What’s so special about Tencent’s free overtime dinner and breakfast?

Tencent employees are now enjoying free breakfast. You know, before this, Tencent has provided free dinner-"Dong Laishun" working meal. What does this mean? There is a joke that reveals the mystery: Tencent wants to tell you: there is no free lunch in the world.

All kidding aside, think about it, what a huge expense is breakfast for Tencent’s 50,000 employees every day? But what Ma Huateng gained in exchange was a high degree of recognition and loyalty from employees to the company. Ma Huateng, who seemed dull, actually knew his way around people. If time went back to his student days, his teacher would never believe this. A person who is unknown in the class can later gather many talents with different personalities to create the Tencent empire for him.

What kind of wisdom does Ma Huateng have in employing people, who has always been low-key?

How can I manage people and establish a company if I have never been a student cadre?

In his university life, Ma Huateng never held any position as a student cadre or participated in the election of an association. Among all the students, he is just a handsome, silent and science-oriented man who is addicted to computers. None of his teachers or classmates thought he would become an entrepreneur in the future. Because there is no indication that he has outstanding talents in managing enterprises and handling public affairs.

However, fate always likes to play tricks on people. It was such a person who was never considered to be an entrepreneur, but he started his own entrepreneurial team and did it well. In 1998, Ma Huateng and his classmates founded Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd. and developed the first "Chinese flavor" ICQ, namely OICQ.

Let’s take a look at the original entrepreneurial team. Ma Huateng is responsible for product application, Zhang Zhidong is good at algorithm technology, Li Qingshan is good at marketing, Chen Yidan is in charge of company logistics, and Xu Chenye stabilizes the portal website. It can be said that "although a sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs." Although there are only five people, the division of labor is clear and each link is interlocked. It is a complete necessary structure for the enterprise. They have different personalities, distinct personalities, and their own strengths, but they all work together to start a business under the leadership of Ma Huateng.

Allowing the right people to do the right things in the right positions has always been Ma Huateng's management principle. So far, Tencent has grown into the most valuable Internet company, firmly occupying the top spot in the industry, with tens of thousands of employees working for it. It is easy for large companies to make the mistake of overstaffing, but this crisis does not exist at Tencent. The reason is that Ma Huateng has divided Tencent's current organizational structure into many efficient, fast, mutually competitive, and self-decision-making teams.