Recently, I have frequently seen a gray-haired lady with elegant manners and extraordinary demeanor.
If you look closely, isn't this the "Working Queen" Wu Shihong ?
The former Wu Shihong was much louder in terms of fame than today's Dong Mingzhu .
20 years ago, she counterattacked from a young nurse and became the general manager of IBM China distribution channel, Microsoft China general manager, and TCL Group executive vice president.
Wu Shihong was smart and capable
But she was in the limelight and left Microsoft to TCL to engage in the Internet. Later, she owed a large amount of debt due to failure in entrepreneurship, and disappeared for a long time since then. In the video of
, 59-year-old Wu Shihong said it without hesitation, mentioning that he failed to start a business because of depression and thought of suicide, telling what he is doing now.
When narrated his experience over the years, Wu Shihong looked calm and his laughter was clear.
People thought that Wu Shihong disappeared after he walked down from the peak. In fact, she just traveled again and found herself again.
"Ugly Duckling" with inferiority
Before entering IBM, Wu Shihong always claimed to be an "Ugly Duckling".
Recalling her experience, she said: No matter how difficult it is, I have to survive because I have no way out.
In 1963, Wu Shihong was born in a poor family in the suburbs of Beijing.
Until before going to middle school, Wu Shihong wore old clothes and shoes his sisters wore.
Forget it, because of poor family background, Wu Shihong graduated from junior high school and was deprived of his right to go to high school.
cannot go to school, so Wu Shihong can only find another way out. After being introduced by someone, I came to Chunshu Hospital in Xuanwu District, Beijing to work as a young nurse.
is said to be a nurse, but in fact he is an handyman who is outside the organization. Every day, in addition to following the nurse to learn to get injections and medicine, he also cleans the hospital toilets and corridors.
At that time, Wu Shihong's monthly salary was only a few yuan, which was pitifully small.
But she had no choice. She only had a junior high school education and had poor family composition, so she could only wait slowly.
The old saying goes, hemp rope always breaks in fine places.
1979, 16-year-old Wu Shihong suddenly found that he lost his hair when washing his hair, and he often felt dizzy.
Wu Shihong quickly had an examination in the hospital and found that she had leukemia .
Leukemia is what ordinary people call "blood cancer". Under the medical conditions at that time, there was little hope of cure.
Wu Shihong knew the situation at home and asked the doctor directly: "If you don't treat it, how long can you live?"
She thought that if she could hold on for a few years, she would find a way to earn more money for her family, and it would not be in vain to raise her daughter.
After the doctor and colleagues found out, they persuaded her to receive treatment and not be so negative.
Fortunately, the hospital saw that Wu Shihong was young and was considered an employee of this hospital, so she arranged for her hospitalization for free.
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When treatment was performed, Wu Shihong lived in the hematologic department, his whole body was swollen, his face was pale, and his hair had already fallen off. She didn't dare to look in the mirror, let alone walk out of the ward.
In addition to hanging water and taking medicine on time every day, Wu Shihong lies quietly on the hospital bed, and there is a gray world in front of him.
Resigned to fate Wu Shihong never thought that his illness could be cured. He asked the doctor to treat it casually, just treat it as an experimental mouse for leukemia patients.
Wu Shihong recalled in his book, "In those years, I don't know how many times I cried, and I lived so humbly every day, receiving treatment."
No one expected that, perhaps because the condition was discovered in time, or perhaps the treatment plan that the doctors kept trying had effect. After four years of treatment in the hospital, Wu Shihong's illness was cured.
On the day of discharge, Wu Shihong stood on the street with his eyes narrowed, bathing in the long-lost sunshine.
The long wind from Yanshan swept the imperial city, through the alley, and finally turned into a gentle warm wind to comfort the cheek of this "resurrected from the dead" girl.
hard IBM interview
After walking around the gate of hell, Wu Shihong decided that he could not let God down and had to change his life.
At that time, there were a lot of black-branded cars on the streets of Beijing, which were foreign companies that had just entered China.
In the eyes of many people, it is definitely a good thing to be able to enter a foreign company with a very high salary, and Wu Shihong is no exception.
You can think of joining a foreign company and you must first know English. Wu Shihong even forgot all the basic words at that time.
So, Wu Shihong bought a second-hand recorder and borrowed several volumes of Xu Guozhang's English, which had a corner micro-copy. He spent half a year studying hard and finally passed the higher education self-study English exam.
The foreign company has touched it, but if you want to get a college diploma when you go in.
Wu Shihong spent another year and a half to get his college diploma through the self-study exam.
In 1985, Wu Shihong saw that the IBM Beijing office was recruiting talents from all languages and had a very generous salary.
Wu Shihong was very moved and ran to sign up immediately.
