Shanyou: Why people in foreign companies dare not start a business

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Suntaujan in the "entrepreneurial 36" mentioned that the most ideal career path for young people, is the undergraduate after graduation to a large company for several years, you can learn a lot of management knowledge, the realm will also be promoted. Then you can go to the start-up company to work, and finally start their own business. Don't start a business or stay in a big company for too long. In large companies not more than 5 years, or the basic waste, become a greenhouse in the mice, the viability of the degradation, but also a snob.

Angel investor Tan also said at the Angel Convention, 20 years ago, people are most proud to enter the foreign companies, entrepreneurship means that the job can not be found. On the contrary, you have to say that you work in a foreign company, people will be laughed at, exciting thing is to start a business.

These two paragraphs are a bit harsh for a foreign company, but the percentage of the world's leading internet players is really low. So recently I was thinking, what is the cause of foreign executives and even professional managers do not dare to venture out, or entrepreneurial success rate is not too high? According to the truth, foreign executives entrepreneurial success rate should be relatively high ah, they have high academic qualifications, good English, understand management. But after my research, I found that there are three major factors that make foreign companies less daring to start a business.

"Vase phenomenon" is the first factor. From a psychological point of view, when you make a special effort to do something with your heart, it will become a limitation to your next development. It is as if you have crafted a vase that has a very shiny appearance and is attached to your position, money, family, etc. But your heart and potential, also tied in the vase, very lonely, insecure.

Foreign companies are in a large system, even if done very successfully, but also a part of the whole link, behind the brand, logistics, products and many other resources in support. There is a limit to this sense of achievement, and in the end, it is only a small part of the system. Some people have done statistics, empty to private enterprises in foreign enterprises, the success rate of less than 10%, in addition to cultural factors, is the problem of resilience.

Therefore, the foreign people look at others to entrepreneurial heart itch, but in the face of no system, platform, brand support, but also more timid and fear. When you are comfortable in the old place, you are less willing to take risks. I met a lot of friends working in foreign companies, often decide whether or not to start a business will take two or three years, and so think well, the opportunity is gone. They are good at rational analysis, in fact, entrepreneurship is an impulse and passion, not by analysis can draw conclusions.

Second, entrepreneurs are often the ones with a great deal of merit and many flaws. The most important thing is to put your long board to the extreme, which I made very clear in the May issue of the 7 qualities of successful entrepreneurs. But the way and the goal of cultivating people in foreign companies is not quite the same. At the end of each year, the foreign companies do a variety of performance evaluation, "What do you have to do this, what is insufficient, according to your shortcomings, what needs to be done to upgrade." Everyone who works in a foreign company eventually becomes almost a type. What makes you fail may be your short board, but what makes you successful must be your long board.

Third, failure is a process that entrepreneurs have to go through. Can come out in adversity, can repeatedly defeated repeatedly war, is the basic skills of entrepreneurs. For example, Shi Yuzhu (micro-bo), Ding Lei, Jiangnan Spring (micro-Bo), Charles Zhang, Ma Yun (micro-bo), Chen and other star entrepreneurs, in the process of entrepreneurship has experienced escape, but also is experiencing.

But in the foreign enterprise environment is not allowed you to fail. Usually in a foreign company, if the two-quarter completion of the task will have to leave. The top executive in China, including foreign companies, has to leave after a year without a task. Foreign company headquarters in the United States, not people in the management of you, but a set of systems in the management of you. System for failure is almost 0 tolerated, you see Microsoft executives in China, how many have been in office for more than two years?

Over time, people who work in foreign companies become perfectionists-"fear of failure", a trait that is inherently unsuitable for entrepreneurship because he is inherently fearful of failure. Once the setback falls, it feels like the sky is falling down and it may not get up.