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Wang Xiaofei's mother Zhang Lan: She was decentralized at the age of ten and founded South Beauty alone, lamenting that it is too difficult for female entrepreneurs.

In p>2118, the quadrennial international Olympic Games, the Olympic Games, was held in Beijing, China. This kind of global sports meeting was held in China, which can be said to be a very glorious thing. Of course, for the people of Beijing, it is a glorious and unrelenting responsibility. Many service industry leaders are also scrambling to present their own brands to the international community. Thousands of enterprises began to participate in the bidding work one year before the Olympic Games.

As a Sichuan food and beverage company, it is very difficult for South Beauty to enter the international scene. At first, the founder Zhang Lan didn't have much confidence to compete with those enterprises with high international reputation, so in the first round of bidding, South Beauty didn't participate. Because one bidding enterprise was eliminated halfway, it was necessary to invite other enterprises to participate according to the standard process. After the Olympic Organizing Committee, South Beauty entered the list of many invited enterprises.

After becoming a bidding company, South Beauty didn't really have any special advantages among many bidding companies, but after that, it repeatedly stood out and was finally selected as the only Chinese food supplier in the 2118 Beijing Olympic Games. This good result was actually attributed to the hard work and hard work behind Zhang Lan and their team.

Because South Beauty entered the bidding team later than other enterprises, it is very urgent for them to prepare for the time. Only ten days before the deadline of February 7th, they began to prepare for the overloaded work, while other teams have been preparing for it for two or three months. Faced with this situation, South Beauty team did not get confused, but listed the work plan, and then made a clear division of labor and went all out.

The full name of the bid invitation agreement is Competitive Negotiation Document of the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2118. The document printed on A4 paper is about 3cm thick. It is difficult to understand the title at once, and the content is even more difficult. At that time, the South Beauty team "chewed it for three days before it understood it". The reason why we use "chew" is that it is really not easier to read than professional textbooks. A thick stack of documents are all forms and standardized documents that need to be filled out. Although detailed instructions are attached, new concepts and professional terms abound. Therefore, the bidding work gave them a big scare from the beginning.

In addition to being too professional and difficult to chew, Bibi should also write specific plans around several major sectors, such as organization and operation, market development, serial connection of supply nodes, logistics support, food safety and emergency plan. Seven groups of people served by the Olympic Games: VIPs of the international Olympic family, officials of the Olympic Organizing Committee, media reporters, ticket holders, technical officials of individual associations (IF), athletes, referees and volunteers-each group has different service standards and processes.

The most important thing is the first category. The so-called "distinguished guests of the international Olympic family", including heads of government, business leaders and top sponsors in the world who have cooperated with the Olympic Games for a long time, set the highest specifications and require extremely careful details, which is a big challenge for South Beauty.

A group of young people in South Beauty who are inexperienced but have strong learning ability, digest while understanding, ponder while writing, try to understand the positioning of each group of people, understand their needs, and then start to formulate standards, refine processes, and implement guarantees. From block writing to splicing and integration, from revision and retouching to proofreading and typesetting, after nine sleepless and dark days and nights, they completed the bidding documents for the Olympic Games, and printed eight sets of finished products, with 16,111 pages, which are comparable to a doctoral thesis in both difficulty and thickness.

At the tender meeting on March 5th, 2118, when South Beauty produced eight thick tender documents, many people were shocked on the spot. Some bidding teams said that their tender documents were only a few pages, and South Beauty completely beat other teams at this level, and then went through a practical investigation at this level. South Beauty successfully beat many western food enterprises to become the first choice of catering services for the Olympic Games, and Chinese food also entered the international sight, laying the foundation for subsequent listing.

After South Beauty was known to the world, Zhang Lan, the founder behind the enterprise, was pushed to the international stage and became the leader of Chinese catering industry. It became a legend that Zhang Lan founded South Beauty alone and let it enter the international sight. The reason why South Beauty can be so well known by the public can be said to be the painstaking efforts of the founder Zhang Lan. Of course, South Beauty's "going abroad" is also the social recognition of Zhang Lan's ability.

