Rebirth of the World’s Richest Man

One afternoon, Jiang Xiaobai was busy with his work. Occasionally, someone came to report and meet a few people. Wang Zhidong was in a corner, flipping through the book "From Good to Great" in his hand, reading it over and over again.

The first time is to read it in a gulp, probably reading it once, the second time is to savor it carefully, and the third time is to reflect on it, look back and forth, and apply some problems to domestic enterprises.

In fact, compared with foreign Fortune 500 companies, domestic companies have little to learn from. After all, the domestic situation is quite special.

The book starts counting Citigroup's Fortune 500 companies in 1965. But at that time, the country was still dominated by state-owned enterprises. It was a planned economy. Only in 1978 did some township enterprises and collective economies appear.

It was not until the 1990s, especially after 1992, that the first batch of entrepreneurial veterans, such as Jiang Xiaobai and others, truly stepped onto the historical stage of domestic private enterprises. They had never been on the stage before.

The development of the domestic private economy is relatively slow. In the past two years, the private economy has occupied a place in the domestic economic structure, and its development is not that easy.

However, domestic Internet companies and Citigroup's Internet companies have many similarities, and they are both developing very fast.

The method is also very simple. With technological innovation, we used to read news and entertainment in newspapers, but now we can read news on websites.

In terms of acquisitions, many Internet companies have encountered acquisitions during their rise. Like a rubber ball, each acquisition will expand the company a lot.

This is what they in Xinlang know. When it was still Sitong Lifang, it was actually inconspicuous. However, after successfully acquiring Huayuan.com, it suddenly became the largest portal website in China and the largest Chinese website in the world. .

How do I put this? If you compare it carefully, acquisitions are more beneficial to Internet companies than traditional companies.

For example, Huaqing Holding Group has also acquired state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and cross-border acquisitions. Although each acquisition is helpful to the enterprise, it may increase the market share of a certain industry.

Perhaps it has improved the upstream and downstream industries of its products, perhaps it has opened a gap to enter a certain industry, perhaps it has added a springboard for products to enter a certain region, or perhaps it has optimized its own technology.

These acquisitions are helpful to the company, but the help is definitely not as great as that of Internet companies. A certain merger and acquisition can directly make them soar in the industry.

To be honest, if you analyze it carefully, Wang Zhidong can also feel this abnormality.

If the acquired company is very good, and after acquiring it, it can soar into the sky with the help of the other party's power, then why didn't the other party acquire itself?

If the other party is mediocre and can no longer support it, then why can it soar into the sky after acquiring it?

Of course, it is not that there is no acquisition effect in business that one plus one is greater than two, but no matter how effective it is, one plus one cannot equal one hundred.

However, previous acquisitions in the Internet industry were all done in the same way that one plus one equals one hundred, which was obviously false. There was a lot of falsehood. Now that the cold wave has come, it has been shown.

One afternoon, people who came to Jiang Xiaobai's office, whether to report work or meet, noticed Wang Zhidong, but Jiang Xiaobai didn't introduce him, and Wang Zhidong was too absorbed in reading, so he didn't ask.

But I was wondering in my heart, who is this person? Why are you reading in Jiang Xiaobai's office?

Although the upstarts in the Internet industry are in the spotlight all day long, this is not the era of self-media. Most of the people who come to Jiang Xiaobai are big bosses in traditional industries, and no one really recognizes Wang Zhidong.

How should I put it? Big bosses in traditional industries have more or less prejudices against emerging industries like the Internet industry.

Of course, this stereotype does not mean that the upstarts in the Internet industry offend the big guys in traditional industries.

Although the Internet upstarts at this time are very proud, they still do not have the strength to touch the cakes of the traditional industry giants.

The reason why the big guys in traditional industries can't stand the upstarts of the Internet is because the market value of Internet companies has expanded too fast, from a market value of one million US dollars, to a market value of tens of millions of US dollars, to a market value of hundreds of millions of US dollars. It was completed in a month and a half.

How can one look at such a speed without being jealous.

Now that the Internet industry is in the cold winter, many big players in traditional industries are watching with cold eyes and laughing.

Let's just say that after more than ten years of hard work, they couldn't keep up with the other's expansion in half a year. They made a lot of money, and they were envious, jealous, and hateful. They watched him build a Zhulou, watched him entertain guests, and watched his building collapse.

Jiang Xiaobai was busy and didn't pay attention to Wang Zhidong's affairs. When he got off work in the evening, he stood up and stretched before thinking of Wang Zhidong. In the corner, Wang Zhidong was still immersed in a book.

Jiang Xiaobai greeted him twice before Wang Zhidong responded.

"Director Jiang."

"It's time to eat. I'll have a meal with you. Don't worry about this book. You can take it back to the capital later and read it slowly." Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile.

Wang Zhidong nodded, put away the book, and then followed Jiang Xiaobai to Jianhua Hotel.

During the whole meal, Jiang Xiaobai and Wang Zhidong did not talk about work matters. Wang Zhidong also noticed that Jiang Xiaobai did not want to express his opinion on Xinlang's strategy.

However, after reading the book for an afternoon, Wang Zhidong gained nothing. From good to great, can Xinlang now be considered excellent?

Maybe it can barely be considered an excellent one, but excellence is certainly out of the question.

The reason is that Xinlang has never done anything down-to-earth.

"Director Jiang, I think you look a bit like the outstanding leader written in the book.

They don’t stand out in the foreground, become media darlings, talk about their ideas or become celebrities. Most of them are like aliens, silent and reserved. Not pushy, even a little bit shy. "

Wang Zhidong said, Jiang Xiaobai shook his head with a smile: "I don't count, I also like to be in the limelight. I can exchange cans for airplanes, launch satellites, and accept interviews with media reporters. I don't look like an alien, nor am I shy. .”

Although Jiang Xiaobai said he denied it, Wang Zhidong knew in his heart that it was just what was written in the book. It is impossible for serious people to conform to all the descriptions. Those descriptions are just a reference, but Jiang Xiaobai roughly conforms to them.