Management story 1: noble swift horse

A farmer got a swift horse, but he didn't have a chance to play his special skill at the moment, so he raised it as an ordinary horse. In the long run, the characteristics of maxima are gradually losing. Finally, one day, the farmer had an accident and needed a swift horse to take him to the hospital. The swift horse would only spin around like a donkey. To this end, the farmer lost the best treatment opportunity and had to cut off a leg. Maxima was also put into the soup pot by him.

The farmer himself deeply reflected on this matter, and thought that the neglect and indifference to Maxima was the main reason for its decline. Maxima is noble and can't be treated like an ordinary horse, so the farmer decided to raise another maxima to make up for his regret.

After a long search, the farmer finally bought another swift horse. Seeing the noble and free-spirited appearance of Maxima, the farmer was so happy that he made up his mind to take good care of it. First of all, the farmer invited the best craftsman to make a beautiful saddle with precious stones. Stirrups and bits are made of the best brass, and bridles and reins are also made of the best cowhide. The farmer looked at the increasingly powerful image of an armed swift horse and felt very satisfied and proud. At the same time, the farmer built a luxurious stable for Maxima and bought the best forage from afar.

Under the careful care of the farmer, the swift horse really looks more vigorous and powerful. Farmers don't want to let maxima run, let alone ride on maxima. He wants to preserve the physical strength of Maxima so as to give full play to its advantages at critical moments. So Maxima stays in a luxurious stable every day and enjoys a delicious and leisurely life.

Finally, the four-year race will be held in the local area, and the farmer thinks this is the best opportunity for his swift horse to perform. He took the horse out, bathed it carefully, combed every hair, put on a delicate saddle and put on a beautiful halter. I dressed up neatly, put on that high-tech prosthetic leg, and led the swift horse to the stadium. Clean master, mighty and free and easy swift horse! Wherever they go, there will be a burst of admiration, and the farmer is very proud!

The game is about to start. The farmer climbed on his horse and drove it to the starting point. The horse and he both held their heads high proudly, as if the champion belonged to him!

As soon as the starter rang, everyone began to drive the horse, but the farmer's swift horse could not run. The farmer was so excited that he whipped the horse's ass with a whip. It's okay not to fight. After a dozen hits, Maxima simply stood there motionless. Watching the farmers panic, the crowd burst into laughter!

So, our farmers once again put the once swift horse into the soup pot.

The farmer only knew that the swift horse should be carefully raised and cared for, but he didn't expect it to need the opportunity of galloping and strong spur. Without the opportunity to gallop and strong bone spurs, even the best feed and feeding conditions can only make Maxima a a pampered waste. Thus, it is associated with employing people in enterprises. Many enterprises try their best to hire talents and experts with high salaries, but they are not given the opportunity to give full play to them or give them corresponding encouragement, and eventually become useless furnishings.

Management Story 2: The Weight of a Glass of Water

A lecturer is giving a class to the students, and everyone is listening carefully. A deep voice came from the silent classroom: "How much do you think this glass of water weighs?" Say, the lecturer picked up a glass of water. Some people say 200 grams, others say 300 grams. "Yes, only two hundred grams. So, how long can you hold this glass of water in your hand? " The lecturer asked again. Many people laughed: only 200 grams. How long will it take?

The lecturer didn't laugh, and then he said, "Take a minute, you must feel no problem;" After taking it for an hour, you may feel sore hands; Take a day off? How about a week? Then you may have to call an ambulance. " Everyone laughed again, but this time it was an approving smile.

The lecturer continued: "In fact, this glass of water is very light, but the longer you hold it, the heavier it will feel." . It's like putting pressure on your body No matter whether the pressure is heavy or not, you will feel more and more heavy and unbearable after a long time. What we must do is to put down this glass of water and take a rest before picking it up. Only in this way can we hold it longer. Therefore, the pressure we bear should be put down at an appropriate time and then picked up again, so that we can bear it for a longer time. "

Say that finish, applause rang out in the classroom.

