Tao Te Ching and Wuwei Management

Chapter 52 1 "Day is death, death is far, far is anti": reform and innovation, speed up thinking from now on

There is a famous saying in "Book of Changes": "If you are poor, you will change; if you change, you will become better; if you are better, you will last forever."Lao Tzu said that "things grow old when they are strong", which is indistinctly consistent with it.In the dialectical worldview, nothing is permanent.Both are transitional states in the course of history.Actively seeking change is the only way to win, otherwise you will be ruthlessly thrown into the pile of old papers.Enterprises that lack awareness of change will not be able to gain a foothold in this era, let alone develop.

Change is the norm, nothing is abnormal.

"The great is death, the death is far, and the far is reverse" - "Tao Te Ching" Chapter 25
It is vast and boundless but moves endlessly, moves endlessly and stretches far, stretches far and returns to the original.Everything is cyclical, changing and developing.As the saying goes: "He who knows current affairs is a brilliant man." Changes in the situation will inevitably lead to changes in the development trend of things.Excellent entrepreneurs are always seeking and exploring changes, and proactively looking for opportunities brought about by changes.There is no reason for enterprises not to be the masters of change in this era of change.

We often say: "Don't be afraid of not being able to do it, just be afraid of being unexpected." Although this statement is a bit exaggerated, it also gives us a lot of inspiration: a person's concept determines action, and action leads to results.In the final analysis, the competition between people, the competition between enterprises and enterprises is ultimately the competition of thinking modes.It is difficult for a person who is conservative and not good at change to be in a favorable position in the competition. Outstanding entrepreneurs are good at finding solutions to problems from different perspectives. They will not sit back and watch the sky, but stand at the forefront of the times. Thinking guides the progress and development of enterprises.

When Welch summed up his work at GM, he said that change is the normal state of corporate management, while Samsung Chairman Li Kunxi exaggeratedly said that everything can be changed except his wife.The management guru Drucker said: "Innovation is to create a resource", "If you don't innovate, you will die!" Change and innovation are becoming the most popular words of our time, flowing deep in the thoughts of entrepreneurs.If an enterprise wants to change and innovate, it needs to improve its thinking ability - to change the enterprise, first change the thinking; to innovate the enterprise, first innovate the thinking.

Carl Weck, an American organizational research expert, told a famous story in his book "Organizational Social Psychology", which is highly praised by management masters:

The Naskapi, an ancient Indian tribe living on the Labrador Peninsula in northeastern Canada, face a choice every day: choose which direction to start to look for prey.To do this, they roasted dried reindeer shoulder blades over a fire until the bones became hot, cracked, and blotchy, and then had experts with such esoteric knowledge decipher them.These fissures will point the way to the hunter, and the Naspican fully believe in this ritual custom of hunting determined by the gods.The truth is that this custom has its own justification.Why?

First, they believe that the final decision on where to hunt is not a choice that can be made purely by one person or group of people.If the prey is not found, it is the fault of the gods, not man.

Second, the final decision is not influenced by past hunting results.If the Indians paid attention to the results of past hunting, they would run the risk of causing catastrophe to the source of prey.Then the success of the past will lead to the failure of the future.

Again, the final decision is not affected by the normal human selection and preference patterns; otherwise, the prey would be easier to evade and become more flexible, thereby detecting the presence of the hunter.

There is no order in the market. Only by adapting to the market can we face up to the chaos, break the rules and implement changes quickly.Many managers find that enterprises change and change, but they can't change. This is actually because the managers' thinking is always limited to the past, and they cannot extricate themselves.We are always used to using past successful experience to solve today's problems, and even to predict the future.This is often not reliable.If those Indians always hunt according to their own successful experience, then they may not be able to survive due to overhunting.On the contrary, if managers can abandon the past and deal with changes in a selfless state, they will be able to discover problems and achieve transcendence.Therefore, managers should be wary of empirical thinking and get used to using transformative thinking to solve problems.

To survive and succeed, every entrepreneur needs to transform into a force for change, and the most effective way to do this is to actively create change.

General Motors has created a miracle of contemporary enterprise development, and it is hailed as "the enterprise that creates enterprises".In the era when Welch was in charge of GM, GM has been doing the initiative of change.Welch is a person who lives in tomorrow, so he emphasizes change and spares no effort to push GM to make proactive changes.Every entrepreneur, in this era of change, must set his sights on the future and hope for tomorrow, and to achieve such a goal, he can only abandon the past and start today to be the initiator of change.

In this rapidly changing society, there can be no constant advantages.Therefore, only by constantly innovating can we adapt our own advantages to the development of the times, create new advantages in the process of continuous change, promote the sustainable development of the enterprise, and obtain continuous profits.

Now, many enterprises are in the period of growth or stable development, and the "peace and prosperity" is the easiest way for people to relax their vigilance and slack off.However, the market is changing rapidly, and enterprises seeking to survive and develop in the midst of changes must require entrepreneurs to have a sense of active innovation and the ability to develop and innovate.The concept has changed and the world has become wider. If entrepreneurs are afraid of tigers and wolves in the future, they will only be eliminated by the times in the end.With innovative thinking, entrepreneurs can not stick to the form, follow the trend of the times, accurately position the enterprise, and continuously promote the reform of the internal structure, management system, and corporate culture of the enterprise, thereby enhancing the ability of the enterprise to resist market risks.

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