03.2020 Office Talk
the first famous official in the late Qing Dynasty's skill of identifying the talented.
Far eastern New Century Corporation / Liu Zuliang
In fact, Zeng Guofan is not that kind of talented and talented person. He is not as good as Zuo Zongtang in terms of literary talent or martial arts. He is not as good as Hu Linyi or Li Hongzhang in terms of coordination and strategic vision. However, Zeng Guofan has three outstanding points: first, he is impatient for politics; second, he is resolute in his personality and will never return; third, he has the ability to know people. As for the first two items, there are a lot of books and articles to be discussed. This paper focuses on Zeng Guofan's skill of knowing people.
Zeng Guofan has read countless people all his life. He also wrote the experience of these people into a book called "face Sutra", which can be bought in Taiwan's business printing house in the early days. Now it is estimated that he can only try his luck in the library. There are four things in the book to see whether a person can reuse: credit, organization, lack of official spirit, and less boasting. It's quite reasonable to think about it. It's still true after a hundred years.
1. Credit: a person without credit is a person who is not reliable in his work and does not count in his words. Such a person is not authorized or accountable by the chief executive, and it is difficult for his subordinates to be convinced. When the interaction between people is not based on honesty, the impact on individuals is isolated, and the impact on teams is disintegrated. No matter for politics or business, credit is the first important thing. Therefore, before the formal reform, Shang Yang had to "move wood to build credit". In the late Qing Dynasty, the bank notes of Jin merchants were able to connect the world because of the word "credit".
2. To be organized: to be organized means to have logic in doing things, to be able to grasp the complicated relations and priorities between things, to know what to do in advance and what to do afterwards, and to reorganize and complete the complicated things in an orderly way. This kind of person has high efficiency, can catch the right direction, won't let the subordinates do the white work like a headless fly, and won't panic because things are clear, and can give orders in time of danger and turn the tide back.
Third, no official gas: the so-called official gas is body and shelf. In the workplace, there will always be people who are not small officials but not small in airs. This kind of person usually lacks the true material, can only take the stature and the shelf as the power and the status symbol, therefore uses the method to put on the scene, displays oneself superior, is different. What he considers is not the interests of the group or the enterprise, but how to show that he has the power to stand on the throne. This kind of people are most likely to gather around the people who need to shoot horses. Because they only listen to what they want to hear, they can't see better talents than themselves, and they can't bear different opinions. They tend to move from the power of love to the power of being quick witted, causing great harm to the team or the enterprise.
4. Little talk: it's harmless to blow the cow's hide occasionally between people when they are having a rest of the meal or when they are drinking heavily; but if it becomes a habit, it's not far from full of lies. Those who love to talk big usually have extreme inferiority and lack of self-confidence in their hearts. They must rely on "talking big" to build their momentum. Therefore, they are easy to hesitate at critical moments and difficult to take on the big responsibilities. Ma Su in the Three Kingdoms period was an example. Liu Bei had seen his problem for a long time. So when he was in the city of Baidi, he especially urged Zhuge Liang, "Ma Su's speech is pompous, beyond his actual ability, and cannot be reused.". Prime Minister should pay attention! It's a pity that Zhuge Liang didn't listen to the advice, which resulted in the defeat of the war on the Street Pavilion and the defeat of the first northern expedition of Shu Han.
Modern shopping malls have fierce competition and fast changing technology. Even high-tech products are difficult to maintain their technological advantages for more than one year, and innovative services are often copied or even re innovated by competitors within months. Huge capital is no longer the most important factor for enterprises to maintain long-term competitiveness. It is talents in all aspects and in different fields that can keep enterprises alive. The most important thing for enterprise owners is to find talents and keep them in the right position to continuously metabolize human resources so as to promote the vitality of enterprises. Meanwhile, in the internal competition of enterprises, they are the balancers of all forces And the arbiter of the rules.
There is no barefoot, no perfect person. People like Zhuge Liang who have both ability and moral character are rare for thousands of years. Therefore, the focus of learning to know people is not to choose a sage or a genius who is not born, but to master one's nature and ability by observing one's behavior, and then arrange them in the right place. For Zeng Guofan, his ability was not the first in the late Qing Dynasty, and he could not defeat the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by his own force, but he recommended the rise of generals in the Qing Dynasty in nine out of ten. Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, Liu Kunyi, Guo Songtao, etc. were all discovered by him. The reason why he was called the first minister in the late Qing Dynasty is here, which is also the modern entrepreneur and high-level manager People should borrow the mirror most.