Revelation: Learning to adjust your mind is the key to success. Civilization also brings different negative effects, and social progress also breeds heavy pressure. It is not uncommon for many people to be overwhelmed and go to extremes. Learn to release stress at this time. Being under pressure all the time is bound to go far. The best way to release stress is to adjust your mentality. When you should let go, let go, take responsibility when you have a good rest, and adjust your mentality to the best, so that you can go further.

Management Story 3: The Art of Balance in Enterprise Management

It is said that management is an art. What art is it?

Many times, many things have only two states: motion and stillness. On the other hand, management is a state of motion and a variable. The problem is that there are many kinds of motion states: acceleration? Slow down? Uniform speed? What kind of dynamic is the best state?

Yes, the art of management is to master the skills of uniform motion. If you are too anxious, you will lose speed; if you are too slow, you will lose management. So only uniform movement is the most labor-saving and effective, which is the highest art of management.

Like 100℃ water, it is easy to evaporate, while 0℃ water will crystallize, just like a person's body temperature of 36℃, which may be life-threatening. Management is to find and maintain this constant temperature node.

After all, management is an art of balance.

This truth is well known, but how to master this art is intriguing. Here we analyze the problem of art and university, hoping to help readers.

First of all, balance is a measure;

Balance doesn't mean 50/50, it means 36℃, it means the golden section on a straight line, it means the pi of 3. 14 15926 ... balance means perfect beauty, just like Mona Lisa's smile, Venus' brokeback, Xu Beihong's horse, Van Gogh's sunflower ... which is reflected in management: neither humble nor humble.

Secondly, balance is an attitude;

"the prime minister can punt in his stomach" is a kind of tolerance; It is "biting teeth and swallowing in the stomach", forbearing; It is the calmness of "Taishan collapses in front, and the face does not change color"; It is the optimism of "another village"; It is the confidence that "a thousand dollars will come back when they are scattered" ... this attitude is as invisible as water and as warm and bright as light. With this attitude, you can become a Buddha when you meet a Buddha, and you can become an immortal when you meet a fairy. You can do anything in heaven and on earth.

Third, balance is a will;

Running a business seems to judge heroes by the amount of assets, but it is not. Real masters always make choices. As we all know: those who get talent get the world. The number of talents is the hero of victory or defeat. In this process, we should know how to choose, just like "people gather money and people scatter it." Giving up is the great wisdom of management and even life. Why give up? What do you want? When to give up and when to get it? Are permeated with the artistic accomplishment of management.

Finally, balance is a kind of nirvana

Life and death is the highest state on the balance, just like "putting life and death out of the game" often receives a surprise effect. Don't be afraid of being bad, because it can stand, because pushing the old can make a new one. Like a phoenix, burn yourself to death and be reborn. As the Buddha said, "If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell" can be universal. This is a domineering attitude, but also the professionalism of taking the lead, which is the most precious temperament of an excellent manager.

The art of balance in management is not a tightrope walker, nor is it Ma Pingchuan. This is an art of living between good and bad, good and bad, and even between life and death. This is a game between the strong and the great wisdom.

Don't think that the principle of balancing art in management is well known. On the contrary, the more widely known the truth, the greater the fall and the deeper the injury. This is the seemingly simple but complicated process of management.

Never ignore the other half of the player in this balanced game. Whether they are willing to cooperate with you is very important. This is why the management is very nerve-racking, but still faces endless problems. Because the people you play with are different, the essence of the art of balance in management lies in finding the most reasonable solution. Only by following the example and conforming to the style can we understand and master the essence of the art of balance in management.

Management Story 4: Three Little Frogs and a Milk Bucket

A shepherd put a bucket of freshly squeezed milk under the wall, and three little frogs on the wall accidentally fell into the bucket during a fight. In this way, the three little frogs can neither swim nor jump.

The first frog said, "No wonder my eyelids jumped in the morning and I fell into the milk. My life is so bitter! " Then it floats motionless in the milk, waiting for death.

