Chapter 33 The human nature behind the "mystery"

The great leader Mao Zedong is not only majestic, but also has a strong sense of humanity. He is an amiable elder and approachable; his friendly smile warms people's hearts. The "good fighter" he "cultivated", Ren Zhengfei is also a very low-key person, and basically has no direct contact with the media.There are many people who want to meet Ren Zhengfei, but very few people can meet him.This inevitably gave him a lot of mystery, but Ren Zhengfei is a human being after all, not a god.Behind his mystery, there are many stories full of human touch. Ren Zhengfei, unkempt, looks like an old worker, with his sleeves rolled up, and he speaks carelessly.When I saw him for the first time, I felt that he was like a big boss, a resolute soldier with true qualities, and he was always hot when criticizing people, without showing any mercy.When I saw him the second time, he was like a generous and kind elder, full of wisdom, and sometimes innocent like a child.

Humor is an art that can bring people a relaxed and comfortable feeling.Mark Twain is a humorist who is popular all over the world. His works are humorous, full of laughter, laughter, cursing, satire and whipping.Mark Twain was suddenly fired by the editor-in-chief after six months on the editorial board of the San Franciscan Call.The editor-in-chief explained: "Because you are too lazy and useless at all." Mark Twain replied with a smile: "Ah, you are really stupid. It will take you six months to realize that I am too lazy." It's useless, and I knew you the day I came in to work."

People who don't know Ren Zhengfei think that he has a rough temper and will teach others with a straight face all day long.In fact, talking to him is also humorous and approachable. In the early days, Ren Zhengfei often said to dozens of employees, improve the food today and cook some pig tail soup!Everyone ate happily by pulling the pig's tail.After every newcomer comes in, everyone treats guests with the same food, and as time goes by, they also fall in love with this mouthful. In 1997, Huawei held a general meeting of employees stationed in Shenzhen in the cafeteria on the 7th floor. While talking, Ren Zhengfei suddenly said: Huawei's top management is ugly. Look at Li Yinan and Hu Houkun, how ugly they are!Stand up and show everyone.The two of them really stood up for everyone to see. The atmosphere in the venue of 2,000 people suddenly relaxed, everyone smiled happily, and he himself smiled like a child.

Ren Zhengfei often said: "Huawei needs to loosen the soil and renovate. The seeds are planted by ourselves. The experts invited from outside and the introduction process are like sunlight projected in. If we leave this field, we can pick up corn from the outside, but Maybe the first seed sown dies." Regarding Huawei's integration into the international trend, Ren Zhengfei humorously said a famous saying: "When you are a guest at someone else's house, you can't pick your feet." It’s not a dumpling if it doesn’t come out.” At the Huawei staff meeting, Ren Zhengfei asked: "What is the biggest problem for Huawei after 2000?" Everyone replied: I don't know.Ren Zhengfei told everyone: "It's because you have so much money that you don't know how to spend it. When you buy a house, the living room can be smaller and the bedroom can be smaller, but the balcony must be bigger and you need to buy a big rake. Forget to hang your money on the balcony frequently, otherwise your money will all be moldy."

Later, when someone asked Ren Zhengfei why he chose the communications field, he just smiled and said, "We were very naive at that time." At a meeting in 1997, Ren Zhengfei explained the meaning of "working together" in an ingenious way, "The enterprise is to develop a group of Wolf, every department must have a wolf organization plan, there must be both an aggressive wolf and a calculating wolf.” In recent years, Ren Zhengfei has frequently visited overseas, and his English level has been "improving by leaps and bounds" in the conversations. After returning to China, he occasionally speaks some Western-style humor to entertain everyone for a while.

Ren Zhengfei's speeches are very popular, with fluent eloquence and humorous art, people applaud warmly every time he takes the stage.He always said: "Don't applaud, if you applaud again, I will leave." Ren Zhengfei is notoriously short-tempered in Huawei. His relatives, friends and Huawei executives have been scolded fiercely by him.In the past, Li Yinan was second only to Ren Zhengfei. Once he did something wrong, he would be scolded and even kicked.In a work meeting, Ren Zhengfei said to his chief financial officer: "You have made great progress recently, from very poor to relatively poor."

