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Chapter 3070: The Bigger the More Stable

The decision has been made to become a subsidiary of Ziweixing Human Resources Management.

Although it is a subsidiary, the task is heavy.

It is foreseeable that after five years, the total number of employees in subsidiaries will likely exceed the number of employees in the headquarters. After all, with the popularization of Internet technology and the transformation of Internet applications from 0-1 to 1-100, there will be fewer and fewer cutting-edge new technologies that need to be applied.

More often than not, we just do a lot of repetitive tasks within an existing framework.

For example, "small-scale rapid iteration" of products, such as front-end updates and back-end maintenance of products, such as data processing, algorithm testing, etc. ... Many technologies will become more and more down-to-earth. Tasks that required senior talents to complete in the early years will have greatly reduced technical content after a few years of development and will become some repetitive labor work.

This is actually a bit dangerous.

Because innovation means destruction, and stability means mediocrity.

Only the best, bravest and most courageous people dare to take the path of innovation.

Stability is different. In order to maintain stability, we often have to exclude those innovative troublemakers in order to keep the current structure "mature" and "stable."

For example, in the United States, the most innovative people all start businesses, or go to places like Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Only those who cannot make a name for themselves in the business world and have mediocre abilities go into politics, which is actually the consequence of "stability".

  What would happen if a big businessman became the president of the United States?

That would be big trouble.

Every big boss who can fight in the business world and survive the bloody competition is a "thorn" and has a strong spirit of innovation. Innovation means destruction, and they will feel that the existing systems are all wrong and want to change them.

  Whether the change is good or not is another matter, but it must be changed!

In the world of businessmen, changing does not necessarily mean survival, but not changing will definitely lead to death.

This is quite different from the logic of political stability.

Therefore, if a person is too outstanding, too capable, and too innovative, he should never become a civil servant. If such a person is lucky enough to be in a marginal position and enjoy a vacation-like job, if he is unlucky enough to be assigned an important task, it is easy for him to get into trouble.

According to the current logic of the Internet, those who do outsourcing are suitable for politics, while those formal employees who truly take responsibility for the company, bear pressure, innovate and achieve results and have outstanding abilities will definitely be miserable if they really go into politics.

Because the logic of the two is different.

One is innovation, which is about seeking change and development, and facing the most intense market competition; the other is stability, which is to keep the existing system framework from being chaotic. A country can only have one government agency, which is a monopoly organization.

As Ziweixing develops, its monopoly will definitely become stronger and stronger, and the requirements for stability will become higher and higher.

Take WeChat for example.

  What will WeChat look like in the future?

It has basically been confirmed.

It is difficult to make any bigger innovations. We can only make some small innovations on the existing basis to maintain the stability of the existing business. Once the logic of the product is determined, the talents needed are also determined.

As more and more innovative businesses emerge, fewer and fewer innovative talents are needed; as more and more stable businesses emerge, more and more employees who have personnel relations with subsidiaries will be needed.

This is a dilemma that all large companies will inevitably face.

  Innovation is to open up new business growth points; stability is to maintain the performance of existing business. If it is a small company, the biggest motivation is of course to become stronger and bigger, to pursue more business growth points. If it is a large company, the meaning is completely different. For a large company with a market value of 5000 billion US dollars, the first priority is not to increase the market value of 5000 billion US dollars to 6000 billion US dollars, but to stabilize the market value of 5000 billion US dollars and not let it fall!

Behind this giant company with a market value of 5000 billion US dollars are hundreds of thousands of shareholders and hundreds of thousands of employees, and the responsibility is huge!

There is an old saying: "Governing a large country is like cooking a small fish."

In fact, it is the same principle. The bigger the company, the greater the responsibility. Maintaining business stability has become the most important internal logic. Innovation is also important, but innovation will be restricted everywhere. We cannot allow some overly destructive innovations to undermine the stability of the company structure.

Many times, large companies limit their own innovation capabilities.

It's like a big company disease.

Everyone knows that big company disease is bad, but the reason why all big companies will encounter big company disease is because big company disease is the best choice to maintain stable development.

So in the evening, Zhou Buqi invited Zhang Chaoyang to dinner. When they talked about the outsourcing phenomenon in the industry and the changes that Ziweixing wanted to make, Lao Zhang brought up this matter.

Lao Zhang said, “I heard that Google’s recruitment is also one-size-fits-all.”

"Yes, they only hire students from prestigious universities. They value academic qualifications." Zhou Buqi has a lot of contacts with Google, so he knows a lot. "Google doesn't hire ordinary employees. It only hires the best people. They believe that only when the best people work together can the best ideas emerge."

Zhang Chaoyang asked: "People with mediocre education but outstanding abilities have no chance of getting into Google?"

"No chance. Their recruitment standard is to recruit students from prestigious universities, unless one's personal achievements are so good that one can be recommended internally. If one submits a resume, those with poor academic qualifications will not be able to pass the first round of screening." Zhou Buqi is really envious of Google's talent pool. "Google has the most talents in the world. Among technology companies, no one can compete with Google in terms of talent. Ziweixing has a large number of ordinary employees doing repetitive work, but Google does not have a single ordinary employee."

Zhang Chaoyang asked: "Are there no low-end, low-skilled jobs in Google?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Yes, I even asked Larry Page. The large amount of repetitive work in Google is also done by the best people."

"Is this reliable?"

Zhang Chaoyang opened his eyes wide.

I feel like Google's approach is a bit of a waste of resources.

Asking the world's best IT talents to do some of the most basic and repetitive work is a waste of human resources, not to mention that it will cost Google a lot of salary expenses.

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course it's unreliable!"

Zhang Chaoyang said: "But Google's innovation ability is first-class. Google's innovation ability is not like that of a large company. Comparing Microsoft and Google, you can feel that Microsoft's innovation has almost stagnated, while Google can continue to develop new technology systems and new innovation theories, leading the industry progress again and again."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "This is indeed a huge contribution from Google, but don't forget. Microsoft is now at its lowest point and has just changed its CEO. Google is different, it is at its peak and its founder Larry Page returned as CEO. What is the result? Microsoft's market value at its low point is still higher than Google's at its peak."

Zhang Chaoyang laughed and said, "Has too many talents become a bad thing?"

Zhou Buqi said: "In terms of business model, I still think the domestic one is more reliable. I would rather believe in those sweatshops in southern China than in Google's hodgepodge of global elites."

"Isn't it?"

Zhang Chaoyang was very surprised.