Chapter 33 02 President's First Duty

02 President's First Duty Feng Tang Feng Tang @ 2007-3-26 18:00:14 Feng Tang read: At the beginning, Wei Si, Zhao Ji, and Han Qian, the senior officials of Jin Dynasty, were appointed princes.Chen Guang said: I heard that the duty of the Son of Heaven is nothing greater than propriety;What is etiquette?Ji Gang is also; what is the point?Monarchs and ministers are also; what is a name?Gong, Hou, Qing, and doctor are also.With the vastness of the world and the multitude of the people, controlled by one person, even though he has unparalleled strength and wisdom, he would not dare to run around and serve. Isn't it the rule of etiquette!That is why the Son of Heaven governs the Three Dukes, the Three Dukes lead the feudal lords, the feudal lords control the high officials, and the high officials govern the scholars and common people.The expensive is to face the cheap, and the cheap is to inherit the expensive.When the superior makes the inferior, it is like the confidant transports the siblings, and the roots control the branches and leaves; when the subordinates do the superior, it is like the siblings protect the confidants, and the branches and leaves protect the roots.Then the top and bottom can protect the country's security.Therefore, it is said: The duty of the son of heaven is no greater than courtesy. ("Zi Zhi Tong Jian Volume 1", the twenty-third year of King Wei Lie, Wu Yin, 403 BC)

Translated by Feng Tang: In 403 BC, Zhou Tianzi, the leader of a super-large state-owned enterprise group, promoted the heads of the three functional departments of the Jin State subsidiary to the boss of the subsidiary.Sima Guang sighed: I heard that the most important job of the leader is to set the rules. The most important thing in the rules is the organizational structure and job responsibilities: who is the leader?How many vice presidents?Which one or two functions are they responsible for?What is each functional department responsible for?How are relevant key management processes connected?An enterprise group with tens of thousands of employees, tens of thousands of customers, hundreds of products, and businesses on five continents and seven oceans can be driven and mobilized by the leader alone, not because the leader has the best physical strength and intelligence in the world , but because of a set of rules and a bureaucracy that operates under those rules.The head of the group controls the boss of the subsidiary, and the boss of the subsidiary leads the Sun company.The top leader mobilizes the entire organizational structure, just like the head controls the hands and feet, like the root controls the branches and leaves, the entire organizational structure fulfills the top leader's will, just like the hands and feet protect the head, like the branches and leaves protect the root, each perform their duties to maximize the value of the company.So: the most important job of the leader is to establish and maintain the rules.

Feng Tang's comment: The current enterprise is like the princely state in the past, and the top leader of the enterprise is like the princely king in the past.The more high-growth and high-efficiency companies are, the more they look like companies with a strong accent and body odor.The king's cunt, the whole country's cunt.The king is a fool, the whole country is a fool.The pros and cons of the leader largely determine the pros and cons of an enterprise.When a company changes leadership, the stock price can change by five to fifteen percent within a day. The top three things most need to be done: set up a team, set a strategy, and lead the team.But for Chinese and foreign top leaders, the priorities of these three things are different.

The leader of a super-large foreign enterprise manages the enterprise, and it is a professional manager who manages a group of professional managers. The strategy is the first, the team is the second, and the team is the third.Jack Welch works an average of 60 hours a week, 80% of the time is to formulate strategies, keep an eye on financial budgets, monitor financial returns month by month, and 15% of the time is to build a team and evaluate the performance of the company's 400 core managers And working out their careers, the last five percent of their time dealing with operational issues exposed in the process of leading the team.

The leader of China's super-large enterprises manages the enterprise. It is the princes and kings who lead a hundred officials to govern the country. It is the first to build a team, the second to lead the team, and the third to determine the strategy.Liu Bei called Guan, Zhang, Zhao, and Zhuge Liang, and grasped the psychological demands of these four people, so he basically didn't have to worry about other things.It failed later, and the strategic mess was the secondary factor. The main factor was that the fertility was too poor and the son was too stupid. Injustice in personnel affairs is a precursor to the rapid collapse of the building.Zhou Tianzi promoted the heads of the three functional departments of the Jin State subsidiary to the boss of the subsidiary, which messed up the personnel rules, and the Zhou Dynasty was completely out of control.