In November 2013, the “Thinkers 50” list was released in London, UK, and Lenovo Holdings Chairman Liu Chuanzhi was selected. Chinese faces appeared.
Liu Chuanzhi seemed unusually rational in receiving this award. He believed that without China’s reform and opening up, there would be no real enterprise in China, and no group of entrepreneurs. Chinese entrepreneurs are all Growing up in groping and learning, different from the West, this group of people are “writing recipes” and nothing more.
In the “recipes” of Liu Chuanzhi’s “altruistic model”, “family sentiment” is the bottom-most factor of the “6 cores”, and it is also the background that supports his 35 years of entrepreneurial practice.
Liu Chuanzhi, born during the Anti-Japanese War, has deeper feelings for the word “China.” In Liu Chuanzhi’s words, the hungry people know how fragrant the taste of braised pork is. By the same token, only after experiencing a backward age can we understand what the country will become more and more powerful, and will cherish such opportunities, and desperately want to do something for the development and growth of the country.
Liu Chuanzhi, 40, is puzzled that “scientific research results” are limited to writing dissertations and appraisal titles, and it is rare for “products” to go out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to achieve “industrialization.” Under the call of Zhou Guangzhao, the then Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he took the initiative to launch a venture. At this time, Liu Chuanzhi firmly believed in the future of the country, hoping to find his own life value and “do something for society.”
From the founding of Lenovo in 1984, from Hanka to the motherboard, to domestically-branded computers competing with major foreign computer brands and becoming well-known Chinese brands going global, Liu Chuanzhi wrote his own and Lenovo’s thick page.
This background can indirectly answer why he has never become the richest man in China, and why he has few shares in the enterprise, but still can be recognized as the “godfather of Chinese entrepreneurs” in the business world, although he does not accept this title at all.
You can also understand why after being unknowingly buttoned up as a “treason” hat, Liu Chuanzhi, 74, angered the crown and expressed his voice in a way that was “excessively hard” by the outside world. I believe that at that time, all the past choices and persistences, scenes of storms and wars, rummaged in his mind, that is the background of the association he created.
For Liu Chuanzhi, the background should not be trampled.
Lenovo Holdings’ official website writes their corporate vision: “Taking industry as the responsibility of the country, committed to becoming a trustworthy and respected, with leading companies in multiple industries, influential internationalization worldwide Investment holding company. “
In the company and in Liu Chuanzhi’s office, this vision is solemnly suspended.
Although Liu Chuanzhi often mentions “business in business”, and is even misunderstood as “cynic”, anyone who truly understands Liu Chuanzhi knows that writing “industry to serve the country” in the company’s vision will be small in the conference. At the meeting, employees were educated to thank reform and opening up, and they would be particularly proud of Beijing’s hosting of the Olympic Games. They would organize the Zhongguancun Entrepreneur Advisory Committee to visit the Innovation Achievements Exhibition of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and feel for those who are excited about their achievements.
3. Forever and foremost: a “altruistic” “employment philosophy”
On the basis of “family feelings”, they are the company’s interests first, the creation of a leading character manufacturing platform, the achievement of a good life for colleagues, the enthusiasm of helping friends circle, and the construction of a beautiful family.
These six layers together form the core of Liu Chuanzhi’s business philosophy, and it is also the eastern management philosophy that is gradually different from western management philosophy in Liu Chuanzhi’s 35 years of entrepreneurial career.
Comb the kernel 6At this level, we can find that Liu Chuanzhi’s business philosophy has almost always adhered to “the ancestors come first,” and emphasizes the use of “harmony” in traditional Chinese Confucianism in business practice. What kind of “how should an entrepreneur have” “Value system” and “personal contact field”, you can find reference answers in this kernel.
Corporate Benefit First
Liu Chuanzhi has always liked to say: “Take the business as your own life.”
After the acquisition of IBM’s PC business, coinciding with the financial crisis in 2008, Lenovo Group suffered substantial losses in Q3 and Q4 quarters, but “corporate interests first” will always be Lenovo’s constant tenet.
Liu Chuanzhi, who had long ceased to be a director of Lenovo Group and had extremely unstable blood pressure at the time, disregarded the persuasion of his family and friends, and once again came out of the mountain to serve as chairman to save Lenovo from the fire. In 2011, Lenovo Group realized structural adjustment, and Liu Chuanzhi returned the scepter to Yang Yuanqing again.
Creating a Leadership Manufacturing Platform
Of the three elements of leadership summarized by Liu Chuanzhi, the two elements of “building a team and leading a team” are all about talent.
Liu Chuanzhi has an image metaphor. Talents are pearls, and entrepreneurs are the “string of pearl necklaces.” Only by bringing together more professionals and corporate strategies can we create greater value.
Discover talent, train leaders, and create a stage without a ceiling for leaders.
In 2001, at the peak of Lenovo, Liu Chuanzhi chose to make way for young people. Lenovo split into Lenovo Group and Digital China, which were handed over to Yang Yuanqing and Guo Wei respectively.
He himself chose to start a second venture and founded Lenovo Holdings, hoping to use capital to help young entrepreneurs in more fields succeed. Among them are Sun Tao Ran of Lakala, Lu Zhengyao of Shenzhou Car Rental, Liu Qingfeng of HKUST Xunfei … The dream of “Industry to serve the country” has begun to fall.
Achieve a wonderful life for colleagues
The post-90s and post-00s generations may not have heard of Lenovo’s two famous paragraphs: “House 72” and “Pig Farm”.
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