The second frog tried to struggle a few times, feeling that everything was in vain, and said in despair, "I'm going to die today, so it's better to die happily ~ it's better to have a long pain than a short one." So he jumped into the milk and drowned.

The third frog said nothing, but pushed his hind legs desperately.

The first frog said, "Forget it, it's no use. You can't jump out of such a deep milk bucket. "

"Maybe we can find something to cushion!" The third frog said.

But there is only slippery milk in the bucket, and there is nothing to support it. The little frog stepped on the air with one foot and two feet ... Time passed by, and the little frog almost wanted to give up, but an instinctive desire for survival supported him to push his hind legs again and again. I feel that the milk is getting stronger and stronger, and it is more and more difficult to swim. ...

However, slowly, a miracle appeared, and the milk under them hardened-the original milk turned into a cream cube under its strong stirring. When the little frog waiting to die found this, he cried excitedly. At this point, his companion was almost exhausted. However, the two little frogs struggled and finally jumped out of the milk bucket. And their other companion, but failed to come out.

Management explanation

I believe that everyone has had a similar experience of falling into a milk bucket in life. Hope is so slim that he doesn't even want to live! Some people choose to quit, walk away and even die; Most people are like the first frog. Life is worse than death. A minute is a minute, and a day is a day. There are also a few stubborn people who don't believe in fate. No matter how difficult and dangerous it is, no matter how hopeless it is, they are still fighting and still have a belief: maybe they can find something to cushion and jump out of this terrible deep bucket! Miracles don't happen every time, but don't give up as long as there is a glimmer of hope! Even if there is no hope, the instinct to survive will bring strength to yourself.

If it weren't for the efforts of the third frog, everyone would only die together, but because it persisted in its efforts, it was saved with its companions who were waiting to die.

If most people are the first frog, why not obey the third frog and worship it as king?

Going back to the management of the company is actually enlightening. When pressure and crisis come, if managers panic first, are at a loss, or do nothing like subordinates, regardless of the development of the situation, how to convince subordinates! But in reality, there are so many managers who talk big that even bosses try their best to recruit people who can talk.

If you have the ambition to be a leader in a team with equal strength, learn from the frog who tries to find a supporting point when dealing with the crisis. Perhaps it is your persistence and hard work that will lead everyone through the crisis safely, and everyone will naturally follow you in the future! Management skills are only a small aspect, and the inspiration of personality and great wisdom and courage in the face of crisis will really capture people's hearts.

Management Story 5: The Awakening Monkey

There is a lazy man in Chu State. He spent all day thinking about how to find the trick of bargaining without blowing off dust or blowing off dust. He thought that people who keep bees can get honey, and people who keep fish eagles can get fish. Why don't I raise some monkeys? Monkeys can pick fruits!

So he bought a group of monkeys, locked them in an empty house, and bought a lot of fruit baskets to teach them to carry. He trained hard with a whip in his hand. Then I bought a lot of fruit to teach monkeys to basket. If a monkey accidentally eats a bite of fruit or hurts it, he will raise his whip and whip it at random. Before long, the monkey was completely obedient and uncompromising. At this time, he put the monkey in the mountains to pick fruit for him.

Yes, monkeys are very docile. They go out early and come back late every day, picking all kinds of fresh fruits for him on their backs. He just needs to take these fresh fruits to the market to sell. Since then, his life has become easy and carefree.

This man who gets something for nothing is very harsh. Every morning, he drives monkeys up the mountain to pick fruits. No matter how many fruits are picked, each monkey only gives one. Monkeys have been working hard all day. How can a fruit fill their stomachs?

Monkeys are disgusted with their master's rough treatment, but no one dares to say anything because they know the smell of whips very well.

On this day, the monkeys went up the mountain to pick fruit as usual. Although their stomachs are empty, they are trained to pick fruits, and they only put them in baskets and dare not put them in their mouths. They are very hungry and their master is not in front of them. One of them got bold and began to eat fruit. The other monkeys saw it and kept swallowing it. Later, I couldn't help it anymore and learned to eat.

