Stanley Ho, born in Hong Kong on November 25, 1921, is a famous Hong Kong and Macau entrepreneur. He is known as the "Macau Gambling King". In Hong Kong and Macau, as long as you say the word "Gambling King", people will know you are Refers to Stanley Ho. The gambling king is famous like thunder, and the gambling king’s dominance has been standing for decades! So what is the secret of Stanley Ho’s success? The following is the secret of Stanley Ho’s success that I share with you for everyone to read!

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Hong Kong - Chairman of Shun Tak Group, Chairman of Melco International Development Co., Ltd. and Chairman of Hong Kong Real Estate Construction Association, Fenghe Chess and Cards.

Macau - General Manager of Macau Tourism and Entertainment Co., Ltd., Vice Chairman of Macau International Airport Corporation, Chairman of Seng Heng Bank, and Chairman of Macau Jockey Club.

The University of Hong Kong and the University of Macau confer honorary doctorates in social sciences. Chairman of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Hong Kong Real Estate Construction Association, member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Hong Kong, member of the University of Hong Kong’s School Committee, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Zhongkai College of Agricultural Engineering, chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Hong Kong Teaching and Research Development Fund, Macao Special Administrative Region Deputy Chairman of the Preparatory Committee and Trustee Member of the Macao Cooperation and Development Foundation.

In 1943, Stanley Ho used the 1 million bonus he received from CIMB to independently establish the Macau Fire Water (Kerosene) Company. In 1961, Stanley Ho formed an alliance with Ye Han, Yip Deli, Fok Ying-tung and others to win the Macau gaming patent and founded Macau Tourism and Entertainment Co., Ltd. In the 1990s, the Palace Casino was established in Macau.

Stanley Ho, a famous entrepreneur, philanthropist and honorary vice president of the Community Chest, celebrated his 91st birthday on November 25.

Since the establishment of the Macau Tourism and Entertainment Company, profits have increased day by day, exceeding 2 billion patacas in 1986. In the past 10 years, the revenue of the company's five casinos, Lisboa, Royal Palace, Jinbi, Oriental and Jai Alai, has exceeded 100 million yuan. In 2001, Macau opened its gaming industry, and Macau Gaming Corporation, a subsidiary of Macau Entertainment, won one of the gaming licenses. Macau Gaming Corporation's full-year net profit in 2004 was 34.2 billion yuan.

Stanley Ho is both an expert at making money and is also known for his generous donations. He has donated countless charities and has a special liking for the mainland. In March 1999, Stanley Ho took the lead in investing US$3 million to support the construction of the China Millennium Monument in Beijing to express his wishes for the advent of the new century. In early September 2007, Stanley Ho purchased the bronze horse head statue of the "Eight-Nation Allied Forces - Relics of the Old Summer Palace" for HK$69.1 million and donated it to the country. The secret of Stanley Ho’s success:

Secret 1. Power of belief

A person without firm trust cannot become a great entrepreneur, because on the way to the goal or end of victory, It can't all be smooth sailing. Because on the road to success, you may encounter problems or obstacles of this or that kind. At this time, without firm belief, it will be difficult to overcome difficulties and move forward courageously.

Secret 2. Learning ability

First of all, to be a successful leader, you must love learning and be able to learn. Scientist Hua Luogeng once said: "In the long river of seeking truth, only by learning, continuous learning, diligent learning, and creative learning can we cross mountains and ridges." The great leader Mao Zedong taught us: "Reading is "Learning and using are also learning, and they are more important learning." The above two famous quotes - for leaders, fully illustrate the necessity and importance of reading, learning and applying what they have learned.

The wife of former U.S. President Roosevelt once said: "We must let our young people develop a habit of reading good books. This habit is a treasure worth holding with both hands and looking at. "Don't throw it away." Another economist once said, "Not learning is a sin. Learning is economic. Use economic methods to learn, and use learning to create economy and create benefits." "As a leader, you should learn from theory, practice and mutual exchanges. You must not only pay attention to learning methods, but also have a correct learning attitude.

Learning ability refers to learning motivation, learning perseverance and learning ability. Managers who already have learning ability have the problem of how to transform learning ability into competitiveness. If all members of an enterprise can devote themselves wholeheartedly and gain continuous growth in learning ability, the enterprise is a learning organization. Regarding the competition among enterprises today, everyone will say that it is a competition for talents, resources, etc., but the learning organization theory tells us: Enterprises compete for talents with learning ability. The reason is very simple. If you have a strong learning ability, in a few years, not talents will become talents, but talents will become high-level talents. Choosing learning means choosing progress. Without learning ability, there is no competitiveness. Improving learning ability means enhancing competitiveness, creativity and leadership. For us today, learning has become a need that cannot be ignored. The changes in the entire world driven by the growth of the knowledge economy are the rapid updating of knowledge and the acceleration of the pace of the entire human race. In such a society, we are exhausted and exhausted, but There will always be a moment when you find that you can no longer adapt to the high-speed operation of this society.

