The story of a top student from Peking University who wrote tens of thousands of words and was denounced as mentally ill by Ren Zhengfei sounds very enjoyable and expresses the feelings of bosses big and small. But bosses should be careful. In the same words, what Ren Zhengfei can say may not be what we can say.

Ten Wan Yan, a top student from Peking University, was dismissed from Huawei. Ren Zhengfei approved that if this person has mental illness, he will be sent to a hospital for treatment. If he is not ill, he will be fired. This is an old story, but after a while it will always arouse some people's emotions and share it in their circle of friends. The version I found is a bit chatty, but no matter which version, the core idea is nothing more than: Don't worry about strategy, either work or get out!

▋Ren Zhengfei can say this

Ren Zhengfei can say this. First of all, his past performance proves that his strategy is most likely correct.

But this is not the core. It is common for large companies to make strategic mistakes. Ren Zhengfei also often said that "Huawei may be only one step away from death." This shows that he does not think that the strategy he has formulated is absolutely correct and will not make mistakes.

The reason why Ren Zhengfei said this is: Given Huawei's size, if a new employee who just graduated focused all his energy on discussing the company's strategy, the entire company would not have to do anything.

So Ren Zhengfei’s approval has nothing to do with the content of the Wan Yanshu, but to use this case to teach all employees a corporate culture education lesson.

I believe that not only the buddies (sisters?) from Peking University, but also buddies who graduated from Hangzhou Normal University and Pacific Western University have written similar things for Ren Zhengfei, but none of them are as representative as the background of "Peking University top students" Sex was ignored by Ren Zhengfei.

▋You may not necessarily be able to say the same

If you are not at Ren Zhengfei’s level, the strategy you formulate may be really poor, and blind execution will result in heavy losses. More importantly, your resources may be very limited. One mistake can mean disaster. There is no harm in having one more person to discuss it.

Secondly, your company's influence may not be as great as Huawei's. Brothers are not as confident in this business as Huawei. You need to communicate with your heart and inspire your friends with your dreams to bring everyone together. of mental effort. Otherwise, if there are only two or three guns in a gun, no matter how unaligned everyone is, there will really be no fighting effectiveness.

As for the suggester, if you don’t listen to his suggestions or even give him a chance to express his opinions, he will lose his sense of existence and value, his work enthusiasm will be frustrated, and he will not even be able to wait for your dismissal. He left on his own. This is probably not the result you want.

▋This is an old question of whether strategy or execution is more important

Is strategy or execution more important? This is a commonplace topic, but I really don't know what's so controversial about it.

Strategy is the rudder and execution is the paddle. If you don't talk about strategy and just talk about execution, you will go in the opposite direction. If you insist on saying that Columbus went the other way, wouldn't he still have discovered the New World? Master, please do as you please. What we ordinary people pursue is how to try every means to make the success rate as high as possible. But only focusing on strategy without focusing on execution is like a ship without oars, which can only stay in the port forever.

Strategy is as important to the company as it is to the individual. For example:

The reason why the above-mentioned top student from Peking University was expelled is because this student set his strategy wrong: As a new employee of a large company like Huawei, the correct strategy should be to "keep your head down and work hard" , perform well." Or, this guy is really talented in formulating strategies, and the most suitable career is to engage in strategic management-related work. That is, he chose the wrong implementation path. He should not join a large company like Huawei, but should find a small start-up company of two or three people, or simply do it himself.

Similarly, why can Ren Zhengfei say it but you can’t? Huawei is a large ship with tens of thousands of people, and the division of labor is orderly. Naturally, the young man rowing in the ship's cabin is not welcome to casually talk in the war room on the top of the ship. And if all you own is a small sampan, then your first task is to make everyone believe in your dream and be willing to get on the boat with you and work for you. If someone questions your strategy at this time, you should quickly seize this opportunity to infect him with your dreams instead of shutting him up.

"If you want to create a fleet, you don't sit down and talk about carpentry, you need to get people's souls excited about exploring distant shores."

——Antoine Saint-Exupéry

▋Suggestions

Ren Zhengfei’s approval all has the background of new employees; Jack Ma is saying that new employees should not When discussing strategy with him, he would also add, "If it were three years later, I would definitely listen to what you have to say."

If we post this paragraph in the circle of friends without any explanation, every subordinate will think that you are talking about him. If you are not good enough (bei can), it is recommended to endure it and stop transferring.