But for ordinary employees, Ren Zhengfei is an amiable elder who cares about the problems they report.Once in the elevator room, several young department-level cadres at Huawei began to complain about why the company didn't set up a financial system at the base, which made them constantly running around for business trip reimbursement, and they were so tired that they couldn't breathe.The elevator went to the 7th floor - the location of the president's office. An "old worker" with his sleeves rolled up flashed out from the corner of the elevator without saying a word.Everyone was dumbfounded and looked at each other in blank dismay, "It's over".But just over ten days later, the employees discovered that Hope's base financial system had been established.Employees feel the warmth of spring, "Mr. Ren is the most concerned about people", "Mr. Ren is the most fair in dealing with things", "Mr. Ren is the most loyal"...

In 1998, Ren Zhengfei half-jokingly said at a meeting within the company that he never knew why it was difficult for him to get promoted in the army. If you can’t get promoted, it will be hard for you to have a good temper with the leaders. The reason why Huawei people can tolerate your fiery temper is because you are the boss.” Ren Zhengfei didn’t know that he was not angry, but had a look on his face. wry smile. A Huawei employee told a true story: At that time, he was just an ordinary employee. Once, he came back from a business trip and saw Ren Zhengfei at the airport. Ren Zhengfei had just returned from a business trip.He wanted to pretend that he hadn't seen it, but Ren Zhengfei came over to greet him warmly, and asked him where his family lived, and sent him home before returning home by himself.Afterwards, he was very touched.

Hu Hongwei, a former vice president of Huawei, said with deep understanding that Ren Zhengfei treats people well from the bottom of his heart, and sincerely hopes for others to be good.Every year, many aspiring young people leave Huawei to start their own businesses.Ren Zhengfei never puts cards on those who leave, but supports them with a positive attitude and silently blesses them. In 1999, Zhang Xiao resigned from Huawei and founded Shenzhen Liyanzhuo Translation Co., Ltd. The first big order was from Huawei.Yihua Times Management Consulting Company, founded by Zhang Jianguo, has provided long-term employee training for Huawei.Luo Tao founded Shenzhen Huarong Technology Co., Ltd. to undertake Huawei's manufacturing business. "Without Huawei, there would be no success in our business." This is the heartfelt words of many people who left Huawei to start their own businesses.

Einstein admired Chaplin's films very much.He wrote in a letter to Chaplin: "Your film, everyone in the world can understand. You will become a great man. Einstein" Chaplin wrote in reply: "I admire you even more. No one in the world can understand your theory of relativity, but you have become a great man. Chaplin" Einstein highly praised Madame Curie’s great personality: “Her strength, her purity of will, her strict self-discipline, her objectivity, her impartial judgment—all these are rarely concentrated in the A human being. She is at all times conscious of herself as a servant of society. Her extreme modesty never leaves any room for complacency."

