The One Behind It All Chapter 98

Charles Handy has a point about business: Creating profits is a very important task of a company, but it is by no means its ultimate goal. Profit is only a means for the company to carry out work or manufacture products (provide services) better and more fully. The ultimate goal is to make the company develop more smoothly and live longer.

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. Aiden’s paranoia is comparable to that of Intel President Andy Grove. The theory put forward by the latter that "only the paranoid can survive" has become popular all over the world and has become a corporate motto that always reminds companies to strengthen their crisis awareness. Grove once elaborated his argument in the book "Only the Paranoid Survive": "As long as it involves business management, I believe long live paranoia. The prosperity of enterprises breeds the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more you covet. The more people are three feet apart, I think that as a manager, the most important responsibility is to always beware of attacks from others and spread this awareness of prevention to your staff. "

Aiden's view that "only the panic can survive" can be understood as the Chinese version of "only the paranoid can survive."

Aiden drove his Huawei chariot and vigorously broke into a world of his own. However, he always wore a mysterious veil and hid behind the scenes, partially covering his face, making people "not aware of the true face of Lushan." Whether it was being listed on the "Forbes" magazine's rich list in 2000, or the fierce confrontation with Cisco in 2003; whether it was a visit by local leaders, or an interview with a big-name media; whether it was "the most influential IT celebrity in the world" or "the most respected" Entrepreneur"... He dismissed all of this. He refused to accept the award and refused to be interviewed... With such a big "arrogance", it was very difficult to visit him.