My six restarts: Sinopec, pharmaceutical companies, McKinsey, private enterprises, state-owned enterprises, investment and entrepreneurship.

The day before yesterday, I sat in Starbucks at the Capital Airport for a while and sent a circle of friends: "When Starbucks and McDonald's gradually settled down, I knew we were on our way." Soon a former partner of Maifu sent a message: "What are you doing now? Aren't you investing? " With this question, it is estimated that the subtext is that investors should not run around and eat a lot of M-notes. I thought about it and replied to him: "I am starting a business". This is the first time to announce the truth in a circle of friends. The reason why I don't want to publish it is really because my various transformations are difficult for most people to understand.

1 Years ago, I was sitting in a high office in Lujiazui, exchanging business plans with entrepreneurs ten years younger than myself. Now I am carrying a backpack and explaining our business plan to investors who are also ten years younger than me.

More than two years ago, in the office of Pien Tze Huang Mansion in Zhangzhou, Fujian, I led the team of China Resources Pien Tze Huang to challenge unattainable performance indicators again and again. I hope that through our efforts, Pien Tze Huang will finally get better development under the banner of China Resources.

Four years ago, on behalf of Haizheng, I described Haizheng Pfizer's vision of becoming Teva in China when I faced Ian Read, the global boss of Pfizer, and Dr. Wu, the boss of China.

10 years ago, at the age of 32, I worked as a follower in the Netherlands (almost an entry-level consulting position). Before that, I was at least the cancer product manager of Lilly China.

Before Lilly, I worked in China Petrochemical Company for overseas projects, followed overseas quotations from leaders at all levels, and stayed in the Middle East for several years.

What a chaotic career! Give up the accumulated resources and experience again and again, turn around and enter almost completely unfamiliar industries or directions, and even often accept lower positions and salaries. Why? Every restart only pursues pure spiritual freedom.

The first restart is to leave Sinopec, which is also the most difficult one. I worked in Sinopec for 7 years. I don't know what I can do without the petrochemical industry, but I know that if I don't leave, I can't do anything except that industry and that job all my life. For me at that time, seeing premature retirement was tantamount to chronic suicide, so I struggled to leave. The leader of the personnel department told me earnestly: "We will keep you as a cadre for half a year, and you can come back at any time. You know, without central enterprises, life will not be better. " At that time, the salary of Sinopec was very low. At the highest time, it was less than 654.38+10,000 yuan. However, it was possible to divide the house at that time. For the sake of professional freedom, I also gave up this greatest interest.

In order to facilitate re-employment and broaden my horizons, I began to apply for MBA. Fortunately, my English foundation is not bad, and I applied to two top ten business schools in the United States, but I didn't get any scholarships. At this time, CEIBS gave me a perfect score. Because I didn't save any money at Sinopec, I chose Central Europe and started a different life in Shanghai.

Before I graduated from Central Europe, I worked as an intern at BP and got their offer, but I don't want to continue my career in the petrochemical industry. I want to see if management skills are common in different industries. As it happens, Lilly Pharmaceutical doesn't have too many requirements for the background of MBA graduates, and I was moved by the prospect of the pharmaceutical industry, so I joined Lilly. Life in a foreign company is actually very comfortable. I started as a BD (business development), and the company has no rigid requirements for performance, so I am more comfortable. But the comfortable life soon made me feel like a frog cooked in warm water, especially worried that the step-by-step work of foreign companies would turn me into a screw. So I talked to my boss about my career development and said that I wanted to be a boss in China. The boss was surprised and transferred me to the marketing position. There is a simple reason. Lilly's bosses are all from marketing. Unfortunately, in marketing positions, I have seen too many gray areas caused by the system, and I doubt the values promoted by pharmaceutical companies.

When you really seek change, many coincidences often happen. At that time, the headhunter who helped Johnson & Johnson dig people recommended me to McPherson for an interview. I was 32 years old at that time, and I was really afraid of being exhausted in Maifu, but I always yearned for Maifu's brand and was curious about consulting life (curiosity kills the cat)-the strategy should have been made by the company itself, so why should we invite a group of people who don't know anything to do it at such a big price? At the same time, I secretly wanted to challenge my IQ to see if I could pass the interview, so I went, so I got Mai Fu's offer, which was not much higher than Lilly's salary, and a job collapse-Fellow, which is actually an upgraded version of a business analyst, while Mai Fu's BA is generally a fresh graduate of undergraduate or master's degree. There is obviously a lot of contempt for the social experience of recruiters in our society. I didn't refuse angrily, and I didn't struggle for too long, because if you want to change the original situation, why bother about what your past is; If you want to go to a different place, why should you care about the false name of your title?

I won't describe Maifu's career in detail, because there are so many places worth describing. Like most of my colleagues, Mai Fu has made me feel like death for countless times. Because Fellow was a new thing in Maifu at that time, all aspects of induction training were still being explored, and I got my first training six months after joining. But before receiving training, I was thrown to the Netherlands to do an offshore oil project without knowing anything about Maifu's chart (Maifu PPT document). But in this field that I know very well, as a recruit, I don't say anything, and I have to have an expert interview. Fortunately, the first German boss gave me strength. Look at a guy in China. He has two workflows by himself. Three months later, he turned me into an associate professor (McPherson consultant, usually for MBA graduates from famous universities around the world), and finally I was on an equal footing with MBA graduates from famous universities.

The biggest value that Maifu brings me is the structured way of thinking. At the same time, because of all kinds of projects I came into contact with-all kinds of industries and topics, when I walked out of McPherson, I felt very confident and didn't think there was anything I couldn't do. The happiest thing in Maifu is to bring real value to customers, but after returning to China to do projects, I found that such opportunities are getting less and less, and I have no so-called role model. As before, I don't want to stay in a place that can't reflect value for too long. As for whether I can be promoted as a partner if I persist, or whether I need to wait until I am promoted as a partner (so that the market value is higher), it is completely out of my consideration.

