Be a Man and Do Things Pillow Book

Chapter 72
overall strategy.

Coordinating the overall situation is one of the strategies for doing things, which includes the following three aspects.

First, foresight.

Foresight leads to insight, but often foresight is hard to come by.Generally speaking, foresight is an essential quality for all successful economic users of power, and it is also a prerequisite for ensuring the continuity and extension of power use. It requires us to combine individual and group, emotion and reason, experience and theory, image and Abstraction, routine and unconventional, science and common sense, static and dynamic, horizontal and vertical, qualitative and quantitative, feedback and advance, unidirectional and comprehensive, systematic and dialectical and many other aspects are combined for comprehensive thinking.Simply put, foresight and foresight come from our high level of ideology, our ability to analyze and synthesize information from various sources, our ability to make comprehensive and accurate judgments and decisions, and our ability to formulate plans and strategies to defeat the enemy.

Foresight requires us to proceed from the overall situation in the process of using power, not only to highlight the key points, but also to take into account other considerations.Not only must you see the actual situation in front of you, but you must also think about and discuss the changes in the situation from a changing point of view, have a dialectical perspective, and then make a careful and detailed plan for the work you want to do, and then put it into practice. in practice.Only in this way can we fundamentally grasp the key to using power, defeat the enemy and make ourselves invincible.

Second, balance and coordination.

A wise person is like an excellent pianist. They not only need to master the art of "grasping the center", but also need to have excellent coordination and balance skills, be good at overall planning, and make the various elements of power cooperate and promote each other. Concentrate efforts to resolve the main contradictions, but also closely focus on the center, and at the same time arrange other aspects well to handle the secondary contradictions.

Leaders cannot work independently. In most cases, many people work to achieve individual or common goals.Unfortunately, these goals are not always in harmony.This requires us to use means to coordinate various forces to maintain balance and achieve our original goals.

Third, take a long-term view and keep the overall situation in mind.

Guanzi said: "The first is the long eyes, the second is the flying ears, and the third is the tree light. Knowing that thousands of miles away is hidden." It means that the first is to see far, the second is to hear far, and the third is to do To observe the situation thousands of miles away and the deep affection in the subtle.That is to say, a successful decision maker must not only have a long-term vision, but also be discerning, that is, have the overall situation in mind.

Straightforward strategy.

In the process of using power, in order to exercise our power well, we must plan in many ways, work hard, be cautious, strengthen our strength, and be prepared to make ourselves capable of meeting any challenges.

First, be aware of the details and predict things first.

Things in the world are always changing, but the changes of things always start from quantitative changes, so smart people can always understand the way of this, and can understand the ins and outs of things and the origins of things by carefully observing things. Development changes and even small changes, so as to formulate and determine corresponding countermeasures and methods.How can others not be invincible if they have already anticipated the opportunity before they make a move?

Therefore, we should fully exercise our keen insight of discerning the details and prioritizing things, and observe everything with a prudent and rational attitude. Doing so will benefit us and not harm us.

The following two stories may give you a lot of inspiration.

In the Ming Dynasty, Xia Weng was a rich family in Jiangyin County. He once passed Shiqiao by boat. A man picked up manure and poured it into his boat, which splashed on Xia Weng's clothes.This man was an old acquaintance, and the boy servants were very angry and wanted to beat him.

Xia Weng said: "It's because he didn't know. If he knew it was me, how could he offend me?"

So sent him away with kind words.

After returning home, Xia Weng searched through the debt books and found that this person owed money and could not repay it. He wanted to kill Xia Weng by angering Xia Weng, so Xia Weng revoked the bond.

A similar story happened to You Weng who ran a bank in Cheung Chau.

At the end of the year, You Weng heard noises outside the door. When he went out, he found that the neighbors were arguing with the shop assistants.

The clerk stepped forward and said to You Weng: "This man came to mortgage the money with clothes, but now he comes to redeem it empty-handed, and he swears at people. Is there any reason for that?"

This man was fierce and unruly, so You Weng told him slowly: "I know what you want, but it's just for the New Year's plan, why bother arguing over such a trivial matter?"

So You Weng ordered his family to check his mortgaged items, four or five pieces of clothes in total.You Weng pointed to the cotton coat and said to him, "This one is indispensable to keep out the cold."

He pointed to another robe and said, "This one is for your New Year greetings, the others are not urgent, so you can keep them here."

