[Feng Qitang original | Do not compile or pass on, have a source and evidence, share the entrepreneurial legend of business tycoons, and interpret management wisdom. 】
Resources:
Tian Tao and Wu Chunbo wrote "Will Huawei be the next to fall", Tian Tao wrote "Huawei Interview", Wu Chunbo wrote "Huawei Has No Secrets" 1/2/3, Lin Chaohua wrote "The Biography of Ren Zhengfei", and Wang Yukun wrote "Suffering Hero Ren Zhengfei".
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Many entrepreneurs' offices are filled with books of all kinds.
Of course, some entrepreneurs also really read books, such as Cao Dewang, who dropped out of junior high school, and taught himself a series of management theories of MBA and became self-taught.
Similarly, Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, majored in architecture, did not understand communications, and did not understand enterprise management, but he brought Huawei from a few people to the world's leading industry giant with more than 200,000 people, and of course it also needs to continue to learn.
A professor said that in Huawei's growth process, Ren Zhengfei's fastest-growing human resources are Ren Zhengfei, because Ren Zhengfei's learning ability is too strong.
So, how does Ren Zhengfei continue to learn and grow?
01
Ren Zhengfei never reads management books:
The books of management are all written behind closed doors, reading the idea of limiting
The first is, of course, reading, Ren Zhengfei has to read books almost every day.
A number of senior management consultants at Huawei have mentioned that Ren Zhengfei loves to read.
Once, when Professor Wu Chunbo returned to Beijing from Shenzhen, he met Ren Zhengfei at the airport, still alone, when Ren Zhengfei had just come out of a bookstore at the airport, and he was still carrying a plastic bag containing four or five books.
The professor still remembers that when he and Ren Zhengfei visited Japan together in 2001, Ren Zhengfei was still studying at one o'clock in the morning.
Ren Zhengfei himself has also repeatedly asked Huawei cadres to read more books at company meetings, and said that every time he goes to Beijing on a business trip, he spends two and a half hours reading books during the three-hour flight.
However, many people may not think of the books Ren Zhengfei reads.
Li Jianguo, currently Huawei's director and president of the manufacturing department, once served as Ren Zhengfei's secretary for four months.
Li Jianguo, who worked as a secretary to Mr. Ren, was finally able to get close to the boss every day, but Li Jianguo found that Ren Zhengfei was different from other entrepreneurial bosses and chairmen of running enterprises.
Li Jianguo originally thought that most of the books that Mr. Ren read every day were about business management, but when he became the boss's secretary, he found that Ren Zhengfei was reading books about how the "two bombs and one satellite" were developed in a difficult environment, as well as some other historical books (the specific titles of which are inconvenient to list), and had nothing to do with business operations.
Li Jianguo, who is full of admiration for Ren Zhengfei, said: He also secretly took a photo of his boss at that time, and he didn't know it yet!
Professors Tian Tao and Wu Chunbo, who have been Huawei's senior management consultants for a long time, have a brief summary of Ren Zhengfei's reading habits.
Ren Zhengfei's thinking has always been in a highly open and fresh state, his biggest hobby is reading and communicating, and he has read a wide range of books, from politics, economy, society to humanities, etc., especially Chinese and foreign history books, and the least is novels and business management books.
As for why he rarely reads books on business management, Ren Zhengfei's reply is: "The novels are too fake, not true, and the books on management are all made by professors behind closed doors, reading the idea of limiting, and the real management is as simple as a few principles." "
This sentence may offend many "pseudo-experts and scholars".
But it may be true, no entrepreneur can make a career by reading a management book.
02
Ren Zhengfei has traveled all over the world: If I am greedy for life and afraid of death,
Where did you come to fight bravely?
Huawei has business cooperation in more than 170 countries and regions around the world, and Huawei employees have worked all over the world, including wars, poverty, and remote areas.
Ren Zhengfei has a habit of visiting Huawei employees in remote, poor, and dangerous areas every year, and communicating with them.
We can't show Ren Zhengfei's footsteps one by one, but we can follow Ren Zhengfei's footsteps in 2018 and feel the mind of this Huawei's spiritual leader.
On February 23, Ren Zhengfei went to Colombo, Sri Lanka, and had a discussion with employees at Huawei's representative office in Colombo: What we need is a fighter with shortcomings, not a perfect child;
On March 2, Ren Zhengfei listened to the report of Huawei's office in Mongolia and proposed: pay attention to grassroots employees, create a harmonious environment, and have one gun for the whole battalion;
On April 1, Ren Zhengfei went on a business trip to Lebanon (at that time, Syrian-Lebanese relations were tense), and Ren Zhengfei thanked the employees for their contributions in the difficult area;
On June 5, Ren Zhengfei went to the UK to have a discussion with staff at the Cambridge Research Institute and the Ipswich Institute: I hope that the Institute will play a role as a trumpet, absorb cosmic energy, and attract talents from all over the world;
On July 1, Ren Zhengfei chatted with Huawei employees in Rwanda and Burundi in Rwanda, Africa, to care for and encourage them.
