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While slowly flipping through the blueprint, Zhang Yue touched the blueprint affectionately, explaining his new project, and occasionally stopping to stare at a painting.
The plan seems ambitious: Build a 220-
Story building, the highest in the world, quickly used in just four months
His company has developed construction technology.
Zhang, a 52-year-old thin and nervous man, said "Sky City "--
As he said
Completely clean the air of the tower and solve many problems of pollution, congestion, traffic and even disease in the world. The 838-meter-tall building (
10 metres higher than the world's tallest Burj Khalifa
Schools, hospitals, 17 helipads and about 30,000 people will be held.
In fact, it will become a city in the sky.
This is more than his dream.
Nailed to the wall of the office is a bolder project plan --
A huge building two kilometers high.
When asked to estimate the odds of 636floor giganto-
The scraper being built, Zhang replied without hesitation, "100%!
It is said that it is sensational to build such a high building. That’s not so.
The shortage of land is already a serious problem.
The traffic problem is also very serious.
In order to save the city and save the Earth, we must gather the city together and stretch for the sky.
We have to get rid of most worthless traffic!
We must reduce our dependence on roads and transportation.
"The tenacious pursuit of lofty vision is a sign of Zhang's success in Yuanda Group and a sign of the ceo of many Chinese entrepreneurs who are now the second fastest growing in the world --The largest economy
The secrets of all these ceo successes include: 1)
Grasp the vision and courage of bold or even eccentric ideas; 2)
The unremitting efforts to establish the company; and 3)
Push this process and overwhelm the huge self of skeptics.
Founder of China
Zong Qinghou of drinks and other ceo-maker Wahaha (
Until last year, the richest citizens in China)
Geely Auto CEO Li Shufu and Huawei president Ren Zhengfei have convincing, almost mythical characters, leaving a color for most aspects of their company.
"Among these startups, products and services are the passion of the founders," said Chris Marquis, a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, who studies Chinese corporate executives.
"They are employees number one.
1. there are now hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and thousands of employees.
These CEOs are there every step of the way, and their vision is the driving force of the company.
These entrepreneurs are known for thinking about problems. . .
Then bigger.
Zhang Yue's very big idea is to save the world by saving energy, reducing congestion and pollution. He said that by purifying the old air, the family and office will become healthier, this is the cause of 68% human diseases.
"There is a problem of the times in every era;
Each era has an ERA mission, "Zhang said in an interview at the headquarters in the suburbs of Changsha, capital of Hunan province in southern China.
"The problem of our time is not productivity, nor wealth.
Not even politics and democracy.
Today's Society
Including China and other countries around the world --
We are facing the increasingly serious problem of environmental pollution.
Number one Zhang.
On the Hurun Rich List, the income of 186 richest people is estimated to be $1.
The industry has a fortune of 19 billion in industrial cooling systems and air conditioners.
He started his company with the support of some non-patents.
Electrical air conditioning, later extended to industrial strength coolers and air purification systems that have been installed at Madrid Airport, USAS.
Military bases throughout Europe and America.
A 2008-magnitude earthquake in Sichuan has killed or disappeared more than 87,000 people, a turning point for him.
He was shocked by the collapse of a large number of buildings, including many shoddy primary schools, and began designing safer and greener buildings.
He realized that through prefabricated buildings
A slab with built-in pipes and wires that can be connected once the module is in place, the building will rise much faster and only 1% of the material is discarded as waste.
In last December, his Building unit, Sustainable Building, built a 30-
It took only 15 days to stay at the story hotel in Hunan province. (A time-
The building's failed video has received nearly 5 million views online. )
Zhang's next plan is 50-
Story building, and maybe a couple of 30-story buildings, while he raised money for Sky City 220.
He also wished to establish a franchise so that the buildings could be built anywhere;
So far, he has seven in China and aims to reach 150 around the world. CHINA’S OLD-
In a broad sense, there are two kinds of chief executives in China.
Traditional is the bureaucratic head of one of the traditional countries --
Affiliated enterprises (SOEs)-
Huge, sleepy behemoths, including telecom operators, banks, insurance companies, oil and steel producers, are often monopolized.
