2020年5月，在一个充满挑战和不确定性的时间点，朱晓静临危受命，出任沃尔玛中国总裁及CEO。在沃尔玛中国20多年的历史上，朱晓静是担任这项职务的首位中国籍高管，也是首位女性CEO。上任三年多来，朱晓静带领沃尔玛中国实现逆势增长，为公司的长期持续发展奠定坚实基础。
在沃尔玛，“多元”与“包容”一直是核心价值观。在中国， 64%的沃尔玛员工是女性，半数以上的管理层是女性，半数以上的高管团队也是女性。朱晓静本人也以其卓越领导力连续入选“中国最具影响力的商界女性”榜单。
2020年5月，在一个充满挑战和不确定性的时间点，朱晓静临危受命，出任沃尔玛中国总裁及CEO。在沃尔玛中国20多年的历史上，朱晓静是担任这项职务的首位中国籍高管，也是首位女性CEO。上任三年多来，朱晓静带领沃尔玛中国实现逆势增长，为公司的长期持续发展奠定坚实基础。
在沃尔玛，“多元”与“包容”一直是核心价值观。在中国， 64%的沃尔玛员工是女性，半数以上的管理层是女性，半数以上的高管团队也是女性。朱晓静本人也以其卓越领导力连续入选“中国最具影响力的商界女性”榜单。
以下为本次访谈的要点：
回归零售本质
- 朱晓静认为，虽然很多事情在变，但零售的本质从来没有变过。这三年一直在做的，就是把最好的商品以最高的效率用最好的价格提供给消费者。除此以外，回顾过去几年带领沃尔玛逆流而上的经历，朱晓静更多地归功于“人才+组织+文化”三位一体的打造。
领导者的必备能力
- 首先是对自己的管理。企业领导者和运动员一样，都需要保持巅峰竞技状态，而且我们面对的是更长期、更高强度的企业经营，这就需要尽可能地将自己的体力、心力和脑力等各方面配合到最好，以保证决策的质量。其次，真正优秀的领导者是能够创造希望的，在清醒状态下保持热情保持信念，然后感染、传递给组织里的每一个人，带领大家一起往前走。
工作的意义
- 工作是生命中非常重要的一部分，如果你不热爱你的工作，那就几乎等于你不热爱你的生命。热爱是把一切事情做到优秀的前提，尤其是到了职场的下半场，如果没有热爱，工作会很难，很容易被限制住。
职场all-in的价值
- 提倡性别平等绝对不是零和游戏。我们帮助女性摆脱角色受限的同时，也是在帮助男性，所以性别平等对女性和男性是同等有益的。性别平等和女性赋能需要全社会的参与，我相信，在参与的过程中，男性也会对自己人生的深度和广度有很大的拓展。
翻译：
In this installment of the “To the Top: Seeing China’s Female Leaders” interview series, Junna Shi, McKinsey Global Managing Partner, talks with Xiaojing Zhu, President and CEO of Walmart China, about overcoming challenges, the qualities of leadership, the meaning of work, and gender equality in the workplace.
In May 2020, at a time full of challenges and uncertainties. Zhu Xiaojing was appointed as the president and CEO of Walmart China. Zhu is the first Chinese executive and the first female CEO in Walmart China’s more than 20-year history. Over the past three years, Zhu Xiaojing has led Walmart China to achieve contrarian growth and laid a solid foundation for the company’s long-term sustainable development.
“Diversity” and “inclusion” have always been core values at Walmart.
In China, 64% of Walmart employees are women, more than half of the management team is female. And more than half of the executive team is female. Zhu Xiaojing herself has been included in the list of “China’s Most Influential Business Women” for her leadership excellence.
In this installment of the “To the Top: Seeing China’s Female Leaders” interview series, Junna Shi, McKinsey Global Managing Partner, talks with Xiaojing Zhu, President and CEO of Walmart China, about overcoming challenges, the qualities of leadership, the meaning of work, and gender equality in the workplace.
In May 2020, at a time full of challenges and uncertainties. Zhu Xiaojing was appointed as the president and CEO of Walmart China. Zhu is the first Chinese executive and the first female CEO in Walmart China’s more than 20-year history. Over the past three years, Zhu Xiaojing has led Walmart China to achieve contrarian growth and laid a solid foundation for the company’s long-term sustainable development.
“Diversity” and “inclusion” have always been core values at Walmart. In China, 64% of Walmart employees are women, more than half of the management team is female. And more than half of the executive team is female. Zhu Xiaojing herself has been included in the list of “China’s Most Influential Business Women” for her leadership excellence.
Here are the highlights of the interview:
Back to the basics of retail. Zhu Xiaojing believes that although many things are changing, the nature of retail has never changed. What we have been doing for the past three years is to provide the best goods to consumers with the highest efficiency and the best price. In addition, looking back on the past few years to lead Walmart upstream experience, Zhu Xiaojing owes more to the “talent + organization + culture” trinity to build.
Essential leadership skills. The first is the management of oneself. Business leaders, like athletes, need to maintain their peak competitive status, and we are faced with a longer term, higher intensity of business operations, which needs to be as much as possible to their physical, mental and mental aspects of the best to ensure the quality of decision-making. Second, the really good leaders are those who can create hope, maintain enthusiasm and faith in a sober state, and then infect and pass it on to everyone in the organization to lead everyone forward.
The meaning of work. Work is a very important part of life.
And if you don’t love your work, it’s almost as if you don’t love your life. Love is the premise of doing everything well, especially in the second half of the workplace, if there is no love, the work is difficult and easy to be limited.
The value of workplace all-ins. Promoting gender equality is definitely not a zero-sum game. When we help women escape their limited roles, we also help men, so gender equality is equally good for women and men. Gender equality and women’s empowerment require the participation of the whole society, and I believe that in the process of participation, men will also greatly expand the depth and breadth of their lives.
