Summary
Guotaimin,who was born on December 8th, 1950 in Taipei country, one of the most famous entrepreneurs in Taiwan. He is the founder of Taiwan's largest companies Hon Hai Precision, and the largest private company in china,Foxconn.
Guo used to be the Taiwan's richest man, he made his company-Hon Hai from a manufacturer of TV parts to a global electronic product "OEM king".
Experience
1971, he started working at shipping companies in Taiwan rehabilitation; 1974,he started his own business with his friends. However, without one year, his friends left the company because of a bad management. In 1977, the company began to turn around. In 80 years of the 20th century, when the world entered the personal computer era, Gou occupied the market by the hands of mature technologies quickly. In 1985, in addition to open new markets out of Taiwan, he build up “FOXCONN” in united states. At this point, Terry Gou has successfully built his "connector kingdoms."
In 2000, Hon Haibreak out the value of 100 billion yuan, and then Terry Gou actively expand the scope. Since then, the value of Hon Hai has been increasing by an annual rate of 100 billion yuanper year for years. In2005, Hon Hai Group has exceeded one trillion total market capitalization, Taiwan Terry Gou has been hailed as the industry "Genghis Khan."
Leadership
Dared to use --- the personnel change will only
"Compared to other IT industry leaders is to train personnel, Gou is the only culture." Former general manager of Dell's Asia-Pacific procurement Hon Hai Fang said.
Gou had said: “Talent. Personnel selection and training, is the eternal problem of an enterprise” Terry Gou is willing to spend in investment talent.
In order to introduce optical communications experts, he dare to published in the mediaannual salary of 10 million Never stingy to spend money in the investment of talentand the purchase of advanced equipment
Military’s management
Gou’s management is similar to the military,every employee who wants to work for the
company must undergo a 5-day basic training, including the entire team at ease、 at attention and marching and so on. For senior executives, Gou take more stringent requirements. When his questions to them at any time, if not answer, he will immediately blurt out curse words, and even punish them to stand by the meeting room.