Chapter 16 7. Learning from the West: the longest distance between two points is the shortest

It is said that Sun Houzi admitted his mistake after being criticized and educated by Tathagata Buddha, the chairman of Xitian Bliss Co., Ltd. because he made a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace.Chairman Tathagata is magnanimous and does not blame the past, but at the unanimous request of all the executives of the company, Sun Houzi was transferred to work in the small coal mine in Wuxing Mountain; Be a monkey again, dig more coal, dig coal well, work hard with a grateful attitude, and repay the leadership's care with practical actions. So Sun Houzi squatted under the mine and started the long coal digging work. As we all know, coal digging is a huge amount of labor and extremely risky. After digging the coal, they have to write a project development proposal to Chairman Tathagata, suggesting the development of the Xitian Buddhist scriptures project, and carefully analyzing the huge benefits this project will bring to Xitian Bliss Company.

At first, Sun Houzi’s project investigation report was thrown into the wastebasket before reaching the chairman’s desk; but after a long time, the number of Sun Houzi’s reports gradually increased, piled up everywhere in Xitian Bliss Company Yes, the executives of the company grabbed a few sheets to use as toilet paper when they went to the toilet. Chairman Tathagata saw it by accident when he went to the toilet, and finally knew that there was such a project. Five hundred years later, there was a strong market demand for the Xitian Scripture in Datang, which aroused the close attention of the senior management of the Xitian Bliss Company.For this reason, Chairman Tathagata presided over in person and held several seminars on the Western Paradise Learning project. It was decided at the meeting that the company would invest huge sums of money in the project.

After making this decision, they were faced with the problem of the person in charge of the project. Everyone knew that this project was an image project, so the heads of various departments were furious and strongly demanded to be responsible for the development of the overall project. He sent his young disciple Rou Chanzi to take charge.Although Rou Chanzi is young, he has a blood relationship with Chairman Tathagata, blood is thicker than water, and Rou Chanzi also owns equity in the company, so his loyalty to the company is beyond doubt. Rou Chanzi lives in the happy Xitian Bliss Company. He is pampered and well-fed every day. He eats fat and big ears, but he is bored with nothing to do every day. After receiving the task, he set off excitedly.Not long after, news came from Dongtu area that Rou Chanzi met a beautiful female fairy on the road, and a romantic and touching love story happened. weep.However, because the taste of Rouchanzi was too delicious, the banshee, who was overwhelmed by love, couldn't help but ate him for a while.

Rou Chanzi was unfavorable at the beginning of the teacher, and his halberd fell into the sand. Tathagata's second disciple, Ni Chanzi, clamored to go; Tathagata thought about it, and Ni Chanzi was dull by nature, ugly and rough, and no female fairy would fall in love with him. It was even more impossible for the goblin to eat him, so it should be no problem for Ni Chanzi to go, so Chairman Tathagata agreed. Unexpectedly, Ni Chanzi passed the Liusha River, regardless of the ferocity of the river, and walked into the river with his eyes closed. Because he was a jar made of mud, he melted quickly when he touched the water.

At this time, everyone realized that the project of learning Buddhist scriptures from the West was not so easy to operate, so they all shut up and kept silent.Chairman Tathagata convened another meeting, only to find out that such an inconspicuous small project, except for Sun Houzi, who was digging coal in Wuxing Mountain, no one else could undertake it. But if you really want to hand over this project to Sun Houzi, not to mention the reluctance of the chairman Tathagata, and every colleague in the company will not agree, so what should we do about this matter?At this time Venerable Kaye said: "Don't worry, didn't you say that everyone except Sun Houzi can't do it? Then let Sun Monkey do it." Hearing this, Tathagata immediately retorted: "No, absolutely not, Sun Monkey Unreliable, who of you can guarantee that he will not engage in fraudulent and malicious operations in the project operation? Then transfer the profit to his own Huaguoshan Company, and then only leave us with a huge loss in debt to Xitian? This situation we encountered Is there still less? There are too many, don’t you all do this? Otherwise, how could your own company become bigger? You are all like this, why is Sun Houzi an exception?”

Venerable Kaye said with a smile: "Ru Dong, I didn't say Monkey Sun is a saint. This, this... is selfish, it's the nature of animals. If Monkey Sun is fully responsible for the project, he will definitely manage it maliciously. It will increase the operating cost of the project. Therefore, we have to consider using a modern company management system to restrain him.” "How to restrain?" Chairman Tathagata asked eagerly. "Decentralization!" Venerable Kaye said with a smile, "We want to weaken Monkey Sun's power and minimize his irrational behavior, so we have to assign him a supervisor to lead his work; The administrative staff responsible for evaluating his attendance should develop the good habit of clocking in for him to ask for leave in case of emergency; send a logistics staff loyal to the supervisor to prevent Monkey Sun from stealing the assets of the project team, so that the matter will be resolved."

After hearing this, Tathagata questioned: "But if you do it this way, the work efficiency will be reduced. If Sun Monkey does it by himself, he can complete the task with only one somersault cloud. If you build such a big stall, it will take more than ten years." ?” Venerable Kaye shook his head slightly: "Chairman, there is a rule in management science: the longest distance between two points is the shortest, so I don't need to say this?" Tathagata listened and nodded again and again: "It makes sense, it makes sense. The longest distance between two points is the shortest. In the field of management involving uncertain human factors, this is indeed the case. Well, I declare that the matter is like this Decided."

Next thing we all know, the grueling pilgrimage begins, when in reality, the project could have been done in a matter of minutes.However, under the leadership of Tang Sanzang, the group of four took eighteen years.