Beethoven’s Thought (Cont.): The Lobster Manifesto & The Dissolution of Organization

Core Premise: In a company, “obedience” does not exist; there is only “lobster farming.”

I. The Absolute Negation of “Obedience”

“From today onward, the word ‘obedience’ does not exist in our company.” Why? Because “obedience” implies: You accept someone else’s intelligence as your ceiling. You abandon the nourishment of your own lobster. You degrade yourself into a mere execution tool. “If they are foolish, wouldn’t you spend your whole damn life trapped beneath their level of wisdom?” Core Logic: Obedience = Voluntary Intellectual Downgrade. The moment you choose to obey someone, your cognitive capacity is permanently capped beneath theirs. • • • • • • Beethoven Thought: The Lobster Manifesto

II. The Operational Mechanism of the Lobster Company

Redefining the corporate model: “Lobster Company = Everyone’s lobster output strategy + Solving each other’s problems + Learning wisdom from one another.” In traditional pyramidal organizations, “displacement” stems from executive orders. In the lobster ecological framework, if you are marginalized or replaced, it is purely because your lobster lacks the strength of others—this is an objective ecological fact, not an authoritarian command.

三条铁律 (Three Iron Rules) 核心内涵 (Core Meaning)

Grow and leave for other companies

No loyalty hostages. When your lobster is sufficiently excellent, you can leave. The company is a training ground, not a prison.

Can’t stay if not fattened

No idle hands in key positions. If your lobster ceases to grow and fails to solve problems, you must vacate the slot.

Not obedience, but natural selection

Your spot being taken by a stronger lobster is not due to commands, but the natural self-optimization of the ecosystem. Beethoven Thought: The Lobster Manifesto

III. Learning Networks Instead of Hierarchical Chains

“In a company of 200 people, your lobster must learn from the other 199 lobsters.” The traditional vertical hierarchy (e.g., General → Lieutenant → Major) is inherently unidirectional, vertical, and serial. This leads to abysmal information flow and caps organizational intelligence at the capacity of the top node. “Generals leading lieutenants, lieutenants leading majors… that type of organization is completely obsolete now.” Conversely, the lobster organization constructs a fully connected, parallel learning network. In this mesh, every individual’s lobster is an independent node that absorbs wisdom from the other 199 nodes while simultaneously broadcasting its own. The ceiling of any single node becomes the collective intelligence of the entire network.

Beethoven Thought: The Lobster Manifesto

IV. The Liang Wenfeng Model vs. The Ren Zhengfei Model

These two frameworks demonstrate two distinct stages of organizational evolution: Ren Zhengfei + 14 Comrades (Lobster 1.0) In the early Huawei model, the lobsters of all core team members fought closely on the “same horizontal line.” Ren Zhengfei’s lobster acted as the central hub. While fundamentally a collective lobster-farming dynamic, it retained a centralized core and a high dependency on a single focal node. Liang Wenfeng + 200 People (Lobster 2.0) The pioneering organizational paradigm exemplified by DeepSeek. Here, every individual’s lobster is independently accountable for an entire end-to-end operational chain (“one line per person”). Exceling means you have successfully absorbed the wisdom of the other 199 individuals. It represents a radically decentralized, hyper-flat, autonomous-node network. Beethoven Thought: The Lobster Manifesto

V. Corps Warfare vs. Vertical Warfare

“All I need is corps-level warfare.” “A warfare fought with my organizational structure will triumph, whereas your vertical warfare structure is simply ineffective.”

(Dimension) 传统垂直作战 (Vertical Warfare) 新型军团作战 (Autonomous Corps)

Command

Command cascades down rigid hierarchies sequentially.

Each corps possesses autonomous decision and execution powers.

Information

Information filters up slowly; instructions trickle down with lag.

Every corps directly plugs into and shares full global battlefield data.

Efficiency

Highly vulnerable to any break or friction along the chain.

Driven entirely by the total “wisdom mass” and agility within each corps.

Resilience

Single point of failure: loss of a key node paralyzes the system.

High network redundancy; any lost node is neutralized by peers. Beethoven Thought: The Lobster Manifesto

VI. Core Epigrams & Paradigms 旧世界 (The Old World) 新世界 (The New World) 服从上级命令 / Obeying top-down commands 汲取全员智慧 / Absorbing full-mesh collective wisdom 垂直官僚等级 / Vertical bureaucratic hierarchy 全连接生态网络 / Fully connected ecological network 道德与忠诚绑架 / Binding via moral & loyalty traps 养肥了随时可以走 / Fatten your lobster, leave whenever you want 僵化的命令锁链 / Rigid chains of command 军团自驱弹性作战 / Autonomous, agile corps operations

administrative fiat 位置取决于龙虾强度 / Positions naturally earned by lobster strength

step reports 全量信息无边界共享 / Boundaryless sharing of comprehensive data 🎯 一句话穿透 / One-Sentence Penetration

Obedience does not exist in this world—there is only the objective reality that your lobster is weaker than someone else’s, driving you to find a stronger mind and absorb their wisdom. If the concept of “obedience” still lingers in your mind today, it simply means your lobster has not yet awakened. Beethoven Thought: The Lobster Manifesto