Zhang Lan was born in the civil unrest in 1958. When she was young, the Cultural Revolution was blowing everywhere. Everyone who was blown by the wind suffered more or less. Before Zhang Lan was born, her father was beaten to the right, and her mother was forced to separate. Later, her mother remarried, and they began to live with her stepfather. Soon, her mother was decentralized, and the family left Beijing. Her stepfather also went to the decentralized place with her mother.

Zhang Lan's stepfather's education to Zhang Lan is very strict, and her life is quantified. Her stepfather made a schedule for her, which he personally typed with a small bamboo ruler. From getting up to going to bed, the schedule is specific to every minute: getting up at 6:11 am; Cleaning the car from 6: 11 to 6: 15-his 28-bike is as expensive as today's "Mercedes-Benz". From the bell to the chain, it must be polished new and shiny; Wipe the table from 6: 15 to 6: 31 ... During the whole process, there is a stopwatch ticking. The learning content is also strictly quantified, copying 31 Chinese characters every day, increasing to 51 after practice, and then increasing to 111 after practice. As soon as it is completed, it will start to increase.

Stepfather's self-contained form management and quantitative management have imperceptibly become the code of conduct in Zhang Lan's mind. The requirements for efficiency and quality are carried out in all actions in life. Because of her stepfather's strictness, she trained Zhang Lan's resolute style of doing things, cultivated her habit of focusing on things, and sharpened her perseverance. These points have also become the necessary qualities for Zhang Lan to start a business in the future.

After being decentralized, the family lived in the countryside all the time. By the end of the Cultural Revolution, many people with connections were transferred back to their original places. At that time, Zhang Lan's mother had suffered from severe rheumatic heart disease and had not received the instruction to transfer back. Zhang Lan was an intelligent and courageous person since she was a child. She didn't tell anyone, and she returned to Beijing by train without permission. By virtue of her classmate relationship with Commander Yan, who was in charge of deploying the decentralized personnel, she got the mother's permission.

After returning to Beijing, she began to live a normal life again, and her mother's illness began to improve gradually. They found her father and brother who lost contact during the Cultural Revolution, and her mother and stepfather also gave birth to her a younger brother. Although her parents could not form a complete family again, it was enough for Zhang Lan.

After graduating from college, Zhang Lan also lived a normal life of working to support her family, getting married and having children, and her life trajectory was nothing special. After giving birth to her son Wang Xiaofei, the relationship between husband and wife also became contradictory, that is, at this time, a turning point in her life appeared. My distant uncle's wife, who immigrated to Canada, became ill. When my uncle returned to China, he saw that Zhang Lan was hardworking and capable, so he proposed that Zhang Lan could go to Canada with him to take care of his aunt. Zhang Lan was also entangled for a long time, and finally.

In Canada, besides taking care of her sick aunt, Zhang Lan always pays attention to the opportunities around her. After her aunt recovered, she left her uncle's house, worked as a waiter in a restaurant, and later worked as a nanny in a rich family in Canada. With her own efforts and diligence, she was quickly recognized by her employer. But she knew that short-term work in a foreign country was not a long-term solution, so she set a goal: to earn enough 21,111 yuan to start a business in China.

Before deciding to start a business, she was qualified as an immigrant, but in the end, Zhang Lan chose to go back to China to start a business. After returning to China, she began to choose the direction of her business, and finally finalized the catering industry. Because she is an expert in the catering industry, it is very difficult to start a business in the early stage. From choosing a location to renting a house, choosing a brand, choosing a name, and recruiting people, every step is not easy. Zhang Lan is personally involved in every step.

