Chapter 444: Dongxing's Wishes
PS: (I was dazzled yesterday, and I set the wrong update time, I'm very sorry!) )
On the fifteenth day of the first month, the main factory of Dongxing Company held a grand Lantern Festival party, as the chairman of the board of directors, Lin Qiangsheng also personally attended the festival with the employees, and the employees extended the warmest welcome to this young boss who always saw the beginning and the end of the dragon.
Dongxing Company also invited provincial and municipal leaders to attend the party, and the province came to a deputy secretary of the provincial party committee in charge of the work of the propaganda department of the provincial party committee, while the city was attended by Vice Mayor Miyamoto Yan, who has always had a close relationship with Lin Qiangsheng and Dongxing Company.
The deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and Miyamoto Yan took turns to speak for about 20 minutes, thanking Dongxing Company for its contribution to the province this year, and finally Lin Qiangsheng thanked all the employees of Dongxing Company and quickly handed over the microphone to the three hosts.
Zhou Xueping and two other handsome men and women from Dongxing Company, as the host of the party, stood in front of the stage in full costume, only to hear them say to the guests with feelings:
"The Lantern Festival is the traditional festival of our Chinese nation, the first full moon night of the year, and the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which entrusts countless Chinese sons and daughters with warm wishes for a better life! In order to celebrate this beautiful festival, Mr. Lin Qiangsheng, chairman of our Dongxing company, specially prepared a wonderful party for the employees who have worked hard for 3 years and 168 days, and we thank Chairman Lin on behalf of the employees. The male host swore passionately and sonorously.
The hostess took over the conversation and said loudly: "The Lantern Festival is also known as the Shangyuan Festival. According to Chinese folk tradition, on this night when the moon is high, people light up thousands of lanterns to celebrate. Go out to enjoy the moon, light lanterns, guess lantern riddles, eat Lantern Festival, reunite with the family, celebrate the festival together, and enjoy it. With her voice. Colored lights were lit up around and above the theater, and the big red lanterns on both sides of the curtain were also lit up, and a beam of light hit the riddle under the lantern.
In the warm applause of the audience, the hostess continued: "The night tonight is so bright, couplets, and lanterns are not only a continuation of the celebration of the Spring Festival but also a prospect for the New Year!" The Lantern Festival symbolizes reunion and happiness. We hope that this beautiful wish has always accompanied the footsteps of Dongxing, has been accompanied by all Dongxing employees, and also accompanied by those who support the development of Dongxing company, may this good wish always accompany you, may you be healthy and happy! ”
Zhou Xueping took a deep breath and faced the large venue of tens of thousands of employees and their families, she took half a step forward and raised the microphone and said softly: "Every Lantern Festival, I will especially want to be with my parents, they have worked hard to raise me without regrets, and the white hair and deep wrinkles between the sideburns have slowly decorated their faces!" I really want to say it to my parents. Mom and Dad, thank you for your hard work! Here, I would like to say to the parents here, you have worked hard, and Dongxing Company thanks you! ”
The emotional speeches of several hosts drove the audience, the employees applauded desperately, and some parents who were also present were also relieved to see their children around them smile happily.
The Grand Theater of Dongxing Company is like a luxury movie theater, and the seats are stepped up. There are also two and three floors. Even if the site is large, it cannot accommodate all the employees of the company. Only about 10,000 people came here, and more than 20,000 people did not come to the factory. Lin Qiangsheng plans to let the rest of the employees come to the party next year. This year's group of people brought their parents, wives and children to the venue, the originally large and spacious theater was crowded, of course, this is also Lin Qiangsheng's instructions, several years of hard work workers with Dongxing Company to grow up, for the development of Dongxing Company contributed their own strength, holiday they should be happy with their families. But Lin Qiangsheng didn't want to disturb them at this time when he held a party, so he even invited his family members over.
The performance began, and the host announced that the first program was an excerpt from the ballet Swan Lake, the reason why this show was put at the forefront was because Lin Qiangsheng was worried that it would be boring to wait for the audience to see the lively program before watching Swan Lake, and Chen Yao really cared about the audience's feelings. In this case, it seems that putting the ballet first can also have a good effect. At least the audience thought the dance was very novel.
Chen Yao is too tall because she is too tall, she is more than 1.73 meters tall, there is no such tall female ballet dancer in China, she is a head taller than other dancers when she stands on the stage, and the same slender male actor can't lift her at all.
So this time, Chen Yao regretted that she could only stand aside and watch, but the girl was not idle, she was busy making up for the actors backstage, and when the performance started, she ran to a small corner by the curtain to watch, and at the same time was extremely nervous to observe the reaction of the audience.
Lin Qiangsheng sat next to Eriksson and De Claire. Pierce and other foreign managers, deputy provincial party secretaries and provincial and municipal leaders such as Miyamoto Yan sat on the other side of him.
As head of Asia at McKinsey, Pierce was also the first pathfinder to enter Chinese mainland as a Western consulting firm. Since the day McKinsey accepted the cooperation of Dongxing, he has shouldered the responsibility of developing the Chinese market, and McKinsey has entrusted him with the arduous task of successfully operating the first consulting cooperation in China and opening up McKinsey's marketing network in China!
Since they came to work in Dongxing, they have gotten along well with Erikson and others and the entire management of Dongxing, because Pierce and these Americans have received strong support from Lin Johnson and Erikson!
Usually the owners of the company will deal with the consulting company to get what they want, the consulting company is very developed in the West for a long time, all aspects of the consulting business has become commonplace in the West, and the company often comes to them to solve problems.
