Enterprise Management Must Be Like "Water".

　　 In the era of big industrial production, enterprises pursues rigid policies and rigid structures. Every big enterprise is like a closely guarded small government. It is committed to the integration of the whole industrial chain, and maintains its operation order with insurmountable rigid system and Taylor administration law. In this enterprise, the human factor, whether you are a manager or a blue collar worker, are more positioned as "revolutionary screws". They are part of the big machine or the extension of the machine.

There is no doubt that with the development of the times, people are more and more aware of the defects of rigid structure, and begin to seek the solution of "rigid, flexible and harmonious", and some special management scholars have put forward the concept of "flexible strategy". What is the flexible strategy? Laozi has a cloud in the Tao Te Ching: the world is not weak in water, but the tough ones can win, the weak wins the strong, the soft wins the battle, and the world knows nothing. On this basis, we put forward the "water thinking" theory of managers, which contains three levels of meaning.

First, the low-lying consciousness of "going into the sea"

Why does "hundred rivers enter the sea"? Because the sea is in the lowest depression. Management will be added. Learn Most of the students want to be excellent "managers", but do not know if you have enough psychological preparation to become an excellent "manager" first after you get out of school. With my observation and understanding of many business managers, a manager must possess a peculiar talent: that is, to be able to lower himself in time and take the environment as a teacher. Seven years ago, as a consulting rookie, I once saw Mr. Liu Yonghao, the richest man, in my notebook. He just put my nonsense on my notebook, because he thought I was very funny, and I never heard of it before. Until now, Mr. Liu's conversation with anyone has always maintained his posture at any time. Once accompanied by Niu Gensheng, the boss of Mengniu, a champion of Chinese enterprises, after attending a whole day's meeting, he sat down in the last row of his classroom to go to a lecture, just because he heard that the speaker had some very fresh ideas. I also heard that an old peasant worker commented on the construction site of Mengniu: "the fat man is the best. He is most polite to me, and he always asks me this question." The "fat man" is Niu Gensheng, the group president who does not know the old man. Only when we have this awareness and ability to lower ourselves in time can we become a lifelong learner, constantly enrich the source of our management ideas, and constantly create new management miracles.

For a company, the most difficult thing is how to transfer and copy this ability, so as to avoid. company The tendency of bureaucracy and water injection.

Two, the management role of "water is good for all but not for competition".

For a manager, the most difficult thing to do is "do not fight". There are four realms of role consciousness of enterprise managers: not for Contention We must not fight for nothing, but fight for it. The first two are the masters who waste resources. They should be introduced to beheading. In many enterprises, there are such problems as team building and even team cracking. The overwhelming majority are the low-level mistakes committed by the core members in the team. This "struggle" is not just about winning fame and gain, but also showing "struggle for power" more often. Because for many management stars, good performance and great contribution are recognized by the team. Therefore, many people think that I have paid so much and wholeheartedly for the sake of the interests of the enterprise, can not criticize others criticize others? Can not criticize others? Can not deal with some problems with me, and can not get greater voice? But the fact is that those who appear such "management star" business life will not be very durable. Because the bigger the enterprise is, the more competitive endurance it is, not just the explosive force of competition. Only if managers have the culture of "making good use of all things without fighting", can management ability be passed down completely, and then personal intelligence can be transformed into company capability.

Three, the management elements of "soften the force with flexibility"

"Water quality" is mainly embodied in four factors: adaptability, permeability, inclusiveness and principle. It is a "Cup" of water into the bowl and a bowl of water into the bowl. Secondly, "dropping water wears the stone" is a peculiar phenomenon in the natural world. Compared with the stone, the water is weak and hard, but it is weak and strong sometimes. It is because water has a strong permeability. Third, water is a visible material that can contain everything. All other substances in the world can be surrounded by water or integrated by water. Of course, no matter how the environment changes, the composition of chemical oxygen two is very stable. The bottom line principle of water is consistent. First of all, water is a ubiquitous substance. It is best at "moving with the potential" and adapting to the changes of the external environment. If the structure and strategy of an enterprise can "move with the momentum and follow the trend" like water, then the enterprise will have the first class comprehensive competitiveness, because it has completely integrated its transformation and development into the rhythm of market and environment changes. This is exactly the real meaning of the "boundless organization" advocated by Jack Welch in the last period of GE.

　 For most young people in China and modern enterprises, competition and change are often not "weak" because we are intelligent, vigorous and ambitious, but they are often "fragile" because we attach importance to explosive power, ignore endurance, pay attention to strength, ignore toughness, and pay attention to time to ignore the Clock Makers. But don't forget, crisp and weak are always twins. Therefore, in today's China, if we return to the original and take the most ordinary and unusual water as teachers, maybe we can understand why water can be everywhere and influence the world.