Chapter 3 Chapter 3 How to Improve Your Moral Cultivation

Einstein said: "The basis of all human values ​​is morality."If the moral quality of the leader is low, it will bring huge moral hazard to the business management.The moral cultivation of leaders is not just a personal issue. It is of great importance to the generation of corporate cohesion and employee enthusiasm for production, and even to the establishment of a good corporate image.On this point, many well-known entrepreneurs have their own insights and personal practical experience.Someone suggested that the root of business operation is to cultivate people, and only "high-quality people" can produce "high-quality products", and to create "high-quality people", business leaders must first "cultivate themselves". "Only by cultivating yourself first can you cultivate others, subordinates, and then produce high-quality products." This is the so-called "If you want to be kind to others, you must first be kind to yourself."

Then, in what aspects can leaders improve their moral cultivation through hard work? Leadership management is not only the management of things, but also the management of people.People are the foundation of an enterprise. To make an enterprise vibrant, the people in the enterprise must first be alive.In the process of leading and motivating employees, the moral capital of the leader plays a key role.And the moral capital of all leaders is based on one premise, that is - he is a person of integrity.In the face of various temptations and intricate hardships, only honest people can be calm and calm, have a transcendent vision, not be swayed by the temptation, confusion, confusion and obstacles in front of them, grasp the essential laws of things, and see the future. Light, pointing out the way forward.

Leaders must be inspirational mentors, admired, followed and obeyed by employees.But modern psychological research shows that people generally do not follow someone blindly.And with the development of economy and society, it is almost impossible for a person to be tied to anyone or any institution forever.As an upright person, he often has firm belief and self-confidence, and is someone who can be trusted by anyone for a long time.Because of this firm belief and self-confidence, he does not have to abandon justice to please certain evil forces, so he can endure short-term sacrifices, losses, and even humiliation, and dare to take risks to do what he thinks is right and just, and make his behavior Being consistent makes people feel they are trustworthy and dependable.An upright personality will make their families, companies, and partners think that he is doing the right thing, so they will follow them and cooperate with them, dedicating themselves to the mission of the company.

Even when falling behind and failing, he is not insignificant and sorrowful, and can face the reality calmly, neither being deluded by vanity and temptation, nor held hostage by the threat of hardship.In glory, being able to get rid of impetuosity, keep a clear head, and recognize one's shortcomings and shortcomings; in the face of crisis, be able to get rid of disappointment, maintain a peaceful mind, and see the bright and hope of the future, which can be said to be a successful entrepreneur the basis of all morality. James Burke, former chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, once said: "First, I believe that the people with whom we have important cooperative relations have a deep and strong need for honesty and integrity; second, I believe that Businesses should meet this need of all stakeholders; in the end, I believe that those businesses that are most consistent in their commitment to ethical behavior are more successful than others in general.”

Ideal is a kind of belief, the spiritual pillar of a person, and the spiritual motivation for the country, nation, and individual to continuously improve.Deng Xiaoping once said: "We must always educate our people, especially our youth, to have ideals. Why were we able to fight through very difficult situations in the past, overcome all difficulties and dangers and make the revolution victorious? It is because we Have ideals.” Today, under the conditions of the socialist market economy, if one lacks faith, gives up the pursuit of lofty ideals, and loses the promotion of human noble morals, individuals are likely to be unable to withstand decadent ideas such as money worship and hedonism. Temptation, let alone a leader who combines power and wealth.

Therefore, establishing lofty aspirations in life, giving yourself an accurate positioning, and unremittingly pursuing lofty spiritual values ​​are very necessary for cultivating the personality of leaders.Leaders must constantly improve themselves through learning, and cultivate a spirit of big vision and long-term vision. Only by standing tall can they see far, so as to avoid arrogance, to be free from the petty gains in front of them, and to be tolerant of others. quantity. If a leader can have the world in mind and pursue the realization of the interests of the people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as the road, then his life will have a lofty quality and a lofty personality.

Cultivation is to correct wrong words and deeds; cultivation is to cultivate one's inner kindness and make it bright and abundant.Moral cultivation mainly refers to people's conscious self-reform, self-cultivation, self-exercise and self-cultivation in terms of moral character, moral emotion, moral will, and moral habits. To improve one's moral cultivation, one must pay attention to one's own cultivation of moral introspection.Confucianism emphasizes "returning to oneself", that is, it emphasizes the need to work hard on the inner world, educate and improve oneself, and cultivate self-discipline.Take a self-disciplined lifestyle as a goal, make plans for things that are beneficial to development, and carry out according to the plan every day instead of following your mood. Persevere until it becomes a habit.We should also pay attention to the training of moral practice.We must start from the little things in daily life, "If you want to stand up, you will build up others, and if you want to achieve yourself, you will achieve others."Through long-term practice, constantly improve one's moral realm.

