The soup is milky white, with pork belly, chicken and various nourishing herbs tumbling in the pot.
Liu Qiangdong took a bite of the pork belly and found it tender, crispy, and chewy. He couldn't help but nodded and said: "The mall was founded during the SARS period. It is also 10 years old this year. It has more than 30,000 employees and is spread across 1,214 districts across the country.
The county’s distribution station, I am confident that sales this year will exceed 100 billion!
To be honest, I used to be brave enough to fight and had a strong sense of personal heroism, but I feel that when a company reaches this scale, it has reached the limit of my personal heroism.
The mall has grown rapidly over the years, and I realized that I was deficient in management. I needed a strict and scientific system to lead the company.
Talking about letting shareholders see that the company can operate normally without me is all external rhetoric. In fact, I really want to learn management and carry out internal reforms.
I have many ideas, and the most basic one is to delegate power.”
“Delegate authority?”
"Yes, I have completed the layout of senior executives, and there are qualified talents for each task. I decided to implement a two-level decision-making system and the 8150 principle."
"What is 8150?" Yinyin asked.
"That is, each manager must have no less than 8 subordinates reporting directly. If there are less than 8 people, the number of middle-level managers will be reduced. Only when there are more than 15 subordinates reporting directly to one person, the company will allow them to be at the same management level.
Add another manager.
50 refers to grassroots employees of the same type of work. Only those with more than 50 people can consider setting up a second team leader. For example, for packagers, if there are no more than 50 packagers in a shift, only one packaging supervisor is allowed..."
Liu Qiangdong paused and said: "This set of things is just for me to test whether it works when I go abroad. If it doesn't work, I will study and research again."
"..."
Yao Yuan listened carefully and asked: "I understand this, but at the senior management level, are you sure there are qualified candidates?"
"Of course, some were recruited with high salaries, and some were brought out by me step by step, such as Wang Xiaosong who is in charge of communications procurement, Yan Xiaobing who is in charge of home appliances, Li Daxue who is in charge of technology, and Xu Lei who is in charge of marketing..."
"Wait a minute!"
Yao Yuan suddenly heard a familiar name and said: "Xu Lei?"
"What's wrong? Sister Xu Xin introduced me to him. He is very capable. He used to work on a B2C website selling shoes and increased daily orders by 5,000 orders in just six months. Now he is one of my generals and is fully responsible for marketing work."
"Uh, it's okay, you continue!"
At this moment, Yao Yuan listened to his heart-to-heart talk and understood his thoughts. The company was getting bigger and bigger, and it was a little unable to do what it wanted. He wanted to replace his "dictatorship" management with systems and high-level talents.
After Liu Qiangdong finished speaking, he drank another glass of wine and looked at Yao Yuan to hear his opinion.
"I think..."
Yao Yuan considered the words and said: "It is good to improve the system and train executives, but I suggest that you do not lose the so-called personal heroism."
"Why is this?" Dongzi wondered.
"The style of a company must be imprinted with the personality of its leader. The mall has always dared to fight hard and never be ambiguous. This is the imprint of you."
"But with today's e-commerce situation, we and Alibaba have already divided the market. I don't think we will need the heroic momentum in the future."
"Don't speak too early. How do you know there is no third hill?"
It's hard for Yao Yuan to explain, because everyone thought so at the time, but when Pinduoduo clicked out, they were all shocked.
"and……"
He paused and said, "How do you ensure that everyone's business philosophy is consistent with yours?"
"Um?"
Liu Qiangdong was stunned and said: "Tell me more specifically."
"You suffered a lot when you were a child, and you understand the needs of the people at the bottom. You are also kind and righteous to employees and couriers. You pay attention to user-centeredness, high-quality products, and high-level services.
Who made these?
Isn’t it your personal heroism? Isn’t it just your words that made the mall become like this?
If you allocate affairs to senior executives, or even take a back seat one day, and change a CEO, will he still follow your path? What if he is an elitist, and goods will become more and more expensive, and services will become more and more expensive.
It’s getting worse and worse, the express delivery is getting slower and slower, and the customer service is even abusive...”
"Okay! Okay!"
Dongzi's blood pressure went up and he said, "Why did I take a back seat for no reason?"
"I'm just making an analogy. Your personal characteristics must not be lost and must be stamped on the mall. Let's put it this way, we are all dog capitalists. If there are street lights in the future, the old horse will definitely hang at the top.
Maybe we are different, maybe there is a small bench to step on..."
"..."
There was silence for a moment, Dongzi was thinking about his words, and Yao Yuan was also thinking about it.
There are different opinions on the reason why Liu Qiangdong retired in later generations. A widely circulated theory is that he was set up to kick him out. But no one knows the real reason.
Yao Yuan is determined to protect him anyway!
Those big companies have long been firmly tied to their founders. Jack Ma's Alibaba, Pony's Tencent, Dongzi's JD.com, Lei Jun's Xiaomi... Can you imagine what a company would be like without them?
Maybe it's still a big company and still making money, but it doesn't have the same characteristics.
After a while, Liu Qiangdong said very seriously: "I will consider your words carefully. What you say makes sense. I really cannot guarantee that they will follow my route."
"That's good, let's not talk about this and come have a drink!"
The two drank a glass of white wine and drank it up. Yinyin also drank a beer and asked: "Brother Dong, which university are you going to?"
"Columbia University!"
"Hey, we used to go shopping a lot when we were in New York. That place is pretty good."
"It's not as good as Beijing University of Science and Technology, right?" Liu Qiangdong joked.
"What's wrong with Beijing University of Science and Technology? I'm proud of my alma mater. When [Youzi Street] comes on the market, I will also donate to my alma mater!"
"Speaking of which, how's your [Youzi Street] going?"
"Fortunately, we are preparing for it this year and plan to go public next year, but the current valuation is not high, probably US$2 billion."
"Okay, you still have a community, and it can last for a long time."
Liu Qiangdong turned to Yao Yuan and asked: "I think Maiwo community seems to be less lively, and you didn't participate in the New Year's Eve."
"With this trend, comprehensive communities are no longer available, but vertical ones can still be developed in the future..."
Yao Yuan didn't want to talk about this. After all, he had feelings. He took another sip of wine and suddenly said: "You said that you are 39 years old, you are alone, and you don't want to get married?"
"What's the point of getting married at a young age? Besides, I'm so busy, and relationships have to be about fate... Why are you laughing?"
"Hey, why are you laughing?"
"What's so funny?"
Liu Qiangdong looked at Yao Yuan who suddenly laughed and was confused and a little angry, because this grandson definitely didn't mean anything good.
"it's okay no problem……"
Yao Yuan stopped laughing and said seriously: "I heard that there are a lot of international students in Colombia. They are all highly educated and beautiful. Maybe your old tree will bloom for a second spring~"