Time is passing, we are getting older day by day, but the world is being updated day by day, and the gap between us and the world is widening unconsciously. Therefore, we know that our lives need to be filled with knowledge, and we need the improvement and accumulation of knowledge. Therefore, learning has become something that people in the workplace must do - it can even be said that competition in learning ability has become a decisive factor in corporate competition and personal workplace competition.

Isn’t there a line in Jackie Chan’s song that is very touching, “Let the sea and the sky gather energy for me.” There is a kind of martial arts in Jin Yong's novels called "Star-Absorbing Technique", which is also very suitable for business leaders. In Teacher Tan Xiaofang’s view, one must be good at learning, learn from books, practice, successful people, and self-creation all the time and everywhere to accumulate energy for oneself.

Borrow and "improve" an old saying - "Learn every day, and the enterprise will make progress"! In fact, no leader in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, does not regard learning as a management method. Only through learning can we educate our subordinates and subjects so that they can progress to meet their own management needs and create their own interests. It is the human spirit of continuous learning and creation that makes our society so progressive and developed. When someone puts forward the concept of "learning organization", almost all business leaders praise it. It can be seen that "learning organization" meets the needs of leaders' interests.

Secret 3. Great Wisdom

Secondly, to be a successful leader, you must have great wisdom. The economic development of the West is much more advanced than that of China. From a certain perspective, our market environment today is the market environment of the West yesterday. Therefore, we are all learning from Western management, marketing methods and experiences. However, what is interesting is that at this time, many Western companies, management scholars and business schools are studying and learning the essence of wisdom left by China for thousands of years, and absorbing nutrients from it to use in their management and marketing today. activities and achieved good results. For example, "The Art of War", "Tao Te Ching", "Zuo Zhuan", etc. Among them, "The Art of War" has great guiding and reference significance for market competition strategies and tactics, but you may not know that "The Art of War" also has a certain effect on inspiring the wisdom of leaders.

When looking for leadership wisdom from Chinese tradition, one often goes to two extremes - either extremely tall and lofty, such as leaving a name for the country and the people in the history books, or extremely practical and even resorting to means. Like many aspects, in terms of management wisdom, we have not yet mastered the skills of scientific packaging like the West. In a recent Peking University CEO class, a private entrepreneur asked me: What is leadership wisdom? I think this question is very interesting. There are many static definitions of leadership wisdom, but none of them seem to be accurate. At that time, I This gives a dynamic definition: Our leadership style changes with time, situation, and people. Under normal circumstances, being orderly, following the system, following the steps, and being prudent and prudent are the manifestations of the wisdom of an excellent leader. However, in extraordinary times, extraordinary wisdom from the leader is required.

In a sense, the company faces new situations and encounters new challenges every day, and extraordinary times have become the norm for the company. Extraordinary times breed new opportunities and energy, calling for the decisiveness and wisdom of extraordinary leaders. In the original course "Great Wisdom of Leadership" by the famous leadership training expert Teacher Tan Xiaofang, extraordinary leaders will be provided with the following energy: "Great courage" is needed to attack, and "Great wisdom" is required to transfer; from a fast company to a "tough" company; from doing From becoming bigger and stronger to becoming deeper and stronger; strategic model: how to move from the red ocean to the blue ocean; operating model: how to move from "operation" to "refined operation", etc.

Back to our Sun Tzu Art of War - In the well-known "Five Virtues" of military strategists, Sun Tzu talked about the five kinds of wisdom that a general needs to have, "A general is wisdom, faith, benevolence, and courage." "Strict", Wang Zhe commented: "A wise person is foresighted and not confused, able to plan and adapt to changes; a brave person is not afraid of partiality and can be resolute; a strict person uses authority to solemnize the hearts of others." "You must, you can't shut up." For modern leaders, the five virtues of military strategists are not enough, and "knowledge of knowledge" must be added to become the six virtues. In the ever-changing era of knowledge economy, six virtues are enough - only such outstanding generals can win in wars that determine the life and death of the country and the people.

