Chapter 666: Teachable
"Just check it out." Lucifer said, rubbing his chin.
Lu Hao'er bowed and said, "No need, I don't plan to have a deep relationship, what are you doing to find out what he is doing?" ”
"West Point, then he's not going to be a general. A Chinese general in the U.S. military? Sounds good! Lu Lu was surprised, "What are you doing when you don't come to Xiangjiang in the United States?" ”
"Didn't he say his hobby was to make money?" Lu Haosi said leisurely.
"No matter how you look at it, it doesn't match!" Lu Lu wondered.
"Who said that if you go to college at West Point, you have to be a general when you come out!" Gu Yaluo smiled slightly.
"Isn't he a military academy?" Lu Lu asked puzzled.
Lucifer said unhurriedly, "West Point is known to the world, of course, because of the many famous generals who have come out of here. However, when counted, West Point is the cradle of business leaders. Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, and Jack Welch, vice president of General Electric, were asked the same question: Who does the best job of developing leaders? Their answer is neither Harvard Business School nor General Electric, but the American military.
The U.S. military they are referring to is largely speaking of West Point graduates. Since World War II, the university has also produced thousands of chairmen and many senior managers for the American financial community. Based on this calculation, West Point can be called the best 'business school' in the United States. ”
"Oh!" Everyone said suddenly.
"West Point is even better than so many business schools." Lu Haosi's eyes were clear and soft, and he said.
Lucifer said slowly with a smile in his dark and dark eyes. "The business community and the academic community are studying what kind of enterprise is an excellent enterprise or even a great enterprise, and what kind of enterprise can be everlasting. Those big companies that have been around for more than 50 years proudly claim that they are the best. Inside, they may think they're the greatest in the industry. The results of the study show that excellent companies have a variety of shining points, and it is difficult to frame them with a single model. But if the company follows those so-called experts to follow the trend, and finally Handan learns to walk, the road will not go, and they will be at a loss, because many so-called experiences are even contradictory. ”
Lu Haosi and Lu Haoyi took out the pens in their pockets. Press it down.
"Yes, yes, Lucifer is right, I have such confusion in my lectures." Lu Haoyi nodded hurriedly. "For example, when I study Japanese companies, they emphasize unconditional obedience, while American companies emphasize equality and communication. This is a clear self-contradiction. ”
Lu Haoer said indifferently, "So those foreign management studies can only be referred to." Find out what works for you. But you can't imitate it for the sake of learning. By extension, everything else is the same, taking the essence and discarding the dross. ”
"What I hate the most is the argument that the civilization of foreigners is greater than our history, as if all farts are fragrant. I don't deny that the West is excellent, but there is no need to belittle yourself so much! In fact, there are many things around us that are worth summarizing. Like what...... For example......" Lu Haoshan said angrily, returning from studying abroad. He felt it more than anyone else.
"For example, the People's Liberation Army." Gu Yaluo said with a smile.
"Yes, yes, the PLA has defeated the powerful American army." Lu Haoshan nodded heavily. "On the Korean battlefield, the People's Liberation Army, which was inferior in weapons, defeated the United Nations forces led by the United States."
"Learn from the PLA?" Lu Haosi's people present were dumbfounded.
Lu Haoshan nodded and said, "There is nothing strange about it, we should learn some ideas and nutrients from the military management experience from the management of enterprises." ”
Gu Yaluo's elegant voice sounded again, "I heard that a Japanese company specially organized its management personnel to go to the former site of the '********' in Fujian to learn from the spirit of the Red Army's arduous pioneering work.
In the United States, the largest and best 'business school' is not Harvard, not Stanford, but West Point. Indeed, many entrepreneurial entrepreneurs in the world today are born in the military, such as the well-known founders of McDonald's and KFC. Sam Walton, the founder of American retailer Walmart, started his journey as the first retail empire with a $5,000 demobilization fee. ”
Lucifer said indifferently, "There is also a story of the 'Ten Blue Bloods' in the American management circles, all of whom are from military backgrounds. American companies also highly esteemed the Red Army's Long March spirit. The US military has clearly proposed to 'learn from the PLA,' which is not to learn from the PLA's tactics, but to draw nourishment directly from the PLA's management philosophy in terms of internal management. ”
Lu Haoyi simply explained to Lu Zhongfu and the others, "The ancient Spaniards believed that the nobility had blue blood flowing in their bodies, and later Westerners used the term "blue blood" to refer to those noble and intelligent elite talents. The Blue Blood Ten are the geniuses of geniuses. They were the logistics heroes of the U.S. Air Force during World War II, and they effectively applied digital management models to the war effort, saving the Allies a billion dollars. ”
"Ten geniuses;
Achieved a famous school - Harvard Business School;
rebuilt a company - Ford Motor;
ushered in an era - the era of "white hands";
It preached the idea that "numbers" are above all else;
Their end - become a "number", defeat is also a "number";
Between bankruptcy and success, talent + current situation + diligence = dreams come true. Lucifer concluded.
