2056 Soul (Thanks winsonliu!)
"Dear, I understand what you said, but there are some misunderstandings in it, which I think are differences in understanding."
Xiaofang stood up, picked up Zhang Chen and her cup, walked over to the water dispenser and added water, came back and sat down again, and told Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen picked up the cup without drinking it, put it down again and asked, "Where is the difference?"
"I've been to Master Fu, I've also been to the farewell ceremony. I'm also very moved. You're right. If a person can leave the world with dignity like this, this person is a capitalist." Xiaofang said, "But in detail, what you said is wrong."
"Why is it wrong?" Zhang Chen asked curiously.
"Whether a company or a company is actually like a human being, it must have a soul. In written terms, it means the values of the company. A company without a soul is a walking corpse, and cannot go far if it cannot walk steadily. Such a company will be eager for quick success and instant benefits, and may be temporarily popular, but the future is worrying, and we investors will not be optimistic about such a company.
"Where does the soul of a company come from? It is internalized around the soul or values of the people of this company. Jobs has passed away, but you can't say that Apple is not Jobs' apple now. It's impossible. Jobs is still there, and he is still subtly affecting this company. If Apple is completely de-Jobs, Apple will not be Apple.
"The same is true for 'diet men and women'. Master Fu has internalized it into the soul of this company. The soul is the power to support a company and inspire the company to seek innovation and change like him, and strive to do the most perfect thing.
"Although Master Fu is old, he has a very young mindset. When he created this recipe, he broke the convention and completely denied himself. He just felt that he needed a new recipe to adapt to the new company form and to the new form of customers.
"This is very, very difficult. Master Fu is an authority in his industry. It can be said that he has achieved success and fame. How difficult is it to let a person who has achieved success and fame overturn what makes him successful?
"How many people who have achieved success and fame have lived to live on the altar. Seeing that no one can see others, they feel that what they say is a golden rule, and no one is allowed to question or change it.
"Master Fu is not. He maintains an open and tolerant mentality towards new things, a world of continuous development and change, and a mentality of learning and continuous exploration. Only by allowing his cooking skills to progress even at the last stage of his life, reaching a new level, and sing what you said about his masterpiece.
"If he doesn't have a development mindset, he can't do this, my dear, do you agree?"
Zhang Chen nodded and said, "I agree."
"Okay, then I'll ask you, my dear, you want Master Fu to internalize it in the soul of the company. Is it his spirit of constantly learning, changing and improving?" Xiaofang continued.
Zhang Chen nodded anyway.
"Master Fu did not regard himself as a golden rule, and did not let his past become a framework that restricts his development. Why did he become a framework that came to you?" Xiaofang asked, his tone was already a little aggressive.
Zhang Chen was dissatisfied and quickly decided: "I don't..."
"Of course, don't deny that your whole idea, including your practice, subconsciously, is a conservative mentality, and a mentality that is unwilling to change. Otherwise, why are you afraid of accepting new investors and accepting new changes?"
Xiaofang looked at Zhang Chen and continued, "If you think that this kind of internalized thing inside the company is powerful, this company has a strong soul, why can't you be more confident? Why don't you think about it? It's you and this company that can change new investors, not you and the company are changed?
"Investors are not fools. They can tell what is good for the company and what is bad. You have to believe that investors will not invest in a project casually. When they decide to invest in this project, it already represents their recognition of the project and the project team. Even if they have any ideas, they will only be adjustments in the details.
"No investor is so stupid that he asked Cook to do a big purge on Apple and asked him to completely transform Jobs, because they all know that Apple with the Jobs style is a good company.
"To a certain extent, you see that Cook is more like a maintenance president. What he is doing is to try his best to keep Apple in Jobs' style rather than change, because he clearly knows that Jobs is the soul of Apple, and every drop of Apple's blood carries the breath of Jobs. To transform Jobs is seeking death. Can you shine your blood?"
Xiaofang's words made Zhang Chen silent. He was thinking that Xiaofang was right. In fact, he said earlier that Fatty Fu and "eating, men and women" are one, which means that this is the meaning, but Xiaofang's words are more accurate.
Xiaofang said: "Let's talk about business operations, you have more experience than me, so I don't need to say it, but I just want to remind you that when you run a business, you will never go against the current, and if you want to protect the company, you will not be able to protect the company. In the end, you will only be repelled by other companies, or your peers will be completely beaten to the ground.
"How can you sail against the current? One is to judge the situation, which means to do the right things and the right things at the right time. The other is to use all the resources you can use when doing these two things. If you can't do these two things, you are struggling in vain. In the end, not only can you not sail against the current, but you will be taken to somewhere unknown and in the end there will be no trace.
