Tao Te Ching and Wuwei Management

Chapter 29 7 "Move the good time": Only by being good at seizing opportunities can you win a thousand miles

Volume 7 [-] "Mobile Good Times": Only by being good at seizing opportunities can you win a thousand miles

The breath of success is just for a moment, if you can't catch it, you will run away.

Move at a good time.

—— "Tao Te Ching" Chapter 8
"Moving at a good time" means that water can follow the right time and place, move according to the nature, and change with the seasons. Winter is snow, summer is rain, and it never violates the weather. Waiting in the wings.

In everyone's life, it is impossible for opportunities not to come once. Opportunities are everywhere in people's lives. As long as you pay attention to it, you will find opportunities and seize them.However, when the opportunity finds that you are not ready to receive it, it will choose someone else again, because the opportunity never waits for anyone.Whether one is good at seizing opportunities is an important condition for a person to achieve something.Opportunities are often accidental and fleeting.Therefore, in order to seize opportunities, one must be good at analyzing realistic information, so as to better grasp the needs of the future market.Thomas Jr. perceived the revolution of the future office from the new policy of the US government, which enabled IBM to seize the most successful business opportunity.

In the early days of its founding, IBM was just a small business that produced punching machines. In February 1952, there were only 2 people in IBM who were engaged in the development of electronic data processing systems. At that time, IBM’s top decision-makers and experts on the front line believed that if the company’s first two computers could sell five sets, it would be a big deal. Can meet the needs of the market.Only the general manager of the company, Thomas Jr. who participated in World War II?Watson insisted on switching to electronic data processing systems, despite the dissuasion of other managers.Watson Jr. repeatedly persuaded them to stand on the same side as himself, and advocated the transition from the punch card system to the electronic data processing system.

After turning into the computer industry, IBM realized that the new policy to be implemented by the US government would lead to a revolution in office automation, so Watson Jr. decided to improve the Holelles statistical accounting machine, and invested a lot of research and development costs. During the period, production was expanded like crazy.As a result, when the U.S. government implemented new policies and the transaction workload surged and machine processing was required, only IBM could provide sufficient high-performance machines, and IBM thus achieved great success.

In the same way that Thomas Jr. helped IBM achieve great success, Tom also won a brilliant business future for himself through "moving good times".

During World War II, there was a small-scale sewing machine factory in the United States. Due to the impact of World War II, the business was very depressed.Tom, the owner of the factory, saw that during the war, except for the munitions accident, all industries withered, but the munitions business had no chance for him, so he turned his attention to the future market.After some thought, he told his son Paul: "Our sewing machine factory needs to change its production and business." Paul asked him strangely: "What?" Tom said: "Change to produce small wheelchairs for disabled people." I didn't understand, but Paul followed his father's wishes.After some equipment transformation, batches of wheelchairs produced by the factory came out.

As Tom expected, many people who were injured and disabled in the war came to buy wheelchairs.The products produced by the factory are not only popular in the United States, but many foreigners also come to buy them.Paul was very happy to see that the factory's production scale continued to expand and its strength became stronger and stronger.But full of joy, he couldn't help asking Tom: "The war is coming to an end soon. If we continue to mass-produce wheelchairs, the demand may already be very small. So what will happen to the market in the next few decades?" What about needs?"

Tom smiled confidently, and asked his son: "The war is over, what do people think?" "People have hated the war, and everyone hopes to live a stable and happy life after the war." Tom nodded, He further instructed his son: "So, what does a good life depend on? It depends on a healthy body. In the future, people will take a healthy body as their main goal. Therefore, we must prepare to produce fitness equipment."

After some transformation, the mechanical assembly line for the production of wheelchairs was transformed into an assembly line for the production of fitness equipment.In the first few years, the sales of the factory were not good. At this time, Old Tom had passed away, but Paul firmly believed in his father's forward thinking and continued to produce fitness equipment.For more than ten years, fitness equipment began to sell in large numbers, and soon became a bestseller.At that time, there was only Paul, a fitness equipment factory in the United States, so Paul continued to increase the output and variety of products according to market demand.As the scale of the business continues to expand, Paul ranks among the billionaires.

When others think that the opportunity is impossible to come again, maybe the opportunity has come, but you have not found it.We must be good at seizing opportunities, maybe in just one second, you will become a rich man from a beggar.This requires business managers to first see business opportunities.How to see business opportunities?This requires analyzing all information changes that may be related to the future, and relying on a keen business sense to smell opportunities.Every time the opportunity comes, it is a severe test for anyone.When we see an opportunity, we must show the courage to fight and face the challenge, seize the opportunity and achieve results.

(End of this chapter)