Peng didn't help himself. The ancients said that Zhu Zhechi was black when he was near the ink, and black when he was near the ink. This is probably the same reason.
Legend has it that Mencius' mother moved three times in order to make Meng Xiao study hard and make progress every day, and to make Meng Xiao interested in learning, instead of mixing with the ignorant children of the butcher's son.
Since the day Darwin put forward the theory of evolution, we have known that the fittest survive. Creatures exist in nature, those who go against the sky die, and creatures have the instinct to adapt to nature. Driven by this instinct, living things can conform to the law of existence under the influence of environment, abandon their different views or personalities from nature, and thus stand between heaven and earth.
This is called assimilation.
The mother of the great Mencius knew this, so she took Meng Xiao to a place where everyone liked to study. In this way, she cultivated Meng Xiao's original interest, and reading became his personality. As a result, more and more local mothers and scholars learn from Mencius' mother, so that their children are moved by books and move towards the palace of success under the influence of books.
I wonder how many people have been so deprived of their children's nature. Since Confucius said that "the best way to be an official is to study", how many people have given up their original personality or killed their children's nature? Children's nature is to play, and everything is courtesy nature. Learning stereotyped writing, knowing that even if you are an official, you can only become a puppet or learn. Is it influenced by predecessors' thoughts or attracted by financial resources? But when did the children stop playing?
Now under the so-called "perfect education system" in China, children are sent away at the age of 3, go to primary school at the age of 6, go to junior high school at the age of 12, and go to senior high school at the age of 15 ... At the age of 3, children in China have no time to play. Their original rich imagination began to avoid their own learning ability. When one day they knew that "0" was no longer a moon football, but "zero" or the letter "Europe", their imagination finally stopped lingering and slipped away.
Children in China have no personality. Just like bitter fleabane bitter fleabane, people who didn't like learning gradually like learning. Just because people around you are like this, only if you like them will you not be regarded as different, and you will not be regarded as different by your parents.
China's children are very tired. They are on the road decided by their parents, bearing the heavy expectations of their families, even if they are struggling.
I can only sit in the classroom and look back at everyone blankly and continue to work hard.
what can I say?
In Peng Sheng Horse, when did it start to decide to abandon its personality?
There are always good and bad flowers and trees; People in the world naturally have different tastes. High grade comes from a good environment.
In the bitter fleabane bitter fleabane, don't help yourself straight; White sand is nirvana, and it is black. The taste is closely related to people's living environment. Scholarly family, many good families; In the small courtyard of the city, there is a small jasper. Although each has its own loveliness, it goes without saying that each is different. You can't choose your background, but choosing a good development environment the day after tomorrow has a lot to do with the formation of taste. If you live with the lame, you will learn to limp. In order to seek a better environment for children, Meng Mu moved three times. Although it is impossible to move an "Asian saint" just by moving, if Meng Mu doesn't move, I'm afraid there will be fewer cultural stars and more mediocre trumpeters in the world.
High taste also comes from superb skills and extensive knowledge.
Folk songs and village flutes, although interesting, lack skills and are inevitably harsh; Pipa women are skilled, and playing Chang 'an Fang music makes people "feel as bright as the sound of nature", and their taste is based on knowledge and skills. Mountains and rivers, Chun Xue, poems and songs. Which high-grade art form has not been watered by artists and scholars from generation to generation?
Sima Qian made a thorough study of history, and achieved "the historian's swan song, leaving Sao without rhyme"; Zhuge Liang, who knows astronomy above and geography below, knows everything from ancient times to the present and has won the reputation of "unparalleled in the Millennium" Lu Xun knows how to learn and understand Chinese, and Qian Zhongshu is well versed in China and the West. Counting these famous people with high taste, which one is not based on superb skills and extensive knowledge?
High taste comes from lofty morality and great ideals.
Holding high the banner can lead the way forward; Drumming can boost morale. However, the sword hanging high and the steel knife holding high can only bring greater danger and more terrible disaster. Without the correct guidance of ideals and the timely restraint of morality, the interesting competition will lose its essential significance. At this time, people with "high taste" in a sense become "dangerous goods".
Zilan, a charming and well-written son, colluded with powerful people and forced Qu Zi to throw himself into the river. Qin Gui, who was good at calligraphy and created his own Song style, ruined Zhong Liang and became infamous from then on. Wang Jingwei, once known as a "gifted scholar", betrayed his country and soul and fell into the "reputation" of "the biggest traitor". Incomplete morality and lost ideals make these people with high "taste" finally crushed into mud by the wheel of history and will never be able to survive. The ship of taste, without lofty morality and great ideals as the rudder, will surely go astray.
Seek a better life, increase knowledge, correct morality and establish ideals. Naturally, you will become a person with high taste.
