Sun Yafang is the former chairman of Huawei, and her combination with Ren Zhengfei is called "Left Non Right Fang", and the outside world calls her "Huawei Queen".
In the early days of Huawei's entrepreneurship, Sun Yafang joined Huawei, successively engaged in marketing, human resources, strategic management and training, etc., and became the chairman of Huawei in 1999, experiencing many difficult moments with Ren Zhengfei.
In addition to mutual support in careers, when Ren Zhengfei was physically exhausted and mentally depressed, it was also Sun Yafang who silently supported him behind his back (Ren Zhengfei often called Sun Yafang when he felt that he could not hold on, so some people said that Sun Yafang was Ren's "psychological counselor").
In the article "A River of Spring Water Flows East", Ren Zhengfei said that after the IT bubble burst, the contradictions between the company's internal and external contradictions intersected and almost collapsed:
"It is not the backbone of the company, in the vast darkness, to ignite their hearts to illuminate the way forward, and now the company has long gone." During this time, Chairman Sun united the employees and enhanced their confidence, which was indispensable. ”
Therefore, Sun Yafang is a very important figure for both Huawei and Ren Zhengfei. Later, Sun Yafang retired, and some people on the Internet wondered where Sun Yafang went, in fact, Sun Yafang is still the employee representative of the Huawei trade union, and did not leave Huawei as the outside world said.
For Sun Yafang, Ren Zhengfei is undoubtedly a very appreciative and respectful attitude, in a sense, as a comrade-in-arms who fights side by side, Sun Yafang may be the one who can understand Ren Zhengfei the most.
Ren Zhengfei once said that Sun Yafang had given him a report, said three questions, and discussed Huawei's long-term peace and stability with Ren Zhengfei, and Ren Zhengfei appreciated it after reading it.
When Sun Yafang retired, there were rumors in the media that this was to prepare for Ren Zhengfei's son to take the throne, which was to underestimate Ren Zhengfei and Sun Yafang.
In fact, Ren Zhengfei has already stated this problem, and he has said that his family will not take over. Let's focus on the three issues mentioned by Sun Yafang.
1, China does not lack the seeds of science and technology to get rich, but the lack of soil for seeds to grow, which is the innovation mechanism.
"Our time is the era of the knowledge economy, and its core is that the way human beings create wealth and the way they get rich has undergone fundamental changes."
Ren Zhengfei pointed out that with the progress of the times and the development of technology (especially the Internet), people's creativity has been greatly liberated. In such a case, the way of creating wealth is mainly produced by knowledge and management, that is to say, the human factor is the first.
In the past, traditional enterprises were the model of capital wage labor, but in the era of knowledge economy, it must be the model of knowledge employment capital - the value and dominance of intellectual property rights and know-how exceeds that of capital, and capital can only maintain and increase its value if it is attached to knowledge.
In the 1990s, Huawei wrote a management outline called the Huawei Basic Law, which emphasizes that Huawei is a mechanism for knowledge capitalization to encourage talent innovation:
"We use the form of transformation into capital to reflect and reward the cumulative contributions of labor, knowledge, and entrepreneurs' management and risk..." This determines that Huawei must take the R&D and innovation route. After all, not innovating is the biggest risk for businesses.
2. Distinguish between social responsibility (narrow sense) and personal desire for achievement, give guidance, play a positive role in promoting, choose socially responsible people to become managers, and let those who have personal achievement desires become heroes and models.
To understand this sentence, we need to talk about Huawei's vision and mission, Huawei is the intention to contribute to society and all mankind, "to serve the country with industry and rejuvenate the country through science and education as its own responsibility."
This not only magnifies huawei's pattern, but also helps senior managers overcome the small self and achieve the big self. Ren Zhengfei once said that Huawei should establish the company's lofty goals and establish the grand goal of becoming a world industry leader, so as to achieve the company's ambitious goals as the personal goals of senior cadres, rather than attaching great importance to personal reputation, standing out, and personal rights and interests.
Huawei's humanized drive tool is divided into two "engines", subjective and objective, "subjectively strive for themselves, objectively for customers, for the country, for the society." Through altruism to self-interest, guide Huawei's managers to broaden their horizons and open their hearts. ”
And some people want to be heroes in the enterprise, ren Zhengfei pointed out that this kind of individualism is also allowed, as long as it is integrated into collectivism.
In fact, there are many people who join a business or organization, and the core purpose is to amplify the intangible assets of the individual, focusing on the interests and power of the individual. They think less about social responsibility.
3. The basis of a long-term company's long-term stability is that the successor recognizes the company's core values and has the ability to be self-critical.
People live and die, the enterprise will eventually die, if the enterprise is ended with the end of the founder's life, then such a business is undoubtedly short-lived, immature.
Ren Zhengfei has always opposed the success or failure of the enterprise to one person, he believes that the "soul" of the enterprise is not equal to the boss, the real success of the enterprise should be the establishment of an inanimate management system, And Huawei's long-term peace and stability also lies in the successor's recognition of the company's core values.
"The source of joint efforts for nuclear power, oil power, coal power, electric power, biogas power ... is the core value of the enterprise." Ren Zhengfei said that how long Huawei's banner can be played is that Huawei's core values must be confirmed by the successor, and the successor must have the ability to self-criticize, "The successor is bound and shaped by the core values, so as to make the enterprise long-term peace and stability." ”
Therefore, there is no need to worry about Huawei's successor, Huawei's successor is not too few, but too much. Ren Zhengfei and Sun Yafang and other high-level executives have spent decades practicing and establishing Huawei's operation mechanism, which can ensure that Huawei's organization can continue to operate endlessly.
Metabolism is a natural law, and when we look at Huawei many years later, we may realize what a remarkable path Huawei has taken.