A deep blue length skirt, jacket gray knit shirt, Mingzhu step into gree Electric appliance products showroom. We shook hands and exchanged greetings like old friends, and then we were seated. I said, "I see you almost every day." "Where is that?" asked Mr Tung. "I answer:" The major television stations. She smiled with a smile.
Mingzhu is a household name in China, with countless honors and laurels. She is also internationally renowned, and eight times by the United States "Fortune" magazine as "the world's 50 most influential business women." The
Mingzhu started in Gree, and her rise was dramatic. 1994, due to discontent incentive policy adjustment, gree part of the sales team "mutiny". Mingzhu stepped, promoted by ordinary salesman as the Minister of operation. In her first year in office, she turned Gree's sales 7 times-fold.
Now, in Gree, Mingzhu is a veritable queen. No matter showroom or workshop, her quotations and images are everywhere. "Gree Electric appliances President Order" all over the factory area, the above detailed list of the work of the 33 prohibitions. She also personally took a shot at the TV commercials for Gree air-conditioning and a crystal Philip refrigerator that provided key components for Gree.
Dong Mingzhin Buddha. She pursues perfection and hates that some people regard power as a profit-making tool. She dime advertising, "otherwise it is not a personal gain?" Mingzhu said, personally make the product spokesperson for two reasons: "One is to please the stars to make advertising a year to 10 million or 20 million yuan, and the second is that I have a product quality commitment to consumers." "
She impetuous, straightforward, and therefore offended a lot of people. Some say she is strong, high-profile and even extreme. Some people say that Gree is a state-controlled, she is no more powerful than a working queen.
For these statements, Mingzhu a faint smile: "Say I personally good, does not matter; If the gree is not good, I must fight with him desperately." "
as the family of Gree, she believes that the management of enterprises to strict, but the heart must be filled with staff's well-being. "This year we negotiate with the city, one-time put in gree more than 20 years of the more than 200 have not settled the old staff all turned into Zhuhai people, become a formal staff of gree." They retire later, do not have to go home, can take three thousand or four thousand yuan a month. "
Mingzhu Life is simple: sooner or later a bowl of millet, noon often in the office canteen Bento. One day in March this year, some of the gree cadres were surprised to find that the chairman, like himself, with the Southern airlines economy class from Beijing back to Zhuhai. Mingzhu Frankly, her only hobby is "selling air-conditioning", "I have no hobbies, career decisions." I don't know what a golf club is.
Because of the years, her forehead thin crow's feet, branded the vicissitudes of the years and the hardships of work. Over the years, she did not have a relative who worked in Gree, or received from herBenefit so much that more than 10 years ago she broke up with her own brother. The only thing that Mingzhu was ashamed of was her son.
When the child was young, her husband died of illness and she had been celibate for nearly 30 years. "Strictly speaking, I don't like people. Mingzhu whispered, for this she threw all her energies into her work. In fact, she knew that the loss of her father's son need her more care, but in the cause and affection, she can not both.
in November 1995, she had a high fever and had to live in a hospital in Wuhan during her sick trip. Come to see her in front of the son of Nanjing resident. Looking at the 12-year-old son, she burst into tears. At night, standing on the hospital balcony, staring at the lights of three towns in Wuhan, Mingzhu found that there is always regret behind the success.
Now, her son has grown up, working in a unit away from Zhuhai, far from the air-conditioning industry, and living in the ordinary life with wage earners. "He doesn't want to have any influence on me because of me." "Mingzhu said.