Secret 4. Charisma

Again, to be a successful leader, you must be charming. The ancients said: Those who convince others with force are not convinced by their hearts, but they are not convinced by their strength; those who convince others by virtue are convinced by their hearts and sincere hearts. In modern society, some insightful people even suggest that great institutions are not managed but led. They are the result of the hard work of people who eagerly pursue success and are driven by an ever-increasing sense of accomplishment. This is evident from the "pulling" effect of a charismatic leader in a group. Charisma is the leader's ability to influence and change the psychological behavior of others in interactions with others. The strength of leadership charisma is directly related to the level of leadership and governance.

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The leadership charisma of leaders is different from the charisma of ordinary people. The reasons include both division of labor and personal qualities. The idea of ??one-sided emphasis on the personal qualities of leaders while denying the influence of position power is incomplete. The essence of leadership is influence, that is, the leader uses his influence to influence the behavior of followers to achieve organizational goals. For a team leader, if he wants to achieve good results, he needs to set feasible goals, practice them personally, and do more exemplary and benchmarking things. To influence and lead the masses through one's own charm factors, charm is a "power that attracts people".

The charismatic image of corporate leadership reflects the temperament, demeanor, character, knowledge and other aspects of leadership charisma. It relies on the influence of awe-inspiring personality charm rather than the intimidating influence of power. The charisma and image of corporate leadership are directly related to the survival and development of the company. Business leaders should proceed from the requirements of the times, pay special attention to establishing entrepreneurship and leader personality charm, and become the mainstay in the market competition and the strong ones who can overcome challenges!

Secret 5. Know how to employ people

We say that to be a successful leader, you need to be able to use people. Comrade Mao Zedong once pointed out that leaders have two main responsibilities: first, to come up with ideas; second, to recruit cadres. Using cadres refers to the selection and use of talents. There is also a saying abroad that seven-tenths of a leader's work is spent on selecting and employing people. This shows how important selecting and employing people is for leaders. As an excellent manager in the market, the objects of management are people, and all work tasks must be completed by people. Therefore, the key to the success or failure of management lies in the selection and employment of people.

There is also a saying abroad that seven out of ten times a leader’s work is spent on selecting and employing people. This shows how important selecting and employing people is for leaders. As an excellent manager in the market, the objects of management are people, and all work tasks must be completed by people. Therefore, the key to the success or failure of management lies in the selection and employment of people. Therefore, the way of selecting leaders is broad and profound. It is a skill that all those who want to stay in leadership positions for a long time and all those who are determined to unite people and do something great must develop. The beauty of application lies in one mind. As a leader, when dealing with all kinds of people, he must be good at understanding human nature, grasping people's hearts, correctly recognizing, selecting and employing people, so as to lay a solid human foundation for himself to achieve great things.

First of all, be good at utilizing people’s strengths. The secret of employing people lies in employing their strengths and maximizing their complementary advantages. When hiring a director, you must first pay attention to the "appropriate position". If Chen Jingrun hadn't been discovered by Hua Luogeng and transferred to the Institute of Mathematics, it would have been difficult for him to win the crown jewel of mathematics. The reason why Tang Monk was able to successfully learn Buddhist scriptures from the West was mainly because he was able to know people well and assign them well, and arranged Sun Wukong, Monk Sha, and Zhu Bajie to the positions that best suited them. To achieve the best combination of talents and job requirements, we must pay attention to "timely employment" and "employing people when they are strong". To define the optimal period of use of various types of talents, the decision should not be based solely on age, but on quality. We must use it boldly and in a timely manner for the people we are looking for.

Secondly, we must pay attention to the "moderate" leader's recruitment and cannot engage in "whipping the fast ox". Shaanxi ox can only be used at critical times and critical moments. Those who have a strong sense of work responsibility and work ability are overloaded in the "fast lane", and these "fast cows" will surely become "slow cows" or "dead cows". They are good at employing people and are loved. A middle school student once told Bill, When Gates asked for the secret of success, Gates told him: “Do what you love and love what you do. "Einstein once received an invitation to serve as the president of Israel during his lifetime, but he politely declined this coveted position, still loving his scientific research. Because of his wise love, This great scientist is Einstein. In the process of hiring people, leaders must know what people love, help people love, and grow up.

Secret 6. Character

To be a successful leader, you must have good character. The New York Times found in a poll that only 15% of the public had confidence in big companies, while 67% believed that most business executives It lacks integrity. Data also show that companies are changing leaders more and more frequently. It is not difficult to see that "leadership" is becoming an "endangered species" and it is difficult for the public not to worry about the integrity of organizations.

The famous management guru Drucker once said: "If a leader lacks integrity, no matter how knowledgeable, talented, and accomplished he is, he will suffer heavy losses&mdash ;-Because he destroyed the most valuable resource in the enterprise--people, destroyed the spirit of the organization, and destroyed work achievements. "As the saying goes, "Be honest" and "Be a good person before doing things", they all talk about the same truth. As a leader, character is very important.

