Tan Rongxi: Walking on the top of the mountain

There are thousands of leaders and different leadership models, but Tan Rongxi is one that can make all employees convince and praise.

Tan Rongxi got a high score in the company's anonymous internal rating scale for the boss in the past year. "The night HR told me about this, I slept soundly," he said with a smile.

Heroes don't ask where they came from

In Tan Rongxi's company, you can see all kinds of people. Irene is one of them. "She used to be an auctioneer," a Future Electronics employee told me.

The conversation with Irene was brief, but she was very impressive. This flamboyant woman used to work in the auction industry in China. After studying in Montreal, Canada, she looked for a job there. After seeing the job advertisement of the parent company of Future Electronics in Canada, she was attracted and bravely submitted her resume. Tin Admissions.

"I look at a person, not whether he is a professional, I will look at whether he has passion." Tan Rongxi attaches great importance to a person's passion. Sure enough, Irene joined the company for 5 years, and after nearly a year of training, she was arranged to return to China. She has an outstanding track record and is now in charge of the company's marketing efforts in East China and North China.

Worth mentioning is the training that attracted Irene to the company. Tan Rongxi thinks this is a very brave and successful thing he did. Five years ago, he personally participated in the recruitment of 37 or 8 new employees from all walks of life. After he was recruited into the company, Tan Rongxi immediately let them go deep into various departments of the company, including finance, legal affairs, sales, marketing, and even Administration and other departments conduct training, ranging from a few months to a few days for each department, so that they can have a deep understanding of the company's structure, culture and all aspects, and then uniformly assign them to various suitable positions. In the end, one-third of these people stayed in North America, and one-third were sent to Asia Pacific to explore emerging markets. The results proved that the contributions made by the 2/3 employees who have stayed so far are astonishing.

Make the impossible possible

Although Future Electronics was ranked third in the world before, the situation in Asia has not been opened due to its late entry. Therefore, two years ago, Tan Rongxi decided to return to Asia and put his heart into it. Explore emerging markets in Asia.

“The electronic components industry is a mature industry, and everyone basically adopts the established ideas to create an inherent market. But I saw the potential of this market, so I created a new business field, and gradually introduced some of the previous industry. Unexpected channels have been opened up and done smoothly." Tan Rongxi introduced. 5 years ago, when this innovative model first started showing signs, they achieved sales of 1 million US dollars; in the second year it became 10 million; in the third year it was 20 million; in the fourth year, last year , they have achieved 40 million US dollars; and this year, the fifth year, their sales target is 100 million.

"It's not a high sales share in the whole company, but now my colleagues in the whole company are very confident that it will grow and gradually become the 'main force' of sales!" When it comes to the goal, he is full of confidence.

What kind of new business model is it? To this "secret" strategy that Fuchang has always been relatively low-key, Tan Rongxi is surprisingly generous: "It's actually very simple to say, we are making some impossible changes. For example, we will cooperate with industries that have not cooperated with us before, and at the same time, we will cooperate with competitors. This is unimaginable in the eyes of other companies. My goal is to win-win or multi-win, and in the end everyone Profit is success."

Wanting to be a stepping stone for employees

Simon, who joined Future Electronics in 2008, talked about his boss and described the same as Irene. Yes, Tan Rongxi gives the impression of being like a sunny day, always full of energy, "He is always so positive, and it makes people feel that any difficulties can be solved by finding him."

The loyalty of employees at Future Electronics is so The high level has a lot to do with Tan Rongxi's leadership style. "He is not a person who will put pressure on you directly," Simon said, "but pressure is invisible. You feel that you need to work hard every day at work. At the same time, you will also feel very relieved, because every You can rely on him for anything that can't be solved or can't be done. He's a trustworthy person and a boss who takes responsibility."

In 2010, when Simon started a new field of business, he couldn't get through. enter. Tan Rongxi once helped him analyze the market and customers together, and even went to meet customers together. "I don't like to be the boss who only knows how to 'cut the ribbon'. I will accompany my employees to meet customers, even in the lowest position, I am willing to meet with them, to be a 'stepping stone' for my employees." Tan Rongxi said.

Tan Rongxi fully understands that it is difficult for ordinary salespeople to meet high-level customers for the first time. His willingness to accompany his employees to meet low-level clients is enough to make employees feel confident. "How can I ask employees to do things that I can't do?" From Tan Rongxi's words, we can fully taste the "invisible pressure" that Simon said.

Challenge myself constantly

Tan Young-suk doesn't deny that he is a "workaholic", but he is not a stereotyped person who can only work. He loves sports, and is especially attracted to those projects that are rich in heritage and require constant challenges.

"When I was studying, my strengths were the 110-meter hurdles and the triple jump," he revealed on the highway back to Shanghai from the Moganshan location.

Now, on weekdays, he would go to the swimming pool in his backyard for a few laps in the quiet night, and would also find time to travel around in his off-road vehicle. A masterpiece created by nature for mankind.

During the filming, he stroked the Range Rover behind him and said, "I like big cars. They are quiet, stable and low-key, and have a luxurious personality that can't be ignored. It makes people look very confident. It seems that anything happens at any time. Can be held at ease. This also coincides with Rongxi's personality, which is dynamic and relaxed. He would go to the homes of Taiwanese tea farmers he knew today to choose and order the tea he liked, and he would also experience the hardships of going up the mountain and the coolness of going down the mountain in extreme skiing.

Speaking of extreme skiing, he explained: "Extreme skiing originated in Canada and is a high-end sport. It is different from alpine skiing in that the skis used are relatively shorter, with two feet worn separately and each hand holding one Only ski poles. Unlike other ski events, it can not only slide down the mountain, but also need to walk up the mountain. Of course, it is definitely not easy to go up the mountain. I like the difficult process of going up the mountain. It is a challenge and test for people. ."

Usually do extreme skiing, climbing up a distance of about 1,000 meters with snowboards on. It is conceivable that even climbing a mountain with a drop of 1,000 meters is not too easy, and it is still wearing snowboards. Tan Rongxi sometimes walks up the road alone. He once climbed on his snowboard for several hours before reaching the slide. "The most attractive part is the sense of achievement and pleasure that can't be replaced by any experience when you cross the psychological and physical obstacles in extreme skiing," he said.

[Character introduction] Tan Rongxi, Vice President of Future Electronics Asia Pacific.