An interpretation of "wolf-nature" culture

For Chinese enterprises, wolf culture seems to be inseparable. The beginning of the "Wolf culture" in China's business world, the "thick black" books can be seen everywhere. During this period, I have a friend who often contacts the two concepts of the double impact, in the workplace to do things in contempt of the rules, ruthless, to achieve the goal at any price, and gradually formed in the market competition must be placed in the death of the opponent in the fast psychological situation, the so-called "wolf sex" Deep in the evil nature to play incisively and vividly. Later, he slowly brought this kind of career mentality to the private life, it is not difficult to imagine his last and old many friends will be more and more distant.

and domestic private enterprises, especially with entrepreneurs or front-line sales staff chat, I often hear a word is "wolf sex", it seems to be imperceptibly become the Chinese private enterprise culture a key word, even in the domestic business to survive the rule. However, so far no one has elaborated with me the specific meaning of "wolf sex", most of the word is more like a fashionable saying, everyone may have their own interpretation, or the speaker himself may not really understand why.

The first word I heard was the focus of Huawei. A few years ago, when I introduced Huawei to an executive at a U.S. telecoms company, it specifically referred to Huawei's "wolf" culture. At that time, Huawei in the domestic telecommunications market and the multinational company competition, product and technical advantages are not obvious, so need to fully develop the "wolf" contains the team spirit and biting strength, so as to ensure that the transnational "Lions" in their mouths to take a piece of meat, to survive.

Over time, the word "wolf" seems to have been given more meaning by different people, or different people will selectively emphasize the different attributes of "wolf" according to different occasions. This approach to the development of Chinese corporate culture has caused a considerable degree of distortion, and in the case of no explanation, this statement on the surface of the "animal ferocious" feeling, especially to the beginning of the workplace, young people have a more powerful misleading role.

Remember the "Wolf culture" in the Chinese business community began to popular, the "thick black" books are still everywhere. During this period, I have a frequent friend is deeply affected by these two concepts, in the workplace to do things in contempt of the rules, ruthless, to achieve the purpose of unscrupulous, and gradually formed in the market competition must put the opponent to death for the later psychological situation, the so-called "wolf sex" Deep in the evil nature to play incisively and vividly. Later, the mentality of the workplace was also brought to his personal life, it is not difficult to imagine his last and the many friends of the past gradually drift away from the results.

Sometime last year, Li posted an open letter on Baidu's intranet. In the letter, Li encouraged employees more "wolf", to have the indomitable spirit of offensive and collective struggle, at the same time he also suggested that if the staff just want to find a stable job, do not seek meritorious but not to muddle through, should choose to leave Baidu. I do not know Baidu internal afterwards for this letter there is no more detailed explanation or even training, but only by this monomer incident, "wolf sex" of the saying to me is only the enterprise's internal management and innovation of the helpless.

Although many people do not like the "wolf" argument, after all, the wolf is the most easy to think of the characteristics of cruelty, but "wolf culture" as a whole concept is indeed multidimensional, such as persistent can-do and neat team spirit absolutely has its positive significance. From this point of view, how to correctly interpret and use the positive attributes of "wolf" in Chinese enterprises, to prevent its evil side from gaining the upper hand in internal management, to avoid the trust between people and even basic human nature, should be a problem that must be confronted.

An entrepreneur I know recently took part in a course on Huawei, and later on in the micro-letter to Ren's philosophy of management greatly praised. He concluded that Ren's management thought could be summed up as the unification of Buddha and Wolf, polarity and moderation, and unity of reality and sustainability. In layman's terms, it is to cultivate a scholar into a warrior and a hero, but to avoid cultivating slaves and bandits. This is still opinion, but I sincerely hope that similar interpretations in China's corporate context will replace the metaphor of "wolf culture" so as to prevent such claims from misleading Chinese corporate culture as much as possible.

For most of China's private enterprises, the government departments can not afford, state-owned enterprises can not fight. If enterprises and enterprises, bosses and employees, employees and employees are always in the "wolf" as the footnote of the extreme relationship, it is difficult to imagine the overall long-term health of China's private enterprises can develop, and the Chinese younger generation of civil servants as the first choice of the fact also need not be criticized.