On July 3, Ren Zhengfei went to Ghana in East Africa to have a discussion with the staff of the representative office;
On August 1, Ren Zhengfei came to Russia and encouraged and proposed during the discussion at the representative office: You have opened the mouth of the city wall...... It is necessary to continue to deepen the reform and build Russia into the strategic rear of the company;
On August 3, Ren Zhengfei came to Uzbekistan again to have a discussion with the staff of the representative office and proposed to strengthen learning;
On October 21, Ren Zhengfei went to Bangladesh to speak at Huawei's representative office and asked the administration to improve the working and living environment of overseas representative offices.
On November 21, Ren Zhengfei held a meeting with the staff of the Japanese Research Institute in Japan, hoping that scientific researchers would gather more scientists from all over the world to drink coffee together.
This year, Ren Zhengfei went to 12 overseas countries of Huawei, covering Asia, Africa and Europe.
In addition to overseas, domestic research institutes or universities in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Xi'an, Hefei and other places are also all over Ren Zhengfei's footprints.
Not only that, Ren Zhengfei has been to almost all the dangerous areas where Huawei's business is located, and he has been there at the most dangerous time.
During the Spring Festival of 2017, 73-year-old Ren Zhengfei went to Bolivia to visit Huawei's staff, two days before the start of the Libyan war, during the dangerous war in Afghanistan, and when the Arctic Ocean began to turn cold.
Ren Zhengfei promised: "As long as I can fly, I will come to see you in difficult areas, and accompany you in war-torn and plague areas." If I am greedy for life and afraid of death, how can I let you fight bravely?"
Whenever Ren Zhengfei goes to a place, he does not come to inspect his work, but more to pay attention to the life and growth of employees, and to have heart-to-heart dialogues with employees, so that employees can feel that their value is recognized.
Every employee will also be moved, motivated, and practice the spirit of struggle in actual work.
In 2018, 2,000 of Huawei's R&D personnel volunteered to go to the front line, promising to go to the front line without restrictions on regions, deadlines, and treatment.
03
Ren Zhengfei's power of a cup of coffee
In addition to reading, the fastest way to grow yourself is communication.
Ren Zhengfei famously said, "A cup of coffee absorbs the energy of the universe", the essence of which is to communicate with people in the industry and listen to the ideas of people from all walks of life in order to gain inspiration and avoid detours.
Therefore, meeting many people, talking with 10,000 people, and exchanging ideas are also the most important content of Ren Zhengfei's work.
With Cisco President Chambers:
After a litigation battle of the century that took more than one year, the two giants became family members, Ren Zhengfei and Chambers also became friends. In 2005, Cisco President Chambers visited Huawei, and after a tour of Huawei, Chambers said to Guo Ping, who accompanied him, "It seems that you are very competitive...... In 2014, Ren Zhengfei and Chambers met by chance at Beijing Airport, and Chambers invited Ren Zhengfei to visit the United States, but Ren Zhengfei politely declined.
With Google CEO Schmidt (front):
In 2011, at Google's Beijing office, Google Chairman Schmidt met with Huawei President Ren Zhengfei. Schmidt praised Huawei as China's most successful company that is changing the world, and Ren Zhengfei as a great magician.
With Microsoft President Ballmer:
In 2004, Microsoft President Ballmer visited Huawei in Shenzhen. In the meeting with Ren Zhengfei, Ballmer proposed that Huawei should not participate in the antitrust camp against Microsoft. Ren Zhengfei told Ballmer that anti-monopoly is not Huawei's responsibility, and Huawei does not have the strength.
With Kyocera founder Kazuo Inamori:
Since 2009, Ren Zhengfei has had four meetings and exchanges with Kazuo Inamori. Witnesses believe that Inamori and Ren Zhengfei "have a lot of common language" and are "attracted to each other"!
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The above is only a few of the more well-known to the public, as for the politicians, business leaders, and celebrities from all walks of life that Ren Zhengfei has seen over the years, there are really too many to list, so I will not list them one by one here.
Professors Tian Tao and Wu Chunbo have a comment on Ren Zhengfei:
Over the past 30 years, Ren Zhengfei has traveled to most countries in the world, from the most backward to the most developed, and has had countless communications and exchanges of views with hundreds of politicians, business tycoons, scholars, competitors, scientists, even artists, monks in monasteries and other figures around the world, and undoubtedly has a broader vision.
Undoubtedly, Ren Zhengfei is undoubtedly the person who has the most communication with people from all walks of life around the world and the highest level of communication among Chinese entrepreneurs.
Reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles, and talking with thousands of people, Ren Zhengfei has continued to explore the way forward for Huawei's future, and constantly injected new vitality and impetus into Huawei, making Ren Zhengfei one of China's most outstanding corporate thinkers.
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