destined not to intervene in such high-risk areas.
Therefore, his plan is to take "China Huaxia Financial Holding Group Corporation" as the core parent company, and use ten years to unify its three major businesses: investment banking, asset management, and insurance, while commercial banks will continue to maintain the situation of holding three small banks and focusing on the Agricultural Bank of China and the Bank of Communications.
The specific integration is based on his decision-making, and others are only responsible for implementation, and no more quarrels are allowed.