Denimore's Law: Putting the Right People in the Right Places

Denimore's Law is a law of management put forward by the British management scientist Denimore, which is that everything should have a place where it can be placed, and everything should be in the place where it should be. This law tells us that for an individual, each person has his or her most suitable position. It is only in this position that the person can realize his or her maximum potential.

In practice, for personal development, this law requires that a person should choose one of many alternative goals and values and then strive for it. This is the only way to stimulate the person's enthusiasm and motivation, and to allow a person to choose what he or she loves and to love what he or she chooses at the same time.

Chris Gardner, who is nearing his prime, has been working as a medical equipment salesman, a job he doesn't like. It was a job he loathed, and he went through the motions of getting by. However, in his heart, Chris Gardner was not willing to live a life of mediocrity. So, when the family, society and many other pressures pounced on him, Chris Gardner, despite his wife's objections, decided to do their favorite risky but also very high returns on the stock industry, intends to rely on their own flexible mind to make a big impact. However, due to the ever-changing stock market conditions, and highly speculative, Chris Gardner's lack of experience, and soon, his dream of success suffered a heavy blow, not only years of accumulation of the family's capital was quickly depleted, and even their own house was also mortgaged by the bank. His wife, Linda, was disappointed and left him with a five-year-old son, Christopher, who was struggling to make ends meet.

In the face of the reality of nothing, Chris Gardner did not lose confidence, although he took his son to live a life of wandering, and even in the most downtrodden, father and son to run to the train station bathhouse to get through the long dark night, however, the ensuing trials and tribulations and his son to give the love and encouragement, but the Gardner more and more strong and burst out of the amazing fighting spirit. Eventually, after many setbacks, he once again owns his own business - a securities company named after him. And he also from a poor, obscure investment broker, into the world's attention, much admired Wall Street legend.

This is the prototype of the story of the movie "When Happiness Comes Knocking", and the main character of the story is the famous American black investor Chris Gardner. His ups and downs not only tell us the truth of rainbows after the storm, but also the importance of a favorite job for a person - this is also the embodiment of the law of Denimo in the individual.

Similarly, for business management, this law requires managers to rationally allocate work according to the characteristics and preferences of employees, so that people can make the best use of their talents and abilities. For example, let the strong desire to achieve outstanding workers alone or lead to complete a certain risk and difficulty of the work, and in its completion to give timely affirmation and praise; let the strong dependence of the workers to participate more in a group **** with the work; let the strong desire for power workers to serve as a supervisory position with the ability to match ......

At the same time, managers should be in accordance with the characteristics and preferences of the employees to rationally allocate the work, so as to make the best use of their talents, people.

At the same time, managers also need to strengthen the staff of the corporate goals of the sense of identity, so that employees feel that the work they do is worthwhile, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of employees.

The car king Henry Ford is honored as "for the world on wheels" of the man, his success is evident **** - "Model T" the first achievement of the Ford, but also the achievement of a great entrepreneur. However, to explore the secret of Ford's success, one of the important one is meritocracy. This management style, in the process of revitalizing Ford, played an important role in making the Model T a hit. It can be said that Ford is based on a deep understanding of the law of Denim, so that those who have the potential to make the best use of their talents, to play their unique talents.

As an advertising designer, Peltier had a deep understanding of product marketing and was hopeful that he could make a difference in the field. Ford recognized and understood his ideas and willingness, and gave him full responsibility for the marketing of the Model T. In the end, after a series of unique promotion, try, Peltier really led the marketing team to achieve very good results.

At that time, Ford's sales promotion work is responsible for the Kuzens, this person in the car sales has a strong practical experience, but this person is vain, selfish, irritable, this has not been able to get reused. Ford in line with the concept of not sticking to one pattern with talent, to its commission, as a result, the Kuzens created a unique product marketing approach, successful successive in the United States around the establishment of the Ford automobile dealerships.

There is also the German Em, this person is not only skilled, and good at employing people, very good at dealing with interpersonal relationships, but the same long time can not be appreciated, a look of unrecognized talent.

Ford found his ability and ambition, the same to its entrusted, and even to him fully decentralized, so that he can decide their own employment strategy, so that more y talented people gathered to the side of the Em, and then these people in the company in all areas have made excellent contributions.

Additionally, Em invented the latest in automated special-purpose machine tools, including the automated multi-dimensional steel drill that could drill 45 holes in a cylinder block in four directions simultaneously, a feat unmatched by any other machine tool company in the world. Moreover, this invention is of great significance in the history of the automotive revolution.

One of Em's employees was named Morgana, who worked as a buyer for the company. He only had to go to the supply yard of his competitors in the same industry, and he was able to get a glimpse of the new technology and design used in the latest equipment, and then came back to Em to describe it to him, so that the new machines, which were copied or improved, could soon be launched on the market.

In the end, it was through the efforts of these talented men and women that Ford revolutionized the company, and in 1925, it achieved a record-breaking production capacity of one automobile every 10 seconds, creating a competitive advantage that eluded its contemporaries, and became a legend of the company that will fascinate generations to come.