Great people are indifferent to fame and wealth, their tranquil state of mind, humble state of mind, and endless pursuit of truth constitute their whole. Many media reporters wanted to interview Ren Zhengfei, racking their brains and racking their brains, but all ended in failure.Ren Zhengfei's heart is as calm as still water. He regards "fame and fortune" as a flower in the mirror of the moon in the water, which is fleeting. Businessmen flock to the vice chairman of the Federation of Industry and Commerce and the qualifications of representatives of national conferences, but he declines; entrepreneurs spend huge sums of money to appear in media events, he even declines.He avoids the hustle and bustle, away from the busy city, and has an idyllic tranquility. "Wearing a wrinkled shirt with ink stains on his body, and going out on Shennan Avenue early in the morning, outsiders would never think that this is the famous president of Huawei." This is the president of Huawei in the eyes of a Huawei employee. In June 1994, Golden Forest joined Huawei.Just in time for the C&C08 digital machine to come out, after intense short-term technical training, he was assigned to the general testing workshop to work on aging, testing and material coordination.At that time, the C&C08 digital machine had just entered the production stage, and lacked effective testing methods and testing tools. In order to verify whether the circuit of each user board was normal, it had to be tested one by one on the rack.Such a speed is difficult to meet market demand.In order to speed up the progress, the testers ate and slept in the computer room. One night in July, the progress of the user board test was a bit slow. It was very late and I hadn’t eaten yet, and my stomach was gurgling from hunger.It was nearly 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and I saw a "canteen master chef" in his fifties leading a few canteen staff and pushing the dining car in. The master chef enthusiastically served everyone rice and invited everyone to drink some fish soup , also asked everyone to pay attention to rest and not to stay up too late.Everyone ate supper to cheer up, and the test was finished in less than one hour. The test on the second day went very smoothly, and it was noon in a blink of an eye. Everyone found an open space, took a piece of cardboard or foam, lay down and fell asleep.Jin Senlin slept soundly, when the bell rang for work, he found that the "Master" who delivered the fish soup last night was also sleeping.He quickly woke up the "Master" and started working hard again. One day in August 1994, when I was about to get off work, the department head announced that a new employee seminar would be held at 7:00 p.m.Jin Senlin arrived at the venue ahead of time, and met the "Master" again. Seeing Jin Senlin coming in, the "Master" smiled and asked, "Are you here for the meeting?" Jin Senlin was very surprised, thinking of a "Master" How come you will come to the meeting?At seven o'clock, the host of the meeting announced the start of the symposium, and said that today he was honored to invite the president of the company to join him.Amid the applause, the "master" stood up, bowed deeply to all the employees present, and said excitedly: "Welcome everyone to Huawei. My name is Ren Zhengfei. I hope you like Huawei." At this time, Jin Senlin suddenly realized.He walked up to everyone while talking, took out a stack of business cards, handed them to everyone one by one, and shook hands with the new employees cordially.After sending out the business cards, Ren Zhengfei began to give a wonderful speech.This experience is still vivid in Jin Forest. Ren Zhengfei once said: "Experts and experts, if you know a little, you are called an expert, but if you know a lot, what are you called an expert? Why does the term "expert" appear? It is because a person's life is limited, and he can only know a little." A mature society must have a highly developed division of labor, and everyone in this society performs their duties.The division of labor in modern society is becoming more and more detailed, and everyone has limited energy. Apart from being proficient in their own majors, they are laymen in other majors, and have no more say in things other than their own majors.Therefore, real masters never say that they are masters. What they have is a humble attitude and an attitude of reverence.The heart is like still water, not surprised by the wind and the grass. Ren Zhengfei's tranquility and low-key demeanor stem from his humble attitude and desire for knowledge. Although Ren Zhengfei is grumpy and unsmiling, deep in his heart, there is a delicate tenderness.He longs for sincerity, heart-to-heart emotional communication, seemingly strong, but behind it is tenderness like water. "Spring in the North Country" is Ren Zhengfei's favorite song. Whenever he hears this love song, he can't help but burst into tears. In "Northern Spring", Ren Zhengfei revealed his delicate emotions: "When a young man left his hometown and his relatives to fight for his career, only his mother cared for him all the time, so that the city didn't know that the seasons had changed, and when spring came, they sent him cotton clothes to protect him from the severe winter. And I don't have a mother anymore Will send me Zheergen (Houttuynia cordata), wild vegetables and sausages, all of which can only last forever in eternal memory. Children travel thousands of miles and mothers are worried, and parents all over the world are the same, worrying about their children. I wrote "I My Japanese friends also translated the article into Japanese and English for employees to circulate. They mistakenly thought I was a filial son. I was so guilty and miserable because I didn’t fulfill my responsibility to take care of my parents. I