So I reduced my salary and joined Haizheng Pharmaceutical, one of my clients in Maifu, hoping to really implement some strategic and management changes I made in the past into the enterprise. The boss attaches great importance to it and the work is going well. He negotiated with a Chinese-controlled Haizheng Pfizer joint venture company, but he and his boss have great differences on whether the development of the enterprise should focus on diversification. It makes sense to listen to the boss. Unfortunately or fortunately, I am always a person who pursues pure spiritual freedom, and it is difficult for me to do things that are inconsistent with my body and mind.

So I chose to go on the road again, and join China Resources Medicine with a lower salary (salary reduction has almost become the main theme), in order to make a difference in the integration of China's pharmaceutical industry with the help of central enterprises. After various projects, Norpharm went to China Resources and made a joint venture between China Resources Medicine and Pien Tze Huang. However, central enterprises will always be central enterprises. No matter how strong your western management is (China Resources is headquartered in Hong Kong), there is not much difference in essence. Value creation is not the primary consideration in making decisions.

So I chose to leave again and become a partner of a private equity investment fund, which is a formal participation in the investment circle, hoping to help some real value creators with the help of capital, a purely market-oriented force. Being an investor is a good job, and investing money in the right person to do the right thing can really play a key role. And I have my own way of looking at people and things over the years, and everything is going well.

The more projects I see, the more I feel that this is an era that belongs to the Internet. The internet has made it possible for many grassroots entrepreneurs to start businesses and achieve great things, which was unimaginable in the past. I have worked in the pharmaceutical industry for many years and have seen many places where the supply chain and marketing efficiency can be improved with the help of the Internet. When I see the rise of internet entrepreneurs changing the industry again and again, I am inevitably a little touched. Since the internet will indeed create value for the efficiency improvement in the medical field, there will always be a group of people who can do it. Why can't we? Why can't it be those of us who claim to have received professional training from Maifu, who claim to be excellent professional managers, who claim to know the industry and have contacts in the industry? If some people who can only tell stories finally do it, then we can only sigh and say to ourselves in the future, I have thought so, I can do better, but I can only make my imagination empty. However, there are not many such opportunities in this era, and I happened to see one, so no matter how difficult it is, I decided to start over.

The founder of the fund is very liberal. He not only supported my decision, but also invested in the projects I participated in. Half a year has passed and the project is on the right track. During this period, some friends who knew that I was starting a business speculated that there were only two possibilities for me to choose this road: one was financial freedom, and I could do what I wanted with confidence, or to realize financial freedom. But for me, it's neither. Look at my career. Although I have been an executive, how can I achieve financial freedom as long as I do my duty? Not even for financial freedom. Entrepreneurship is actually not a good way. Entrepreneurs need to face all possible situations and insist on doing the right thing. If they don't really like it, they are just demanding themselves or aiming at material success, they may not be able to persist. If you don't like trudging on this bumpy road and only fantasize about financial freedom, don't start a business.

No matter what I'm doing now or what I decided before, all I do is to pursue real value-for myself, for the enterprise, for the world, for pure spiritual freedom. Life is too short, and I don't want to waste my time on things that I think are worthless, even if the accumulation of this time can bring me higher status or more wealth. As for freedom, you really don't need several luxury houses by the Huangpu River to be free. As for waiting and preparing, you can never be ready. If you really want to do something that you think is meaningful or valuable, you can do it now. Press the restart button, forget your title and identity, and become a free man in minutes. Of course, the understanding and support of my family is very important, and I am lucky in this respect.

Restart again and again, only for real value and pure spiritual freedom.

Eric and I have known each other for seven years, and my deepest first impression of him is that the project team went out to eat seafood together. When a plate of sumptuous shrimp (also called Seurat shrimp and Pippi shrimp) was served, a group of us were amazed. He looked at us who had never seen the world with contempt and said slowly, "My hometown is by the sea. If I had nothing to eat when I was a child, my mother would cook a pot of fat shrimp for dinner. "

It is estimated that I ate too many rich shrimps when I was a child, so that when I grew up, I regarded wealth as a cloud. Eric's six career choices, neither seeking fame nor profit, often refresh my imagination. Later, in many cooperations, it was increasingly found that he was really a knowledgeable, interesting, capable and pursuing person, so his career development was often widely praised as an inspirational story of the Great God. Readers in this slave society are really blessed to see first-hand accounts and to see him share his whole professional experience and mental journey completely.

Then there is my post-reading feeling. I learned three things from Eric's career choice:

First, I am curious about the world. In the final analysis, there are two things in one's life: exploring the world and exploring oneself. Without curiosity, there is no motivation to explore, there is no difference between tomorrow and today, there is no difference between distance and others, and there is no difference between yourself and others. Isn't this life a waste?

Second, never compromise on ideals. This ideal is not the ideal of wanting to be a scientist when I was a child, but the ideal of wanting to be rich when I grow up. It is more Maslow's pursuit and ideal of self-realization at the top of the pyramid. I feel that everyone who has reached a certain level, such as Eric, has the ambition to reach the same goal by different routes, create value and change the world. On the journey of life, he will give up everything except him, but he will never let go of his ideals.

Third, have confidence in yourself. In Eric's professional dictionary, there are no words such as self-denial and self-doubt, only chicken blood inspirational slogans such as "I can, I can". Every time he starts again, it is not only his unchanging ideal, but also his belief in himself and his fear of failure.