The man took two pieces of clothes and left silently, but died in someone else's house that night, and the lawsuit lasted for a year.It turned out that this person was in too much debt, and he was going to commit suicide by taking poison, thinking that You Weng was rich and could cheat, but since he couldn't cheat, he went to someone else's house.

Someone asked You Weng why he knew it in advance and endured it. You Weng said: "Whenever others treat you unreasonably, you must rely on them. If you can't bear small things, disaster will come immediately."

Both Xia Weng and You Weng can be said to be masters of discerning the details and forethought.It is also because of their keen insight that they avoid unnecessary disputes and troubles.In real life, we face far more troubles and challenges than they do.Therefore, it is necessary for leadership work to learn a little insight from Xia Weng and You Weng.

Second, prevent the erroneous things from happening and turn disasters into blessings.

In the Jin Dynasty, Wen Qiao was loyal to the royal family and worked under Wang Dun.Because Wang Dun had a rebellious plan, Wen Qiao pretended to be respectful on the surface, and often offered secret strategies to echo Wang Dun's wishes.It happened that there was a shortage of Yin County in Danyang, so Wang Dun appointed Wen Qiao as Danyang Yin.

At this time, Wen Qiao had a bad relationship with Qian Feng, Wang Dun's subordinate.He was worried that once he left, Qian Feng would leave behind, so when Wang Dun bid farewell to him, he got up and toasted everyone. When he arrived in front of Qian Feng, Qian Feng raised his glass. Before drinking it, Wen Qiao pretended to be drunk and used He knocked Qian Feng's scarf to the ground with his hand, but said angrily: "What is Qian Feng? Wen Taizhen toasted, how dare you not drink a glass."

And when Wen Qiao and Wang Dun parted, with tears all over their face, they went out of the house and went back in again, three times in a row.

After Wen Qiao left, Qian Feng said to Wang Dun, "Wen Qiao has a very close relationship with the imperial court, so you can't trust him."

Wang Dun said: "Taizhen got drunk last night and gave you a little color, why bother to speak ill of him."

From then on, Qian Feng's slander and criticism of Wen Qiao were useless.

This is a typical story of preventing the passing of time.In the history of our country, in various court changes, officialdom competitions, and power struggles, it is impossible to guard against open and hidden arrows. One of the purposes of this book is to prevent erroneous events, to nip all kinds of disasters and disasters in the cradle, so that you can escape from danger calmly or protect yourself wisely.Although there are dross in it, from a dialectical point of view, human society is always complicated, and human thoughts are always mottled. In social life, there are all kinds of contradictions and struggles all the time. To make better use of the power in your hands and seek benefits for the group, the country, and the society, we believe that it is not advisable to learn some necessary skills and methods of using power from it today.On the contrary, stubbornly thinking that as long as one is upright, one can shoot to the end. In fact, this is not the quality and style that a politically minded person should have.Without a certain political mind, without the necessary political thinking and means of using power, blindly "integrity" will often be used and misled by villains.

Situational strategies.

In ancient and modern Chinese and foreign history, there are many examples of achieving great success and victory by taking timely actions. Similarly, there are too many examples of losing a good situation due to missed opportunities, and even the death of the country.The lessons and experience in history show that we must think twice before doing things.

First, think calmly and judge the timing.

Feng Jingxi was born in a merchant family in Guangzhou in 1922. He did not finish middle school. At the age of 16, he went to Hong Kong Peel Shipyard to study business. Later, he worked as an errand for currency exchange shops in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. He also cooperated with others to run restaurants and engage in foreign exchange. and gold trading. In 19, he transported fry from Hong Kong to Taiwan for sale, but the fry died during transportation.He bought a batch of bananas in Taiwan and shipped them back to Hong Kong. On the way from Taiwan to Hong Kong, the ship encountered a storm and was blown away from the original course by the wind. Most of the bananas rotted.Repeated failures made Feng Jingxi calm down, and he devoted most of his energy to thinking about the problem instead of blindly moving forward.The opportunity came. In the early 8s, the United States invaded North Korea, and China and the United States drew a battle line in North Korea.The United States imposed an "embargo" on strategic materials to China, such as gasoline, rubber tires, and machine parts, which were all included in the embargo. Feng Jingxi skillfully took advantage of the current situation and sold these materials to mainland China through merchants in Macau. , obtained huge profits. From the 20s to the 50s, Hong Kong's real estate boomed. Feng Jingxi and his friends founded Sun Hung Kai Properties, which became a large-scale real estate company in Hong Kong. In 50, after the social turmoil in Hong Kong, Fung wanted to emigrate to Canada, but after going to Canada once, he returned to Hong Kong and started his second leap in Hong Kong. In 60, Feng Jingxi founded Sun Hung Kai Securities.In the same year obtained a seat on the newly established Far East Stock Exchange, which enabled the shares of Sun Hung Kai Securities to be listed and traded.Feng Jingxi also widely accepts deposits, acts as an agent for customers' finances, invests, buys and sells securities, foreign exchange and gold. While other stock brokerage companies concentrate on serving large customers, Sun Hung Kai Securities focuses on serving small and retail investors, buying and selling for them Stocks have concentrated the funds of small and retail investors, making Sun Hung Kai Securities Co., Ltd. a pivotal force capable of controlling stock prices in the Hong Kong stock market, and its business is booming day by day. In the late 1967s, this brokerage firm with only a few employees when it started its business has grown into a large company with thousands of employees.Now, Sun Hung Kai has established cooperative relations with the United States and France, and opened offices in London, Manila, New York and Beijing.

