The One Behind It All Chapter 51

Aiden undoubtedly agrees with Charles Handy's statement. Moreover, with more than 20 years of business experience, Aiden firmly believes that "survival is the real way out" for enterprises, even to the point of paranoia: only survival is the most essential and important goal, and it is eternal. immutable laws of nature. Because he is excellent, he dies. It is difficult to start a business and difficult to keep a business, but it is not difficult to know the difficulty. The past success of high-tech enterprises is often the mother of failure. In this rapidly changing information society, only the panic can survive.

Every once in a while, one or two "big brother" companies will appear in our country, representing the highest achievements and latest standards of corporate management in my country during the same period, such as Lenovo, such as Haier, such as Vanke. Enterprises are like stars, their fortunes fluctuate with changing trends, but Huawei seems to be an exception. At the top and bottom of every wave, it always takes it calmly, walks its own path, and finally opens up a path. The road to expansion into the world.

In more than 20 years, Huawei has grown from a private enterprise to more than 80,000 employees, with annual sales exceeding 149.1 billion yuan (approximately US$21.8 billion) and net profit of 18.3 billion yuan (nearly US$2.7 billion). An international company with a net cash flow of RMB 21.7 billion. Some people say that Huawei is an iconic banner for Chinese companies to achieve internationalization, and the path it has taken is becoming a classic textbook for many Chinese companies to learn from.

However, these heart-warming words of praise have never made Huawei's founder Aiden smile. This man, who has been in the military for more than ten years and has experienced countless honors and disgrace, has always insisted on his saying that "survival is the real way out." " no matter how inconsistent this argument is with the scale of Huawei and the corporate image it represents.

The enterprise must continue to survive and not die. This is the mentality that a true entrepreneur should have.