The shock of the collective vote in the conference room still deeply affected Gu Chengxi. When he learned that the young man was the son of the current young master, Cheng Feiyang, the first thing Gu Chengxi felt was deep powerlessness and disappointment.
As a scholar, I have seen through some rules. In the decades of reform and opening up, there are countless people who have become rich in the first generation, but few of the next generation can keep their wealth. On the one hand, they do not have the opportunities and experience of their parents. On the other hand, there are many cases of retrograde actions, internal group heroes backlash, or even being surrounded by the stars below, making frequent stupid moves, and finally leading to the failure of the country. These are bloody cases one after another.
So when Cheng Ran said this so brazenly, he did have great ambitions, but objective laws, to put it simply, are like a flood or a beast when you violate them. No matter what ambitions you have or what dreams you have, they will all be swallowed up.
After losing a great business empire, I realized that all those so-called lofty ambitions were nothing in the face of reality.
The company has not even stepped out of the province, and has not even conquered the main battlefield, the provincial capital of Chengdu. But there has already been a situation where people only follow the authority. A child is talking nonsense about the overall situation in front of an expert like him, and even says that if you don't stay in the forefront, you are no different from a salted fish. How can he get everyone to agree with him? He is really just pretending to be rich.
In fact, the reason why Gu Chengxi chose Fulong was simply because of the Ministry of Information Industry's Telecommunications Equipment Exhibition held in Beijing at the end of last year. When all the exhibitors' booths were the same, only Fulong, a private enterprise in the southwest, stole the show at the exhibition. The unique decoration, the clear schematic diagram of the advantages of Fulong switches, and the good user reputation and stability in the survey directly conveyed the company's thriving creativity.
Gu Chengxi had a sharp eye. He could tell whether a company had a future by looking at the enthusiasm, mental outlook, and problem-solving methods of each link in a company. Gu Chengxi chose Fulong, and after a long conversation with Cheng Feiyang who was present, he immediately decided to join Fulong next year.
He really wanted to help Fu Long and do something meritorious.
As a result, the scene at the conference that day was like a bucket of cold water poured over everyone’s heads.
Tian Feng was Gu Chengxi's contact person. Seeing Gu Chengxi's gloomy appearance after the meeting, Tian Feng approached him. Gu Chengxi smiled palely and said, "Brothers fight together to fight tigers, and fathers and sons fight together in battle. This is really an irrefutable truth. What is a career? A career is the coincidence of personal ideals. Otherwise, it can only be called a job. Tian Jishu should know that the reason why I, Gu Chengxi, accepted Cheng Feiyang's invitation to come to Fulong is not just to find a job? What? If you continue to appoint people based on personal connections and act arbitrarily, you and I will just be servants. The professional knowledge I, Gu Chengxi, have learned in the first half of my life is not for being commanded by outsiders!"
Tian Feng smiled and said, "Brother Gu, you are very resentful... Let's have a couple of drinks."
Tian Feng took the man to a small restaurant, a fly-in-the-wall restaurant called Wangjiapo, located two streets away from the unit. They asked for a private room and cooked some Erguotou. While the two of them were eating, Tian Feng listened to Gu Chengxi's tantrum again. He knew that Gu Chengxi had already thought about resigning, otherwise he would not have said these things in front of Tian Feng, Cheng Feiyang's "confidant". He also wanted to convey his words to Cheng Feiyang in disguise.
"Lao Gu met our CEO Cheng at the Ministry of Information Industry's exhibition. Did you know that before that... we had no plans to participate in this exhibition..."
Gu Chengxi drank a few glasses of wine and had no more worries. "Yes, what's going on? Logically speaking, you are the smallest manufacturer in the whole venue that day. The others are no bigger than you. If it were someone else, I'm afraid they wouldn't even dare to show up. I know a few manufacturers who would never come to Beijing to attend a meeting like the Ministry of Information Industry. They are not afraid of comparing people, but they are afraid of comparing goods. On the contrary, you dared to come, and your momentum was the greatest. This is strange. When they saw that the big shots from the Ministry of Information Industry went to your booth to observe, the faces of the other companies were not happy!"
Gu Chengxi was impressed by Cheng Feiyang because of this. With such little ability, he dared to make a high-profile appearance at the Ministry of Information Industry's exhibition, fearing that others would not know. He immediately thought that Cheng was very courageous. "Then why did he participate in this exhibition later?"
Tian Feng smiled mysteriously, "Let me put it bluntly. General Manager Cheng was persuaded by Cheng Ran. This guy knows his father best. With a provocation, our General Manager Cheng's unwillingness to admit defeat also came up... He immediately said that if he was afraid of death, he would not be a veteran revolutionary. Why should he be low-key and afraid to see people? The exhibition gave us an invitation, so we will go! And it also includes the configuration of the booth and various eye-catching gimmicks... Actually..."
"You want to say that it was all Mr. Cheng's son's idea?"
Tian Feng smiled and said nothing more, "I know you came to us, Lao Gu, for one thing."
"To be honest, I think you put a lot of effort into the Fulong Basic Law. You must have invited a whole team of experts to come up with this set of rules and regulations and various concepts... This is not a small project. As far as I know, Professor Wang Wenhong of Peking University has worked on a similar plan, which is a bit like the Anshan Constitution. It is also the same as Welch's "cooperation" plan to revitalize GE in the 1980s and 1990s. In my opinion, if Fulong really achieves something, future generations will probably hold this set of management methods and use it as a guideline for research... In the end, you must have found a lot of connections, and it's not something that can be done with money..."
"You just said that laymen lead professionals... Actually, that's not the case," Tian Feng said. "We did make a lot of internal regulations and additions to this set of management rules, but the earliest drafters were Mr. Cheng and his son."
In fact, as the company gradually grew, it was constantly supplemented, so only some veterans and senior executives knew about the original drafting, and people didn't mention it much.
Moreover, Cheng Feiyang uses this to manage the company and downplays the original drafting matter, trying to make this a charter that everyone jointly formulates and abides by, rather than the credit of a certain individual's wisdom and bravery.
But after Tian Feng said this, Gu Chengxi was stunned.
As a scholar, he could see the value of this set of management laws. At that time, Dajue Fulong Company had a promising future, which was also an important factor. Although it was unknown how many powerful groups they had mobilized behind them, and how they had personally experienced practical summaries, every word of which was a pearl in the sand to create such a set of regulations. But this point really convinced him, a practitioner who took the academic route.
You have to know that the science of management, when it comes down to it, is nothing more than the three principles of "building a team, setting strategy, and leading a team."
This set of Fulong's management guidelines directly and clearly states the last two points: "What kind of strategy to set and how to lead the team." Gu Chengxi has a deep understanding of the importance of this.
At this time, Tian Feng told him that this was not a team.
Just from a teenager.
All of his many years of management and academic experience suddenly felt subverted.
At the end, Tian Feng talked about all the magical things, and finally showed that unfathomable smile, "Are you still planning to leave?"
Gu Chengxi clinked glasses with him again and put down his glass, "I just don't believe it. Can your Fulong's fortune reach the sky?"