Chapter 688 of the text, Mr. and Mrs. Bosack

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When Lin Qiangsheng walked to the door of the conference room, he heard the quarrel between Lerna and Mowglich from inside, and the noise was so loud that the surrounding employees frowned.

I only heard Lerna shouting: "Mowglich, you and Lin Qiangsheng are just a pair of businessmen, you just want to make money and profit through Cisco!" The reason why Bosak and I brought in external funds was originally to develop better network technology and provide users with more advanced network products. I am at odds with your philosophy, and now Cisco has deviated from our ideals and become a company that only knows how to make money, you are all wrong, it shouldn't be like this! ”

In the conference room, Bossak sat by the door, he very much agreed with his wife's point of view, since the introduction of investment, Lin Qiangsheng's first measure was to deprive the couple of control of the company, and then handed over Cisco to a completely unknown outsider, this outsider is John Mowgliqi, who sat in the first place.

What makes Bosak even more annoyed is that in terms of product research and development, both Lin Johnson and Mowgliqi pursue high investment and high speed, as well as rapid acquisition of technology in the market, which makes the R&D department become a submissive machine, and the pursuit of product profits has become the company's purpose. This is very different from the Cisco he wanted to establish in the first place, the perfect innovative company that pursues technical dreams, and Yan zhòng deviates from his original intention!

Mowglich was very helpless to Lerna, who was roaring at him, he suppressed his anger and patiently persuaded: "Lerna, you should believe in the business strategy we have formulated, which is the most suitable for the development of Cisco!" The most important thing for us now is to expand sales, to make a profit, and then to complete the technological innovation you mentioned, and then we have the money to do that, technology is not innate! ”

Lerna accused him and said, "Can I trust you, you just want to make money!" You ignored what Bossak and I gave you, and don't forget that we are also shareholders in this company, and we are also the founders of Cisco! ”

Mowglich shook his head, it was really helpless to quarrel with Lerna early in the morning, but this was a common occurrence in the past six months. If it weren't for the fact that Cisco was really promising, and Lin Qiangsheng was very important to him, he really wanted to leave this company.

Mogrichi said, "Lerna, you two should trust me and Chairman Lin. He has invested so much money, and he also believes that Cisco will have a future! ”

"What do you believe, do you believe in the set of 'expert group control and talent management'? Why should we leave the company we founded to you at will! ”

Lyerna is extremely resentful of the loss of management, and now Lin Johnson and Mowgliqi have put her in charge of the customer service department, busy dealing with consumers all day. This is simply a debasement and provocation of her abilities.

"Is everyone busy?" Lin Qiangsheng opened the door and walked into the office, and asked the three of them with a smile, and his arrival also relaxed the tension in the room.

Seeing that Lin Qiangsheng was coming, Lerna looked at her watch and snorted coldly, and said, "It's already ten and eight o'clock now, and you, as the chairman, have been late for so long!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng said apologetically to Lerna: "It's me who is late, I'm sorry!" ”

He lowered his posture like this, and Lerna's momentum weakened a little, originally she was like a lioness who was about to get angry at any time, but now Lin Qiangsheng's smile made her unable to get angry.

Lin Qiangsheng nodded to Mowgliqi. Then he said to Bossak: "Hello Bossak, the technical department you lead is very good, my company uses Cisco products, they report very good results, the office speed has increased several times, you have saved a lot of money on buying office supplies, and also made the employees more efficient, thank you very much!" ”

Bosak stood up and shook hands with Lin Qiangsheng and said, "If I give me time, I can launch a more perfect product!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng laughed. Said: "There is no perfect product, we can only continue to move forward on the road of technology, and the company should also know where to make a profit!" ”

Bosak nodded silently, and he couldn't refute Lin Qiangsheng's words. He and Lerna looked at each other and sat down in silence.

Mogglich gave up his place to Lin Qiangsheng, Lin Qiangsheng sat down and nodded, and then said straight to Bossak and Lerna: "Cisco is now in a critical period of development, and I think there must be a unified understanding within the company. Step. ”

Lin Qiangsheng still said bitterly to Bosak and Lerna: "The company has achieved sales of 12 million US dollars in the first half of this year, and the profit is also very impressive, which is a very good achievement!" However, now that similar products have begun to appear on the market, Cisco must race against time to maintain its advantage and not let latecomers catch up!