English written test was successfully passed, and the next is the oral interview. This made Wu Shihong difficult, because he usually taught himself "dumb English" and he was also "parrot" when he was watching the recorder.
There are two weeks left before the interview. She immediately signed up for the amateur tour guide's English short training class, taking a group of foreigners to travel while practicing speaking frantically.
In this way, Wu Shihong, who has made great progress in speaking, successfully passed the test.
At that time, IBM entrusted the Beijing Foreign Enterprise Service Corporation to help with the recruitment, and IBM sent someone to participate in the interview.
The foreign interviewer was not very satisfied with Wu Shihong's education and asked her deliberately: Do you know what kind of company IBM is?
Wu Shihong replied honestly, not clear.
The other party immediately asked, how do you know that you are qualified to work in IBM?
With the picky interviewer, Wu Shihong also responded without hesitation. She asked angrily: How can I know that I am not qualified if you don’t need it? If I hired me, I wouldn't let IBM regret it.
The foreigner was amused by her words, and suddenly asked her a question, "Do you know how to type?"
Wu Shihong, who had never seen a typewriter, didn't even think about it, and replied subconsciously: "Yes!"
Wu Shihong looked around guiltily and found that there were no objects in the room like typewriter , thinking that if you learn immediately, it would not be considered a lie.
After walking out of the examination room, Wu Shihong immediately borrowed money to buy a typewriter and practiced typing day and night. His hands were so tired that he couldn't even hold the chopsticks.
In just two weeks, she reached the professional typing level and finally successfully entered IBM.
Inferiority is the biggest motivation
Although he got IBM's job opportunities, Wu Shihong is just the lowest level of " Administrative Commissioner ".
Wu Shihong, who just joined IBM,
, made tea and poured water, cleaned and purchased office supplies, which was a world of difference from those real white-collar workers who were arrogant all day long.
even pushed a flatbed cart to buy office supplies, and she would be stopped by the security guard at the door and tossed and turned to check her entry and exit permit.
In the company, everyone can call her around and don’t care about her feelings at all.
Someone misread her name and called her "Wu Tuhong". She explained carefully, and the other party waved his hand and said that everything was the same.
A Hong Kong employee likes to drink coffee and usually loves to do things.
Suddenly one day, she lowered her face and said to Wu Shihong in public, "If you want to drink coffee, please tell me!"
It turned out that she felt the coffee had changed and thought Wu Shihong had secretly drunk her coffee.
At that time, Wu Shihong was in pain and inferior, and wanted to leave several times, but IBM's high salary made her reluctant to leave.
She could only swear secretly, "One day, I will climb to the leadership of the company so that everyone can no longer throw dirty water on my own."
Inferiority can be like a mountain to overwhelm people, thus making you silent forever, or it can generate powerful motivation like a thruster.
This was Wu Shihong's real thought at that time and also her motivation for working hard later.
Since then, I arrived at the company at the earliest every day and got off work at the latest.
In IBM's period, Wu Shihong was very diligent
Use any time and opportunity every day to ask old employees for business and imitate other people's style of doing things.
In her office, there are several alarm clocks hidden in her drawer, reminding her to complete different tasks at different times.
When she gets home from get off work, she will squeeze out another 6 hours and practice speaking repeatedly at home against the walls.
Every time she is exhausted, she will say to herself: I can’t stop, I can’t stop even a single step.
Wu Shihong's goal is to become IBM's business representative, which is the highest salary and the most decent job for Chinese people in IBM.
Staying up late and living irregularly for a long time. Wu Shihong got kidney stones , but the pain was so painful that she couldn't get up. She still held on to attend meetings and do things.
was busy at the company until late at night, and Wu Shihong was reluctant to take a taxi back, so he covered his army coat and spent the night on the sofa.
In just half a year, she was the first to be a business representative among the same batch of employed people.
Because of outstanding performance, Wu Shihong has been promoted from salesperson, sales manager, and South China District general manager.
It took Wu Shihong 12 years to climb from the bottom-level employee to the general manager of South China, and he is the fastest-promoted employee in IBM China.
jumped up first, and then found a place to go
In June 1994, Wu Shihong pulled his suitcase from Beijing to Guangzhou to take office.
The first thing she did when she came to the new company was to "drive out" the sales team of more than 40 people and let them all go to business and conduct research.
Wu Shihong led the sales team in South China to fight everywhere
She told the salesperson, "Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Nothing wrong basically means doing nothing. Let's go out and make a few beautiful mistakes to see!"
Inspired by Wu Shihong's desperate spirit, IBM's sales in South China region have grown from more than 40 people to more than 240 people in three years, and its business has doubled several times, directly catching up with the East China region of Shanghai, which has always performed well.
Wu Shihong was therefore called the "King of the South" by IBM China, and finally had the day to be proud.
In 1997, Wu Shihong returned to Beijing as the general manager of IBM China distribution channel.
