Chapter 17: Prestige
Shen Chong came to Singapore, it was the National University School of Management that invited him to give a speech for the graduates, according to the convention, the teacher of the School of Management should do the hosting work, open for him, and introduce to the students, but that night it was Huang Yingying as the host, 19ru years of the university, the atmosphere is more serious and solemn than 30 years later, and the temperament of the entertainment star is not in line, so this arrangement seems somewhat incongruous. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Huang Yingying is really popular in Singapore, and as soon as she took the stage, she caused extremely warm applause and cheers.
"Mr. Shen, this is too noisy, isn't it?"
"Celebrities, it's inevitable to be popular."
Shen Chong had already reacted at this time, he must have shown his interest in Huang Yingying last night, which attracted the attention of the Singapore government, so he specially arranged for her to be the host today......
Huang Yingying probably felt that it was too noisy, so she hurriedly introduced Shen Chong briefly in English, and said, "Next, I would like to invite Mr. Shen to give a speech for everyone." ”
Shen Chong was already familiar with this kind of scene, he took a newspaper, walked up to the stage unhurriedly, took the microphone from Huang Yingying's hand, thanked him, and then said in Chinese: "Good evening, everyone." ”
As soon as he spoke, there was some commotion, because the National University of Singapore teaches in English, and the students are not only Singaporeans, but also Malaysians and Indonesians, and at least half of the hundreds of listeners present do not understand Chinese.
"I was going to speak in Chinese." Shen Chong was not embarrassed, he changed to English, and said: "Because Chinese is my mother tongue, I can express my thoughts more clearly, but there is a etiquette in China, called following the local customs, so I still speak English, but I may mention a lot of Chinese stories and proverbs later, if it is not clear enough in English, or cannot be expressed, I will speak directly in Chinese, please understand." ”
Then he ignored it and began to speak, first according to the routine, and said a few modest words: "President Chen invited me to give a speech, I was very scared, you are all my seniors, successful in your studies, and I am just a dropout, it is ridiculous and generous to come here to give a speech, but I still came hard, because I had to come, why did I have to come?" Because there's a lot of talent here that I want. ”
Shen Chong spread out the newspaper in his hand, put it up for display, and said: "Singapore's media is very developed, I wrote a song for Miss Huang's friend last night, and today the newspaper published the lyrics, the newspaper said that I was quick-witted, and it only took a few minutes to write this song, but in fact, they misunderstood, this song is an accessory product of my recent period of thinking day and night." ”
"Let me talk about this song first, the song is called "Dedication", and the lyrics are to the effect that: the long road is dedicated to the distance, the roses are dedicated to love, what I dedicate to you, my love, the white clouds are dedicated to the pasture, the rivers are dedicated to the ocean, what I dedicate to you, my friend ......"
"I'm talking about this song in front of you, it's not self-praise, it's showing that I'm a talent, I can write songs, and I'm not taking the opportunity to promote this song to prepare for making money in the future, I mention it because it's related to the theme I'm going to talk about today, which is business management, this is the School of Management, I can't talk nonsense, right?"
The audience began to laugh.
"There was a famous military strategist in ancient China, named Cao Cao, who once wrote a poem before a great war, in which there are a few sentences, called 'The moon and stars are scarce, and the black magpie flies south.'" Three turns around the tree, what branches can be followed? The mountains are not tired of being high, and the sea is not tired of being deep. Zhou Gong vomited, the world returned to the heart, expressing his ambition to recruit talents from all over the world, China has always been poetry and said, ancient poems are similar to modern songs, my song, in fact, also wants to express the meaning of recruiting talents. ”
"I am very young, l years old, I have hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, more than a dozen branches, nearly 1,000 employees, distributed in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, of course, Singapore will also have in the future, management is a very important but very annoying thing for me, since I earned the first 1 million, I have been thinking, what is management?"
"I thought about it for a long time, thought about it, and finally I felt that I had figured it out, management is two things, the first thing, to attract talents, and the second thing, to give talents a platform to display their talents."
"Who is talent? What kind of talent? Not only do others not know, but many people themselves may not know, Miss Huang is a genius at singing, but if no one asked her to sing, but asked her to be a teacher, it may be very mediocre, such as Principal Chen, if he did not become a teacher at the beginning, but sang wholeheartedly, he may be a failure. ”
"Talent is like a random gift from the gods to human beings, whether it is the East or the West, when you ask for God, you have to offer sacrifices, with sacrifices, the gods will appreciate their faces in response, when I wrote this song, I kept thinking, the national university is the world's top university, there must be a lot of talent in it, 'What do I give to you, my talent?' , I really want to put this sentence into the lyrics, but it's hard to write and sing like this, it's weird, right, isn't it ugly that I just sang? ”
Shen Chong's high-sounding plagiarized lyrics were said to have become a talent for recruiting talents from the National University of Singapore, and the painstaking and solitary works satisfied the vanity and sense of honor of the teachers and students present, and aroused extremely warm applause, which was louder than Huang Yingying's opening.
"I have heard for a long time that Mr. Shen is very good at speaking, and when I saw it today, the rumors are true."
"Cao Mengde's "Short Song Xing" has been passed down through the ages." Wu Zuodong looked at Shen Chong, who was calm on the stage, and said with emotion: "His song "Dedication" is also going to be passed on as a beautiful talk." ”
When the applause stopped, Shen Chong continued: "Talents are rare, but what is more difficult is to create a platform that allows talents to display their talents, in Chinese history, there are too many examples of talents being abandoned for various reasons, Feng Tang is easy to be old, Li Guang is difficult to seal, do not ask the common people to ask ghosts and gods, it is a regrettable thing, the Song Dynasty has a word man: sigh that the years are over, the fame has not been established, the scholar is old, and the opportunity comes." Make General Li, meet Emperor Gao, and the Marquis of Wanhu He is full of Taoism. Clothed up, but desolate and old, generous and mournful. ”
He first dragged Chinese, and then explained hastily in English, and then said: "People make the best use of their talents, is the core of management, I have not systematically studied management, so my method of managing the company, most of them come from Chinese history books, Tang Taizong said, take history as a lesson, you can know Xing Ti, I think running a company and governing the country, the truth is the same, the ancient Chinese method of managing the country, called the emperor and the doctor to rule the world together, I have studied for a long time, I feel that this method, in the management of the company has a good effect, now popular all kinds of ism, there is classicism in art, modernism, liberalism in the economy, conservatism, ** in politics, capitalism, I also made a fun and named this management method of mine, it is called meritocracy, or modern authoritarianism......"
Shen Chong rammed around, and then finally released the theme of his nonsense tonight - authoritarianism.
Modern authoritarianism is something that was summarized and refined by scholars in the late ru era, as a keyboard political party, Shen Chong actually only knows some skin, but the skin is enough, anyway, it is just to sell the concept of prestige, just like the "knowledge economy", he has not explained a specific theory, but now it has been recognized as a representative of the "knowledge economy".
Is there a more typical authoritarian country in the world than Singapore and Taiwan in the ru-era era?
And in the coming decades, China, Russia, and many countries in Southeast Asia will follow this path, and they will make great achievements.
This kind of prestige, which can provide the ruling party with a ruling theory, is very precious, and it is not whitewashed......