Tao Te Ching and Wuwei Management

Chapter 25 3 "With kindness and benevolence": winning people's hearts with benevolenc

Chapter 25 3 "With kindness and benevolence": winning people's hearts with benevolence and righteousness
The best way to win people's hearts is benevolence and righteousness.

And kindness. —— "Tao Te Ching" Chapter 8
"Husband kindness wins with war, and strengthens with discipline. He will save it and defend it with kindness." This is "with kindness and benevolence". "Yu Shan Ren" means that water gives benevolence to all things without relying on them, benefits all things without fighting, and uses all things without knowing their virtues.Leaders should imitate the virtue of water, give all things the virtue of benevolence, sacrifice their lives for all beings and all things, and benefit all beings.Benevolence is love, a kind of great love, which can make people willing to follow emotionally.In the whole process of management, in addition to convincing people with reasoning, leaders must also learn to move people with emotion, so that every management measure is in line with the Dao and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.Specifically, this is a kind of affinity, especially the cultural characteristics of China, which determines that Chinese people are relatively subjective in doing things.Once affection has arisen, there will be emotional attachment and loyalty.

If the manager loves his subordinates, the subordinates will be loyal to the enterprise and repay the enterprise wholeheartedly.The benevolence of an enterprise to its employees is not a small favor, let alone a superficial hypocrisy.If the manager adopts a pragmatic attitude towards "benevolence" and does not really want to be "benevolent" to employees, but only uses benevolence as a means to pursue selfish desires, this is not out of love that conforms to the "Tao" and will not bring any management effects.

At the beginning, Monkey King didn't respect Tang Seng, and he might feel that it was useless to follow such a leader who was not as good as himself.But after the four masters and apprentices went through hardships, they were influenced by Tang Seng's persistence, kindness and love for themselves, and they wholeheartedly protected Tang Seng to learn from the scriptures.Even if he was driven away by Tang Seng, he would immediately return to the team because of Tang Seng's difficulties.It can be seen that as a team leader, emotional management is very important.

Levi, the president of CapitaLand, is a popular leader.He once said privately to his friends: "People have feelings, as long as you treat them with benevolence and righteousness, others will definitely repay you with heart."

There are three main experts in Li Wei's new product development team, one of them is named Pok, he has a weird temper, violent temper, and quarrels with others at every turn. No exception.One day, because of an experimental problem, Polk had a dispute with another researcher in the development team, Laub. He became very angry, slapped the table and threw things.Li Wei was really scolded for dissuading him in the past.When they were arguing, Polk's youngest daughter came to the laboratory. Seeing her father's angry face, she cried in fright.Seeing this, Polk couldn't care less about continuing the quarrel, and hurried over to coax his little daughter with a smiling face.Seeing this touching scene, Li Wei's heart suddenly brightened, and found that although Polk disliked everyone, he was obedient to the little daughter who stayed by his side, and regarded him as the apple of his eye.It is not difficult to see that this little daughter is his spiritual support.In order to enable Polk to have a fulfilling spiritual life, Levi immediately rented a very beautiful house for Polk near the company so that he could often live with his daughter.

In the early stage of entrepreneurship, funds were very tight. Under such circumstances, Levi was able to rent a house for Polk, which made Polk very sorry. Despite repeated persuasion, Polk still refused to move into the new house.Li Wei understood Polk's character very well. As long as he showed restlessness, it meant that he was hesitating. At this time, if he said it positively, the effect would definitely not be good, and he had to use another method.So he said to Polk:

"I'm afraid it's up to you to move or not," Li Wei said.

"What? I don't want to move myself, how dare you force me to do it?" Polk said loudly, raising his voice.

"Of course I don't dare to force you, but your daughter Annie has made the decision for you." Li Wei continued; "You are in a bad mood and lose your temper easily, which will hurt your body. If she can take care of you nearby, You won't lose your temper. At first I was hesitant to make up my mind that you wouldn't move. But at last Miss Anne said: 'How poor my father is, I won't let him be alone anymore, I'm going to move to him near, often to take care of him, to comfort him.'”

After hearing these words, Polk's eyes were filled with tears. He finally obeyed Li Wei's arrangement and moved into the new house.Although Li Wei spent a lot of money renting a house for Polk, the impact of the move was far beyond what the money could buy.

First of all, Polk believes that when Levi is in a difficult financial situation, he still regards the happiness of his life as more important than money, so he is very grateful to Levi.Secondly, this event will inevitably make other experts and employees of the company know that the manager is loyal and caring for his subordinates, so they will work together to make the company better.In addition, once this matter spreads to the society, those who have real talents but have no ambitions will inevitably embrace Li Wei's arms, thus expanding his talent team day by day.

Leaders treat employees with benevolence and righteousness in management, for example, respect for the humble, property for the poor, assistance for the distressed, opportunities for job seekers, etc. These are the best ways to manage emotions.Benevolence is two-way. If you are kind to others, you will get others' love for you.This kind of love return is very important for managers, and its function is incomparable and irreplaceable by any other management method.

(End of this chapter)

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