After reading Mr. Yu Minhong's article "My Innovation and My Persistence", the most profound impact is the understanding of innovation. Many people understand that innovation is to keep up with the trend of the times, what artificial intelligence, blockchain, AR, VR. Joseph Schumpeter, the father of economics, said that true innovation is not about creating something out of nothing, but about recombining existing elements to create new products, technologies and services.
Just like the four famous novels we read since childhood, "Dream of Red Mansions" was written by the original creator Cao Xueqin, but like "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West" are likely to be collected by the author of folk tales. Nevertheless, it is also an innovation, and it is also a capability to recombine existing elements.
Mr. Yu also said that innovation is the creative combination of existing elements. Each person has their own elements, which are made up of different elements, and each person has a different knowledge structure. For elements that we don't have, it's futile to force them together. To be truly successful, we have to combine our resources within the scope of our own deconstruction.
When Mr. Yu started his business, he didn't innovate with a hot head, but repeatedly thought about one thing, what resources he had, and how these resources could be combinedWhat elements can be combined, and what talents can be mobilized?The premise of getting things done is to combine these resources into a sustainable business model within the scope of our capabilities.
When ** education swept the country, some people persuaded Teacher Yu to give up the entire offline education, go all out online, and become the largest online education company in the country. Doing so would indeed make the company the largest in the industry, but Mr. Yu didn't do that. Because innovation doesn't mean you give up on tradition right away.
Teacher Yu is also deeply aware that education is a particularly important field, and according to the information he searched, he judged that the combination of tradition and modernity, the combination of conservatism and innovation, may be a better path. That is, the dual-platform strategy, the ground strategy continues to advance steadily, and education must advance by leaps and bounds. That is, the model of combining online and offline education, which is also the model that many educational institutions are currently doing.
Therefore, at any time, we can't just listen to external thoughts, we can refer to them, but we must have our own judgment. As for whether our judgment is right or not, this requires us to continue to learn, improve our judgment, and listen to our inner choices.
Just like Mr. Yu said: there are always people who are always biased to the left, and there are people who are always biased to the right, whether you should go left, or right, or follow the middle road, only you know.
Teacher Yu said that innovation requires focus. If we make money, we will enter whichever field, and you may lose the opportunity to change and innovate in a familiar field. Back then, real estate could make a lot of money, but Mr. Yu kept his original intention and didn't go in to make money. The first is because I am not familiar with it, and the second is because I have entered, and there may be no opportunity for the company to go public.
In the end, this quote is worth learning from everyone. "I don't understand, I can use someone else. "We don't need to cultivate ourselves into all-rounders, the best people can use both our own abilities and the abilities of others for our own use. Just like Mr. Ma Yun, he doesn't understand technology, but it doesn't affect Alibaba to become one of the top companies in the technology field.