The people who sneered at her at the beginning were panicked and came to please and flatter her.
After years of experience, Wu Shihong is no longer the "ugly duckling" who was once inferior, but a manager who dominates the "power of life and death" of tens of thousands of people in IBM China.
Her identity and realm have long passed the stage of "revengeful revenge", becoming mature, open-minded, and more scheming and means.
She can talk with customers while tasting good wine, and she can sit down and drink Erguotou with the security guard and driver.
Facing the staff who had brought her humiliation in the past, she smiled and comforted everyone indifferently.
But when IBM headquarters was about to transfer her to the United States for further study and to continue to entrust her with important tasks, an unexpected family change her life trajectory.
At that time, Wu Shihong's parents fell ill, his father was in critical condition, and his mother had Alzheimer's disease .
In family affection and career, Wu Shihong chose the former without hesitation.
She has experienced the test of life and death and knows so much what life means to her relatives.
In order to treat his parents, Wu Shihong not only gave up the opportunity to further study, but also ran between different hospitals every day.
Although IBM has high hopes for Wu Shihong, reality has to let them choose him, so Wu Shihong gave up his career that he had worked hard at IBM for more than ten years.
But talents like her don’t worry about not having any opportunities.
In 1998, after more than half a year of persuasion, Microsoft successfully poached Wu Shihong from IBM and served as the general manager of Microsoft China. He was fully responsible for Microsoft's China business with an annual salary of one million.
’s past experience and tenacious will have made Wu Shihong adapt to Microsoft’s new environment quickly, and completed 130% of the company’s annual sales in just 7 months.
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When she went on stage to give a speech, her face was full of pride and pride, saying, "I can control the rudder of my destiny. I want the whole world to know that Microsoft (China) has a Wu Shihong."
That year, the autobiography "Flying Against the Wind" written by Wu Shihong became a bestseller and an idol worshipped by countless female white-collar workers.
Wu Shihong
, but no one expected that in May of that year, the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, which shocked the whole country, occurred, and Sino-US relations were deeply in fog. Soon, Wu Shihong was revealed to have resigned from Microsoft because of more important things in his career and life.
As Wu Shihong himself said: I like to jump up first and then find a place to stay.
Many companies learned that Wu Shihong resigned, and the listed company Haci Group called out:
"If she is willing to join (Wu Shihong) , I am willing to pay an annual salary of 100 million yuan."
In the end, Wu Shihong chose TCL Group as the group's executive director and vice president, and general manager of TCL information industry (group) Co., Ltd.
Wu Shihong, who is already a top professional manager in China,
If the story goes here, it will be a good ending for Wu Shihong, and she will inevitably become a strong woman who dominates China's IT industry.
But in this world, there will always be accidents.
3333333333When in TCL, Wu Shihong made many plans for TCL's information industry, but due to bad luck, he caught up with the Internet bubble tide, and ultimately no color.
In 2003, Wu Shihong was found to have a heart disease and eventually retreated bravely and turned to charity.
At that time, it was rumored that Wu Shihong's annual salary in TCL reached 200 million yuan.
However, because TCL's chairman Li Dongsheng had complaints about Wu Shihong, the money had not been paid off. When
left TCL, Wu Shihong only had 10.08 million TCL shares, and no transfer was made at that time.
It was not until 2006 that Wu Shihong was preparing to start a business that he transferred these equity to several senior executives within TCL for 30 million yuan.
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In other words, when Wu Shihong ended his identity as "working queen", he only got 30 million.
What’s more regrettable is that Wu Shihong seems to be more suitable for being a professional manager. Her strengths are sales and execution. She failed to start a business alone and almost ended her "old capital" for many years.
When she retired from the world, she was only 43 years old.
Then Wu Shihong hid in the dust, read books, translated books, and occasionally did some management consultation work.
In her later limited interviews, the topic always turned to various charity under her utmost, and that might be a career that she could finally comfort herself.
Wu Shihong's wonderful life is actually very touching, just as her own summary: "In my heart, I always have a deep sense of crisis. If I don't take one step ahead, it means being led by others."
Later, she failed to start a business, owed huge debts, suffered from severe depression, and even thought about dying. But she is Wu Shihong after all. It took nearly ten years to finally get out of the haze and be reborn.
Now, Wu Shihong's appearance is like a shocking wave, evoking memories that have disappeared for a long time in countless people. We feel that she is getting farther and farther away, but she is not the same as seeing us. There is a magical email in the book "Troubleshooting Grocery Store" by Keigo Higashino , and people can get the answers they want.
The end of the book reads:
If you don’t want to live actively and seriously, no matter what kind of answer you get, it will be useless.
In other words, if you want, whether it is a good wind or a headwind, it will not hinder you from flapping your wings and flying high. Text/Moroke
