Cao Hui's success today is inseparable from the cultivation of his father Cao Dewang, so to speak, Cao Dewang's cultivation has given Cao Hui the ability to make waves in the business sea, but ignores the expression of father-son affection. It seems that in the Oriental father-son inheritance and social habits, love is always defined as a kind of clingy and superfluous feelings, often ashamed to express or pretend to be disdainful. For fathers and sons who are full of bonds, it is even more "difficult to love you in your heart".
1) "Eagle Dad" education.
That year, when Cao Dewang announced that he would donate his shares to establish the Heren ** Association, the "Economic Half Hour" column did an interview with Cao Dewang, and the following is part of the interview.
Reporter: "Cao Dewang has a total of three children, the eldest son Cao Hui, daughter Cao Yanping, and a younger son, among which Cao Hui and Cao Yanping are both directors of Fuyao Company”
Cao Hui, general manager of Fuyao Glass Co., Ltd.: "I very much support my father's approach. ”
In order to explain to reporters his family's support for this donation, Cao Dewang called his son to the office on the spot, and Cao Dewang's son Cao Hui told reporters that although he can't really understand his father's intentions now, he still believes that this decision is 100% correct. However, Cao Hui's sudden rise to leave the room surprised the reporter.
Cao Hui: "Because he was in front of him, I was very nervous to speak. ”
Reporter: "He's nervous when you?".”
Cao Hui: "He doesn't usually speak to me. ”
Reporter: "Why?".”
Cao Dewang: "This is my tutor. ”
Reporter: "This is your tutor?".”
Cao Dewang: "That's right. ”
Reporter: "Children are afraid of you?"”
Cao Dewang: "That's right. ”
Cao Hui told reporters that because of his father's domineering temper, he was very afraid of his father since he was a child, and now even if their father and son work in the same company, they never sit together to talk, and rarely eat at the same table. The reporter noticed that as the general manager of the listed company, Cao Hui was wearing a set of uniformly customized production management personnel, whose condition was obviously old, and he had worked in Fuyao for eight years, and Cao Hui still lived in a set of staff dormitories in the factory at that time.
Cao Dewang: "If I don't tell you, people don't tell you that this is Cao Dewang's child, and if you live with him, you can't see that he is my child, he is very simple and very economical." ”
In this interview, we can also see the tension between Cao Dewang and Cao Hui from the side. The way Cao Hui spoke was not like a son evaluating his father, but more like a subordinate evaluating his superior. And Cao Dewang also overemphasized the cultivation of children's hard and simple spirit, as if hard work and simplicity is the only way to become a talent.
Under the influence of this mentality, Cao Dewang's cultivation of Cao Hui is also more "powerful" than "pleasant", pushing Cao Hui to a difficult environment again and again, seeing him helpless and hesitant, watching him sober and struggling, watching him rise up and break through.
Cao Dewang can be described as a "beating machine" to Cao Hui, after graduating from high school, Cao Hui entered the workshop, stayed up for six years, and finally became the director of the workshop, and then transferred Cao Hui to Hong Kong, set up a new company without any foundation, and after Cao Hui had "BMW, Ma Zai", he was thrown to the United States to study MBA at his own expense.
Cao Dewang said that Cao Hui did not pick him up in the United States for six years.
A child's "hatred" for his father can be seen from this, Cao Hui in the United States has a stable job and a happy family. In all fairness, from Cao Hui's point of view, it is difficult to face a father who doesn't even dare to talk to him.
2) The father is the banner and the stepping stone.
But he couldn't stand it and was invited three or four times, and was even more moved by Cao Dewang's righteousness of "responsibility", Cao Hui finally returned to Fuyao Glass as the general manager. Cao Dewang has equipped Cao Hui with a management team, he said: "The management of Fuyao Group is relatively high-quality, they are older than Cao Hui, and everyone helps him complete this handover as elders and listens to Cao Hui's command." Although I am no longer an executive, the management foundation of Fuyao Group is still there, and the big rules have not changed. For Fuyao Group and Cao Dewang, this should be a relatively safe way, but on the other hand, the "auxiliary minister" who is older and more experienced than Cao Hui is there, and Cao Hui also has a lot of constraints.
Since Cao Hui became the general manager, he does not live in the family's mansion, eats and lives in the factory, and does not sit in first class on business trips, and there is a reason for this high degree of self-discipline and self-tempering similar to that of an ascetic, not only for the cause, but also for the honor of a son.
Cao Hui hung a portrait of Cao Dewang in his office, and when a reporter asked why, Cao Hui said: "Every reward he receives is a kind of pressure for me." This shows how vigorously the fire in Cao Hui's heart "surpasses his father". Cao Dewang had an in-depth discussion with Cao Hui on this, and the topic of discussion was about Lao Tzu, Son and Transcendence. Cao Dewang also expressed his hope that his son could surpass him many times in his communication with other people, but when he really faced Cao Hui, he was still as blunt as ever: "You can't surpass me!" ”
In front of people, they are ruthless to their sons, and they always look like "everything is enough to have a son", and the father and son are full of men's lovely stubbornness.
Although Cao Hui also knows that the tide of the market is no longer surging, and the development of the automotive glass industry is gradually stabilizing, but the dream still has to be there, what if it comes true?
There was a flag fluttering in front of him, and Cao Hui didn't dare to take a break. After he took over Fuyao Glass, he insisted on Westernized management and firmly believed in the power of rules. And this has a precedent, when Cao Hui was serving in Fuyao in the United States, a friend of Cao Dewang pressed Cao Hui's ** very low, some people felt that since he was a friend of the boss, it was okay to be cheaper, but Cao Hui disagreed: If this customer's ** is like this, then other customers' ** must also be at this low price, otherwise it will be unfair to others, which is not in line with the rules of the game in the business field.
Cao Hui has proven his ability, but what about continuing on? After all, the giant beast Fuyao has grown extremely terrifying in Cao Dewang's hands, and no matter how well Cao Hui does it, it is just the icing on the cake, just like Cao Dewang trained him before, he must find a way to break through this time in order to surpass his father.
Perhaps, "Internet +" is the east wind that surpasses his father.
When Cao Hui was in charge of Fuyao's U.S. business around 1996, he saw the development of the U.S. market and came up with an idea: retail automotive glass. He believes that the automotive glass accessories market (retail market) has more development potential than the supporting market.
After returning to China, he still remembered this matter, especially the rise of e-commerce and "Internet +", which once again inspired his ideas. Cao Hui plans to use the Internet to develop the automotive glass parts market, which may be his only chance to defeat his father, e-commerce is in the ascendant, and most importantly, the back of Cao Dewang's stubborn life has become more ......and more rickety in the sunset