Some time ago, a friend planned to change a new computer, notebook or desktop have to consider, for home use, all aspects or desktop computers are dominant, in the case of shyness in the pocket, in the chip general shortage and general premium environment, after several comparisons, lenovo and other foreign brands, he found that Lenovo has no price advantage, Lenovo's computer is not sold cheaply in China. On the Internet, some netizens have been angrily denouncing Lenovo's computers as more expensive sold at home than abroad, and even jokingly referring to Lenovo as the "conscience of US imperialism".
Recently, a man named Sima Nan shelled Lenovo and summarized the seven "crimes" of Lenovo:
1. Research and development accounted for less than 3%, but it was delusional to be listed on the science and technology innovation board.
2, Lenovo will only engage in assembly without any technology.
3, Lenovo domestic products sell more expensive than foreign countries.
4. 14 of the 27 executives of Lenovo Group are foreigners and are suspected of traitors.
5. Lenovo is suspected of stealing state-owned assets.
6, Lenovo executives pay ridiculously high salaries.
7. Lenovo is not engaged in financial business?
These seven questions, whether it is anecdotal or true, an enterprise cannot have no problems at all. Sima Nan was born in 1956, now 65 years old, social critic and independent scholar. Liu Chuanzhi, born in 1944, is now 77 years old, one of the founders of Lenovo Group. Both are well-known people, not unknowns. At such an old age, it cannot be said that it is full of gunpowder. The ancients said that seventy do as you please and do not overstep your bounds. Behind this incident is four words: list of interests.
For ordinary people and migrant workers, it is obvious that the sixth point that attracts people's attention is that this is the distribution of benefits of enterprises and is related to fairness. Lenovo's executive salaries are ridiculously high, and Liu Chuanzhi, a retired executive for many years, actually has more than 76 million salaries in 2019, which is really surprising.
Lenovo is not something that can be built by one person, and the naming and history of Lenovo can be traced back to two people. Ni Guangnan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences participated in the development of the first electron tube computer designed by China itself. In the 1960s and 1970s, Ni Guangnan carried out research on Chinese character processing and character recognition, applied the associative function in Chinese character input, invested great efforts, and achieved fruitful scientific and technological innovation results. In November 1984, the Institute of Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences decided to establish the "New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences", Liu Chuanzhi found Ni Guangnan, and the two hit it off, and Ni Guangnan became the chief engineer of the company.
In 1989, the company was renamed Lenovo Group, and Lenovo Group started with the Lenovo Chinese character system and got its name, carrying the banner of national brand. The 1980s and 1990s were the era of a hundred flowers of Chinese computers, the world of domestic computers, the Great Wall, Founder, Langhu, Tongfang... Basically synchronized with the outside world, the possibility of China's operating system theory being born out of luck is not nothing, at least there will be more technical precipitation. Lenovo computers pre-installed Windows systems are popular all over the world, creating a myth, and economic benefits and wealth have also come into being.
Over the years, Ni Guangnan and Liu Chuanzhi have become the two core figures of Lenovo, one is a technical expert who is not well known to the public to revitalize the country through science and technology, and the other is a businessman who is interest-oriented. In the early 1990s, the two had major disagreements about the company's future strategic development.
Chief engineer Ni Guangnan advocates taking the technical route, choosing chips as the main direction of attack, pure mind, far-sightedness, far-sightedness, and has always advocated independent research on core technologies, insisting that Lenovo should enter the core technology in the next step, and conform to the development trend of computer and communication integration to make early deployment. Since 1995, Ni Guangnan has spared no effort to call on China to develop IT core technologies, especially independent operating systems and domestic CPUs, believing that this is related to information security and the sustainable development of the industry.
President Liu Chuanzhi advocated giving full play to the cost advantages of Chinese manufacturing, increasing the creation of independent brand products, and firmly moving towards the "trade and industry technology" road of assembling computers, with economic interests first, short and fast, completely subverting Ni Guangnan's three words of "technology, industry and trade", and the secondary "trade" became the primary. In the same year, Ni Guangnan was dismissed from his position as chief engineer and director, and in 1998, one of the founders of Lenovo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering who served the country with science and technology, was swept out by Lenovo.
What is more striking about this controversy is that the compensation of Lenovo Group executives and lenovo have its own core technology? The salaries of Lenovo's three core figures: Yang Yuanqing's salary is about 170 million yuan, the company's non-executive director Zhu Linan's salary is 61.98 million yuan, Liu Chuanzhi's salary after retirement is 76.03 million yuan, and the average salary of more than 20 executives has reached tens of millions.
The high salaries of executives and Lenovo's low research and development were exposed one by one. Lenovo, which has been doing computers for more than 30 years, has high hopes for Lenovo, and has no remarkable achievements in core components. How much reputation means how much responsibility to bear, which is where the public widely criticizes and disappoints it.
However, behind the success of Lenovo, it is not "his own strength", it is inseparable from the strong support of society, including various policies, resource guarantees and so on. Lenovo uses and consumes all kinds of support and resources of the society, but it has never assumed the corresponding social responsibility and the mission of the national brand.
When did Lenovo executives' high salary model suddenly change, which stemmed from the major event of the acquisition of IBM's personal computer business at the end of 2004, Lenovo embarked on the road of internationalization, Lenovo internationalized, and Yang Yuanqing took over the baton from Liu Chuanzhi. Since it is internationalized, the compensation of executives should also be internationalized, and Lenovo's executive compensation should be in line with the standards of the United States and implemented according to ultra-high standards.
Lenovo executives' salaries increased several times in 2005, like a rocket. In 2005, Yang Yuanqing's salary reached HK$21.75 million, a 4.13-fold increase. It all went very smoothly, but it obviously didn't fit in with Lenovo's reality. In just two years, from 2003 to 2005, The compensation of Lenovo executives increased by 12.8 times. Since then, the development of Lenovo's executive compensation model has not been the same, forming a wind of comparison, immediately standing out from the crowd, so that it is much higher than the domestic counterparts.