It is absolutely impossible for Feng Jingxi to grow from a penniless apprentice to a world-class economic powerhouse, but it can only be said that he seized the opportunity.Feng Jingxi experienced setbacks in his early years, and his repeated failures gave him a dose of "clearness injection", which transformed him from a simple businessman into a calm thinker. He withdrew from the transaction of money and became a bystander Those who want to calmly think about the current situation and formulate strategies for their next steps. "How can you see a rainbow if you don't experience wind and rain." Failure taught Feng Jingxi how to face risks and how to think about problems.

Of course, grasping the opportunity is only the external cause of the development of things. To achieve success, it is necessary to achieve internal and external integration. A correct management method is the key to achieving success.If Feng Jingxi did not find another way to do business with retail investors and small investors, but only blindly started business with large investors, we can imagine that he may fall into vicious competition and find it difficult to extricate himself, and it is difficult to form his own characteristics. Therefore, when grasping the opportunity, the focus should be In order to achieve a breakthrough in the way of operation, buns must not only look good.

Second, stop when you stop, don't miss the opportunity.

Opportunities are always fleeting, and seizing an opportunity to make it a huge turning point requires not only a keen "sense" for opportunities, but also the courage to take advantage of them.

The Yuan Shao Group in the Three Kingdoms period was second to none among the heroes in strength, and was recognized as the most promising to win the world.Under Yuan Shao's command, there are like a cloud of counselors and a forest of generals.However, due to Yuan Shao's "many plans and few decisions", he was defeated by Cao Cao in the battle of Guandu. "More planning than decision-making" is a manifestation of lack of judgment, which is a fatal weakness for a commander or decision-maker.

Yuan Shao had a lot of advisers, which was an extremely favorable condition, but when it came time to make a decision, all the advisers expressed their opinions, and Yuan Shao lost his backbone, didn't know what to choose, and was indecisive.

Liu Bei was one of Yuan Shao's potential rivals at the time.During the Battle of the White Horse, Yuan Shao was furious when he heard that a brave general with a red face and long beard wielding a sword (Guan Yu, Liu Bei's sworn brother) beheaded his general Yan Liang.At this time, Yuan Shao pointed to Liu Bei and said, "Your brother beheaded my general, and you must conspire, so what's the use of staying here?" He was about to pull Liu Bei out and behead him.Liu Bei said calmly, "There are many people with the same appearance in the world. How can a person with a red face and long beard be Guan? Why didn't Duke Ming notice it?" Dangerously kill a good person." So Xuande was still invited to sit in the tent and discuss revenge for Yan Liang.Afterwards, Guan Yu killed Yuan Shao's general Wen Chou, and his counselor Guo Tu and the judge came to see Yuan Shao and said, "It was Guan who killed Wen Chou again, but Liu Bei pretended not to know." That's it." He ordered Liu Bei to be beheaded.Liu Bei also argued, "Cao Cao always avoided Bei. Now that he knows that Bei is at the Duke of Ming's place, he is afraid that he will help him, so the special envoy Yun Chang killed the two generals. The public will be angry. This is to use the hands of the Duke to kill Liu Bei. I hope that the Duke of Ming will think about it." Hearing that, Yuan Shao, who had no opinion, turned around and blamed Guo Tu, Shen Pei and others, "Xuande's words are true, and you have made me suffer the name of a virtuous man." Yuan Shao tried to kill Liu Bei twice, but Liu Bei did not From this, we can see Liu Bei's agility, and it can also reflect Yuan Shao's character traits of rebellion, resourcefulness, less decision-making, and constant scheming.

