The wooden bucket for holding water is made of many boards, and the water holding capacity is also determined by these boards. If one of the boards is a short board, the water capacity of the barrel is limited by the short board. This short board has become the "limiting factor" (or "short board effect") of the water capacity of this bucket. To increase the water capacity of this bucket, we can only replace the short board or lengthen it. People sum up this law as "Kanekin's Law" and get the "barrel law", which is the so-called "barrel effect". Further, we can know that: 1, the part higher than the lowest board is meaningless, and the higher it is, the greater the waste; If you want to increase the capacity of the barrel, you should increase the height of the shortest board as much as possible, which is the most effective and only way. This is the experience from life, but the simple truth is the crystallization of human wisdom. Any organization may have a common feature, that is, the parts that make up the organization are often uneven, but the inferior parts often determine the level of the whole organization. The problem is that the "shortest part" is a useful part of the organization. You can't throw it away as a rotten apple, or you won't hold any water!

Inferiority determines superiority, and inferiority determines life and death. This is the cruel law of market competition. This "barrel" tells us that leaders should have a sense of urgency. If you have any personal "shortest piece", you should consider making it up as soon as possible. If the "shortest board" appears in the group you lead, you must make it up quickly, otherwise the loss it brings to you may be devastating-many times, it is only one thing that ruins all your efforts. A county or any region has such a "shortest board", which may be someone, an industry or something. Leaders should quickly find out and make up for it quickly. Some people may not know the barrel law, but they all know "one vote veto". This is China's "barrel". With it, you will know how important the barrel law is.