497. Story Master

"I'm laughing."

Mr. Liu raised his cup and invited Cao Yang to touch a cup.

"I only remember these past events when I eat steak today. It's like this when I get older, and I'm always stuck in memories."

"It's okay," Cao Yang said with a smile, "I listened very well, Mr. Liu's level of storytelling is really extraordinary."

The two of them flattered each other for a few words, and Shi Yanagawa chatted with him again.

"By the way, do you have any hobbies for Mr. Cao?"

While eating steak, Yanagawa Shi said, "I am myself, I like listening to crosstalk from Deyun Club. Especially Guo Degang and Yu Qian, I like them very much.

Sometimes they teach me a paragraph or two, which I think is quite interesting.”

Shi Yanagawa really has this hobby and has performed crosstalk shows. In his previous life, he asked Mr. Yu Qian to be a supporting actor and told him a story, which was later posted online by netizens. Before Liu's reputation declined, he also won a lot of applause.

"I don't have this hobby." Cao Yang smiled.

"I know, Mr. Cao likes to play games and watch movies, and young people are like this." said Shi Yanagawa.

Although he was praising Cao Yang for his youth, Mr. Liu was really right.

Cao Yang has few hobbies. Apart from work, the rest is really playing games and watching movies.

However, after Cao Sining was born, he had another new fun—

Teasing the baby.

Now that the child has grown up, he doesn’t seem to be very cute anymore, and sometimes he can make you angry to death.

So now Cao Yang’s remaining fun should be to play games and watch movies.

Oh, yes, I'm also with my wife.

“I am always afraid that I will fall behind and do not understand the ideas of young people in the future.

This is our difference. I like to listen to some crosstalk, Peking Opera, traditional Chinese repertoire, etc.

Like Mr. Cao, he likes new things like games and movies.

So I like young people very much, especially young people like Mr. Cao who are young, promising and handsome. I am so happy to be able to talk to you."

Cao Yang was stunned for a moment and said with a smile, "No, I think Mr. Liu is also very young. He can do the Internet industry. No one can keep up with the times. He is the pioneer at the forefront, and Lenovo is even more so."

Zhi Yanagawa knew that Cao Yang was praising him, and he was happy and laughed even more.

"Today is the first time that President Cao and I can sit down like this and have a serious meal. Now we really hit it off with President Cao. It's really interesting to be able to eat with President Cao." President Liu said with a smile.

Cao Yang:???I haven’t said anything yet?

Why is it interesting?

"I'm very happy today. If Mr. Cao is willing to listen, I might as well tell you a few more stories."

"Okay, Mr. Liu, I'm very interested, too."

"I just talked about young people, so I'll tell you a story about young people." Mr. Liu said, "This is also my own personal experience."

"I often say: If you don't have troubles, you won't be afraid of troubles, there will be nothing in the world; if you can be good and evil, you can be justified.

I have made some mistakes, but I still feel a little regretful when I think about it.

When I was working, I liked to focus my attention on the future of the company. I couldn't control some vague problems in front of me.

Here I want to say a young man named [Sun Hongbin].

In 1990, the company's plan to sell 5,000 Lenovo microcomputers and 10,000 sets of Han cards was completely entrusted to the business department and the enterprise department.

The former is responsible for national sales, controlled by entrepreneur Jia Xufu; the latter is responsible for 17 branches across the country, and is actually responsible for national sales, controlled by a young man named Sun Hongbin.

This Sun Hongbin is very young, and has great ability, ideas and motivation. I like him very much."

"It's just a little bit," he said with a smile, "Xiao Sun has no room for work, his style is to rush forward, which is due to his personality."

Cao Yang listened silently, and always felt that the person Mr. Liu described was very familiar with, but he couldn't remember who was here for a while.

Mr. Liu smiled and said, "The old employees of the company said that Lao Jia and Xiao Sun have a very heavy burden. This is a good thing.

However, this sales body creates overlaps of responsibilities and interests, and personnel entanglements strengthen this conflict.

The elderly are accustomed to doing things according to the rules, and even if such rules affect sales efficiency and even the interests of the company, they dare not imagine it.

Young people like to do their own things and believe in "as long as the business is done, the company's rules are no problem."

When Sun Hongbin kept complaining about the lack of elasticity in product prices and the branch was not profitable and would not have any enthusiasm, conflicts between the two sides slowly gathered.

When the business opened, Sun also determined that the supply channel hosted by Lao Jia was too efficient, delaying business opportunities, and took his own initiative to find channels outside the company to transport goods.

So the two of them quarreled after a disagreement, and the smell of gunpowder was filled with gunpowder between them.

Conflicts like this occur in most institutions in China. People usually deal with such disputes in a "missing way" way, letting the rift expand, and each seeks their own backers and accomplices until they are divided into two irreconcilable camps.

