industrial overlord

Chapter 297 Column of Shame

Seeing Feng Maoqiao actually took out a kitchen knife, Peng Shaozhe felt that his soul was frightened, he rushed forward and shouted: "Manager Feng, Lao Feng, don't be impulsive!"

Feng Maoqiao blocked Peng Shaozhe with a strong elbow, and he still faced Lin Zhenhua and said, "Manager Lin, I know it's useless to talk like this, and I don't know how to say it. So, I will chop off a little finger now." Here, I can use this to express my determination, right?"

As he spoke, he put his left hand on Lin Zhenhua's desk, swung the kitchen knife with his right hand, and chopped off the little finger of his left hand.

Lin Zhenhua was also stunned at this moment. Seeing that the kitchen knife was about to be chopped off, he didn't have time to think about it, so he stuffed a thick book by his side and covered Feng Maoqiao's left hand.There was only a muffled sound, and the kitchen knife slammed into the book fiercely, cutting through dozens of pages, and Feng Maoqiao's fingers were saved.

"Old Feng, what are you doing!" Peng Shaozhe snatched the kitchen knife into his hands, and complained in shock, "If you have something to say, Zhenhua is not that kind of person."

"Hey!" Feng Maoqiao sighed, and didn't bother to grab the kitchen knife back.He was also a little scared for a while when the feat of judging his ambition failed.He brought a kitchen knife here today, and he did have the idea of ​​chopping off a piece of his finger, but when it came time to do it, he was somewhat timid.Now Lin Zhenhua blocked it with a book, and he couldn't chop off his finger, but his courage has been exhausted. Even if he returns the knife now, I'm afraid he won't be able to do it again.

"Zhenhua, what do you think about this?" Peng Shaozhe put the kitchen knife beside Lin Zhenhua and said in a low voice.Feng Maoqiao's move moved him very much, but he didn't know if Lin Zhenhua was also moved.

"Manager Feng, sit down." Lin Zhenhua said softly.Feng Maoqiao's behavior really touched him a lot, which was much more effective than Feng Maoqiao's crying and pleading in front of him.

Feng Maoqiao sat back on the sofa like a deflated ball, waiting for Lin Zhenhua's sentencing.In his heart, he didn't know whether his reckless move was right or wrong, but he really had no other choice.

"Manager Feng, can you tell me, where did you make such a mistake this time?" Lin Zhenhua didn't directly talk about the cooperation issue, but talked about the accident itself.

Feng Maoqiao was taken aback for a moment, unable to understand Lin Zhenhua's intentions.He paused for a while before replying: "I've thought about it. The main reason is that I'm not in the factory. My brother-in-law doesn't know how to produce, and he doesn't know how deep it is. I've already sent him back to Tongling, and I won't use him anymore. .”

"Then do you still have a deputy manager in the factory?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Feng Maoqiao said: "I just promoted one, a distant nephew of mine, who has studied lathe work with me for two years, he is very honest, he should not make mistakes."

Lin Zhenhua shook his head and said, "Manager Feng... How about it, I'll call you Old Feng too, is that okay?"

"Hey, you can call me Old Feng." Feng Maoqiao secretly rejoiced. Lin Zhenhua called him this way, which showed that things had turned for the better.

"Old Feng, with all due respect, if your understanding of this matter is limited to this, then your company will continue to make mistakes in the future. Maybe it's not this kind of mistake, but other mistakes." Lin Zhenhua said, "Old Feng , I heard Shaozhe said that your ideal is to make Maoqiao Gear Company into a world-renowned large enterprise, and your current management method is still the management method of a handicraft workshop or a family business.

Your managers are either brother-in-law or distant nephew.I heard that your workers were all brought from your hometown in Tongling.The management regulations of your company are all in your mind, and the quality is very good when you are here.If you are not present, the quality cannot be guaranteed.Such a management method is no problem when your output value is 10 or 20.If one day your production value is 100 million, or 1000 million, do you still go to see each gear in person? "

"This..." Feng Maoqiao began to lose his mind.

"Family businesses have the advantages of family businesses, that is, the loyalty of employees is relatively high, and management costs are relatively low. However, family businesses also have their inherent defects. One of them is nepotism, and unclear rewards and punishments are also an inevitable manifestation of it. Do you admit all of this?" Lin Zhenhua continued.

Feng Maoqiao nodded: "Manager Lin, what you said makes sense."

"Modern enterprise management relies on rules and regulations rather than individual authority. To ensure the stability of product quality, it is necessary to grasp all aspects before, during and after the event, and establish a quality control system..." Lin Zhenhua began to He explained to Feng Maoqiao the principles of enterprise management. These principles were learned from management professionals such as Xiang Zhe and Hu Gui, and they are currently being implemented by Hanhua Heavy Industry little by little.

