Zhao Manfu raised his glass and suggested: "Thank you Yunqing for sharing our experience of entrepreneurial failure with us. This also reminds everyone of ours to cherish our job today and do the things in our hands well.
At the same time, it also reminds us to look at the development of things and make corresponding decisions from the boss's perspective at any time.
Come on, let's have one together."
When Zhao Manfu put down his glass and poured the wine, Zhou Wencheng said: "Mr. Zhao, please share your entrepreneurial story."
Zhao Manfu said excitedly: "Okay. I can tell a story related to me.
My father turned out to be an ordinary cadre in the forestry system. When he retired, his family was still relatively short of money.
We were four brothers and sisters. For the family at that time, there were not many people, and there were not many elderly people.
After retirement, my father still had a lot of ideas and always wanted to start a business, but he didn't know what to do.
He himself is an expert in forestry and is professional in the growth properties of seedlings.
By chance, a nursery of hundreds of acres was established in my hometown.
Through several years of hard work in the nursery, I finally earned my first pot of gold of one million.
This one million was amazing in the 1990s.
I remember when I said that the family was relatively wealthy, I said that this family was a household of ten thousand yuan.
One million is equivalent to one million households.”
Zhou Wencheng asked: "What happened later? How did you build a company?"
Zhao Manfu said: "Later, if you only do nurseries, you will find that the business scope is relatively narrow. Many projects are real estate landscape projects. Because my father is familiar with gardens, many of the parties who have planted seedlings are willing to take the initiative.
Find my father to help solve the problem.
After a while, with the support of the business commitments of real estate owners, a garden landscape company was opened.
Through more than ten years of development, we have gone from not having qualifications to having Level 3 qualifications, to having Level 2 qualifications for landscape construction companies, from not designing to organizing our own design departments, to having Level 5 qualifications for landscape design of our own company.
In this process, the operation of a company always requires a lot of people to manage.
After many discussions, I finally quit my original job as a college teacher and went to work for my father's business, of course, I gave shares.
Although I am not a legal person of the company, I am the general manager of the company and my daily affairs are managed by me. We have many projects running at the same time, but none of them have big projects.”
Zhou Wencheng asked in confusion: "Mr. Zhao, are your shares in your company too low and you came out to find a place to work?"
Zhao Manfu replied: "If this matter is not explained, it must be that most people think so.
Although my family business is much smaller than our Western Construction, I am a shareholder after all, and the shares are not rarely tens of the time. In this way, in addition to a considerable salary income every year, there are also corresponding shareholder dividends.
From the perspective of income, my income from working in Western construction now has actually decreased."
Zhou Wencheng asked even more confusedly: "Then I can't guess what's the reason for you. I have to choose to come to Western architecture to work."
Zhao Manfu replied: "This is a long story. I'm happy today. I'll give you a drink first and then tell this story."
Everyone raised their glasses and drank together.
Zhao Manfu continued to say: "Two or three years ago, Western Architecture expected that there would be projects in Xichuan City, so he entrusted headhunting to find the person in charge of the production area everywhere, and required that they be general managers or above of each garden landscape second-level enterprise
People in the post.
The person who came to me was the company's executive, Mr. Yuan Fang, and later, the human resources executive, Mr. Ma Wenxuan, also came.
None of them agreed on the terms.
A year ago, the boss, Chairman Bai, also went to Ducheng City to interview me personally.
Boss Bai’s original words are, I am very optimistic about you. Although you have not thought about it now, I hope that as long as you leave your family business, you will choose to come to my Western Building. I promise that I will never let other units go.
It's better than what I give you.
Moreover, the projects you manage now are thousands of dollars, and you can only do tens or twelve millions a year, and the output value is too small.
As long as you come to our Western Architecture, I guarantee that the projects you can manage will definitely cost hundreds of millions, or even hundreds of millions or more than one billion.
Only by managing large projects and doing multiple landmark garden landscape projects can the perfect life for garden engineers.”
Zhou Wencheng asked: "The promise Boss Bai has also come true."
Zhao Manfu replied: "Yes, this is too easy for Boss Bai to achieve.
Later, we held family meetings repeatedly and decided to resign from the position of general manager of the family business and come to Western Architecture to learn how to manage large projects.
Of course, I also have a bit of selfishness, and I also want to create some landmark-like garden landscape projects."
Zhou Wencheng said excitedly to everyone: "Have you seen it? Mr. Zhao, who is already flawless in our minds, is still learning to improve himself seriously. As young people, what reason do we not study hard?
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In this project, don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Everyone should be brave enough to try. Faced with difficulties and setbacks in work, think rationally and keep the interests of the company in mind. Even if you make a mistake, a few of us leaders will help everyone correct us.
The mistake is to help everyone take responsibility.
Only by working hard, trying, and experiencing it can everyone truly grow and mature at work.
I suggest we pay tribute to our learning boss together.”
"Mr. Zhao, respect you."
Everyone stood up together and clinked glasses with Zhao Manfu and drank them all in one go.
Zhao Manfu said: "Don't just listen to us. Mr. Zhou, please tell me why you came to work in Western architecture?"
Zhou Wencheng said: "I used to work in a state-owned enterprise and mainly do interior decoration projects, but my salary and income are too low.
I really like the environment and climate of the Nanhai area and don’t want to leave this land.
Just when I felt that my life was a bit uncomfortable, Western Construction recruited a project manager in Nanhai, so I sent a resume.
I thought my major was not right and I might not be able to succeed.
Who knows that Western construction interviews say that recruiting a project manager is not a greening manager, and it does not require you to understand greening.
On the contrary, the company now lacks some talents who are proficient in decoration, and what we do in the Nanhai area is mainly real estate projects, which just happens to require people like me.
Later, when we talked about salary and benefits, it was much higher than that of state-owned enterprises. We also said that there were five insurances and one fund, and there were also output value awards, collection awards, settlement awards, excess gross profit awards, etc.
So, to put it simply, I came from the fact that job-changing can quickly improve my living standards.”
Everyone laughed and didn't disperse until late at night, and no one was drunk.