Sun Zhen, a famous economist who once served as the president of National Taiwan University and led the "Taiwan Economic Miracle", commented in his "As It Should Be": "Although Taiwanese society has been striving for the upper reaches, there are still examples of lack of 'quality' everywhere. .Consumers lack 'taste', families lack 'quality', politicians and business figures lack 'character', and businessmen lack 'morality'." Gao Xijun said in his preface, "Without people, you can't do things; without talents, you can't do great things; without Character, whether you do small things or big things, will be bad." It can be seen that if a leader wants to achieve great things, he must first improve his moral cultivation.

To improve moral cultivation, we must also place material enjoyment and spiritual life in the right place.This requires entrepreneurs not only to regard running a business as a means of occupation and earning a living, but also as a way to realize ideals and life values ​​and contribute to the country and society, so as to reflect their lofty spiritual pursuit.There is such an example. When Shougang was booming, a reporter interviewed the chairman of Shougang and found that his office was very simple, so he asked: As the boss of a large enterprise, why is the office so shabby?The boss of Shougang said a very simple and touching sentence: "No matter how good the office is, no good steel can be produced." There is no doubt that this boss has placed the material value and spiritual value in the right place, and maintained the entrepreneurial spirit of hard work , His spirit is an infinite role model for employees, and it also brings infinite vitality to the enterprise.

Moral will is a kind of psychological process that people will not give up when they make moral choices, and it is the determination and perseverance that people show in the process of fulfilling morality.A person's attitude towards difficulties and the courage to fight against difficulties are important manifestations of willpower. Human beings are imperfect, and goodness at this time cannot guarantee nobility at that time.Everyone faces a series of temptations that may lead them astray. Practicing morality is by no means an easy task. It is a tense process of constantly conquering and surpassing oneself.In this process, if there is no firm willpower to support, the individual may not be able to control the midway and give up or go astray.

