Chapter 1067: The Expected Meeting
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Whether it's Fan Heng or not. Relative to the fact that foreign countries are completing the comprehensive transformation of high-tech industries, they naturally hate these domestic behaviors of simply using their privileges to collude with officials and businessmen to squander state-owned mineral resources.
It is a very shameless act for no one to be complacent about monopolizing the country's mineral resources at a very small cost because of the privileges in their hands.
Although in most places in the country, there is this kind of power rent-seeking model of collusion between officials and businessmen, but there is no doubt that this is an important part of power, and there is nothing more suitable for the accumulation of primitive capital than the monopoly of low-cost and high-output mineral resources.
For a long time, the domestic mining tycoons were unusually low-key, except for buying luxury cars or overseas properties, they rarely showed their heads, although they had an astonishing amount of wealth, but they knew better how they got their wealth and the deep-water predators hidden behind them.
Once these situations are exposed, it is very likely that a series of fierce actions against corruption and organized crime will be launched.
Therefore, everyone enjoys the rapid growth of wealth brought about by power in a low-key and happy manner, and is not willing to covet any false fame.
Growing pains have also permeated the business world this year, with the best-selling business book in the U.S. being "From Good to Great" published by Jim Collins. He analyzed each of the companies in Fortune's top 500 rankings over the past 35 years and came to some surprising conclusions.
Collins found that a company's transition from good to great has nothing to do with whether the industry it is in is trendy, and in fact, even a business in a traditional industry can become great even if it is initially unknown.
Other conclusions he came to include that technology, and the change it enables, does not actually inspire the leap from good to great, that mergers and acquisitions do not play any role in driving the company to leapfrog, that a revolutionary leap does not necessarily require a revolutionary process, and that excellence is not a product of the environment, but to a large extent, it is the result of a deliberate decision.
These ideas are undoubtedly shocking to entrepreneurs who once soared and are now mired in the dot-com bubble, and they make people rethink the path of growth and what it really means.
Collins also described the fifth-level leaders who create great businesses, who tend not to stand in the front of the fore, become media darlings, talk about their ideas, or become celebrities. Most of them are like aliens, silent, introverted, unshowy, and even a little shy, with a combination of humble personal traits and unyielding professionalism. They are hidden deep behind the team, coordinating the team's symphony.
Such a graphic depiction dwarfs the sexually flamboyant Internet upstarts.
In China, too, people are beginning to chew on Collins's ideas in earnest, and the performance of one homegrown entrepreneur makes people seem to see the shadow of a fifth-level leader.
In January, Huawei's Ren Zhengfei published a 6,000-word article in Huawei Daily, titled "Huawei's Winter." In the past year. Huawei's sales soared to 22 billion yuan, ranking first among the top 100 electronics companies in China.
However, he has clearly felt the impact of the bursting of the bubble on the telecom market, and the entrepreneur, who has always been worried and extremely low-key, asked his employees at the beginning of the article whether all the employees of the company have considered what we should do if one day, the company's sales decline, profits decline or even go bankrupt. Our company has been in peace for too long, and there are too many promotions in peacetime, and this may be our disaster. The Titanic was also out of the sea with cheers, and I believe that this day will come.
Ren Zhengfei then wrote in a sensational and sharp tone, it is spring, but winter is not far away, and the winter of the industry is not necessarily winter for other companies, but it may be winter for Huawei. Huawei's winter may come colder, a little colder. We are still too young, our company has not experienced setbacks after ten years of smooth development, and without setbacks, we don't know how to go on the right path. Tribulation is an asset, and we have not gone through it, which is our greatest weakness. We are completely unprepared for the mental and technical preparation to adapt to the lack of development.
In the history of the enterprise. Ren Zhengfei is not the first entrepreneur to write a review and introspection text, Jiang Wei of Shenyang Feilong, Wu Bingxin of Shandong Sanzhu and others have taken the same action when the corporate crisis broke out, but Ren Zhengfei is the first person to issue a red alert when the company is still in a period of rapid growth.
Huawei's global rival, Cisco, has suffered a serious decline in its business, with scrapped inventory alone amounting to $2.2 billion for the whole year, Cisco's stock plummeting and forcing more than 8,500 employees to lay off more than 8,500 employees, and Chairman Chambers lowered his basic salary to $1.
In the face of such adversity, Huawei, which adjusted in time, achieved a profit of 2.7 billion yuan, completing the leap from excellent to excellent.
In fact, it's not just the IT elites who have suffered the most this year.
In the domestic stock market, marked by the collapse of Luliang, the market makers in the capital market have fallen into a bitter battle.
Probably Fan Wuxian's fierce remarks on the capital market stimulated the domestic high-level, and after doing countless surveys on the domestic capital market, the action of suppressing the market makers and regulating the market finally kicked off.
Under the increasingly tightened official control, the daily work of the bookmakers is to deal with the crisis, and the business community has begun to question the capital management model that has been popular for many years, because of a series of successful mergers and acquisitions and was elected this year's CCTV China Economic Person of the Year, Ning Gaoning, president of China Resources Group, said unexpectedly in his acceptance speech that the Chinese business community has created a lot of very harmful words in the past, and the word capital operation is the most of them. The word capital operation cannot be found.
