Tao Te Ching and Wuwei Management

Chapter 13 1 "Peace for peace": "Happy Camp" first needs the guidance of the manager's own mood

Harmonious beauty is the highest state of beauty.As early as the ancient Greek period, the famous philosopher Heraclitus said that "beauty is in harmony".It can be seen that the beauty of harmony is an extremely ancient aesthetic proposition that is still shining today.The essence of enterprise management is to achieve its own harmony through a balance.A harmonious atmosphere represents a kind of morale. Yes, the world will not change because of anyone. What needs to be changed is our "heart" to transform the world.It is a systematic project to make employees work happily, and it is necessary to create a happy and harmonious atmosphere in the company.If so, our enterprise will be filled with the spring breeze of love and the sunshine of harmony.

Give employees a good mood, and the employees will return you a good performance.

Everything bears yin and embraces yang, and the spirit is full of peace. —— "Tao Te Ching" Chapter 42
Yin and Yang represent two opposing attributes in ancient Chinese philosophy, and represent two opposing aspects in the contradictory body of things.The mutual agitation of yin and yang to form a harmonious relationship represents the harmonious coexistence of various contradictions and opposites in the world through interaction and mutual transformation.Lao Tzu's "harmonious" thought is very useful for us to build a "harmonious enterprise" today.

"The weather is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the harmony of people." In an enterprise, "harmony of people" means having a good working atmosphere.Leaders show their own charm and be an excellent leader, so that subordinates have a sense of belonging to a big family, and the corporate working atmosphere is harmonious, which can stimulate employees to use their talents to a greater extent and create a new situation within the organization .

Building one's own enterprise into a harmonious "big family" is the tireless pursuit of many entrepreneurs. In this big family, the "harmonious agreement" between leaders and employees is the internal driving force for enterprise development.Managers need to recognize and respect the personal value of employees, and cultivate employees' sense of identity and belonging to the enterprise.

Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of "Panasonic Electric", believes that whether employees can have a sense of belonging is the root of winning employee loyalty and enhancing corporate cohesion and competitiveness.In management, leaders should focus on inspiring employees spiritually, making them feel the company's care, trust and respect, and the company's efforts to create a fair and harmonious working environment for them, so that they can feel that their workplace is Gain a sense of family warmth and belonging as one big family.

Jack Ma, the president of Alibaba, is an optimistic person who always smiles.He said that after so many years of starting a business, he has encountered too many unlucky things, but as long as there is a little good thing, he will be very happy.Any entrepreneur should always show his smiling face. If your face looks painful, it is impossible to bring happiness to others, so happiness needs to be displayed.

Although he has to deal with a lot of affairs every day, Jack Ma pays great attention to controlling the scope of pressure and rarely passes it on to employees.He has always told his colleagues that a company without a smiling face is actually a very painful company.He said that he likes Zhu Bajie's humor the most. He is the lubricant of the Buddhist scriptures team.This philosophy has made Alibaba's 3000 employees "happy youth."He said that to judge whether a person or a company is excellent, don't look at whether he is Harvard or Stanford, don't look at how many famous university graduates there are, but look at whether these people are working like crazy. Do you go home with a smile on your face after get off work every day?

A company is only good if its employees are happy and work hard.Ma Yun believes that the purpose of employees' work includes not only a satisfactory salary and a good working environment, but also happy growth in the enterprise.In his mind, employees are always the first and customers second.Without employees, there would be no Alibaba website.Only when employees are happy, customers will be happy.And the words of encouragement from customers will make employees work like crazy, which also makes Alibaba's website continue to develop.In Alibaba, employees can wear roller skates to work, and they can also come to his office at any time. Ma Yun said, in short, we must make employees happy.

It is a day to be happy, and it is also a day to be unhappy. Working unhappy is irresponsible for one's own life.From a management point of view, employees are the internal customers of the company. The company must first serve the employees well and let them have a good mood, so that this sense of mission and emotion can be passed on to customers.If employees feel happy, joyful, and joyful when they think of work, are willing and able to continue to grow in the enterprise, and gain value and meaning beyond the work itself in their work, they will turn joy into sincerity and bring it to customers. When you see such emotions and emotions, you will believe that the company's advertisements, declarations or promises are true.

According to the survey, the normal range of talent turnover in general enterprises is 10% to 15%, while Alibaba's job-hopping rate for several consecutive years is only 3.3%.Alibaba's personnel manager said that creating a relaxed office environment is a good way to retain talents.Money can keep people but not their hearts. Therefore, Alibaba spends at least one-fifth of its energy and financial resources on improving the office environment and training employees every year.

Ma Yun proposed that Alibaba should build a comfortable community with "blue sky", "steady earth", "flowing sea" and "green forest".This requires transparent decision-making, every decision is legally and morally safe, and can flow across regions and departments.In fact, the purpose of doing this is to make every employee feel that Alibaba is a place where they can often give themselves a lot of creativity and happiness.

Alibaba's dedication has not only been recognized by employees, but also by the society. Jack Ma was once awarded the title of "2005 CCTV China's Top Ten Employers".Ma Yun said in his speech after winning the award: He was one of the "Top Ten Figures in China's Economy in 2004", and Alibaba was once again nominated by "Top Ten Employers in China".He hopes that Alibaba will become one of the "top ten global employer companies" within 3 to 5 years, and he hopes that Alibaba will become the company that young people most want to join within 5 years.In this regard, Ma Yun publicly told the media that the thing he was most happy about in 2005 was not that Alibaba surpassed eBay and EachNet, nor did it merge and acquire Yahoo China, but that he became the best employer company in China.Ma Yun hopes that Alibaba can become the best platform for young people to start a business, grow up, and develop; to cultivate "Four Heavenly Kings, Eight King Kongs, Forty Arhats, and One Hundred and Eight Taibaos" so that everyone can be their own.He hopes to train presidents and vice presidents for companies across the country and the world, so that Alibaba can be built into the greatest company in the world created by the Chinese.

The atmosphere of an enterprise is inseparable from the character and philosophy of the entrepreneur.Ma Yun is such a person who is easy to be happy, so his company is also filled with a happy atmosphere.Modern people are under a lot of pressure, but when the pressure reaches a certain level, they may not be able to do anything.An overly depressing corporate environment will make employees run away when they can't bear it, and a company full of smiling faces and happiness at all times is full of natural attraction, attracting talents to join, and attracting employees to work happily, thus creating lasting performance .

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