So if you think about it, is there many disasters and difficulties in Lenovo? It has finally overcome the sales problem. With the market and the business is started, there are conflicts within it."

Shi Yanagawa sighed and recalled the situation at that time, still feeling a little heartbroken, "I used to be a nerd, and I didn't know what management is. The leaders and colleagues thought I was a good person, kind, and good to my friends, so I was promoted to the position of general manager.

My mind was entirely on the company's future business, so I didn't expect such a big problem to occur within the company."

Cao Yang frowned when he heard this.

To be honest, he refused before coming to have dinner with Yanagawa Shi today. After talking here, Cao Yang suddenly felt that it was not a bad thing to come for a meal and chat with him.

Lenovo has been around 23 years since 1986, and the ups and downs they have experienced may not be able to experience in the future.

Cao Yang now feels it's okay, mainly because he is busy with energy and the company is underestimated in all aspects.

This is also because he comes from the future and has seen too many things in his previous life, and has good decisions and grasps on the general direction.

But what about the future?

If one day a young genius like Sun Hongbin mentioned by Yanagawa Shi, and many ideas have exceeded Cao Yang's own abilities, will there be conflicts within the company?

Moreover, Bomi is still in an upward period, and many employees have room for upward. If one day the company's development enters a stagnation period, will there be such core backbone quarrels?

Cao Yang dared not even think about it.

In fact, he was very afraid of the separation of his relatives and friends. The talent he promoted himself to finally had a quarrel with him. It felt so uncomfortable just by thinking about it.

So he also wanted to hear how Shi Yanagawa dealt with such internal conflicts in the company.

Just as Shi Yanagawa himself said, the internal conflicts of the company are far more terrifying than those of the outside.

Mr. Liu drank a small glass of wine and continued, "I don't want this kind of situation in the company he led, especially not allowing sectarian and circle forces to appear around him.

At a meeting that spring, I decided to deal with the dispute between Jia and Sun in a "lightning way".

I first said that the old comrades have a strong sense of ownership and work diligently, but they are somewhat following the rules and lack pioneering spirit and desire for innovation.

It is also said that young comrades have pioneering spirit and show strong organizational leadership skills, but they have a more concentrated reflection of their self-centered consciousness and are also excited after their promotion.

I was saying this impertinently, but in fact I was still looking at the young people.”

Liu said, "I hate the sticky style of doing things. I don't care about hard work, but only look at the credit.

For example, since 1987, the company has been considering how to spread the sales net across the country. It also had the intention to set up the "Eighth Route Princes" to form a branch system across the country.

Unfortunately, the company was full of veterans at that time and could not be alone for many years, so this plan could not be realized. Until the establishment of the enterprise department in October 1989, Sun Hongbin quickly established 13 wholly-owned branches with a turnover of 24 million yuan."

Shi Yanagawa talked about these things one by one, and also listed facts that in December 1989, due to the negligence of the import department, the company's products were overcrowded, and "the branch leaked more than 10 million yuan of products like a flood discharge."

"So Sun Hongbin's pioneering approach has been favored by the presidential office."

"If the scent of praising Sun Hongbin in these words is not strong, then my private tendency makes everyone understand that in the conflict between the old and the new, I am on the side of the young.

For several days in a row, I made appointments for young people to meet alone, and asked them straightforwardly about their views on Lao Jia, asking questions such as "Do you think young people have a future in Lenovo and whether they are valued?", and then asked Li Qin to talk to Jia Xufu.

Unexpectedly, Jia Xufu relied on his seniority and retorted: "The leader knows my problem, and the lower ones know my problem. I don't know what my own problem is. I hope the leader can put out more than a dozen for me."

When I heard Li Qin's return, I was so angry that I was so angry.

According to Li Qin's later statement, this is "challenge".

Think about it, the company has not yet been able to rest assured, and it is far from when everyone can stay in a corner and enjoy the fruits, these people have already begun to show off their power and rely on their seniority.

How can the company push in the future?

I deeply felt that Lenovo had a huge crisis, and this sense of crisis was stronger than any previous one."

And the young man Sun Hongbin clearly felt that he had received support from the company's senior leaders and gradually became fearless.

Chen Hengliu and Sun Hongbin became two new stars. I handed over the company's most important corporate department to them to lead. Add Guo Wei, which formed the essence of the company's new generation at that time.

I really treated them as successors at that time.

After all, I am not young anymore, and there is always a time to abdicate and give way to the wise.

Sun Hongbin, a young man, is clumsy and quick-witted.

He was born in a poor family in Shanxi. Although he had studied at Tsinghua University for many years, he still spoke Shanxi accent and was laughed at as soon as he opened his mouth.

His extraordinary qualities are his agility, determination, and chasing his goals by any means, and despising any obstacles as if nothing had happened.
To be continued...