The only proud event in the American business world this year was Apple's Steve Jobs' launch of the world's stunning iPod Internet Music Player, which quickly became one of the most popular new products after Sony's Alkman in Japan.
Another very influential event is that the domestic carbonated beverage market was liberalized, and Coca-Cola and Pepsi successively implemented very resolute solo actions.
The joint venture model between Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in China is worth studying. Since Coca-Cola first entered China, foreign investment in carbonated beverages has been directly approved by the central government, which has decided on everything from the number of bottling plants to be set up, where to set up factories, and the price of concentrate supply.
Around 1993, the General Association of Light Industry also signed a memorandum of understanding with Coca-Cola and Pepsi on the joint development of beverages, requiring the two cola enterprises to renovate the original domestic brand-name beverage production enterprises while establishing filling plants. The joint venture they have set up, which must produce at least 30 percent of the domestic branded beverages, has led to a lot of contradictions between China and foreign countries, and now it is finally time to say that they will break up.
On the one hand, because Fan's has always been the largest underwriter of international brand electronic products, Fan Wuxian is very interested in the iPod and is ordering someone to negotiate with Apple on the sales agent, on the other hand, because the two cola companies have let go of their hands and feet, and there is fierce competition between their own Fan's Cola.
All in all, this year's Fan's Investment Group will face more opportunities and challenges, and there is a very, very important thing, Fan Wuzhi is not sure whether it will happen at this time, but he has already begun to telegraph the investment institutions in the United States to begin to shrink funds, especially the staff in financial services, have left several major financial centers, and began to enter several bases built by Fan's Investment Group in the United States for a period of 20 days of overall training.
Although at the time of receiving this order. Executives of the financial management team in the United States have said that it seems a little incomprehensible to do this, because although it is now the off-season, the employees who shuttle to and from major financial centers every day are still about a few hundred, and suddenly making such a decision means that everyone has to go to a semi-closed training camp.
"It's going to affect our ability to make less money." This was stated by an executive from the American side.
In this regard, Fan Wuxian did not have any room for bargaining, he made his opinion very clear, "Twenty days of intensive training, making money is a trivial matter, but this training is very important." It is related to the layout of our overseas team in Fan's Investment Group in the next few years, or I may also make a decision to lay off employees due to the current economic downturn. So, you better get my message clear and take the lead in this training. You know, my layoffs don't matter how high or low they are. ”
Although Fan Wuxian only gave them a tendency to develop most of the time, and did not care much about specific affairs, once he spoke, it was unquestionable, and it was estimated that it would not have much impact on American companies if it was only 20 days, after all, most of the business can now be handled through the Internet.
During this period, Steve Jobs on Apple's side proposed a meeting with Fan Wuxi.
In this regard, Fan Wuxian readily agreed, but he invited Jobs to visit China in recent days, and said that the Chinese government can also issue a formal invitation letter, which is really not a big deal for him, and he is very familiar with the State Council, coupled with the important influence of Fan's Investment Group, and Jobs himself is a world-renowned figure, this is just a matter of one sentence.
Jobs also wanted to come to China to have a look, so he accepted the invitation sent by Fan Wuxian and the Chinese government, arrived in Beijing on September 6, and began a week-long visit to China, during which he planned to attend a welcoming ceremony arranged by the State Council, and then visited several high-tech enterprises of Fan's Investment Group, visited the PCFANS Club, a behemoth in electronic product sales, and then went to Peking University to have face-to-face exchanges with students. to determine the full cooperation between the two parties in the next few years.
Fan Wuxian has always looked at Jobs and thinks he is a legendary figure.
Jobs was born in San Francisco, USA, and was ruthlessly abandoned by his father, a college professor, and his mother, a decadent artist. Luckily. A well-meaning couple took in the poor illegitimate child.
Although he is an adopted son, his adoptive parents treat him very well, like a parent. As a student, Steve Jobs was smart, mischievous, and unscrupulous, and often liked to come up with ridiculous pranks. However, his academic performance is outstanding.
At that time, Jobs lived near the famous Silicon Valley, and his neighbors were all employees of Hewlett-Packard, the veteran of Silicon Valley, and under the influence of these people, Jobs was obsessed with electronics from an early age. An HP engineer saw that he was so obsessed that he recommended him to join Hewlett-Packard's Discoverers Club.
When he was in junior high school, Jobs met Wads, who was five years his senior, at a class reunion. Woz is the president of the school's electronics club and has a great interest in electronics. The two hit it off at first sight, and eight years later they founded Apple Computer.
In 1980, Apple's stock went public, and within an hour, all 4.6 million shares were sold out, closing at $29 per share. At this closing price, Apple's top management has produced four billionaires and more than forty millionaires, and Jobs, as the founder of the company, is of course the number one.
For his great success, Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Reagan. However, success came too quickly, and behind too many honors was a strong crisis, because Jobs's business philosophy was different from that of most managers at that time, and the blue giant IBM company also began to wake up, and also launched personal computers, seizing a large market, so that Jobs's newly developed computer failed miserably, and the general manager and directors blamed Chairman Jobs for this failure, and in 1985 the board of directors resolved to revoke his management power.
Jobs tried several times to regain power, but failed, so he resigned as chairman of Apple in anger.
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