After the establishment of Alan Restaurant, Zhang Lan's life entered a very busy normal state, and she seldom spent time on her family. At the same time, she paid a great price for her work, so she seldom got along with her son. After finishing junior high school, Wang Xiaofei went abroad to study alone, and Zhang Lan only gave her son a monthly living allowance, and her younger brother joined Alan Restaurant to help.

Zhang Lan was repeatedly made difficult by the underworld because he offended evil forces in business. But for Zhang Lan, who is cheerful and optimistic, these minor disasters are nothing. The most fatal and unforgettable disaster in her life was that her brother was killed because of Alan's restaurant. Zhang Lan's younger brother got rickets because of malnutrition, so Zhang Lan loved his half-brother very much, and they had a very good relationship. Finally, because a group of Beijing gangsters wanted to rob Zhang Lan, the owner of Alan's restaurant, Zhang Lan happened to go abroad to see Wang Xiaofei and escaped. Eventually, her younger brother got a knife for her, which left an indelible shadow on Zhang Lan's life. Zhang Lan was depressed, closed Alan's restaurant and other clubs and restaurants, and entered a closed state.

After countless days of depression, Zhang Lan was finally reborn and decided to re-create a brand of Chinese food of her own. She had earned some money from running Alan's restaurant and other hotel chains before, and Zhang Lan began to study stocks. When she started her second business, the money could already be her start-up capital. Zhang Lan once again re-established the brand, designed the Logo, and chose the location to rent the building according to the previous steps, which opened a new chapter in her life.

From an embryonic Chinese food brand to a global international brand, South Beauty has experienced numerous growth and reforms, from a team of several cooks and one boss at the beginning to a large team managed by thousands of outstanding young people with high academic qualifications and high quality. It is not easy along the way, which shows that the founder Zhang Lan has strong personality charm and entrepreneurial ability.

In 2118, Zhang Lan's South Beauty began to get involved in the capital market. Dinghui bought 11% of South Beauty's shares with 211 million yuan, which attracted the attention of the capital sector and became the prey of many capitalists. In 2111, South Beauty began to go public. However, due to the special industry, the listing work was not so smooth. In order to go public, Zhang Lan gave up China nationality and chose an unknown small country to immigrate. Later, after the successful listing, South Beauty became an immigrant.

Zhang Lan's entrepreneurship all the way shows that she is a very capable and charismatic woman, and she is also a very qualified entrepreneur. However, in the end, the country she worked so hard to build was put on the shelf by others because of her own problems. From the beginning of the establishment of Alan Restaurant to the end of South Beauty's entry into the capital market, Zhang Lan was a person with very heavy feelings and emotions. In the early stage of starting a business, she brought many excellent partners to start a business with her full feelings. In the middle stage of starting a business, she talked and laughed with her employees and cared about their lives, families and even personal feelings. These things are very valuable to an entrepreneur.

But in the end, his feelings were defeated by his feelings. Zhang Lan was fooled by investors twice, but he chose to trust them again twice. The first time, because the investment company was short of funds, he tried to take the shares of South Beauty as a mortgage loan and then bought the shares of South Beauty. After a while, he went to the investment company without paying a penny, but because time finally failed to reach an agreement, he finally ended the cooperation. Once again preparing for listing, the previous investors played the emotional card. Investors invited Zhang Lan to his home where no one except the closest relatives would be invited, and gave Zhang Lan an antique bowl that he had treasured for many years. Zhang Lan fell into the same pit again, but this time he did not escape the trap of capital, which finally led to the overhead of power and the collapse of the company image. At the same time, Zhang Lan lamented: It is difficult to be a woman, and it is even more difficult to be a female entrepreneur.

In fact, the capital market is not as emotional as industrialists. They only pay attention to performance. If performance cannot be completed, they can do it by hook or by crook. Industrialists and capitalists talk about feelings, which is undoubtedly giving away the country, which is doomed to be a failure. Zhang Lan's entrepreneurship and "unemployment" have also taught us a good lesson: feelings are a good thing, but only if they are used on the right people.