Drucker believes that integrity is the only absolute condition that a leader should possess, but not everyone can learn it - character as an inner quality and cultivation , must be improved through personal introversion practice, continuous self-examination and feedback improvement. However, this does not prevent leaders from modeling integrity in their management practices through example and avoiding mistakes.

Regardless of the type of leadership, character is very important. In a sense, leadership is character. Three elements must exist to underpin leadership: ambition, competence and integrity. If the three elements are out of balance and there is a terrible combination of ambition and ability, there will be selfish leaders whose personal power is higher than the organizational vision and who put personal interests ahead of the overall interests. And if there is no combination of ability, integrity and ambition, it will create a leader who is kind but has no ability to achieve. The combination of integrity and competence can lead to good deeds, but it does not break new ground. Only a balance of these three enables a leader to be true to an ethical ambition and realize that ambition for others.

Huang Guangyu once said, "I require speed. I will not spend three months planning, change the punctuation marks in the plan clearly, and then do it. I I will implement, make and revise as I go. Once the direction is clear and I am 30% sure, I will dare to do it.” However, whether Huang Guangyu was imprisoned or the dispute with Gogome some time ago, it has been revealed to a certain extent that the Gogome management team has serious deficiencies and crises in leadership building. Obviously, Huang Guangyu is a combination of ambition and ability. Personal interests are placed before the overall interests, resulting in a crisis of trust, which led to today's results.

Comrade Jiang Zemin warned us sincerely: If we want to be an official with integrity and do things in a down-to-earth manner, we must "first be an upright person." Character cultivation is the foundation for establishing a career as an official, especially in the context of establishing and improving the socialist market economy, strengthening character cultivation has special significance. A leader with good character has a broad mind. They care about their subordinates, their customers, their comrades, and society. As a result, they will be supported by their subordinates, loved by their customers, trusted by their comrades and respected by the society - it is conceivable that a company composed of such people must be extremely powerful, invincible and have an everlasting foundation! < /p>

Tip 7. Decision-making level

Another element of a successful leader is a high level of decision-making. In recent years, "decision-making" has become a daily term used by business people. Many corporate executives, especially top leaders, often regard themselves as "decision-makers." Collins, one of the world's most influential management gurus, called them "suitable people," Welch called them "stars," and the late Drucker described them as "strategic command masters." These management experts What we are talking about are the people who truly determine the success or failure of a business. As a leader, in terms of his overall quality, there are three aspects that are core competencies, namely decision-making, employment, and professionalism. The focus of these three aspects is different: for leaders, the most important thing is decision-making, accounting for 47%; followed by employment, accounting for 35%, and professionalism only accounts for 18%.

In the brutal market competition environment, many companies have fallen into crisis and are in decline because they do not have decision-making leaders. The problem is that even if you occupy the position of a leader, you may not necessarily become a leader worthy of the name, because the greatness of a leader lies in making the right decisions at critical moments. Decision-making is of great importance. Decision-making is a key link in leadership work. Decision-making ability reflects the basic skills of a leader. This requires each of our leaders to continuously improve their decision-making ability in practice.

The market is like a battlefield without smoke, and competition between the same industries has developed to a fierce level. Whoever is good at planning and forward-looking in business management decisions is likely to be one step ahead in the market, seize the commanding heights, and never lag behind the market. On the contrary, if you are short-sighted, only focus on the present, and lack long-term thinking and foresight, the result can only be that you will always be a "follower" and a "follower" behind others.

It is not enough to understand the decision-making process. You must continue to and firmly apply the experience you have gained to truly benefit. If you can continue to apply it, every decision you make in the future will be a successful decision. But "people plan things, and God makes things happen." The difficulty of decision-making is sometimes as difficult as the sky - there are many things that cannot be fully grasped. No matter how detailed the thinking is and how many weeks of planning, there is always a link that cannot be figured out. There are accidents waiting for you, but scientific and meticulous thinking will make you get twice the result with half the effort and achieve immediate success!

Teacher Tan Xiaofang said that Stanley Ho’s success is no accident. Successful leaders need to constantly understand the way of business and think about how to cultivate themselves. , how to control various complex situations. This is a painful and long process, but also a glorious process of challenging oneself and transcending oneself. As a leader, if you want to maximize the effectiveness of your work, you must set high targets for both results and relationships.

If leaders take care of their employees, and then employees take care of their customers, profits and financial performance will follow. This is a proven rule, and success will show itself in both results and relationships.