Therefore, for leaders, training to strengthen willpower is very important.True morality is not obedience to social norms due to the control and punishment of external forces, but choosing to be good when one has the ability to do evil in a specific situation. This can be called the true sense of morality.Only by forging a firm willpower can a leader build a noble moral personality. Noble moral sentiment is an important content of a leader's moral personality.To enhance the moral sentiments of leaders and maintain a fulfilling spiritual life, the focus is on practicing "quietness".Under the temptation of fame and fortune, leaders should maintain a balanced mentality and avoid rushing for quick success. The most important thing to do is to practice "quiet" skills, which is also the state that many gentlemen in ancient my country have always pursued.Zhuge Liang wrote in a letter to his son: "A gentleman's journey is to cultivate one's morality through tranquility, and to cultivate virtue through thrift. If one is not indifferent, one cannot be wise, and if one is not peaceful, one cannot achieve greatness." "Quietness" can enable leaders to dilute the impetuousness caused by fame and fortune, maintain physical and mental health, and be calm about changes and dangers, and adapt to complex and changeable environments.At the same time, being quiet and sincere, in the world full of temptations of "festivals, drunkenness and money", "quietness" can maintain people's kindness and independent personality. Cultivating moral sentiments, maintaining a fulfilling spiritual life, and resisting external aggression, on the one hand, is to practice "quiet" skills, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to cultivate a civilized, healthy, and colorful life interest.A civilized and healthy life interest can cultivate people's temperament and is conducive to the comprehensive and normal development of a healthy body and mind. It is fundamentally opposed to a low-level and vulgar life interest.Only by pursuing a civilized and healthy life interest can we effectively prevent the invasion of unhealthy social phenomena. A civilized and healthy life is rich and colorful. Stamp collecting, photography, mountain climbing, various chess and ball games can enrich a person's life.After intense work, leaders can adjust their body and mind, keep their spiritual life full, and enrich and perfect their inner world through these beneficial hobbies. On April 5, 2004, Jiang Yingwu, the former head of the "Little Sheep" chain group in Baotou City, was kidnapped and later killed.Jiang Yingwu is a well-known entrepreneur in Baotou City, but after he made his fortune, he became addicted to gambling every day and made friends with many corrupt gamblers. In the end, he was deceived by his gamblers and lost his life.If he paid attention to his own moral construction, paid attention to cultivating moral sentiments, and had no bad habits, perhaps such a tragedy would not have happened. The ancients said: "The law can kill the unfilial, but cannot make people behave like Confucius; the law can punish the thief, but cannot make people as honest as Boyi." That is to say, the external constraints of laws and regulations alone cannot make people become The best ones must strengthen their own "internal strength" cultivation, control themselves, and improve themselves in order to pursue the perfection of moral personality.Controlling yourself is easier said than done.Every leader has a certain amount of power, and "has the final say" within a certain range, and the constraints of external forces are often lacking in strength. If you indulge a little, your life boat will easily fall into the quagmire.Therefore, leaders should grasp the boundaries between right and wrong, right and wrong, honor and disgrace, righteousness and profit, gain and loss, always be cautious and independent, always be alert and vigilant to themselves, be indifferent to clarify their ambitions, be calm and far-reaching, and make themselves To meet the requirements of a certain degree of radius. Zou Taofen once said: "Consciousness is the mother of progress, and self-abasedness is the source of depravity. Therefore, self-consciousness is indispensable, and self-abasedness is indispensable." The quality of personality image depends to a large extent on one's own moral cultivation. consciousness.Therefore, if you want to make progress in morality, you must be self-respecting, self-examination, self-policing and self-motivation. Self-respect That is, self-respect, self-cherishing.The internal manifestation of self-respect awareness is to always pay attention to one's own identity, and pay attention to the influence of one's words, deeds and behavior on employees.Self-deprecating and self-indulgent self-indulgence is not self-respect.The external expression of self-respect consciousness is to respect others, respect friends, and respect comrades.In a word, respect the vast number of employees and the masses.In the relationship between people, there are high and low positions at work, and there are differences in ability between strong and weak, but personality is equal. Entrepreneurs who know how to respect others will "be full of belly and hold things, and stand firm on their feet." ", so that we can not only gain the respect of the majority of employees, but also achieve self-respect. introspection That is, self-awareness, self-examination, and self-dissection.Introspection is a mirror that can reflect one's own flaws and shortcomings.The process of introspection is also a process of constantly overcoming mistakes, updating and improving oneself. "What you do during the day, come to self-examination at night, be alarmed if it is evil, and be happy if it is good." "If you blame yourself for everything, you will improve your morality day by day. With others, everything will go against you." Confucius "examined myself three times a day", and a generation of Mingjun Li Shimin once had the introspection of "using copper as a mirror to understand gains and losses". experience.Every leader should constantly reflect on whether his words and deeds are in line with the overall interests of the society and the requirements of the employees or the masses in light of his own thinking, work and life reality, be self-aware, have the courage to self-dissect, dare to expose and admit his shortcomings, Gradually temper your perfect personality. Through this moral requirement, the leader gradually completes from spontaneous to conscious, from appearance to inner heart, from passive to active, from heteronomy to self-discipline, so as to raise his moral cultivation to a new level. self-alert That is, self-vigilance, self-defense, and a keen awareness of possible events and dangers, that is, what people often say is "alarm bells ringing".Leaders occupy a certain position and hold a certain amount of power. It is easy to hear praises, get benefits, and be pampered.In this case, if you are confused and self-absorbed instead of self-vigilant, you will be destroyed in your own hands.Especially young leaders should pay more attention to this.An excellent and mature leader should be vigilant when he has achieved success in his work and is repeatedly praised; he should also be vigilant when his personal growth and progress are relatively smooth; self-motivation That is, self-motivation, self-motivation.The growth and progress of a leader is a process of continuous sublation, and it is necessary to constantly set new goals for oneself and motivate oneself to continuously explore and pursue.The times are constantly developing, and leaders must stand at the forefront of the development of the times, and constantly endow their own personality with new content that keeps pace with the times.At the same time, we must also see that the development of an enterprise or organization cannot always be smooth sailing, and it is inevitable to encounter difficulties of varying degrees. In this case, the leader must face the reality bravely and temper his strong character and tenacity in the difficulties Perseverance, sublimate grand ambitions, eliminate all obstacles, and always lead the organization to move forward. The four in one of "self-respect", "self-examination", "self-policing" and "self-motivation" are all requirements for a leader's perfect moral personality.Self-respect is to maintain the dignity of personality, self-examination is to maintain the purity of personality, self-policing is to prevent the decline of personality, and self-motivation is to stimulate the sublimation of personality.As a leader, only by paying attention to study, strengthening self-cultivation, and becoming a model of the "Four-Selfs" can we effectively establish our own personality image, grasp the pulse of the times, and become a waver of the times.