Zhang Ruimin

Jim Collins and Jerry Porras wrote in Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies that many great chief executives are “time tellers.” They create great products and services, but their value lasts only as long as they are personally present. Senior executives should be more like “clock builders”: focused on making a great company—a company where people think as entrepreneurially as the leaders do, even after those leaders are gone. An enterprise must evolve into a system that stands on its own, and does not depend on the whim and fancy of its current leader.

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