Twenty years ago, Ma Yun founded Alibaba in Hangzhou, and since then, there has been a challenger on the Internet. Amid numerous criticisms and doubts, Alibaba has developed rapidly and grown into a generation of heroes in the Internet.
I still remember that Ma Yun was questioned by a BBC reporter at the beginning of his business: "You didn't make any money, but your slogans emerged one after another, but nothing was done. But you are full of ambition. What do you want? "
Ma Yun replied airily, "Change the world".
Perhaps at that time, not only reporters thought he was bragging, but many people in China also thought he was bragging. But what's even worse for Ma Yun is that he has turned all the cows he once boasted into reality.
Great men are for the country and the people.
Ma Yun is a man deeply influenced by Jin Yong's martial arts world and an entrepreneur with heroic feelings.
In Alibaba, Ma Yun is famous. Feng Qingyang is a great warrior who is proficient in fencing and martial arts in Jin Yong's novel the legendary swordsman. His stunt is "Nine Swords Alone", which belongs to Huashan School.
Feeling guilty, Feng Qingyang retired from Guo Si Cliff because he was cheated and Jianzong was defeated, and never asked the Jianghu again.
On the other hand, Ma Yun, from the beginning of the company's establishment, hoped that he was a general figure with outstanding martial arts and elegant temperament.
Then the reality is that he is like Yin Tianchou (played by Stephen Chow) in king of comedy. At first, he was just a nobody in the Internet. Fortunately, he doesn't think so himself. He believes that one day he will be famous for his martial arts and benefit people all over the world.
Some people say that he is a pyramid scheme; Some people say that he is homesick; Some people say that he is telling a story. As early as 20 years ago, Ma Yun sought the investment of Lei Jun, then general manager of Jinshan Software (now chairman of Xiaomi), but was rejected by Lei Jun on the grounds of unfamiliarity. Later, Lei Jun once admitted that he now regrets not investing in Ma Yun.
Ma Yun later had no choice but to find Softbank and Yahoo to invest, so Alibaba is also one of the successful companies invested by Softbank and Yahoo.
Finally, 20 years have passed, and Ma Yun has cultivated into a "breeze" from an unknown person in the Internet Jianghu. It's just a pity that I didn't miss the general competition and began to retire gradually.
Ma Yun has also publicly stated that resigning from Ali does not mean retirement. Then Ma Yun still has a lot of things to do. Being a teacher and doing charity is the direction of Ma Yun's efforts.
In fact, Ali's "Breeze" is not really retired today, and there will be more stories waiting for him to continue writing in the rivers and lakes. ...
Why did Ma Yun dare to retire?
In fact, Ma Yun answered this question as early as a year ago: "This is not a question of retirement or abdication, but a systematic plan. This is a plan carefully prepared in 10, so that the younger generation can take over and solve the problem of enterprise inheritance and development. "
In China and even the whole world, the founders of a company are usually over 70 years old, because they are afraid that after letting go, the enterprise will make mistakes and the management will have great changes, which will eventually lead to the shortening of the enterprise life. This is a worldwide problem.
Isn't Ma Yun afraid? I was scared, too. However, the Ali culture that Ma Yun built in 20 years made him fully believe that Alibaba can still turn without Ma Yun, and it can turn better.
Especially in the last decade, Alibaba has attached great importance to personnel training, and Ma Yun is quite satisfied. In his letter, he said that Ali is now in full swing.
There is no doubt that Zhang Yong is the best of this group of outstanding generals. After Zhang Yong, Ali has also established a diversified talent echelon, with younger management. Fan Jiang, president of Taobao, is a young and promising post-80s generation. At the same time, the number of post-90s managers has gradually increased, and now it has exceeded 1.400.
Under such a sound and reasonable human construction system, Ma Yun naturally has enough confidence to believe that under the guidance of corporate culture, Ali can become an old-fashioned enterprise of 102.
Look straight at Ali's core values
Many times, the outside world often asks Ma Yun a question: "What is Alibaba's core competitiveness?"
Ma Yun said: "Ali's core competitiveness is Ali's values and corporate culture, and performance management has contributed to the company's core competitiveness."
This shows that Ma Yun believes that performance management can form a strong core competitiveness of a company.
No wonder Ali's HR has the title of "political commissar" and has a very high status.
How high is it? Even Ma Yun's performance appraisal dared to give a bad review, so he asked you if you were dissatisfied?
Yesterday was Ma Yun's last day at Alibaba. Ma Yun was as happy as a child, smiling and waving goodbye to his old colleagues all the way. The company park is full of happy atmosphere.
But because he was too excited, Ma Yun left his job at 3: 40 pm, which was considered as leaving early. According to the company's attendance management regulations, HR gave Ma Yun a half-day absenteeism and deducted the attendance award of the month. In view of Comrade Ma Yun's early retirement before the age of 65, the retirement allowance is paid at 65%.
How many HR dare to deduct the boss's salary? Ali's HR is so horizontal! It is such a strict performance management system that has created Ali's unparalleled corporate culture and an Internet legend.
Today, pay tribute to Ma Yun! Pay tribute to the great Ali culture!
Rome was not built in a day, and Ali's human resources were not formed in a day. Only through systematic learning can we really get in touch with Ali's core competitiveness.