Perhaps it was their own seriousness that influenced them, or perhaps they were interested in the subject. Then they began to recruit more than 20 subordinates to come to the manor to give them ideas, find solutions, and collect information. If you can't put it in the study, you can discuss the "battlefield" in the living room; Even eating is not quiet, the restaurant is simply an international hypermarket. I feel that I don't know enough language, and I can't understand a lot of speech! I encouraged Dalia to get involved and discussed it with everyone.

After two days of lively discussions, I saw that everyone had nothing to discuss in depth. Let's make each person express their own opinions, and Dalia does the statistics; The starting point of different people's analysis of problems, and the perspectives of thinking are really varied, even incredible. Less than a quarter judged that Germany would not provoke another war when it was judged that Germany would not provoke another war. No matter how you say it, you will encourage yourself.

Let Daria arrange for everyone to rest, take them to the lake to fish, take Isaac and the four of them back to the study, and tell Li Daze to make coffee and guard the door. Isaac and the others drank coffee and talked in a low voice, but they also seemed relaxed and casual, waiting for themselves to speak.

Put down the stats table. He said: "Ladies and gentlemen, our business has been smooth sailing in the past few years, and we have accumulated more funds, land and manpower than I expected. I wonder what is the key to our success and how do we keep it going? Everyone frowned and fell silent. Modern enterprise management sprouted after World War I, arose after World War II, and did not go through systematic enterprise management study, at most to understand some management ideas, or the country to benchmark Western international standards, have to learn that point.

"I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I think maybe we worked hard enough, we took a good opportunity, we didn't attract the attention and attention of our opponents, etc., and these still can't make success inevitable, and I can only attribute the way I can't figure it down to our good luck. You guys didn't add either? ”

Seeing everyone shaking their heads, he continued: "There is an old Chinese saying that 'its prosperity is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden', so I have always been worried about the survival and development of the enterprise, how can we develop and grow the enterprise? We need to think carefully! Maybe you think it's okay to continue our efforts and seize the opportunity?

It should be said that it is far from enough, and we have no way to continue everyone's 'good luck'. This means that we have not identified the key issues for the survival and development of the enterprise. I'll try to make a few points for your reference. ”

Isaac pretended to take a pen and paper and posed as if he wanted to take notes. Just record it, say it yourself in Chinese, and then say it again in German, it's hard enough, isn't it?

"Why should I start a business? The original intention was to give myself the ability to help China's anti-Japanese war and make the lives of my family and friends better! It can be said that this purpose has basically been achieved, can I not do it, for myself, it is nothing, it should be enough to make myself rich in my life. When I came back from the United States this time, I found that there were thousands of employees working for us, and tens of thousands of people depended on this company for their livelihood. Enterprises have to do it after seeing it! Does that mean that the purpose of the business is for a few of us and our employees? I think not. ”

After a pause to see how confused everyone was, he continued: "Uncle may know that Chinese businessmen tend to regard buyers as their food and clothing. The meaning of this sentence essentially reveals what the mission of the enterprise is! Reveal the need to meet the needs of society, to meet the needs of the government, other enterprises or a group of people. This is the purpose of the enterprise, and whether it can meet such needs is the ability of the enterprise, and it is also the criterion for judging whether the enterprise needs to survive. If so, then the goal of the enterprise is clear, that is, to meet the needs of customers to the greatest extent, strive for profitability, so that the enterprise can better continue to serve the society, and this virtuous circle is the survival of the enterprise.

China's Hirobumi Ito once said, "Profit should be calculated for the world's profit, and fame should be sought for the world', so we should let our enterprises stand in the sunshine, so that our enterprises can 'count the world's profits' and 'seek the world's fame'. ”

The applause rang out, and Isaac, who was also a sycophant, took the lead in applauding.

"Come to think of it, no one is telling us what society needs. Maybe it's enough to see what everyone uses, but social needs change with the development of the times and social changes. It's not difficult to understand what I mean, and it's clear if you think about it. After the First World War, were the social needs the same as during the First World War? Is it the same peacetime, the same after the First World War as before the First World War? Is it exactly the same with a train as it was before with a train? Is it the same before there is a newspaper as after there is a newspaper? ”

Seeing that everyone was thoughtful, he continued: "The future will be the same, the changes in the national situation and the impact of social changes will affect the needs of society. So, how do we ensure that our business can meet the needs of society? It is up to all the managers here to make decisions, and our decisions determine the rise and fall of our enterprise, its glory and disgrace, and its survival and demise. ”

"We all know that the core of management is decision-making, and the basis for decision-making is our prediction of the future. This real prediction of the situation in Europe is that we have to judge what the overall situation of the future is! You must know that the general trend is mighty, and those who follow it will die, and those who go against it will die! Through this event, it became clear to us that the future is complex and society is complex. We want to make predictions, we have narrow sources of information, we lack analytical techniques for scientific decision-making, and we lack broad vision and a high enough political vision. I see that we can't make decisions based on experience, intuition, and patting our heads. So, what do we do? Helpless? Of course not! None of us are willing to be helpless! There is a way! ”

Moistening his throat, he continued: "One is learning! For example, the 'Four Elephants Method', which is the four images of 'Two Rites and Four Elephants', such as Schopenhauer's law of cause and effect, logical deduction, mathematical proof, behavioral motivation, etc., all of which help us to look at problems at a higher level and grasp the front. There are also some new knowledge and ideas, such as the use of statistics, mathematical models and algorithms to find the best or near-best answers to complex problems, which is a new discipline called operations research. So is it time to wait until we learn to manage the business? Of course not, we are not philosophers, engineers, professors and scholars, we are entrepreneurs, we don't know about medicinal chemistry but we can produce medicines, we don't understand machinery but we produce engines, we don't understand banks but we have banks. We are entrepreneurs at heart, or capitalists at heart. What about one of us? ”

Everyone is more focused and knows that the main link has been discussed. After looking at the blow reaction, he said: "I make two arrangements, one is to improve our decision-making mechanism. Make good use of the organizational form of the company's board of directors, and listen to it clearly! The principle of decision-making is to learn from the Communist Party's 'democratic centralism'. One is to organize, Mr. Isaac arranged for 5% of the dividend shares of the Missouri company to be given to my uncle Zhou Tonghe, the San Francisco company to my second uncle Lee Myung-bak, and the New York company to Li Zhenwu; With the addition of Isaac and Woody, the industry is basically five parts. Each of the five of you is the chairman of the board, and you will give 4 percent of the dividend shares to your important subordinates, forming a board of five or seven people, which will serve as the highest decision-making body of each branch. The top decision-making board of the entire industry is made up of five of us, and the number of people is increased as needed. The principle is that the minority obeys the majority, but is the view of the majority necessarily correct? Not necessarily, for example, in this judgment of the situation in Europe, I am sure that it is Mr. Isaac's point of view. Why do you say that, you will explain it later. We need to give the chairman one power, which is a veto. That is, everyone else agrees, and as long as the chairman does not agree, it cannot be implemented. Mr. Isaac was asked to organize the law firm to make the decision-making rules and supervise the composition of the board of directors of each branch. ”

Isaac replied, "Okay, Mr. Li, I'll arrange it after the meeting!" ”