To paraphrase an analogy, Lenovo on the highway of wealth, the income of the chairman and CEO is speeding at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, the income of top managers is running at a high speed of 50 kilometers per hour, the income of middle managers is growing at a rate of 10 kilometers per hour, and the average employee is a slow inert growth, perhaps crawling 1 kilometer per hour.
In the process of the development and growth of an enterprise, it is the best distribution of benefits to protect the interests of the majority of the people. Are the interests of those scientific and technological workers who are silently dedicated behind their backs fully protected? Ni Guangnan once said that the results of Lenovo's stock reform show that in Lenovo, executives still occupy most of the equity, and the equity of scientific researchers is all zero, which has become the biggest problem of Lenovo's stock reform. This means that most of the proceeds go into the pockets of management, and the benefits of researchers are very small.
Lenovo's investment and attention to scientific research can be imagined, this kind of trade as the first priority, in the future development process, how can we ensure that we have made achievements in core technology research? An enterprise that has lasted for decades of short-term benefits, without core technology as support, where the profit guarantee comes from, which also leads to Lenovo's low profits, low profits and how to increase R & D investment, the more backward will be more difficult to go.
Academician Ni Guangnan compared the development experience of Lenovo and Huawei at the Peking University Guanghua New Year Forum on December 23, 2018, he said: Huawei Lenovo has been like a tortoise and rabbit race in the past 30 years, in the first stage of 1988-1995, Lenovo's "technology and trade" was better than Huawei's "trade and technology", in 1995, Lenovo's sales of 6.7 billion yuan, 4.5 times that of Huawei. From 1996 to the second stage, Huawei's "technology industry and trade" is better than Lenovo's "trade industry technology", in 2001 Huawei sales exceeded Lenovo, as of December 22, 2018, Lenovo's market value of 8.1 billion US dollars, and Huawei's valuation has exceeded 400 billion US dollars, the gap between the two is nearly 50 times.
"Whether intellectual property rights can be protected is the key to the rise and fall of the innovation ability of high-tech enterprises." Academician Ni Guangnan believes that comparing Lenovo's management shareholding with Huawei's employee shareholding, the lesson learned is that we should strengthen the incentive and protection of scientific and technological personnel as much as possible, and fully stimulate the innovation of scientific and technological personnel.
The 21st century is the century of talents and the era of scientific and technological controversy. With the upgrading of knowledge, knowledge information shows explosive growth, which will inevitably lead to the acceleration of the pace of technology. Now is also an era of fierce competition, global competition, the current external environment is complex and changeable, many people still have bad intentions for us, look at us with a tiger's eye, and want to encircle us from science and technology. Now the competition is more from modern technology, modern technology, modern industry competition, but also put forward higher requirements for products, technology development has become the key to modern industrial competition, any science and technology enterprises at the helm of the need to deeply understand this.
A netizen said in a serious tone: Don't let the stock market become a cash machine for the rich and harvest the wealth of ordinary people. The science and technology stock market should contribute to the development of science and technology, and those with impure motives should be resolutely stopped. Association is too greedy, the human heart is not enough snake swallowing elephant. Well, don't mess yourself up. It is not others who smash lenovo's rice bowl, it is lenovo itself that lifts a stone and drops it on its own feet.
The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the puppeteer, and the enterprise is even more responsible. On the occasion of the Sino-US showdown, when the US imperialists are frantically suppressing China, a good enterprise must serve the needs of the national development strategy, have a conscience and patriotism, and help the country become strong. A big entrepreneur has status and wealth, but the sense of social responsibility and return is often selectively ignored.
The private interests of executives are greater than the development of the company, and they also dream of leaning on high-tech companies, dreaming of using high-tech companies to circle money in the stock market, the times have changed, the people are smart, and companies without internal organs will be eliminated by the world's wave of science and technology sooner or later.
In fact, most of the businessmen are mercenary, objectively speaking, Lenovo has merit in the early stage of entrepreneurship, trade and industry technology in the short term is also more in line with the market environment at that time, the risk is small, but the mistake is that after having money, do not do the right thing, do not yearn for the development of core components, only money in the eyes, after that is to make money and make money, and making money is not for the welfare of employees, not to give back to the society, not to leave anything for the society. It is for the sake of exquisite self-interest, for the sake of the obedient people around them, how can those excellent employees step onto a higher stage, how to stimulate higher creativity, and how can the team have cohesion!
Why Ren Zhengfei is a widely praised entrepreneur, in China's rich list, Ren Zhengfei usually ranks outside the thousands, his share allocation is very low, Huawei has developed, grown, employees are also rich together, he not only seeks the welfare of employees, but also has a sense of mission of entrepreneurs. And Lenovo, we often say that executives get rich, employees suffer, this situation, if you say nothing, because this is not a new thing in the enterprise, to put it bluntly, it is still very common, but after all, this is not a normal, harmonious way of distributing benefits, the enthusiasm and creativity of employees is a great damage, Lenovo is not an ordinary enterprise.
A top big entrepreneur must have a high sense of faith and responsibility to match the wealth and reputation he has acquired. It is a matter of course that there are many abilities, that there are many positions, and that there are so many capable people. This gap can be positively correlated with the size and profit of the enterprise, but it must have a reasonable threshold and should also be supervised by the corresponding institutions and employee committees. Take the "2020 Enterprise Salary Survey Information" recently released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, for the data disclosed by the wage prices of practitioners in different occupations, the gap between the salaries of executives in most industries and the core technical personnel is not very large, and it is impossible to open a large gap.