Recently, Alibaba boss Jack Ma delivered a speech on CCTV2 "Win in China": "Do you believe in feng shui in business?" The whole conversation is not very long, but it is intriguing.
In 2005, Ma Yun made it clear at the Dongguan Forum: I believe in Feng Shui. Ma Yun is Ma Yun, a China man who doesn't hide his personal views! First listen to what Ma Yun said about Feng Shui.
I believe in Feng Shui very much. People tell me science, and I believe in Feng Shui. But I'm superstitious about Feng Shui, and something will happen in a muddle. Remember the first principle of feng shui and pay attention to change. Moving to a new home often begins to be unlucky.
Moreover, in any city, you say that I want to build the tallest building in the local area. This kind of company is unlucky. According to my statistics, the building of this enterprise is the tallest, and he must be unlucky. New york's 9 1 1 is a typical example.
Personally, I think feng shui is to adjust the atmosphere. You can have a look at our logo. I ask our employees to be happy and smile. This is very important. If you find a sad face, you will often fail. He is sad when he has no worries.
Feng shui is like this. When you get to this place, you will know that there is something wrong with this team and its performance is declining. You have to analyze the business problems first? Or what's the problem? When you know the problem. Sometimes it is said that feng shui has changed. Some people say that this feng shui is not good, so put it in the office. In fact, sometimes it is an atmosphere. Of course, the design of your office is unreasonable and wrong.
When we rented an office in Hong Kong for the first time, I ran in and took a look. I said no, the office is high. I said feng shui is not good. I said that the company in front must have closed down. Once you find out that six companies have closed down, don't go. So when you move a company, you should check whether the previous company is not good.
Every company is like a person, it is impossible not to make mistakes, but some companies make more mistakes and some companies make fewer mistakes; Some people only make mistakes when they are successful, while others just make mistakes from the beginning. Ma Yun said, "I made mistakes that all companies may make and suffered a lot. Now write a fashion book. If I want to write it in the future, the title is "Alibaba's 100 1 mistake". " It can be seen that companies that can be used as a case by Harvard MBA have not avoided making mistakes.
Yes, according to Ma Yun, some enterprises did make mistakes from the beginning, especially those in China. This is where Ma Yun's "Feng Shui" theory of enterprise life and death comes from. Ma Yun said that he believes in the "Feng Shui" of enterprises. In fact, many domestic enterprises saw "Feng Shui" from his office earlier, that is to say, the seeds of success or failure have been planted in the office by the enterprises themselves.
Ma Yun said that he has met many successful companies in the world and found that in the office of successful CEO, there are always photos of people he likes hanging in front of his desk, and photos of people who have been supported and helped by his company team and personal friends hanging behind his chair. The success of these entrepreneurs is because they are smiling and happy every day; Because they have the most stable backing for enterprise growth. On the contrary, the houses of those failed enterprises stink of copper. Ma Yun believes that when a business leader's mind is full of dollars and RMB, his mouth will be full of Hong Kong dollars when he speaks, so his business will not go far.
A business is doomed to bad luck, mostly because of the poor choice of office location. "Many companies have just started business, and few people rent big offices in high-end office buildings. In this way, newly recruited employees will feel that this company is definitely good when they see this shelf. If it develops well here, it will get ahead. " Ma Yun analyzed, "This gives new employees too high psychological expectations for the company. In fact, a newly established enterprise must have many difficulties in its own development, but newcomers come from your "good" and your "scale" and always underestimate the difficulties they face. In this way, over time, there will be fewer and fewer people in this company, and finally, it will not last. "
"When we were recruiting employees in Ningbo, a lady found the fifth floor of a remote, dark and shabby residential unit in the local area. She didn't believe that Daming's branch would be on the seventh floor, so she ran downstairs to call her boyfriend and told her,' If I don't call you for half an hour, you can come here and find me.' Ma Yun said that there is no shortage of money at present, and most of our branches are in residential units. Not to mention Fuzhou, even new york in Tokyo, we all have the ability to rent the most local office buildings, but we don't. Why? We want all employees to know that in the future, we will make the branch office bigger and move from a small unit to the most advanced local office building.