We often say that entrepreneurship should have its own characteristics and not blindly follow. However, some "characteristics" we'd better not have because they will have a negative impact on your career. Being a businessman is not wrong, but businessmen will inevitably make mistakes. If one can recognize and correct the mistake, it is a great virtue, and the company will be lucky.
1. Partnering like buddies, breaking up like enemies
China Entrepreneurship and Investment Network (http://www.28182.com) reports: The most common pattern of gathering and dispersing in Chinese enterprises - at the beginning of the company's establishment, the partners handle their relationships with feelings and chivalry. Systems and equity are either not determined or vague if they exist.
As the enterprise grows larger, systems become more important, and interests start to attract attention. Thus, "ranking seats, dividing gold and silver, discussing honor and disgrace". Enterprises are either full of internal consumption or scattered like Liangshan heroes.
2. Blind worship of social relations
Relationships drive productivity, so the establishment and use of social relations are necessary abilities for businessmen. But relations do not equal productivity. Treating social relations as a panacea for all problems in enterprise development and forgetting the truth that "iron needs to be hard itself" will lead to misplaced priorities in enterprises, and serious problems will eventually arrive.
3. Superstition about "parachuted talents"
It is said that "foreign monks know how to chant scriptures." The right approach should be: "parachuted talents" must be used, but not misused or fully relied upon. Chinese enterprises have already learned too many lessons in this regard, yet there will always be someone who cannot help making mistakes: abandoning the talents around them and blindly believing in the masters far away.
4. Pillarization of enterprises