Lu Haoyi nodded hurriedly, "The summary is so good." ”
"Why?" Lu Lu asked puzzled with her hands on her cheeks.
Lu Haosi's eyes were shining, and he fell silent again, "The army as an organization, it is the most rigorous organization in the world, its efficiency, organizational principles, loyalty and the inheritance of a certain spirit, and its execution should be said to be the first. There's no organization in this world that can match the military, does it? ”
"Sounds reasonable!" Lu Jiangfan said with a smile, "Then we want to know what we can learn from these iron-blooded soldiers?" ”
"This ......?" Lu Haosi scratched his head, he didn't know what to say specifically, after all, he didn't have an in-depth understanding.
Gu Yaluo then said thoughtfully to Lu Hao, "First, serve the people. This is the purpose of our army, and the chairman said, 'We have come from all corners of the world to come together for a common revolutionary goal.' It was because of her purpose that they were invincible. For the organization, the mission and goal are the driving force for creating wealth. The customer is the object of all the products and services provided by the enterprise, and the enterprise provides the best quality or the most appropriate products to the customer, and attaches the best quality service of the enterprise, which is the goal of the enterprise. If one day, when you ask an ordinary Chinese, Japanese, American, or someone from Javanese how a company's products and services are, if that person has never used the company's products and has not enjoyed the company's services, but he gives a thumbs up and says, "Good!" Then any work that this company has done before is valuable. In this sense, it is to serve the people, or rather to serve customers. Don't look like that, am I not right? ”
"Yes, yes, that makes sense." Everyone present nodded in unison.
Lucifer chimed in, "It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders, and from an individual point of view, obedience is accepted and carried out in every possible way without a price; From the organization's point of view, to make members obey, your 'orders' must be operable, of course, there is no unity and standardization, and implementation is an empty word. The military's 'obeying orders in all actions' is based on unity and standardization. Only institutionalization can make the 'obedience' of members a habit and consciousness, and only then can they be reborn when they are in a desperate situation. ”
Gu Yaluo and Lucifer glanced at each other, and said with a smile, "So for a specific company, for example, is a plan feasible?" It must be examined from a professional point of view, which can be verified from market competition, technological trends, customer needs, etc., and once it is confirmed that a certain principle or plan can be implemented, then it will be resolutely implemented.
The senior executives of an enterprise are the generals in the army, then the managers of various departments are the division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders, and the ordinary staff are the platoon leaders, squad leaders, and soldiers at the grassroots level, all of whom need to focus on the same goal and follow the same tactical principles to attack the city and pull out the camp. ”
Lucifer said, "During the Vietnam War, the American officers and soldiers had very deep contradictions. The difference in internal cohesion has fallen to the lowest point since the founding of the army. According to the U.S. military's own statistics, 1,013 of the more than 5,600 officers killed in the Vietnam War were killed by their own soldiers, accounting for 18 percent of the casualties. It should be said that the period after the Vietnam War was the darkest period for the US military construction. It was also from this period that the U.S. military began the largest "rebuilding the army" since its founding. One of the most important is how to build a harmonious relationship between officers and soldiers. So they learn the PLA's army building methods. ”
"Ahh was beaten to death by his own people, that is really wrong! Zhu Cuiyun exclaimed.
"Say it, say it." Lu Jiangzhou asked excitedly.
Lu Jiang Danwan said with a smile, "The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has simply and conveniently achieved the goal of establishing organizational communication and improving organizational efficiency that any organization hopes to achieve. Caring for employees is actually a kind of communication, clarifying the psychological thoughts of each employee, clarifying the goals and steps, which is the performance of a team. So when it comes to apparel companies specifically, I should have a clear idea of what our designers are thinking, what our sales managers are thinking, what our average garment workers need, and more importantly, what our customers need, which is a critical issue. Although the organization of the company will be larger and larger, the distance between me and ordinary employees will become more and more distant, but this is the hierarchy, but I try to be as close as possible to ordinary workers. Communication is not only between customers, external communication, but also internal communication. Fortresses are often brought down from within. (To be continued.) )