However, you are now arguing with the management team for various reasons, and the upper echelons of the company are unstable, which has a great impact on the employees! We can't afford to waste time like this anymore, and I don't think you want Cisco to be a failed trailblazer! ”

"I agree with you, but I think you and Mowglich had better respect our ideas as well, and we certainly don't want Cisco to fail!" ”

"That's right, Posack and I are the founders of this company, and of course we don't want Cisco to be overtaken by others!" However, this does not mean that we have to be honest with your arrangement, you and Mowglich have turned Cisco into a company that only makes money, and I am now stuck in solving problems for customer service every day, but I am an engineer, you probably forgot about this! ”

"Lerna, there is no perfect technology, now that the company is start-up, we all work hard!" Mowglich said objectively.

Lerna argues: "We started Cisco, not like that, we wanted to build Cisco into a technologically advanced company that meets all needs, and now it is too far from our dream, I have become a waiter who searches for documents and solves customer problems!" ”

Mowglich shook his head repeatedly, disagreeing with Lerna's statement.

Bossak also joined the argument, saying to Lin Johnson and Mowglich: "We should invest a lot of money in developing an epoch-making product, and I will personally recruit the R&D personnel, what you are doing now is completely wrong, and it will only lead Cisco down the wrong path!" ”

Mowglich finally couldn't help it, and he said loudly: "Enough, are you two right?" You don't know how to run a company, you don't have any rules about running Cisco, you don't have a marketing strategy at all, and you don't know how to expand the market! ”

He looked at the surprised Lerna and Bosak and said: "You have only won the initial recognition of the market by virtue of your excellent product technology, but if an Internet company wants to develop, it is the most important thing to formulate the right business strategy, otherwise there are so many small companies with advanced technology in the market, why have many of them not developed!"

Cisco is now the most critical period, it is in the early market and niche market between, although with the strong support of Mr. Lin, the company's products have been used on a large scale in his company, but we should note that in fact, Cisco's foundation is not solid, it is completely dependent on Mr. Lin's support to achieve the current results, and seriously, this achievement has not been tested by the market, we are actually taking Mr. Lin's company to do the real yàn! ”

Mowglich shouted at the two of them, "Wake up! ”

"In addition to the excellent performance of the product in technology, the company has a lot of important things to do, Cisco to move from the early market to the niche market, in addition to doing a good job of products, the focus of business should be on marketing, that is to say, customer service and customer value first!

Our most important task now is to make the market bigger, Cisco can't just rely on Mr. Lin's care to survive, otherwise I wouldn't have to stay here at all! ”

After a moment of sluggishness, both Bosak and Lerna had a hard time understanding Mowglich's concerns, and at the same time did not agree with his statement, Bosak stubbornly said: "Of course we can win a wider market, as long as we do a good job in product technology, the market will definitely recognize us!" ”

But his voice was also lowered, and Bosack had to admit that Mowgliqi had some truth in what he said, without the strong support of Lin Qiangsheng, how could Cisco's first product have achieved such a big customer in such a short period of time, with sales of $12 million in half a year, and a profit of 70%, which is hard for him to believe!

Mowglich shook his head, continued to criticize the couple, and said sadly: "Two, are you really dissatisfied with Cisco's investment in R&D technology? I'm afraid it's not just that, in fact, you are dissatisfied with your declining position in the company!

Cisco was originally a family-owned company made up of friends and family, and you just wanted to express your interests and ideals in this new venture, but you had almost no idea how to run the company effectively and where you were going to take Cisco!

When we joined this family business and transformed it into a company with institutions, you had a sense of loss, and you couldn't accept the fact that outsiders were dominating Cisco! ”

Lin Qiangsheng looked at this qiē silently, and did not join the quarrel, he couldn't help but think of the final outcome of the couple who founded Cisco in history, he really didn't want to kick the two of them out of the company, but now Cisco's management is in chaos and quarrels, this situation can't continue, and they must be asked out! (To be continued.) )

PS: PS: In 1990, the Posacks went into divorce shortly after leaving Cisco, which Lerna blamed on the cost of their marriage for Cisco's hard work. After the divorce, Bossak founded an XKL communications company in Seattle, while Lerna founded a non-mainstream cosmetics company in Mountain View, California. The company's lipstick and nail polish colors are quite outrageous, and the names she chooses for her products are very bizarre, such as toxins, gangrene, bruising, etc. Later, Lerna sold the company and bought a large farm with a large number of animals, and also attracted media attention when a photo of her naked horseback riding on the farm was published in Forbes magazine. The unpleasant past between Mr. and Mrs. Posack and Cisco has also faded with time. In 1994, Cisco celebrated its 10th anniversary with the Posack and Lerna Chair at Stanford University, honoring the contributions of the two founders to Cisco and innovation in the networking industry. For mobile phone users, please visit wènhttp://mnet

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