Chapter 13 Distinctive features of Huawei culture

Looking at Huawei's culture, there are mainly six distinctive features: One is a culture that encourages innovation.Ren Zhengfei published an article - "How long can Huawei's red flag last", pointing out that the company's field is full of strong players and changes rapidly. The company must continue to innovate and be prepared to meet changes.The company requires employees at all levels to carry out creative work.The company encourages employees to criticize themselves, deny themselves, and prevent empiricism, so as to achieve sublimation again and again.Huawei encourages employees to "make mistakes". Of course, they cannot make repeated mistakes, but must make mistakes that are inevitable due to innovation and exploration of unknown areas.If you do nothing, you will never make mistakes; if you want to innovate, don't be afraid of making mistakes.Therefore, in Huawei's internal publications, we can see that employees have the courage to expose problems, analyze themselves, and share their experience and lessons with everyone.In this atmosphere, Huawei employees are enthusiastic about innovation and active in thinking.Good ideas and ideas, improvements, etc. continue to emerge.

The second is an open culture.An efficient and innovative organization must have an open attitude both internally and externally.Rigid hierarchies are not conducive to openness.It is very important to be willing to accept new things, accept different ideas from each other, and be willing to cooperate with each other and share resources.Huawei's open culture is manifested in: Externally, Huawei emphasizes listening to customers' opinions and forming a community of interests with customers and cooperative units; internally, it emphasizes that departments are the company's resources and must be open to everyone to achieve Resource Sharing.Huawei's open culture can also be reflected in its office space. The doors of the offices of various departments are always open, and the wall on one side of the corridor is floor-to-ceiling glass, creating an open feeling without being disturbed by visitors. , people can come and go freely to talk.The supervisor and the general staff use the same desk, sit together to work, and communicate with everyone at any time, no longer alone, appearing aloof and mysterious.In this atmosphere, the gap between everyone is obviously eliminated, and they are more willing to reveal their true thoughts to each other.

The third is the culture of cooperation.Close cooperation must be carried out both within the team and across the company.The company fosters collaboration, stimulates dialogue, generates ideas, and better integrates individual abilities and skills in the innovation process.Huawei emphasizes "collective struggle", resource sharing, and full use of the help-seeking system.The company requires employees to cooperate with each other, avoid individual combat, avoid individual heroism, and realize their own value in collective struggle.The slogan of Huawei employees, "If you win, raise your glass to celebrate; if you lose, you will desperately rescue each other" is a vivid portrayal of the company's cooperative culture.

The fourth is a culture of concern.Huawei clearly writes that "love for the motherland, love for the people, love for the cause, and love for life are the source of our cohesion." When it comes down to practice, it trains employees to care about others from small things, respect their parents, help brothers and sisters, and be responsible to their loved ones. Caring for others on this basis.Usually care about colleagues and those around you who are in difficulties, and then improve personal cultivation, and then you will care about the future of the motherland.The company cares about its employees, the leaders care about their subordinates, and the employees care about each other, the company, and customers.At Huawei, the culture of caring gives the company a family-like atmosphere.

The fifth is the culture of dedication.Serving the country through industry has always been Huawei's pursuit, and it is also an important connotation of Huawei's corporate culture.Huawei, with its broad-mindedness, straightforwardness and selflessness, proposes to contribute to the community where it is located, especially for the happiness of its own family.Driven by the sacred mission of the prosperity of the motherland, the rejuvenation of the nation, and the rejuvenation of the country through science and technology, Huawei people have shown a strong dedication.In Huawei, it is common for employees to work overtime voluntarily and to keep up with progress regardless of pay.It is this kind of dedication that enables Huawei to develop faster than other companies.

Sixth is a people-oriented culture.The company gives employees full trust, helps employees realize their needs through the organization, and provides necessary conditions and channels for people to pursue success, so that employees have extremely high satisfaction and loyalty to the organization they work in, so they behave better in behavior Initiative, more willing to cooperate, more responsible and dedicated.Therefore, the management of the company can adopt a highly flexible and less supervised approach to achieve high efficiency. Huawei has established a set of basically reasonable evaluation mechanisms and rewards based on the evaluation.The company regards employees as precious wealth, and tries its best to provide employees with good conditions for work, life, insurance, and medical care, and provides employees with competitive salaries in the industry. The rewards of employees are based on the performance and contribution of job responsibilities.At the beginning of the business, Huawei had no funds at all. It was the entrepreneurs who invested their wages and bonuses into the company. Everyone only received a very meager salary. Most of the cadres and employees rented suburban houses for many years.It is the dedication of the older generation of Huawei people to "produce first and live later" that has enabled Huawei to survive the most difficult years, supported Huawei's survival and development, and made Huawei what it is today.

Corporate culture is not a slogan, it is the character of the company, and it needs to be designed. Its core is based on consensus values.Corporate culture requires entrepreneurs to personally participate in the design, and at the same time implant culture into the system, linking it with corporate strategy into a harmonious trinity (3S model).In the process of promoting the "Huawei Basic Law", Ren Zhengfei personally participated in everything.Of course, the corporate culture is not static. In the process of development, many aspects of Huawei's corporate culture are constantly evolving, but I have always found that Ren Zhengfei's selfless mind, lofty dreams, and main core values ​​have not changed.

In 2008, Huawei's management team (EMT) audited the following six core values: customer success, hard work, self-criticism, openness and enterprising, sincerity and trustworthiness, and teamwork. Achieve customers: Serving customers is the only reason for Huawei's existence, and customer needs are the driving force behind Huawei's development.We adhere to customer-centricity, respond quickly to customer needs, and continue to create long-term value for customers to achieve customer success.Providing effective services to customers is the direction of our work and the yardstick of value evaluation. To achieve customers is to achieve ourselves.

Hard work: We don't have any scarce resources to rely on. Only hard work can win the respect and trust of customers.Struggle is reflected in any small activities that create value for customers, as well as efforts to enrich and improve oneself during the preparation process of labor.We insist on striving for the foundation, so that strivers get a reasonable return. Self-criticism: The purpose of self-criticism is continuous progress and continuous improvement, not self-denial.Only by insisting on self-criticism can we listen, sublate and continue to surpass, and it will be easier to respect and cooperate with others to achieve the common development of customers, companies, teams and individuals.

Open and enterprising: In order to better meet the needs of customers, we are proactive, brave to develop, and insist on openness and innovation.Any advanced technology, product, solution and business management can only generate value if it is transformed into commercial success.We adhere to customer demand orientation and continue to innovate around customer needs. Sincere and trustworthy: Only when we are frank and sincere in our hearts can we keep our promises and keep our promises.Integrity is our most important intangible asset. Huawei insists on winning customers with integrity. Teamwork: If you win, you will raise your glass to celebrate, and if you lose, you will desperately rescue each other.Teamwork is not only the spirit of cross-cultural group collaboration, but also a powerful guarantee for breaking down departmental walls and improving process efficiency.

Huawei's unique corporate culture is just like Huawei's vision is to enrich people's communication and life. The language of the core values ​​of many excellent companies is very simple, so ordinary and simple that you can't feel its existence.Still waters are flowing under the surface, keeping a low profile, this kind of ordinaryness is the greatness in life.