If 10 is regarded as a generation, today's Huawei can be said to be a commercial organization composed of six generations. The first generation is Ren, born in the 1940s, the second generation is a few senior executives born in the 1950s, and the third and fourth generations are a group of core Huawei executives, scientists and technical experts born in the 1960s and 1970s. In the markets and R&D institutions in more than 70 countries around the world/KLOC-0, middle and senior managers and scientific research backbones are mainly the post-80s generation, and there are also thousands of post-90s directors and ordinary employees in the past two years.
With what strength did Huawei continue to unite such a "six generations under one roof" for 28 years? Not long ago, I went to Israel, and the life history of the Jews gave me a profound revelation: after thousands of years of blood and tears, a suffering nation has not declined, but has become extremely powerful. What is the reason? Because this nation always has the same "cultural tattoo", the same values and the same spiritual strength.
The strength of spirit is also the foundation of the 300-year economic miracle in the West. Here, I especially recommend Max Weber's book Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism. Rereading the classics may enable us to re-examine some problems in today's enterprise management. /kloc-A great contribution of the western religious reform to the contemporary western civilization since the 6th century is the Protestant ethics of "joining the WTO for asceticism", which gives a new explanation to the relationship between God and man, the significance of life, the rationality of wealth creation, the path of individual self-help, and how to solve the anxiety and fear in life. The three-stage logic of this explanation is: first, people are born guilty; Second, God's grace will only care for a few excellent people; Third, self-redemption. If people want to get God's choice and get the so-called "minority qualification", they must regard labor as a "duty". Only by persistent struggle can they overcome anxiety and inspire happiness and a sense of accomplishment. And in the process of struggle, we should also be frugal and not extravagant.
From this, it is not difficult to understand why Buffett decided to donate all his wealth. Why did Bill Gates donate most of his money to the foundation? This is the fundamental reason-only laborers and strugglers can be redeemed by God, and the wealth you create through labor must be used for reinvestment and a better future for mankind, not for personal enjoyment, let alone for future generations to get something for nothing. Because it's God's will. God only cares about those who struggle and work.
The continuous development and prosperity of western capitalism for hundreds of years is based on this kind of values that advocate thrift and adventure rationality. The social and economic problems in Europe and America today, including a series of problems brought about by welfarism and excessive capitalization, are also closely related to this deviation from traditional values.
Look back at Huawei. In the past 28 years, Huawei has gathered 6.5438+0.5 million intellectuals, including six generations, of which nearly 40,000 are foreign employees. It is very important that values are the most powerful coagulant for a country, a nation, an enterprise and any organization. 18 years ago, Ren first visited Israel. Shocked, he deeply realized that resources are limited and only culture is endless. The core of culture is core values. What is Huawei's "hemp"? The system based on values includes incentive system and distribution system.
Huawei's core values of "customer-centered, strugglers-oriented and long-term hard work" have three characteristics: first, simplicity and monism; The second is logic, which is the logic of human nature; Third, it can be quantified, and three sentences can be evaluated most effectively through numbers. Its specific performance is that the strugglers and contributors who face the needs of customers can get more wealth, power, glory and sense of accomplishment. Huawei is one of the few non-listed companies among the top 500 enterprises, with more than 90,000 individual shareholders and no external capital shareholders. The founder Ren only owns 65,438+0.465,438+0% of the shares. Huawei affirms the contribution of monetary capital, and of course it should be rewarded. However, in the system design of Huawei's "monetary capital+human capital", the contribution of human capital is first affirmed-employees and entrepreneurs represent the long-term driving force for Huawei's continuous expansion, and they should share more fruits of the company's development.
Today, everyone is saying that in winter, Huawei's annual sales in 20 15 reached 390 billion RMB, an increase of more than 30% over the previous year's 288.2 billion RMB, and Huawei's profit this year has been pressed again and again. Why do you want to press? Because Huawei cannot be a profit-oriented company, nor can it be a capital-oriented company. Therefore, Huawei has consumed a considerable amount of "profits" this year by giving employees a salary increase, allotment, bonus and increasing investment in research and development. This is not only "profit dissipation"-income is more inclined to workers and strugglers, but also strengthens the lasting competitiveness facing the future. The goal of 20 19 is to achieve annual sales of10 billion dollars.
At present, China's business community may fall into two major misunderstandings: the general anxiety and powerlessness brought by the pan-Internet; The "problem generation" growing up in the Internet environment-that is, the management problems of the post-80s and post-90s. Are we really experiencing the so-called "management revolution in the Internet age" and welcoming the "problem generation"? I'm afraid it's exaggerated The Internet is indeed a great tool, and we can't emphasize its "instrumental" greatness too much, but it hasn't changed the nature of the organization, including the physical and mental nature of the younger generation after 1980s and 1990s, which is human nature. A little observation will reveal that the management problems encountered by many enterprises today, including Internet companies, especially a large number of entrepreneurial Internet companies, are not brought by the Internet, but the neglect and dilution of the essence of human nature.