"More planning and less decision-making" made Yuan Shao lose his chance to fight.During the stalemate stage of the Battle of Guandu, Xu You once offered advice to Yuan Shao, "Cao Cao stationed at Guandu, and I have been stalemate for a long time, and Xuchang will be empty. If an army is ordered to cover Xuchang at night, then Xuchang can be pulled out, and Cao can be captured. Today Cao Cao The food and grass are exhausted, so we can seize this opportunity and attack him from two fronts." However, Yuan Shao was worried about Cao Cao's scheming, so he rejected Xu You's suggestion, which delayed the opportunity at the most critical moment.If Yuan Shao can act decisively, seize favorable opportunities, and adopt Xu You's suggestions in a timely manner, then the result is likely to be as Cao Cao said, "If Yuan Shao uses his son's words, I will lose." It can be seen that it seems safe to keep making decisions. , but actually a greater danger lurks.

In real life, there are often many god-sent opportunities that are fleeting.As a decision maker, you must be good at seizing these opportunities and make full use of them.

How to seize the opportunity?This requires decision makers to have decisive qualities.The so-called decisiveness refers to expressing the choice after careful consideration quickly and clearly.Decisiveness shows that the decision-maker's high concentration of thought is the embodiment of his keen responsiveness. His absorption and digestion of information, synthesis and application of experience, and estimation and speculation of the future can all be completed in a short period of time.

To achieve this, as a decision maker, one must have the ability to quickly make judgments and choices about events, and have the spirit and ability to dare to be responsible for the process and consequences of events.People who are full of worries, afraid of this and that, and shrinking, "one look, second slow, third pass" cannot be a good decision maker.Because in the process of watching and slowing down, the situation is changing, and in the process of waiting, more risks may arise.

Don't do things on impulse.

Many times, our mood is low and our mood is low, but we don't put off making important decisions because of this.Years later, when we look back, we will know how much these decisions hurt us.

A beautiful girl falls in love with a talented man, but the family members are extremely opposed, thinking that the family is not right, and the young man's family is too poor.The girl tried her best to insist, but unexpectedly, the person she liked left unexpectedly at this time.After the girl suffered a major blow, all thoughts were lost, so she casually obeyed her parents' arrangement and married a rich young man she didn't love.As the years passed, the girl discovered that she had entered another deeper pain from one kind of pain.

This is the decision to make when you are in distress.There is also impulsive decision-making when you are angry: you say no, I will do so.There are also blind decisions when you get carried away: "Great Leap Forward", "Running into Communism".There are also helpless decisions when pessimistic and disappointed: forget it, break up, we are definitely hopeless.There is also the revenge decision after being provoked and angered: I don't believe that I can't beat you, I can't cure you, hum!
It is one of the basic qualities of those who can accomplish great things to be calm when facing major events.The more important the decision is, the more calm and calm the mind must be, carefully analyze all kinds of information, judge the situation of all parties, and make serious, responsible and scientific decisions.

And when a person's mood swings are relatively large or the pressure is relatively high, it is very difficult to remain calm and rational. This is also the most dangerous time, because we may lose the ability to analyze and judge clearly, and it is easiest to Make a terrible decision.Moreover, at this time, there will be a desire to get out of this situation as soon as possible: I don't want to stay here any longer, and I can go any way, as long as I can walk away.Or maybe I can't stand it anymore, so let me vent my anger first.

Under various emotional impulses, we are very easy to do stupid things that we regret for the rest of our lives.Therefore, when you are in a bad mood, the first thing you think of is to calm down and control your emotions instead of making hasty decisions.

When we do things, we have to coordinate with many factors, including our own emotions.

Bow your head when you should.

Franklin, known as the father of Americans, visited a respected old man when he was young.At that time, he was young and energetic, with his chest raised and his head raised, striding forward. As soon as he entered the door, his head hit the door frame hard, causing him to rub it with his hands in pain. Big door.Seeing his appearance, the senior who came out to greet him smiled and said, "It hurts, right? But, this will be the biggest gain from your visit to me today. If a person wants to live in the world safely, he must always remember Live: Bow your head when it's time to bow your head. That's what I'm going to teach you too."

(End of this chapter)