"Manager Lin, I'm convinced." A smile appeared on Feng Maoqiao's face.If you hear the Tao, you will be happy when you hear it. He had been dimly aware of the things Lin Zhenhua told him in the past, but he had never heard it said so systematically, nor had he thought about it so seriously.Hearing what Lin Zhenhua said now, his vision suddenly became clear, and he knew what he should do.

"Old Feng, I will bring up the matter of the outsourcing agreement to the company's office meeting again, and try to give you another chance. During this period of time, you should take this matter as an opportunity to promote the construction of the company's internal management system. If you want to To build a century-old enterprise, we must lay a solid foundation." Lin Zhenhua said.

"Thank you, Manager Lin." Feng Maoqiao said sincerely, "Manager Lin, I understand now that Hanhua Company wants to terminate the contract with us this time not only because we produced a defective product, but the most important thing is that we did not There is no qualified quality assurance. In the past, we did not produce defective products. It was all a fluke. This time, it was inevitable.

Regarding the outsourcing agreement, please be more considerate to Manager Lin.However, I have figured it out now, even if Hanhua cancels the agreement with us this time, I will not fall down, I will definitely do better, and strive to return to Hanhua's supplier team as soon as possible . "

"Okay, old Feng, with your words, I believe your company will be able to stand up again." Lin Zhenhua said.

"Manager Lin, I have a request, can you return the defective gear we produced?" Feng Maoqiao said.

"What do you want it for?" Lin Zhenhua asked strangely.

Feng Maoqiao said: "I've made up my mind. I'm going to weld this gear to an iron frame and stand it at the gate of our Maoqiao company. I'm going to call it the shame pillar of our Maoqiao company. No matter how big we develop in the future, We must always remember our disgrace today."

A few days later, at the entrance of Maoqiao Gear Company in the development zone, a stainless steel pillar was erected, and a gear with one tooth broken was welded on the top of the pillar.Under the pillar, stood a sign that read:

"Pillar of shame: In January 1987, Maoqiao Gear Company violated the process regulations and produced a defective gear, which caused heavy economic losses to the customer. The gear is now standing in front of the door. Our company employees should always remember this shame and keep in mind Quality comes first, never defective products.”

More than ten years later, Maoqiao Gear Co., Ltd. has really developed into a world-renowned super-large gear manufacturer. The Maoqiao brand, which uses a gear missing a tooth as its logo, has become a symbol of quality in the gear industry. A corner of an apple is comparable.Feng Maoqiao, who is worth more than [-] million yuan, would bring them to the pillar of shame every time he received interviews with reporters, and told them the story of that year.Of course, that's for another story.

After talking with Feng Maoqiao, Lin Zhenhua approached Xiang Zhe, Hu Wei and others successively to re-discuss the cooperation with Maoqiao Gear Company.Lin Zhenhua pointed out that for a small enterprise such as Maoqiao Gear Company, which has been established for a short time and lacks management talents, it is inevitable that there will be problems of one kind or another.Based on China's current industrial development status, it is unrealistic to require all enterprises to immediately reach the level of scientific management.As a leading enterprise, Hanhua Heavy Industry has the obligation to help these small and medium-sized enterprises develop, rather than kicking them out.

Xiang Zhe and the others were not idiots in the study, what Lin Zhenhua said made them start to think too.Under Lin Zhenhua's suggestion, Xiang Zhe and others followed Peng Shaozhe to visit Maoqiao Gear Company and some other outsourcing cooperative enterprises, and fully communicated with the managers and workers of these enterprises.During the interviews, they deeply felt the entrepreneurial impulse hidden in the workers, and their views began to gradually change.

After re-discussion at the company's office meeting, Hanhua Heavy Industry decided to resume cooperation with Maoqiao Gear Co. possibility of similar accidents.

Taking this incident as an opportunity, Lin Zhenhua proposed the idea of ​​exporting management experience to cooperative enterprises.Hu Wei and others set up a management training class in Hanhua Technical School, which specially imparted modern management knowledge to the bosses and middle managers of cooperative enterprises.This training class has been continued since then, and the name has also been changed to "Hanhua President Class", and the lecturers have gradually expanded from Hanhua Heavy Industry's own management personnel to well-known management authorities at home and abroad.Feng Maoqiao and others, who will make a fortune in the future, claim to be the "Whampoa Phase I" of Hanhua's president class on various occasions.

In addition to giving lectures, Hanhua Heavy Industry also helped various cooperative enterprises establish their own management systems, especially the quality control system.The establishment of this system has also played an important role in the development of these collaborative enterprises.As for Hanhua Heavy Industry itself, because it owns a group of capable cooperative enterprises, it is even more powerful, and its competitiveness has risen to a higher level.

(End of this chapter)