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Zhang Ruimin (Chinese: 张瑞敏; born 5 January 1949) is the founder of Haier Group. He was also the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Haier Group until his resignation in 2021. He was succeeded in these roles by Liang Haishan.
Zhang Ruimin is the current Secretary of the Haier Group Party Committee, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Haier Group. In November 2015, Zhang Ruimin was invited to attend the award ceremony of the world’s most influential THINKERS50 event in London.
Nov 5, 2021 · In a very real sense, Zhang Ruimin has been practicing the lessons of his own leadership legacy for quite a while, and they are displayed each time that Haier transforms itself.
Jul 27, 2021 · Zhang Ruimin’s willingness to shatter the status quo in service of customers is by now the stuff of management legend. Indeed, early in his tenure at Haier Group—then known as Qingdao Refrigerator General Factory—Zhang issued sledgehammers to factory workers and directed them to destroy a batch of defective refrigerators they’d produced ...
Zhang Ruimin, chairman and CEO of the Haier Group, took charge of a struggling refrigerator factory in the 1980s and turned it into a global powerhouse of consumer electronics and home appliances.
Nov 16, 2023 · Haier's Zhang Ruimin has not only pioneered a new way of thinking about how large, complex organizations might work, but he actually navigated such change, and it worked!