Their leaders are usually smart and capable managers, but most of them are communists who silently serve local and central government agencies or ministries.
They don't usually want to mess things up.
They don't have any games-
Change your mind, don't like to swing, you will find the name "destructive --
Accepted by many Western CEOsto be anathema.
"This career path is often more systematic --
Guided by the pursuit of stable growth of the organization, "said Catherine Xin, a professor at Shanghai Central Europe International Business School.
"They are more adapted to the policy, political and geopolitical environment of the government.
These CEOs are often through
Step by step to build a career ladder.
China Construction Bank, the world's second largest bank
By market value, the largest lender is a good example of the state-owned enterprise model.
The latest chief executive, Guo Shuqing, served as vice governor of Guizhou province and China's foreign exchange regulator, and was appointed head of China's stock market regulator last year.
His favorite sentence is, "listen to two extremes, take the middle route," which reflects his desire to please as many people as possible --
As little as irk. as possible. THE NO-
After China's economic reforms since the 1990 s, a new generation of Chinese CEOs has sprung up.
Chinese entrepreneurs rarely share personality traits or management technologies with state-owned enterprises (state-owned-enterprise)CEOs.
They are keen to innovate and seize opportunities, eager to leave a legacy, their tenacity is legendary.
Wahaha Zong Qinghou seized the opportunity to open up the market in the beverage industry.
One of his biggest achievements was the establishment of a distribution channel in rural China to provide Wahaha products for remote towns.
He is also known for his persistence and his willingness to appoint his talented staff.
Many of the CEOs of these Chinese entrepreneurs are savvy businessmen who have just started to produce and/or sell products on a small scale.
Furniture, real estate, auto parts-
Some debris was added along the way.
This is the case with Du Kerong, head of Tianjin-
Headquartered in Xinmao Group, it has established its own enterprise group.
He began to develop into a real estate company with the construction materials company and eventually formed Xinmao Group, there are currently more than 30,000 real estate, construction, hotels, fiber optic, software and other high-end hotels with more than 100 subsidiariestech fields.
At the end of 2010, the charismatic but extremely private du became famous when he made a billion dollars.
Euro offer for a Dutch cable manufacturer in a full-
A European agreement has been reached.
His bid failed, but it reflects the new style of the Chinese CEO.
It is full of cash and ambition, but there is no experience outside China.
"They are very sensitive to their environment, are very vigilant about new opportunities, and are very flexible about pursuing these new opportunities," Xin said . ".
"One of the most important features is that they are very pragmatic: 'Work is OK no matter what.
In his work and personal life, Zhang Yue seems to have the desire to understand everything.
When he was an art student, he wanted to know da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
A coach told him he had to paint himself to do so. So he did. He is a hands-on manager.
"Zhang Yue is very enthusiastic about the research and design of products and the creation of objects," said Marquis of Harvard University . ".
"It's about the ability to create these different products that drive him. . .
He thinks it's an important part of him.
Interact with designers
Marquis knew it made Zhang look like the late Steve Jobs, and he thought it was a fair comparison.
Professor Zhang preached a selfless, almost ascetic life, the image of the Holy and father of his workers, offering free dormitory and cafeteria food for all.
Employees wear white shirts and dark trousers. everyone's famous brands have inspirational slogans such as "innovative life.
Zhang's ID card says "Wan Shen Ziwo "(
"Perfect yourself ").
Chapter rules of honor code for corporate campus
About 1,000 of his 4,000 employees work here.
Supermarket cashier is unattended;
People pay by card. Dorm-
The door of the room is always unlocked.
All employees should comply with the guidelines set out by Zhang in a brochure entitled "attitude towards life of Earth citizens.
The principles of the book include "traveling by bike or bus as much as possible" and "not flying unless absolutely necessary . ".
"Urging employees to use energy --
Buy more light bulbs with less local, packaged and frozen food, "and most importantly, there is only one child.
This will bring our population back to an affordable level on Earth.
Example Zhang.