When an old wild monkey saw them like this, he couldn't help laughing: "Monkey, these are all wild fruits, so you can eat them boldly and see that you are being treated as a monkey." Eat, eat. "

The monkeys looked at each other and screamed, "This fruit is not the owner's. Anyone can pick it and eat it. " "The teacher is too lazy to go up the mountain and can't see. Let's put down our stomachs and eat. "

They chatted while eating: "The right to dare to pick fruits on this mountain is not only the owner's!" "I thought the master was feeding us, but now I understand that we are feeding him!" "This mountain is the mountain of nature. Anyone can climb up. If fruit is wild, anyone can pick it. He was too lazy to work and urged us to work for him. Why should we suffer like him? " "Isn't it? We asked for it! "

The monkeys were hungry for a long time and fell asleep after eating. When I woke up, the sun had set and the basket was not full.

A little monkey said, "You must eat a whip when you go back today, hum!" " Even if I eat a whip, I won't work for him. I want to reason with him! Another little monkey said, "the master never makes sense." If we don't work for him, he will betray us again! " "Everyone is scratching their heads and blinking, and they don't know what to do at the moment.

Or the older monkey spirit, it said, "Why go back? The mountain has no head and the forest has no edge. Where is there no fruit for us to eat? The road of life is right under our feet. We should make a decisive decision and leave here at once! " The wild old monkey chimed in again: "Yes, let's go together!"

Everyone threw away their baskets one by one, danced and laughed happily and walked into the endless forest.

In the evening, the host waited around, waiting for the monkey to come back. When he walked to the mountain, he saw that there were no monkeys except the lying basket. He is angry, but he is still lazy. Later, he finally starved to death in his own bed.

At present, many leaders generally report that people are difficult to manage. The most fundamental reason is that the relationship between leaders and employees is not correct. In the eyes of leaders, are employees tools to achieve goals or individuals with personal characteristics? In the past, employees trusted the company unconditionally and dedicated their lives to the company. The only slim hope is that when the company makes money, it can give some to its employees. But when the company encountered difficulties, it did not hesitate to abandon these employees. To make matters worse, they didn't inform them first, they just informed them that "today is the last day" when they went to work in the morning! Today's employees have finally made the company that still lives in the machine age suffer. Employees are no longer a part that can be easily removed. They use a lot of commands and rules. Even if employees can be restrained from going to work, employees will naturally pack up their files and leave when they get off work. There is no need for employees to be loyal to the company. Because companies don't respect employees first, employees have to respect themselves first, regardless of the company.

Many of our leaders regard their subordinates as machines when assigning work. Just tell subordinates what to do and say nothing else, which leads to subordinates not knowing the importance of their work, and as a result, they don't know how they are doing, and they have no sense of accomplishment at all. Therefore, I lost my enthusiasm for work.

Employees are not costs, but the company's capital and core resources. Employees are living people, not machines, and should be respected. You can't control it with buttons at will. There is no doubt that people will be influenced by external stimuli, but it is absolutely uncontrollable. Only you can change yourself.

Now many excellent employees leave, regardless of the retention of enterprises; Potential employees ignore the expectations of enterprises and leave quietly; Even the backbone employees, regardless of the trust of the enterprise, give up and leave, leaving the leaders with endless troubles and sighs. What puzzles the leaders is that it seems that none of the people who should go have left, but those who should not have left; The ordinary ones didn't go, but the excellent ones went. Therefore, I can always hear the helpless song of the leader over and over again: What should I do to keep you? My employees!