dedicated all my energy to He lost his job and forgot the safety of his parents. He was actually an incompetent son. "A person leaves home and strives to obtain a better life, and love is the most important part of a better life, but love is like a single-plank bridge. If someone passes by, you can't. It has been five years since I left home. When the stream is gurgling, facing the single-plank bridge that crosses itself, I really don’t know if others have passed, but the girl I love is safe. That kind of melancholy, that kind of loss, that kind of confusion, so what if you succeed? "There are clumps of ditangs, morning fog, quiet waterwheels, huts, and bursts of carefree children's songs are accompanied by the taciturnity of father and brother. Most of us can go to college because of the silent dedication of our father and brother. As a result, they have worked hard and accumulated little by little to provide for the helpless wanderers far away in other places, but they themselves have no culture. They have built the first step in life and career for us with their hard backbone . "I hope they don't suffer too much. When they are sad, they are relatively speechless and sell two glasses of beer. We must not forget them, we must not despise them, and we must not forget to repay them. "From this, I think that the success of each of us comes from the selfless dedication of our relatives. The driving force for our life, work and career comes first from the winter clothes of our mothers, from the taciturn father and brother, from the waterwheels, huts, and single-plank bridges in our hometown. And the girl who once loved you but left..." At the end of one year, Ren Zhengfei sat in the front row in a group chorus in the small conference room on the 7th floor of the company.Listening to the employees singing majestic revolutionary songs, I couldn't help but burst into tears.Sometimes, when Ren Zhengfei sees employees performing, singing, or even visiting the Shenzhen Folk Culture Village, it will remind him of the passionate years in the past. The days of joining the army and the struggling years before starting a business come to mind. On February 12, 1997, Yang Lin, the former secretary of the marketing department, died in a car accident while on vacation in Hainan.After hearing the bad news, Ren Zhengfei was overwhelmed with grief and wrote a commemorative article.In the article, he stated that it was his greatest regret that Yang Lin hadn't spoken a few words to her or had a heart-to-heart talk with her during the years she worked in Huawei. In 1998, Lu Xiaofeng, an employee of Huawei, went to Algeria and Tunisia in Africa to develop markets, but encountered an air crash in Tunisia.Luckily, he survived.After Ren Zhengfei heard about it, he took time to visit Lu Xiaofeng in the hospital in person.Hearing that his coat was damaged, I personally accompanied him to the street to buy new clothes.This made his blood boil immediately, and when it was published in the "Huawei People" newspaper, many people were moved. Regarding Ren Zhengfei's personal feelings, most of Huawei's veteran employees can give a description that they were divorced and then remarried. The details are unknown.There is a small-scale version circulating among Huawei’s old employees: the outspoken Ren Zhengfei once lamented the impermanence of life and unpredictable love during a chat. He was full of enthusiasm when he was young, but frustrated in love. The bold knights and outspoken counselors in history have won people's respect and praise.Ren Zhengfei has a bold personality, speaks outspokenly, never procrastinates, and reveals his true temperament everywhere. This is what is so valuable about people. Once, a deputy mayor of Tianjin came to visit Huawei. Seeing Huawei's thriving performance, he wanted to ask Ren Zhengfei for advice and asked, "What do you think the government should do to help the company develop?" Surprisingly, Ren Zhengfei's The answer shocked everyone present: "The government's greatest help to enterprises is to do nothing. As long as the city's roads are repaired and the flowers and plants beside the roads are planted, this is the greatest help to enterprises." Face, really makes people sweat for him! Ren Zhengfei advocates doing things in a down-to-earth manner and opposes unrealistic fantasy.He said bluntly: "Our strategic planning office is to study the company's development strategy for 3 to 5 years, not the company's development strategy after 10 or 20 years. I don't know if the company can survive 20 years. If anyone wants to be able to say If Huawei does anything 20 years later, I can demonstrate that in 20 years, human beings will not eat food, but dung.” Ren Zhengfei's critics are even more outspoken and merciless.Once, at the company's high-level meeting, he pointed to Zheng Baoyong, the executive vice president, and said: "Zheng Baoyong, one person can top 10,000." Then he pointed to another vice president and said: "You, 10,000 can top One." Another time, he said to the chief financial officer: "You have made great progress recently, from very poor to relatively poor." Ren Zhengfei has never concealed the actual situation of the company. In December 2006, he disclosed in an article entitled "Practical Research Direction and 20 Years of Hard Work - A Speech at a National Large-scale Project Demonstration Conference". , Although Huawei has more than 10,000 patents, it has not had a single original invention.He also pointed out frankly that Huawei has lost several billion yuan in order to develop 3G.Such a "careless", other companies are afraid of being exposed, but he confessed publicly. That's it, Ren Zhengfei, who is "careless", has the boldness of a knight, and he is more outspoken. This rare true temperament adds to his personality charm.