The news said that Chang Cheng, vice president of Xiaomi Group, who has joined Xiaomi for two years, left Xiaomi. 36Kr asked Xiaomi for verification, and the other party said, "As a company, we fully understand and respect their personal wishes, and thank them for their support and hard work in the past, and also wish them a smooth career path in the future."
In the field of high-end product planning, innovation has more than 20 years of work experience in The constant, in 2020 when the first working day to join Xiaomi, Changcheng will undertake the overall responsibility of Xiaomi mobile phone to high-end, responsible for the overall planning of the mobile phone business.
According to public information, Chang Cheng obtained a doctorate degree in engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2000, joined Lenovo Group in the same year, and successively served as Lenovo's desktop R&D director, notebook senior R&D director, mobile phone R&D leader, software ecosystem leader, vice president of Lenovo Group, and head of China Mobile, and was overall responsible for Lenovo's mobile phone business. From 2014 to 2016, Chang Cheng served as CEO of ZUK Mobile Phone and CEO of Magic Workshop.
At that time, after Officer Lei announced the information of Chang Cheng's appointment, Chang Cheng also responded that "joining Xiaomi is the most beautiful expectation." However, in the two years since Then in Xiaomi, Changcheng's career does not seem to be very smooth.
At that time, Lenovo issued a statement on Changcheng's worksheet, saying that the company and all executives signed a non-compete clause, "if there is a breach, it will seek a proper solution within the legal framework." In October 2020, the Labor Dispute Arbitration Commission announced the result of the award, saying that it was necessary to continue to perform its non-compete obligations and pay a liquidated damages of 5.25 million yuan for breach of non-compete obligations.
Regarding the result of this ruling, Chang Cheng entrusted a lawyer at that time to declare that he would file a lawsuit against this ruling. However, there has been no new progress in this lawsuit so far.
After joining Xiaomi, Changcheng once again stood on the cusp of the storm because of an inappropriate statement. At that time, in order to publicize the photo ability of the Xiaomi 10 Youth Edition 50 times periscope zoom, Changcheng publicly apologized for it after being controversial by netizens because it mentioned "shooting the opposite girls' dormitory" in the promotional copy.
Chang Cheng was not the first "Avengers" member to leave Xiaomi. In order to enrich the mobile phone talent team, Xiaomi has absorbed many industry elites from friendly businessmen in recent years, including Zeng Xuezhong, the current president of the mobile phone department (from ZTE), Lu Weibing, the head of Redmi (from Gionee), and Chang Cheng, who left the company, and Yang Zhe, the chief marketing officer of China (from Motorola), who left xiaomi less than half a year in office.
The frequent airborne landing of external senior management teams is actually a double-edged sword for the construction of the original talent system.
The advantage may be that the airborne army can act as a "catfish" to mobilize enthusiasm, bringing strong enough industry experience and judgment. From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with absorbing external talents.
But on the other hand, the negative effect is that the airborne executives are also a kind of impact on Xiaomi's original internal talent training system, which not only occupies the quota of some executives, but also from the departure of Chang Cheng and Yang Zhao, it can also be seen that the cumbersome competition, as well as the matching of the executives' own personality and xiaomi style, is also the place where Xiaomi needs to reconsider.
In terms of talent strategy, Xiaomi's "Avengers" talent strategy has obviously been adjusted.
The information provided by Xiaomi to 36Kr is that Xiaomi announced on January 28 that 18 new people were selected for the "Entrepreneur Program", combined with 66 people selected last year, the total number reached more than 80. In addition, Zhu Dan, who has been promoted for a long time internally last year, was appointed as a senior executive of the R&D online group, "among the candidates for the Future Entrepreneur Program, there will be executives of the Future Group, which fully demonstrates that the senior management talent reserve is sufficient, and the internal senior talent training and promotion system are perfect."
In addition, after the departure of Changcheng, Xiaomi has also made sufficient preparations. Xiaomi's reply said that Changcheng's work was replaced by internal promotion personnel, and Zeng Xuezhong was more directly managed.