Through the barber store to see the enterprise's partnership system

I usually cut hair often go to a barber store called "classic", the store is not big, located in the neighborhood, there are three masters, often give me a haircut of the masters we all call him Xiao He. Once a haircut with small He talked about how business and income, because it is a regular customer, he gave me a very detailed introduction to the three of them partnership barbershop.

The barber store is a three-person partnership, the daily haircut, perm, hair coloring of the workforce and the number of times the work by the other two masters were recorded in a separate book, the number of haircuts per day is not recorded, the total amount of money per day minus the other two masters of the number of money is the small He said that the main reason for such a provision is to prevent the three daily record of the total amount of money and actual money there are tens of dollars in small differences in the strife, when he heard this design feel quite ingenious. When I heard this design, I felt that it was quite ingenious, a small design arrangement to solve the common partnership disputes, and at the same time, I could also see that Xiaoga's mind. Every day at work, hair cutting is 50% of each master's commission, perming and coloring is 30% of each master's commission, and the rest is left for the company to calculate the cost and dividends at the end of the month. At the end of the month, first of all, according to the workload of the month will be the master's personal commission due to each person, and then the remaining part of the deduction of rent, water, electricity and other costs, and finally the rest of the company's profit part of the equal share of the three partners. In this barbershop partner system, each master's enthusiasm is very high, work is also very harmonious.

Through this barbershop partnership, combined with the modern partnership business operation, let us see some of the characteristics of the partnership business, I summarize the following six points:

Partners are familiar with each other, mutual understanding, in the determination of the rules of partnership agreement, and each other and win-win, everyone's efforts to pay for the individual, the partners, the company to bring benefits, this is the snowballing benign development.

The freedom of partnership establishment procedure, management mode, dividend mode, etc. is relatively high, because the partners are familiar with each other, and also relatively easy to reach agreement in the above procedure setting, this simple and consistent partnership mode is conducive to the development of the enterprise.

If the enterprise is based on human capital, it is suitable for the establishment of partnership enterprises; if it is based on capital, it is suitable for the establishment of shareholding enterprises. The three partners of the barbershop mentioned above all formed a partnership with their skills in cutting, perming and coloring hair, and the level of each person's business is the basis of the partnership, so they are suitable for forming a partnership.

A partnership has absolute control over the company, and shareholding is sometimes inferior to partnership in this respect. In a shareholding system, if the founders dilute their equity in order to bring in capital, when they lose their holdings, the major shareholders, who are in with capital, have the right to change the founders. Zhou Hang of Etsy and Wang Shi of the Baowan dispute all left because they lost their holdings. Jack Ma's team of 18 founders became minority shareholders as a result of several rounds of financing, and from 2009 onwards, they promptly changed from founders to partners, ensuring control of the company.

Under the partnership system, partners have to bear unlimited liability for the company, and if the company is in crisis, not only the company's assets, but also the partners' own assets will have to accompany them. In order to make up for the risk of unlimited liability of the partnership system, now usually use the combination of partnership and shareholding system, a few partners registered a partnership, and then in the name of the company and then registered a shareholding company or a few companies, the partners that is the control of the partnership, but also the use of the shareholding company for financing, which not only guarantees the right of control, but also with the help of external funds, to avoid unlimited liability. Google's parent company, Alphabet, has adopted an "umbrella company" structure, separating its search, YouTube, and other network subsidiaries from its R&D and investment divisions, which is similar to the combination of partnership and shareholding.

The partnership is built on the basis of complementary resources between the partners, the establishment of the beginning, the partners must have their own strengths and specialties, but with the development of the enterprise, the previous advantages may disappear or alternative, the partners fight and tear is a common thing, this time, if there is a realization of the agreed exit mechanism, the formation of the situation of a good get together and good riddance. Get the old Luo, take off the flower, fast clothing green knife three people not only in marketing, management, technology and other aspects of the formation of complementary, and in the creation of the company at the beginning of the agreed exit mechanism. Xu Xiaoping once said in a speech at Tsinghua: "not to maintain brotherhood *** with the same interests, but to *** with the same interests to maintain brotherhood. "This sentence is still worth deep experience.