Chapter 144 Learn "what you need"

Excellent countries, enterprises, and individuals are good at learning from others.What you should learn is only what you need. If you learn everything, it is completely copying, and it does not make any sense to make yourself like others. People who deny globalization do not understand this, reject all things related to globalization, and want to live tomorrow like yesterday.Those who do not believe in the progress of mankind and society and refuse to learn are also the opponents of globalization and some countries. However, there is no going back to the globalization in which people, money, and things (companies, information) cross national borders in an instant, so the question becomes "what can we learn from it".Therefore, the choice of "learning something" in this era is crucial.

If you really want to learn, don't blindly imitate, pick something you have to learn, and then master it.For example, I learned from Konosuke Matsushita and Philips, but I didn't imitate them.Although Matsushita Electric has been ridiculed for a long time as "imitated electrical appliances", they only learned the advantages of Philips such as the divisional system. Panasonic selected the places necessary for its own company to learn, and then developed the company into a good company that can surpass other companies.In other words, Panasonic's divisional system is a divisional system filtered through the "filter" of Konosuke Matsushita.

Therefore, at the funeral of Konosuke Matsushita, Dirk of Philips was present as a representative of a friend, and Panasonic and Dirk were close friends.Although this happened in 1989, when Dirk, who was handicapped with legs and feet, appeared at the funeral with a cane, the whole audience was stunned, and now I can still remember that scene clearly. Back to the topic of China.When I say "China has a lot to learn from", most people will say "Daqian, do you praise China too much", "Is China so good", "China is a country that is too much ". If you want to talk about the problems in China, I can talk for hours.But what's the point of talking about it, or writing a book about it?We just need to know what we should learn from China.

All countries have lessons to learn, all businesses have lessons to learn, and all people have lessons to learn - that's my basic point. Japan not only despises China, but also has a tendency to despise the whole of Asia including South Korea. In particular, there are really many Japanese who firmly believe that "it is impossible to lose to China".