"How many good companies are there, giant companies that do not judge the situation, do not do the right thing at the right time, and are finally eliminated ruthlessly. Kodak is a recent example. In the film era, Kodak is so brilliant and amazing? They are just as the tide of digitalization is coming, they do not judge the situation, do not see the situation clearly and transform in time, which makes themselves decline.
"Also, I don't know if you don't know Wang'an Computer Company. Yes, it's a Chinese company in the United States. In the computer industry, he was once the leader and achieved the point where he could compete with ibm. Wang'an just didn't see the trend of miniaturization and familyization of computers and did not make a transformation. How many people are there now? Do you still remember Wang'an? Including Jerry Yang of Yahoo, too.
"Let's talk about 'diet men and women', 'diet men and women', to a certain extent, is the transformation of Tuxiangyuan, which is a new hotel industry that adapts to the current Internet era. Although you have said that it has a history of thousands of years and is old wine, but when old wine is put into new bottles, it is new wine. Whoever buys wine does not look at the bottle, it doesn't know whether it is new or old, and it doesn't know if it opens the wine.
"And, wine is better to be aged, yes, this form, since it can exist for thousands of years, means it is very vital. You use the Internet platform to just rejuvenate it. This, dear, do you agree?"
"Okay, I agree." Zhang Chen said.
"But, don't forget that 'Food and Men' is still a new business model. One of its characteristics is that the entry threshold is very low. How low is it? It is almost as low as setting up a stall on the street.
"I say this, either low or bad, or I won't invest, or I won't even encourage you to do it. Meituan and Ele.me have low entry thresholds, because individuals have two legs and a basic sense of direction, so they can deliver takeaways, but they don't have a sense of direction and can understand the mobile phone map, but they still have a big project, and the 'diet and men' are somewhat similar to them.
"You have to start a clothing company, you have factories, machines, workers, design teams and sales networks, and build logistics bases. You have to have connections to get such a large area of land and money. In the past, you could build a logistics base with tens of millions of dollars, but now it requires at least hundreds of millions of dollars. Although they are traditional industries, the threshold for entry is not low.
"There is no need for 'diet and women'. It only takes a few people, or even a chef, and does not even need any processing workshop or cold chain truck. When you receive a call, you discuss the price with the customer, ride a bicycle to the farmers' market near the customer's house, buy good vegetables, carry a few vest bags and go to the customer's house to clean and make it. Is this okay?"
Zhang Chen nodded. If you really want to cook, of course this would be fine. Even the dishes could be purchased by the customers themselves. This chef could just go to the customer's house empty-handed at that time. Just like Huijuan's father, he just moved this form from the countryside to the city.
"Of course, the taste and style of the dishes will be a little worse. Basically, home-cooked dishes can only be mainly used. If it is either home-cooked dishes, it is not easy to purchase ingredients. In addition, the service will also be discounted. The sense of ritual that Beibei said is gone. If it is a treat, it will not be called "diet, men and women" to be ashamed.
"The most important thing is that there is only the form of introducing friends through friends, and there is no way to have a platform like 'diet and men' that directly concentrate all the needs of the city..."
"It's not only that," said Zhang Chen. "For customers, convenience will definitely be greatly reduced. In that case, the customer needs to repeatedly call the chef, and the chef will also call the customer. Unlike us now, you can just read the recipes and place an order on the website if you want to eat.
"After placing an order, he didn't have to care about anything. As long as he chose to eat at what time when placing an order, he would hand over everything else to us. Even the cooking utensils and seasonings, and whether there were any meals, we would take them all over. When we left, we would take all the dirty tableware away. They would eat at home, which was as convenient as ordering in a hotel."
"Is there any, my dear?" Xiaofang asked with a smile.
"And...and what you said earlier, don't worry about the ingredients. As long as there are on the menu, we will provide them. And... By the way, the brand effect of 'diet men and women' is a high-end catering. He invited us not only to be face-saving, but also to feel satisfied, just like buying luxury goods."
"Yes, dear, all you said is right, but I can't deny that the fact that the entry threshold for this industry is very low, am I right?" Xiaofang waited for Zhang Chen to finish speaking and immediately said: "Of course, industries with very low entry thresholds, which seem to be very simple, are actually very difficult to do, and it is even more difficult to do well.
"Just like the express delivery companies of Meituan and Ele.me I mentioned earlier, as well as Wei Wenfang, are all industries like this. It is easy to enter, but it is difficult to do it well and make profits. This is why there are so many companies that are imitating the 'diet men and women', but there is no company that can pose a threat to 'diet men and women'."
Xiaofang said and looked at Zhang Chen, and raised his nose toward him:
"Don't be proud, good days won't last long. Next, there will be a lot of capital entering this industry, and the competition in this industry will be very fierce."
"Why?" Zhang Chen asked.
Chapter completed!