Forty years after the reform and opening up, China’s economy has risen to second place in the world. Chinese companies are also increasingly going abroad and stepping onto the global competitive stage. But overall, Chinese companies are often large but not strong, with relatively few original innovations, especially truly world-changing disruptive innovations. We can’t help but ask why Chinese companies […]
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Chapter 10: Part 5 – Transforming from Kun to Peng
For most “left-brained organizations” in the process of transforming into “The Right-Brained Organization,” the most urgent need is to shift to a “user-centered” thinking mode and understand the user’s “mental model.” Therefore, leaders will ask their subordinates to do “user research.” But often this is a “unfunded mandate.” The so-called “unfunded mandate” originally meant that the legislature passed a law […]
Chapter 10: Part 4 – Transforming from Kun to Peng
Timing is very important for change. This is difficult in itself. But today, the turbulent outside world often leaves us with no shortage of opportunities. Once we see an opportunity, we should decisively press the green “start” button. But we should make this “start ceremony” as “exaggerated” as possible. When pushing for change, Nadella had Microsoft’s senior management imagine a […]
Chapter 10: Part 3 – Transforming from Kun to Peng
Microsoft’s transformation was the same. When Nadella became Microsoft’s third CEO, he had to prop up a crumbling building. Nadella realized that what Microsoft really needed was a cultural change, from a bureaucratic culture of a large company to the innovative culture that Microsoft had in its early days. He was smart and chose to change, but he didn’t choose […]
Chapter 10: Part 2 – Transforming from Kun to Peng
At the same time, another event also affected the later development of Apple. The success of the Apple II had led to almost tenfold growth in Apple’s sales performance in its early years. So many people advised Jobs that he was a college dropout and the company was growing so fast that he should find someone who really understood management […]
Chapter 10: Part 1 – Transforming from Kun to Peng
Zhuangzi was a great thinker in ancient China. His work, the “Zhuangzi”, contains many magical stories. One of the famous stories in his work is about a huge fish named Kun that can transform into a giant bird called Peng. Long ago, there was a huge fish named Kun who lived in the Eastern Sea. Kun was so big that […]
Chapter 9: Part 4 – Reshaping value systems
Time is the truth of the business world. Time is our only truly scarce resource. Therefore it is a “currency” more precious than gold. A person’s life is actually a countdown. If you study the legal sanctions of human society you will find that no matter which race which country whether they start with fines corporal punishment or other means […]
Chapter 9: Part 3 – Reshaping value systems
Another reason is that the types of value creation in the market have changed. The development of productivity driven by technology has generally ensured the production of goods that sustain human life. Today’s global poverty and other social problems are essentially social distribution problems not caused by insufficient production capacity. For example on the one hand children from poor families […]
Chapter 9: Part 2 – Reshaping value systems
However those familiar with “systems thinking” know that things must be reversed and the forces that drive development will eventually often become forces that hinder development. As this book has been emphasizing the accelerated development of technology has also led the value assessment system centered on “money” to collapse step by step. This problem not only occurs in the social […]
Chapter 9: Part 1 – Reshaping value systems
Now we know that in traditional organizations it is those “left-brain factors” such as firm “strategy” clear “market share” and “profit” goals and rigorous “scoring models” that hinder “disruptive innovation.” Behind these “aloof” management methods are numbers especially financial data. In traditional organizations the reasons behind various tasks in enterprises are usually financial contributions. This is not entirely wrong to […]