After decades of development, Ren Zhengfei has brought Huawei to world-class heights, and individual capabilities are unpredictable. But Ren Zhengfei is not always right, especially in the famous dismissal incident before, which made me personally very disagreed.
It is understood that there was an employee of Huawei before, who was ambitious when he first entered Huawei, in order to attract the attention of Ren Zhengfei and show his talent, he wrote a letter to Ren Zhengfei on the company's business strategy. The new employee originally thought that Ren Zhengfei would praise him, but what he did not expect was Ren Zhengfei's "black face".
After reading the advice, Ren Zhengfei said that if the person has mental illness, then quickly send him to the hospital; If you are not sick, then quickly dismiss.
Presumably many people have already heard this story, right? What happened to the new employee who was fired, no one knows. But this matter will inevitably have a certain impact on Huawei. Since many netizens know about this matter, Huawei's own employees are likely to know about it.
Suppose you are an employee of Huawei, when you find that there is a problem in the company, do you dare to give advice to the company? Even if you have been in Huawei for many years, I am afraid that you still dare not make suggestions.
After making suggestions, there will be three situations: first, Ren Zhengfei does not see it, then the time spent when he seriously makes suggestions is wasted; Second, Ren Zhengfei saw it and disagreed with this suggestion, which may dismiss you; Third, Ren Zhengfei saw it, agreed to this suggestion, and greatly appreciated you.
What do you think you're most likely to face as the outcome?
The probability is the first, Ren Zhengfei can't see your suggestion at all, and you're just wasting time. The probability of the third occurrence is very small, unless you are someone who has direct contact with Ren Zhengfei, it is already good not to fire you.
Ren Zhengfei made an unintentional move, in fact, he blocked the enthusiasm and channel of employees' suggestions. For employees, in fact, the loss is not large, after all, the company has fallen, and then another company will do. But for the company, the loss is still quite large.
In fact, I can also understand Ren Zhengfei's kind of complaining about employees' suggestions, because many new employees do like to give various suggestions when they enter the company, and many of the suggestions are unreliable and even cause harm to the company. But employees think that this is good for the company, in case the suggestion is adopted by the leadership and helps the company's development to a certain extent, can't they be promoted? Most of the employees who have this idea are also influenced by idol dramas.
Although new employees will have a habit of loving advice, for a very influential entrepreneur, publicly complaining is inappropriate and an act that stifles employee advice.
Perhaps Ren Zhengfei thinks that his company has a group of experts, and it is enough to leave special problems to experts, but in fact, experts are unlikely to solve all problems.
Experts may understand software and hardware updates, but they don't understand consumer trends at the moment. Some products, whether it is software or hardware parameters, are not the best, but they may become a blockbuster product, which is a difficult thing for experts to understand. Therefore, it is also unreliable for us to push all the problems to the experts, and it will increase the workload of the experts. Sometimes a little advice from employees can open up the experts and generate a more positive interaction, which makes the company stronger and stronger.
Let's say Huawei now has a total of 200,000 people, of which 10,000 are top experts and the other 190,000 are relatively ordinary employees. Does the 10,000 people's cognition add up to more powerful than 190,000? Not necessarily.
One word that has become particularly popular in recent years is cognitive surplus. This phenomenon is particularly obvious when we watch short videos, we can see that netizens understand everything, but they don't understand anything. The reason why we feel that netizens understand everything is because many of the explanations we see about professional terms or unique phenomena come from thousands of netizens. Some netizens understand this knowledge, and some netizens understand that knowledge, and when combined they can become an encyclopedia.
Similarly, if a company has 200,000 people and only uses the wisdom of 10,000 people, is it a waste of the wisdom of another 190,000 people?
If a company wants to truly inspire the innovative spirit of its employees, it must give employees certain opportunities and channels to express their ideas. Perhaps the idea put forward by the employee is childish, or even outrageous, do not give a very negative negative, which will kill not only the desire for expression of a person, but also the idea of a group of people.
Only by encouraging employees to express such outrageous ideas can the company see more reliable ideas. Over time, the company is a very good innovation base. Because after employees put forward ideas, they will not be fully implemented, and the company will only pick out some reliable ones to do, so encouraging employees to express their ideas will not have a substantial impact on the company. But suppressing employees' desire to express themselves can make it difficult for the company.
Now that we return to Huawei itself, is it true that no Huawei employees could have predicted that Huawei would be so severely suppressed? There must be employees who can predict it, even earlier than Ren Zhengfei. At the same time, there will be other employees who know what to do before facing it to avoid it, or to minimize the damage of such suppression.
However, after Ren Zhengfei fired new employees who made suggestions, it may also cause thousands of employees to dare not make any suggestions to the company, and Huawei has to face the current problem.
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