But the Chinese are accustomed to doing it themselves, and only themselves or trustworthy people feel reliable, and it is difficult for the Chinese people to understand the reliability of this kind of intelligence bought by the West!
Therefore, although McKinsey has ambitiously formulated a plan to enter China because of the large order received from Dongxing, in fact, their development has not been successful in the past two years, and in fact, there is no new order!
After Peirce's report to the headquarters, the McKinsey directors calmed down a little, and they changed their strategy to make Dongxing a model project of McKinsey in China!
The so-called business consulting should be understood as management support and consulting services. The most popular saying is that the external brain is a staff officer to provide new management concepts. Assist operators in designing new corporate structures and business processes.
The main managers of Dongxing Company include Lin Qiangsheng and Lin Xiang, etc., who are ignorant of enterprise management, especially the operation of large enterprises and multinational enterprises!
Lin Qiangsheng also knows this, so he did not feel that he must be able to do it, after establishing a set of plausible business structure, he recruited a group of local managers with no modern enterprise management experience to catch ducks on the shelves, and then when he encountered difficulties, he immediately sought external brains to give advice to the company, and handed over the company to these professional managers without any hesitation!
Thanks to China's reform and opening up. There is a shortage of materials in all aspects, and now as long as something is produced that is not too bad, it can almost be sold. It is precisely because of the unique product advantages and high-tech content that Dongxing Company has found the right market, so it can be smooth sailing and make great progress in the first year or two of the company's establishment.
But soon, some problems arose within Dongxing!
This is obvious, because most managers do not know the real management technology, in the development of modern enterprises their knowledge structure and understanding level are seriously lacking, can not keep up with the rapid development of enterprise needs!
Although Lin Qiangsheng has carried out layers of supervision system within the enterprise, Dongxing Company has also begun to have a domestic inherent phenomenon in its development. Some key positions such as finance, procurement and other supervisors, are mediocre and greedy, while the subordinates may have some shrewd and capable talents who are subordinate to them, Lin Qiangsheng is always helpless against these reflected situations, because he finds that every time some such people are fired, the people who are replaced will still follow in the footsteps! This kind of Chinese-style ills makes him always weigh the size of the loss, which is frustrating!
Why is this happening? The reason lies in the lack of integrity in society as a whole. Entrepreneurs need to constantly weigh the two factors of "ability" and "trust". Therefore, the degree of professionalism of Western enterprises is high. Most of the Chinese enterprises are built on the basis of the "three edges". "Three edges", that is, blood, people, and geography.
This is important and involves the design of the organizational structure and incentive mechanisms of the enterprise.
Lin Qiangsheng found McKinsey, since the management of Dongxing Company has become a mess, and it is difficult to distinguish between good and bad people, it is better to break this casserole. Bring in a third party to conduct a careful assessment and diagnosis of the entire enterprise. Of course, McKinsey is a Western company with a good tradition of professional managers, and they don't understand the so-called three edges of China.
But it doesn't matter, Lin Qiangsheng only needs their management experience and the correct corporate structure design and provide brain power to find problems and solve them. The problem can't be solved, and the person is solved!
Dongxing Company has just been established for a few years, Lin Qiangsheng has not yet reached the point where he can't leave anyone, and most of the previous frustration is the worry that the rapid development of the enterprise and the change of management will lead to a decline in product quality!
The conscientious employees are promoted, the employees who work hard and honestly are praised, and the outstanding employees are rewarded, but those who are greedy and pedantic should be resolutely dismissed no matter how high his position is!
McKinsey spent three months assessing Eastern Star in a comprehensive manner, after which they went into every aspect of the company. These professional managers have made some forms to turn every aspect of the business into a digital system.
Dongxing Company is a manufacturing enterprise, so the correctness of a large number of reports in the operation of the enterprise is very important, when to complete how many scheduled products, the price cost of market raw materials, transportation costs, production costs and the final enterprise marketing costs and so on can be made into digital reports, to achieve the company's flat management. And technical standards such as quantitative performance appraisal are what McKinsey is good at.
In terms of the design of the company's structure, McKinsey also gave Lin Qiangsheng a lot of suggestions, and the business philosophy and management ideas transmitted in the design process correctly improved the perfection of the enterprise system of Dongxing Company!
Moreover, McKinsey also recommended many international talents to Lin Johnson, whose "qualifications" or brand influence among the world's consulting industry and large enterprises are huge.
Founded in 1926, McKinsey & Company has a global system of resources and contacts, through which Eastern Star can learn about the resources and talents of other parts of the world, and find what you want and what suits you!
The consulting company is a bit like an open talent platform, and many managers will work in the consulting company for a period of time after working in the company, and then enter the company at a higher level.
There are many senior executives in large European and American enterprises, investment banks, and funds, all of whom have experience as consultants, and many of them have gone out from McKinsey to become CEOs and CFOs, and the network has been established in this way. Therefore, it is relatively easy for McKinsey to mobilize market data from all over the world very quickly, help enterprises establish international partnerships, arrange equity transactions, and open up financing channels.
Dongxing's $30 million consulting fee actually has four gains: first, it has obtained a new business idea; the second is to obtain professionals in all aspects, which has been enriched into all aspects of Dongxing Company; Third, it has gained brand effect and saved advertising costs and public relations costs; Fourth, Dongxing has obtained a channel from McKinsey to understand the market in various regions of the world! (To be continued.) )