When you sign the labor contract, you enter a new family. You need to find family members who can talk to you – colleagues, in order to inquire about the habits of the grandfathers and grandmothers. It is not easy to understand the boss’s thoughts, which is why there is always only one little secret, and she is always young and beautiful.
There is a joke about Huang Guangyu circulating in the industry: after the president meeting, if they did not understand Huang Guangyu’s intention, several operating directors would not dare to ask Huang Guangyu for instructions in person. Fang dares to finally execute.
The boss of a family business has such a sacred and inviolable position in the enterprise, whether it is a large state-owned enterprise or a small and micro enterprise, there will be such a boss who you think is a tyrant.
The patriarchal system originated from the family system and is popular in various enterprises and institutions in modern society. Even in high-tech companies that you think represent informatization, there will be tyrants like Steve Jobs. Tyrants are not the same as tyrants. Some “oh, oh, oh” passed away, and there is no longer a gang leader named Qiao; some tried to leave the mantle to their sons. More people refer to the latter as a family business.
Hereditary system
There is a simple way to judge whether a business is a family business, that is to go to the boiling water room to investigate whether the aunt who sweeps the floor is the mother-in-law of the boss’s distant relative. But such standards can lead many people to mistake schools and government agencies for family businesses. Many people believe that whether to hand over ownership and management to a son is the most important criterion for a family business—whether he retires at 69 or retire at 69.
The royal family is the largest family business, and it has changed for hundreds of years. The beginning of the Xia Dynasty created the family world, and since then, the inheritance of father and son has become the most important thing for power controllers when they are dying. Outsiders are untrustworthy. Yin Mingshan, chairman of Lifan Group, said: “It is very dangerous to let an outsider master the technical core secrets of your company. He can take it away at any time. I can only rely on my family, and the possibility of their betrayal is small.
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Foreigners are lazy, as long as they take the shares and share the dividends, who wants to open the board of directors every day? Chinese people are also lazy, but when your brother becomes a “talker”, he decides how much dividends you get, and you find that you can’t work as a team like foreigners. Maybe you will be shot by your brother at Xuanwumen, maybe you will take your family to Russia to establish another khanate. The fact that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers has led many family business founders to implement diversification strategies before stepping down.
When Liu Chuanzhi abdicated for the first time, he split Digital China from Lenovo to Guo Wei, and let Yang Yuanqing take over Lenovo. After the battle, the four Liu Yonghao brothers were divided into the Mainland Hope Group, the Eastern Hope Group, the Huaxi Hope Group and the New Hope Group. Some entrepreneurs who have no children, such as the Hals Company, transfer equity to their sons-in-law. Some Zhejiang rich second-generation even packaged and sold their enterprises to others to save themselves the trouble. This all ends well. In some family businesses, several brothers do not give in to each other, and they also set a rule to take turns to sit in the village, each of whom is the general manager for one year, and the finance must be in charge of his wife. It is conceivable how the company will fail in the end.
Contrary to our imagination, about 80% of the world’s businesses are family-related. One-third of the Fortune 500 companies are family-owned companies, such as Johnson & Johnson, Ford, DuPont, Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Disney, and Walmart. In the Hong Kong stock market, 67% of listed companies are controlled by families. The 15 big families in Hong Kong control 35% of the total market value of the Hong Kong stock market, which is equivalent to 84% of Hong Kong’s GDP. In addition, 74% of listed banks are controlled by families.
In mainland China, we can draw similar conclusions in banking, electricity, coal, oil and many other fields. However, in the data calculated in the A-share market value, in many cases, even the surname of the family behind the scenes cannot be found. We have always thought that Hope Group is the largest family-owned enterprise, and we have been taking Wanxiang, Hongdou, Fangtai, and even Gome as small family-owned enterprises as research cases.
Factionalism
No one has done any research on how many people will form a gang. Four people can become a gang, and hiring more than seven people is capitalism. In the family, the blood relationship is close to the natural faction. In a company that is related by blood, family members of various factions always spare no effort to care about the company, the wife is in charge of money, the younger brother is in charge of sales, and the younger sister is in charge of production. The Seventh Aunt and the Eighth Aunt each have their own “high opinions” and are self-righteous.
There are several ways in which non-blood-related family businesses can form gangs. The more traditional one is the geographical fellowship. In a company with thousands of employees, the Henan Gang, the Northeast Gang, and the Anhui Gang are all easy to form. Therefore, those large state-owned enterprises whose positions rarely change can easily form gangs.
In the stock market, a pie is also called a tie. For example, China Resources Department, HNA Department. Unlike blood with the same DNA, their inner connection is capital, that is, capital with the same DNA. There is a saying about gangs formed due to common experiences in the past: those who have carried guns together, those who have gone to the window together, and those who have visited prostitutes together.
It is very important to stand in line and stand against the team. When you enter a company, you have to make a choice. This choice determines your future. However, more often, the person who recruited you has already made a choice for you. Once you enter the enterprise gate, you are born of this faction, and die of this kind of ghost. If you are recruited by a vice president of marketing, when the boss is unbearable and wants to quit, you may become a pawn for his group to quit, or you will be left waiting to be fired.
Patriarchy
Even if you have the DNA of the family, you will be kicked out of the house. If the family doesn’t have any inheritance, they can get rid of the family earlier and suffer less pain. When you escape from the yellow land that gave birth to you, into a world of reinforced concrete, you feel like you have rid yourself of all your relatives and family ties based on a small farmer economy, but soon you find yourself living in the same in logic.
When passing the boss’s office, you have to tiptoe for fear of being heard; at 23 o’clock, the boss has not left, so you dare not leave work: the boss says that he doesn’t care about anything else, as long as the outcome, you really feel that you are a superman, and you can do it before the death line. Die the results; you also find that the resources in the company are also in the hands of the patriarch’s concubine and concubine.
The leader is the emperor, “one person has the final say”. All decisions, no matter how big it is to invest or recruit, or the color of the teacup in front of the computer desk, depend on his likes and dislikes. The chairman culture is the corporate culture, the family is the company, and the company is the family. As a result, everyone feels like they live in a family business. Every time you sign your name on a labor contract, you have to re-adjust to a new family culture.
