This is an alternative history book that retells the entrepreneurial history of Da Qin from a modern workplace perspective. When Shang Yang's KPI assessment meets Lu Buwei's capital game, and when the smoke at Hanguguan turns into the bell of Nasdaq, we will see how China's first "listed company" completed its counterattack from grassroots to hegemony in five hundred years.
The book takes the growth history of start-up companies as the context and disassembles the history of Daqin Group into seven strategic stages: The Ying family, which started in Longxi Ranch, has been managed by nine generations of CEOs. With the capital support of venture capital godfather Lu Buwei, Shang Yang's performance reform activated the wolf nature of the team, and finally achieved main board listing through six rounds of "mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations" (Xianyang Bell Ringing in 221 BC). The book not only contains the exquisite deduction of hard-core assessment schemes such as "Military Merit Nobility System", but also includes Lu Buwei's angel round investment to win the capital game of strangers, and the business legend of Qin Shihuang, the strongest product manager in history, who swept across six countries.
The author uses Internet slang to deconstruct the power of the temple, uses bronze patina to polish business logic, turns Shang Yang's reforms into a workplace survival guide, and turns the Changping War into a merger and acquisition case analysis. When you see Bai Qi filling out the year-end summary of "400,000" on the performance interview form, or Li Si hiding the Dune Change gambling clause in the option agreement, you will understand: There is nothing new under the sun. Daqin Group's boardroom turmoil and the entrepreneurial story of Zhongguancun today share the same human background.
