Rebirth of the Wild Age

Song Weiyang's main purpose in coming to the capital was to deal with Sohu's internal management issues.

Internet companies are different from traditional manufacturing companies, and they cannot be solved by setting a set of rules and regulations.

Song Weiyang called Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Ming out for dinner, and discussed the company's management model while drinking. In this regard, both Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Ming could only listen, because they were absolute beginners and needed to learn everything by doing.

To be honest, Zhang Chaoyang is a very magnanimous person, and the series of problems he exposed during his entrepreneurial period all stemmed from his distrust of his subordinates. He wants to control everything in his heart, and when he sees his subordinates making mistakes, he becomes impatient and has to go to battle to correct them himself. So he took the initiative to focus on whichever aspect he could do well, but other projects collapsed again, and the management company was like whack-a-mole.

Li Yanhong of Baidu knows how to delegate power, let his subordinates do their best, and can tolerate their mistakes. But Li Yanhong's method is also very hot, if you don't do it, you will die, if you do it, you will be fired, without any sympathy, and the department or project director will get out if he says he should.

You can't talk about feelings with Li Yanhong, but you can with Zhang Chaoyang. This man is very nostalgic and likes to make friends.

After drinking a few glasses of wine and confiding their hearts, the conflict between Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Ming was resolved.

Song Weiyang finally raised his glass and said: "From now on, Lao Zhang, you will be the general manager and chief engineer, and Ding Ming will be the vice president. You can negotiate and resolve the specific management responsibilities yourself. What is the point I want to talk about? It is the decision-making issue, sir. Zhang, you have to change it."

"Speak, I'll listen." Zhang Chaoyang said.

"You are too democratic and too authoritarian," Song Weiyang said. "Even the content of hyperlinks on the website every day, you have to hold a group meeting to discuss it, and even involve the employees of the technical department. This is a bit too democratic. What about dictatorship?" ? You can’t change what you believe, no matter how reasonable others say it is, an alley will go to the dark.”

Zhang Chaoyang smiled awkwardly, he was indeed like this.

Song Weiyang said: "Take the conflict between you and Ding Ming as an example. Being a search engine is one of the general directions of the company's development. There is no need to discuss it in front of all employees, and you did not discuss it with Ding Ming beforehand. Discuss it. This will cause Ding Ming to oppose your opinion, which will make you lose face in front of the employees, and conflicts will arise out of nowhere. Whenever you make a major decision, you should first discuss it with Ding Ming, and then listen to the opinions of key employees. You need to talk to them."

Zhang Chaoyang said: "The thoughts of the bottom-level employees are also very important."

Song Weiyang shook his head and said: "Everyone has different knowledge, vision, standpoint and identity, and has a different attitude towards the same thing. Everyone has their own ideas, and you can't take care of everyone. And the more ideas you collect The more you have, the more difficult it is to make a decision. It’s like Cao Cao called a meeting of military divisions before the war. Every military division has a different strategy and all of them make sense, so who should you listen to?”

Ding Ming said with a smile, "Old Zhang is actually quite assertive."

Song Weiyang said: "If you have any ideas and projects, don't rush to express your opinion. Discuss with Ding Ming, and then discuss with key employees. If there is any disagreement, call me to discuss it. Don't worry, I won't get too involved, and I will Not interested in managing specifics."

"I understand." Zhang Chaoyang nodded.

Ding Ming laughed and said, "Just explain everything clearly, come, come, drink!"

Zhang Chaoyang poured a glass of beer with his neck up, and changed the subject: "I heard from my former classmates that Bill Gates is going to give a speech at Tsinghua University and Peking University. Is the chairman interested in listening to it?"

"When?" Song Weiyang asked.

"It's been a few days." Zhang Chaoyang said.

"Then go and have a look." Song Weiyang said.

Ding Ming said: "When the time comes, I'll go over early to help you reserve seats."

Since 1993, Bill Gates has visited China every year. In order to promote in95, in 1995 he even came twice within a year. The first time I was received by a big leader, and then I went to the northwest for a stroll; the second time I went to the south, the young people in Huadu rushed to watch, and the hotel gate was crowded.

Last year, Bill Gates visited Shenghai and gave speeches at Fudan University and Jiaotong University. Unfortunately, Song Weiyang was absent from class and missed a good opportunity for face-to-face communication. This year, Bill Gates visited the capital and gave speeches at Tsinghua University and Peking University respectively. It seems to be to promote the new version of IE browser. IE has just released a new version. Including the old version, its market share in the world is not very high.

It's September and school is about to start.

Lin Zhuoyun took Doudou back to Shengbao to go to school, while Song Weiyang stayed in the capital.

