Only the wrong name, no wrong nickname. The name of Liu Chuanzhi's "godfather" is very loud in the jianghu, and people generally believe that this is to say that Liu Chuanzhi has many connections and great influence in the business world.
For example, well-known entrepreneurs such as Ma Yun and Lei Jun all respect Liu Chuanzhi:
"No less than any great entrepreneur in the world, the godfather of any business world, he is the wealth of China's business community", "Liu Chuanzhi is the godfather of all our Zhongguancun people, and every one of us in Zhongguancun has grown up under the inspiration and guidance of Liu Chuanzhi..."
After all, the outside is a false name, Liu Chuanzhi's foundation is actually in the association itself, for many people in the association, "godfather" has a deeper connotation.
Liu Chuanzhi once said that what Lian wants to build is "a family business without a family".
In Lenovo, there is a gathering organization of old Lenovo people- the Legend Society. It is mainly composed of former employees who have retired and left Lenovo, in order to give them a platform to help each other, "to achieve information, networking, resource sharing, interaction and cooperation."
In 2018, Liu Chuanzhi and Digital China Chairman Guo Wei, Lenovo Group Chairman Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo Venture Capital President He Zhiqiang and others attended the gathering of legendary clubs.
At the party, Guo Wei said something like this, "Mr. Liu said that Lenovo is a family business without a family, and Mr. Liu has built a small environment for our big family under the big environment, step by step to let us grow, thanks to Mr. Liu's teachings for many years." ”
Liu Chuanzhi said in his speech that everyone is a teacher and should insist on running the Legend Society.
As the founder of Lenovo, Liu Chuanzhi has great influence in Lenovo regardless of whether he is in it or not. In a sense, although Liu Chuanzhi has retired, he is still a banner of Lenovo.
Lenovo was founded in 1984, and in 1997, Lenovo's PC market share in China ranked first for the first time. In 2000, Lenovo had a major spin-off, "Young Marshal" Guo Wei became the head of Digital China, and Yang Yuanqing took charge of Lenovo Group.
There are many stories to tell about Lenovo's strategic spin-off, but what this article wants to explore is Liu Chuanzhi's corporate philosophy.
Now we see that Lenovo is involved in a wide range of "diversified development", the business covers IT, electronic information, financial investment, real estate, food, etc., each of which has a person in charge.
For example, Digital China is a spin-off of Lenovo Technology, Lenovo System Integration and Lenovo Network Company, Guo Wei joined Lenovo in 1988, earlier than Yang Yuanqing.
Guo Wei has trained in many positions in Lenovo, has the nickname of "firefighter", on ability, on seniority, he is definitely a strong candidate for Liu Chuanzhi's successor. But Liu Chuanzhi finally chose to hand over the Lenovo Group to Yang Yuanqing.
Many people like to compare Lenovo and Huawei, in addition to being a company founded in the same period, in fact, there is not much in common. Tian Tao, a consultant at Huawei, once said that Lenovo has two characteristics, which are completely different from Huawei.
1, Lenovo mountain head, with Liu Chuanzhi to fight the country and mountains there are "a bunch of tigers", Liu Chuanzhi on a hill to put a tiger, the company is divided into several pieces, each person a piece, everyone is safe.
2, Liu Chuanzhi and the "tigers" of various mountains are basically like a father-son relationship, often pulling everyone together, and his way of solving problems is completely Chinese.
To the point, this is to say that Liu Chuanzhi's management philosophy in Lenovo. According to this concept, Liu Chuanzhi is not the "godfather".
Huawei Ren Zhengfei is a completely different concept.
After the company becomes bigger, there will definitely be internal hills, some departments are strong, and some managers have great prestige, which is inevitable.
In "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward", Ren Zhengfei also said this, "After 97 years, the company's internal thinking is chaotic, there are many doctrines, and all the princes have shown their strength. ”
Ren Zhengfei was very worried about the company's split, he first asked the professor to the company to compile the "Huawei Basic Law", and then asked the consulting company to adjust the company structure, change the management process, and create a rotating CEO system, which took several years to quell the danger of the "Spring and Autumn Warring States".
Therefore, liu chuanzhi and Ren Zhengfei's thinking is different, the enterprise is naturally different, Huawei is the way to combine the East and the West, and Lenovo is the way of the East.
Lenovo's several large blocks emphasize independence, and looking at their shareholding structure, they are more complex, which contains the silk of Liu Chuanzhi, and the internal and external shareholders are involved in various relationships. Huawei, on the other hand, is very simple, more than 100,000 shareholders are all Huawei employees, without any external shareholders. Doing business, in fact, is the complex place is complex, the simple place is simple, the self is smaller, the road is broader. You say yes.
I hope that through some comparisons between Lenovo and Huawei, Liu Chuanzhi and Ren Zhengfei, you can think deeply about it yourself, and combine the actual situation of the enterprise to find a path suitable for yourself.