He had a son with his wife and graduated from Carnegie last year.
Mellon University in Pitts Castle.
Zhang lives on campus and drives a small smart car. gas-
In the big group, the people who are bombing are despised.
"We must transform! ” he explains.
"If China continues to follow this path, it will look like the United States by 2030. S.
Almost everyone will have a car. the farmland in China is a parking lot and a highway.
Asked about the appeal of Western business management technology to him, Zhang laughed.
"I won't talk about management," he said . ".
"Listen to me: to be an honest person, everyone must learn to be honest.
You don't need to manage people if they are honest.
The most dishonest place for people is the environment. It’s the over-
Consumption problem.
This explains his war on waste.
"The attitude of life of Earth citizens" includes admonishing against buying disposable products, books or newspapers that will soon be discarded.
It is the greatest sin to waste food.
An employee sadly recalled that he was fined 200 yuan for not having dinner
His photos were also posted in the cafeteria where he was banned from eating for two days.
All these rules make them more aware of Saving soap, recycling plastic and getting away from taxis, employees say.
"We need to take the rules, but it's good for me, like saving hot water, saving energy, to be honest," said 26-year-old Charles Qiang, who worked at Brand for three years.
"I can learn how to be a man, how to be a gentleman.
"At lunch time, the lights in the office were turned off, so any employee staying at the desk had to work with natural light.
These desks and office shelves are made of wood recycled from a wide range of sustainable buildings from boxes that receive copper tubes from Japan.
Zhang's office is dim and has a remote control.
Control curtains blocking heat
Create sunshine and turn off the lights.
He checks the air regularly.
The phone developed by his company has a purity monitor built into it.
Broad's system cleans up 100% of the air in a building, and Zhang proudly shows visitors that the particles there are extremely low.
He has a big floor.
In addition to the central air purification, the model purifier of his office-
Maybe it's because he
Smoke Kent
The recent biography of Steve jobbles is still on display in China's bookstores and occasionally hyped on bus stop ads, but Chinese executives rarely seek business philosophy from the West.
Japanese executives admire the teachings of quality Master W.
Edwards Deming and management guru Peter Drucker, but there is no such widely respected figure among Chinese executives.
However, Zhang studied the great writers and intellectuals of Western culture, and in the wide Town he set up 43 statues to commemorate some of his favorite people.
Confucius, ARATS, Socrates, Plato, and bidagolas stand near the extensive Palace of Versailles with Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and roberspeel.
Like the School of Economics and Management
Da Vinci, James Watt and the Wright Brothers are also on the pedestal.
Besides Balzac and Shakespeare, Li Bai, the Chinese poet.
Napoleon and Deng Xiaoping were watching the night nearby.
Sloane, Jack Welch and inventor
Consultant Frederick Winslow Taylor
"Sloane, Taylor and Jack Welch are all fine;
They emphasize management efficiency . "
"I think these management experts in the United States and Europe have contributed to human productivity.
That's why I included them.
Zhang hopes that the monument he will live after will be a different kind of building.
Can the sky cities of those monsters really be built?
Can they bear 9 points? 0 earthquake?
"My guess is that it may be possible," said Steven Moore, professor of sustainable design at the University of Texas . ".
"But what's missing from this conversation is a civil-
Society talks about how we really want to live and what technology is needed to do this.
Just because we can build two kilometers doesn't mean we should.
Zhang insists that his towering towers are a solution to the Earth's land, overpopulation, pollution and traffic crisis.
"Many people would hesitate and say, 'You broke the convention, but how much risk and how much cost did you take? ’” he says. “No!
This is exactly what I want to do: break the convention --
There is no cost, no risk, it is very terrible.
Everything that is done extensively breaks the convention.
My building will be very stable and as strong as a mountain.
"Perhaps it is not surprising that in this land, the emperors of a long time ago completed what seemed impossible by building the Great Wall in the mountains stretching thousands of miles, and another Chinese leader is in another direction.
Not out.
If Zhang Yue's sky cities were established, they would be a noble legacy of a CEO whose ambition is not to keep the world away, but to keep the world away from himself.