Some elderly people cook for a lifetime, but the level of cooking is still limited; some apprentices in cooking technical schools, after a few years, make meals significantly higher than ordinary housewives. Some companies have been stumbled for decades, and they are still small and micro enterprises in the nature of workshops. Some companies can be selected into the Fortune Global 500 within 10 years of their establishment. The answer is implicit in Xiaomi's "One Go Forward".
Lei Jun personally described Xiaomi’s 10-year-old "Going Forever", which interprets one of the foundations of success-taking advantage of the trend. "What I don't believe at the moment is that God pays for work!" Compared with diligence, opportunity is the key to success. There is a limit to the results of hard work. The most important thing is direction. If it is different, the harder you work, the more you fail! "Standing on the vent, pigs can fly." The three major elements of hardware, software, and the Internet, that is, Xiaomi's "triathlon" model, can only produce good quality products. The success of Xiaomi has to rely on the take-off of the wind to establish barriers, and supplemented by the moat of the ecological chain, to achieve a glorious decade.
The establishment and early success of Xiaomi is largely due to Lei Jun's investor identity, his personal connections, the invested enterprise resources, and sufficient funds. Entrepreneurship does not happen overnight. It is not just a passion. Resources are very important. Only with a high starting point can you have a broader vision and a broader space for development, so that you can have a better life; otherwise, you will be trapped in the category of small and micro enterprises and will basically have no greater prospects.
Xiaomi also had a low point in 10 years, and finally Lei Jun personally took over the supply chain before turning the crisis into peace. Quality and supply chain are the driving force of development. Employees can meet product requirements, but they will not use strict standards to achieve it. The ultimate industrial design, high product performance, and extremely lethal price are what the boss should pay attention to. For example, for cooking, employees feel that they can eat their stomachs, but what the boss needs to pay attention to is how to taste delicious and have a balanced business. Not pursuing the ultimate is the reuse of work experience, and the room for improvement is limited; only use higher standards to stimulate imagination, try areas that you don’t understand, and progress and innovate in failure. This business model of Xiaomi has put an end to counterfeit machines, promoted the ecological chain, and indirectly changed China's manufacturing industry.
A programmer, as a low-level person, has no higher-level interpretation. "Forever" is worth reading for those who follow Xiaomi. The only drawback is that there is no illustration in the whole book. How can we not record historical moments?
