Tao Te Ching and Wuwei Management

Chapter 17 5 "Knowledge and Daily Life": Team spirit itself is a kind of harmony

Only harmony can cooperate, it is the lubricant of the team.

Knowing and daily life, knowing daily life is bright. ——"Tao Te Ching" Chapter 55
"Knowledge and daily life" contains the harmonious unity of yin and yang, which is the eternal law in the transformation of all things. From this harmonious dialectical thinking, managers can realize that the long-term interests of the enterprise can be obtained from harmonious team spirit. accomplish.Harmonious interpersonal relationships, a comfortable living environment, efficient problem-solving and the best mental state all originate from a high degree of harmony in the inner world.It is the direct or indirect mapping of the high harmony of the inner world onto the outer world that makes these states possible.It is also the high degree of harmony between the inner and outer worlds that makes these possibilities a reality.A high degree of harmony between the inner and outer worlds is both a sufficient and a necessary condition for all power, health and achievement.

When companies like Volvo, Toyota, and General Electric introduced teams into their production processes, it made a splash and made headlines because few companies were doing so at the time.Today, however, companies that don't use a team approach may be in the news.Microsoft is famous for its special team spirit in the United States. In the development of products like Windows 2000, more than 5000 development engineers and testers participated, and 5000 million lines of code were written.Without a highly unified team spirit, without the tacit understanding and division of labor of all participants, this project is simply impossible to complete.

Not only that, team management has expanded to organizations outside the enterprise, such as Clinton's cabinet team. Bill who became President of the United States in 1992?Clinton, the first measure he took after taking office was to conduct teamwork training for his key executives.At the first cabinet meeting of the Clinton administration, Clinton asked two experts to help the new cabinet members get along in harmony to improve work efficiency.The two experts asked cabinet members to bring their resumes and talk about exciting experiences in their lives.At the Saturday night discussion, the two experts asked them to talk about major personal events that had not been mentioned in their resumes.The purpose of this team spirit training is to let team members understand how they can use their personality traits to contribute to the group.Because these cabinet members can only solve the large number of problems they face in close cooperation, Clinton and his cabinet members believe that they need to learn more from each other, from just a group of people to a cooperative and mutual support team.This team spirit training was repeated four months later.After that, regular meetings will be held every 4 months.Hiring experts to help government officials work more efficiently in groups and meetings is not new to the U.S. government, which has been done by the U.S. government and military for years.But such practices are rare among those at the highest levels of government.

During Clinton's re-election, the U.S. economy maintained continuous growth for 108 consecutive months.In his eyes, these come from the strength of the team.In fact, the birth process of the US president is undoubtedly not the result of teamwork, but with the support of team spirit. The same is true for Obama: as soon as he came to power, he invited Hillary to join the alliance.While society is becoming more and more personal, that doesn't mean collaboration is obsolete.To be precise, it should be the era of collaborative spirit.Due to the pursuit of individuality, human beings need to cooperate more.If you want to realize yourself, you must integrate into the collective, and the realization of collective value must rely on the cooperation among individuals.Now, the harmonious team spirit has become a fashion in enterprise management.

Managers who are deeply infected by teamwork will have the following consensus:
First, it drives the effective functioning and development of the team.Team spirit has a strengthening effect on the collective consciousness of team members and can form a strong internal cohesion.Team members have a strong sense of identity, and members have a strong sense of belonging to the team; each team member has an affirmative and supportive attitude towards team goals, team leadership, and team decision-making; team members recognize and accept the team's common values , and maintain and develop the team's values ​​in practice.

Second, under the influence of team spirit, team members have interactive behaviors of caring and helping each other, showing a sense of ownership of the team, and strive to consciously maintain the honor of the team, and consciously focus on the overall interests of the team To restrain one's own behavior, so that team spirit becomes the internal driving force for the survival of the team and the free and comprehensive development of team members.

At the beginning of its business, Huawei issued a resounding slogan of "the more high-tech, the more collective struggle".This reflects the practice of Huawei's team struggle.The core of team spirit is cooperation, unity, coordination, participation, and professional dedication. Therefore, while emphasizing respect for individuality and creativity, Huawei employees put forward the slogan "Using individual talents in collective struggle".Collective consciousness and team struggle are the internal driving force for Huawei's development.

Third, it is conducive to improving the overall effectiveness of the organization.Team spirit is helpful to the cultivation of organizational cohesion and helps to improve the overall effectiveness of the organization.As we all know, in terms of work efficiency, 2+2 can be greater than 4 or less than 4.If we are to be exceptionally productive, we must adopt an organizational form that enables people to work together.It is this belief that supports people in their team-building efforts.

Yuan Weimin, a famous volleyball coach in my country, believes that a team is the same as an enterprise: "With regard to team spirit, some people say that 1+1>2, I am in volleyball, so I often advocate 6>6." He believes that on the volleyball court It looks like there are 6 people against 6 people, but it is hard to say how many pairs it is, it may be an inequality.If the team is doing well, the sum of 6 people may be equal to 6;But to win the championship, 5 people can't just be 4, but must be 3>6.Competition is not only better than technology, but also better than unity and internal cohesion.To enhance internal cohesion, it is not enough to overcome the factors of disunity, but we must take the initiative to take measures to cultivate this cohesion.By exerting team spirit and strengthening team building, internal friction can be further saved.This can be demonstrated from the efficiency formula of enterprise management.

Therefore, leaders should strive to create a team spirit of freedom, sincerity and equality, so that employees can get along well with colleagues and superiors on the basis of satisfaction with their work, recognize each other, have a sense of collective identity, and give full play to teamwork. Achieve work goals together and realize the value of life in work.In this atmosphere, each employee can actively contribute his strength while being recognized by others, and work hard towards the direction of the organization wholeheartedly. higher efficiency.

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