What is particularly emphasized here is that in terms of organizational change, Huawei has made full use of the tool advantages of information technology in recent years, especially in the future, "taking over the gun of Internet marketing", such as honor online marketing, and more importantly, IT technology will be the most powerful weapon in the "simplified management" change in the next 5-8 years. But after all, it is a musical instrument, a technique, not a Tao, a kind of foundation, which is always rooted in human nature. Therefore, any change should put human nature first. Huawei's reform is based on human nature and information technology (Internet), which is the integration of "axiology" and "methodology".
The essence of human nature is nothing more than greed, fear and laziness. In a sense, greed is a great driving force for human progress, including people's greed for wealth, power, sense of honor and sense of accomplishment. But once greed crosses a certain boundary, it will bring three black holes: corruption, hilltop and laziness. Therefore, the history of Huawei's development is a history that constantly inspires people's enterprising spirit and passion for struggle, and it is also a history that constantly struggles with corruption, hilltops and laziness in the negative energy of human nature.
Speaking of fear, everyone comes into this world with fear and leaves with fear, that is, "born in fear, died in fear". Therefore, one of the significance of the existence of organizations is to alleviate the anxiety of fear in human nature. A good organization can always effectively reduce the fear of followers through the organizational platform. Huawei has gone through 28 years and has been releasing the positive energy of its followers most effectively through the power of the platform. At the same time, it provides a relative sense of security for individuals and reduces and weakens their sense of powerlessness in the organizational platform.
As for laziness, it is the biggest enemy of any organization, vitality is the soul of the organization, and laziness is the cancer of the organization. Judging whether the internal management of an enterprise is excellent or not fundamentally depends on whether the individuals and groups of the organization have combat effectiveness, vitality and general enterprising spirit. However, any organization often faces a huge strange circle: it is driven by struggle and vitality, thus creating prosperity and glory; However, the scene of prosperity gave birth to corruption and slack-a common organizational fatigue, including employee fatigue, manager fatigue, and especially leader fatigue. If all organizations, including countries and enterprises, want to survive healthily and successfully, they must first establish vigilance, crisis thinking and effective rectification mechanism. Huawei's long-standing self-criticism in thought and organization is obviously aimed at establishing a self-cleaning mechanism to make Huawei live longer and healthier.
Huawei people struggling in the "mosquito tornado"
Next, I would like to share with you the story of Huawei's post-80s and post-90s, and tell the story of Huawei people in Africa. Today, Huawei has about six or seven thousand employees in Africa, and their main bodies are post-80s, post-80s and post-90s. Working in Africa is very hard. The African tornado in the picture is made up of hundreds of millions of mosquitoes. Many Huawei employees in South Africa suffer from malaria. But why do they always insist on being there? Because what supports them is Huawei's value logic based on strugglers, namely, the pursuit of wealth, power, fame and success in human nature.
When talking with more than 30 South African employees of Huawei, I asked them why they came to Africa just after graduating from school. Most people say that in order to make money, you can earn almost 654.38+0 million in three years in Africa. Someone told me that his initial goal was to earn 1 10,000 in three years, and then study in the United States, but this demand often changed in the second year, because he might be promoted in the second year. What is his motivation at this time? Power and ability are recognized by giving power. In the third year, he didn't want to leave. Why? A sense of accomplishment. I am a participant in the construction of communication network in such a backward country, and letting tens of millions of people freely exchange information through modern communication tools often produces a strong sense of accomplishment.
I thought Huawei people in hard areas especially wanted to leave hard places and move to developed areas such as Europe, Beijing and Shanghai, but I made a random survey recently and the result was quite unexpected-many people were unwilling to leave. A middle-level manager was informed that he was transferred to Europe. Instead of being excited, he hesitated. Why? Because he is dealing with clients in Europe, he may not even meet the middle managers of clients, but in Africa, he can always go to the boss's office, home and even attend the presidential banquet. What kind of sense of accomplishment would it be if you were invited to sit next to the president during the military parade?
Therefore, when someone talks about the so-called great difference between the post-80s and the post-80s, and when many people talk about the post-80s who are indifferent to money and difficult to manage, we must not be confused by appearances or by some fashionable views that seem reasonable. If Huawei does not offer attractive salaries to post-80s and post-90s employees, Huawei's power distribution is not based on struggle and contribution. Therefore, management essentially has only one main line and one fundamental logic, and this main line and logic is human nature-understanding human nature, conforming to human nature and controlling human nature.
Behind all the messy and flashy phenomena (including the Internet phenomenon), the logic presupposed by "God" remains unchanged: only by struggling and being down-to-earth, will there be personal success and organizational success, but success is not a reliable guide for the future. Success can easily make individuals or organizations lose and slack off, so it requires long-term and sustained efforts. The only driving force for individuals and groups to make unremitting efforts is human nature. Therefore, there is no so-called "problem generation", and the "problem generation" itself is a false proposition; There are no people with problems, only management with problems. Problem management generally ignores and deviates from human nature.