Leaders must change from the idea that employees depend on their bosses to the idea that bosses depend on their employees. Without employees, there is no boss. Think this question through from the bottom of my heart. Otherwise, it is easy to produce collisions and contradictions. In fact, as long as an employee works in a harmonious, relaxed, just, fair, enterprising and United team, he will be happy and refreshed. However, the corporate culture of many enterprises lacks humanization, and the management style and concept of enterprise leaders are rigid, which is contrary to the management principles of taking people as the core, respecting people's needs in everything, mobilizing people's enthusiasm everywhere and centering on realizing people's self-worth.

Management story 6: puppy vs zebra

On the African prairie, three thin puppies are fighting for their lives with a tall zebra.

At first glance, it is almost impossible for three weak puppies to be rivals of the big zebra. But the reality is that a puppy bit the zebra's tail, no matter how the zebra's tail shook, it still stuck; A puppy bites a zebra's ear. No matter how the zebra shakes its head, it won't let go. A slightly stronger puppy bit a zebra's leg, and no matter how the zebra kicked it, it didn't dare to slack off.

Soon, under the attack of three puppies Qi Xin, the "behemoth" zebra finally collapsed to the ground and became food for the three puppies.

Revelation: As long as the measures are effective, sparrows will hit the plane. Within the organization, a very important function of managers is to scientifically divide the work and make the best allocation of personnel according to the actual situation. Only when every employee is clear about his/her job responsibilities and does his/her job, will there be no such undesirable phenomena as buck passing. On the contrary, if someone in the team makes up the number, it will not only bring the loss of wages to the enterprise, but also lead to the overall decline of the company's work efficiency, and even collapse like a zebra in the fierce competition.

Management story 7: Who did the bead chain seduce?

In the middle of a big lake, there is a temple, which is dedicated to a string of beads worn by the legendary bodhisattva. An old abbot and some young monks are practicing. One day, the old abbot told them to say, "The bodhisattva chain is gone!" The little monk couldn't believe it. How could they disappear? Because the only door in the temple will be guarded by these monks in turn 24 hours a day, outsiders can't get in at all.

The old abbot said calmly: "As long as the person who took it can admit his mistake, then cherish this string of beads and be willing to give it to the person you like." So they have seven days to meditate.

On the first day, no one admitted it, but the next day, the monks who had respected each other were a little more suspicious and suspicious, and even stopped talking to each other. On the seventh day, no one stood up. Seeing this situation, the old host spoke: "Everyone thinks that you are innocent, which means that you have enough determination and the bead chain has never tempted you. You can leave here tomorrow morning, and your practice can come to an end. " The next morning, in order to show their innocence, the monks packed their bags early in the morning, leaving only a blind monk to recite the scriptures in front of the Buddha. The monks were relieved, and finally someone admitted to taking the chain and made it clear.

After saying goodbye to these innocent monks, the teacher's father turned to the blind monk and asked, "Why don't you leave?" ? Did you take the chain? The blind monk replied, "The Buddha's bead has dropped, but the Buddha's heart is still there. I'm here to practice Buddhism! """Since you didn't take it, why did you stay and bear all the doubts and let others misunderstand that you took it?" The master asked.

The blind monk replied, "For seven days, doubts hurt people's hearts. Your own heart, other people's hearts, all need someone to bear first, in order to solve doubts. "Master took out the legendary bead chain from the cassock and put it around the blind monk's neck:" The chain is still there, only you have learned to bear it! " "

How do you feel after reading this story?

Mistakes are not tools of struggle, but tools of practice. This story just shows that in the face of mistakes, what is most needed is to face and take responsibility. As operators and colleagues, if we can face it with this attitude, be brave enough to take responsibility, and find real problems without contending for accusations, it is the real blessing of the enterprise!

At the review meetings of many enterprises, the most common routine is to "clarify responsibilities" or "blame each other for mistakes". In the end, it often ends in discord, and the result is only "emotional fermentation" rather than "the value of failure", because there are always people who are worried about losing their jobs and looking for various reasons to fill the real gap.

It is human nature to avoid failure. But I must say: no one likes to make mistakes, but making mistakes is not terrible. The important thing is that you dare to face them, so that you have a chance of success.

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