Waiting for Bill Gates' speech is just incidental, and he has to stare at the China Science and Technology R\u0026D Center to set up the shelf. At the same time, PHS is coming to the market soon, and there is no difficulty in assembling the product.

Song Weiyang had several conversations with telecom leaders in the capital, and they agreed to open PHS services in Zhejiang Province, Hujian, and Xikang within one year, and then in Lianghu and Northeast China. According to vague revelations from the leaders of the telecommunications department, due to China Mobile's blockade, PHS is temporarily unable to log in to Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, and even Guangdong Province cannot fully enter it.

After repeated discussions, under Song Weiyang's insistence, China Telecom decided to add Jinling. At the same time, there are Linzhou, Huzhou, Xiamen, Rongcheng, Shancheng, and Wenshi. Seven cities will open PHS together in October.

This thing does not need to build too high a signal tower, just set up an antenna on the roof of the community, and it can radiate the surrounding area, just install more antennas in each city.

After receiving the promise from the telecom leader, Song Weiyang immediately called Shenzhou Science and Technology Company to arrange publicity work as soon as possible. The core members of the publicity team were also transferred from Xifeng. Yang Xin, Zheng Xuehong, and Chen Tao were all very upset about this. One was the general manager, the other was in charge of personnel, and the other was in charge of public relations. Song Weiyang was poaching their corners.

As for the sales channels of mobile phones, you don’t need to worry about it, and you can directly sell them to the telecommunications bureaus in various places.

In a flash and half a month later, Bill Gates finally came.

Ding Ming paid 600 yuan out of his own pocket, intending to ask Tsinghua students to help occupy three seats, but unexpectedly the speech was held in an open space in the school.

The lecture site was full of pits and valleys, crowded with people everywhere, and even many students were lying on trees. As soon as Bill Gates appeared, he was greeted with bursts of exclamation from the students, and many company bosses in Zhongguancun also came to watch the excitement.

Bill Gates was surrounded for several minutes, and the enthusiastic students were finally persuaded to leave by the school leaders.

This guy stood on a high stool and began to speak in English: "I am very happy to be a guest in China again, and I am very honored to be able to communicate with the teachers and students of Tsinghua University... Microsoft's computing vision is global computing. We think that computers Linking to the Internet will make the world a smaller place and has a positive impact in many ways, building understanding among people, sharing research successes in key scientific fields including medical care, allowing global commerce to function well, the Internet Already driving this...we have been very lucky to recruit a lot of talent from Tsinghua, our core talent comes from Tsinghua."

The speech time was not long, only about 40 minutes, and there were only three contents: one was to introduce the achievements of Microsoft, the other was to look forward to the prospects of computers and the Internet, and the third was to flatter Tsinghua University and encourage Tsinghua students to work for Microsoft.

Especially the last point, Tsinghua students are particularly useful, and at the same time, they have greatly increased their favorability for Bill Gates and Microsoft.

"The following is free communication and relief. You can ask me some questions," Bill Gates said with a smile, "I will try my best to answer, and I hope it can be helpful to everyone."

The scene was a mess, hands were raised everywhere, and various questions were raised in disorder.

Bill Gates randomly picked one that was closer, and shouted loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet first, come one by one, this classmate, please ask questions."

The student said: "Mr. Bill Gates, as we all know, you started your business before graduating from university. Now China is full of opportunities, and the high-tech industry is booming. Should we continue to study, or should we drop out of school and start a business?"

Bill Gates said: "I don't recommend dropping out of school to start a business, but I don't want to study hard on campus. You should learn professional knowledge while understanding industry trends. It would be better if you can use your spare time to do some projects. If the project fails, you can get it." Exercise. If the project is successful, you can make a choice as appropriate, and it’s not too late to drop out of school and start a business. This classmate asked questions.”

The student named asked: "I'm 19 years old and I'm graduating next year. How can I start my career?"

Bill Gates said: "I remember that the undergraduate education system in China is four years. If you can graduate at the age of 20, it means that you are a genius. As long as you are dedicated and persistent, it is not difficult for a genius to do anything. You should ask yourself what you want to do. , and then find a direction, give yourself a position, and then learn through hard work, constantly strengthen yourself, and constantly learn lessons. Success is only one step away from you. Well, the next one, this student wearing a hat, please ask questions. "

Song Weiyang was huddled in the crowd, wearing a sun hat, chatting with Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Ming without saying a word.

"Old Song, I'm calling you, and you're the only one wearing a hat," Ding Ming said.

Song Weiyang looked up at Bill Gates with a confused look on his face: "Huh?". m.