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The famous French entrepreneur Pierre Cardin once said: "One plus one is not equal to two in employing people, and it is not equal to zero if you don't do it well." "If you don't mix people properly, you often lose your overall advantage; The best configuration is the right arrangement. In this regard, Liu Chuanzhi, president of Lenovo, with his insight into the world, successfully used the strategy of "feeding the horse in the slot", which not only solved this problem, but also pushed the development of the enterprise to a new height.

In ancient times, there was an old man who raised two thousand-mile horses, one was a Mongolian horse, which was infinitely powerful and could carry more than 1,000 catties; The other is a Dawan horse, galloping like a fly, a thousand miles a day. He's ready to sell it for a good price when the time is right. The so-called "people must not be rich without foreign wealth, and horses must not eat night grass and not fat", horses must be diligent and fast, and a lot of feed must be added to the horses every day. Although the old man was very diligent, he soon found that he had worked so hard that after a few months, the two horses had lost weight instead of gaining weight. Why? He found Soma's Bole. Bole came and saw that he understood, and he told the old man that the key to the horse's poor food was because he kept two horses in a stable and let them eat in a trough. Every time I eat grass, the two horses kick and squeeze, you fight for me, and you can't eat at all. The solution was to prepare two troughs for the two horses and let them eat separately. The old man tried it, and it worked, and the two horses soon became fat and strong.

This is known as the strategy of feeding horses in separate troughs.

Anyone who has been to the temple knows that when you enter the temple gate, the first thing is Maitreya Buddha, who greets him with a smile, and to the north of him, there is Veda with a black mouth and a black face. But legend has it that a long time ago, they were not in the same temple, but were in charge of different temples.

Maitreya Buddha was enthusiastic and happy, so there were a lot of people who came, but he didn't care about anything, and he lost everything, so he made a mess of the financial management of the temple, and the temple often had a situation where he couldn't make ends meet. Although Wei Tuo is an expert in financial management, he has a black face all day long, and he is very solemn, so that everyone is afraid to go to his temple, and finally his temple is becoming more and more difficult to make a living.

The Buddha found this problem when he checked the incense, so he put the two of them in the same temple, and the Maitreya Buddha was responsible for public relations and received guests from all directions, and Wei Tuotie was a master of accounting, so he was in charge of financial work, and under the division of labor and cooperation between the two, the incense in the temple was prosperous, showing a thriving scene.

The division of labor between the trough feeding the horse and the division of labor of the Buddha is the same problem, that is, how to put the most suitable person in the most suitable position.

And this is a problem that has long plagued Chinese companies, especially when two candidates of equal strength are present.

The famous French entrepreneur Pierre Cardin once said: "One plus one is not equal to two in employing people, and it is not equal to zero if you don't do it well." "If you don't mix people properly, you often lose your overall advantage; The best configuration is the right arrangement. In this regard, Liu Chuanzhi, president of Lenovo, with his insight into the world, successfully used the strategy of "feeding the horse in the slot", which not only solved this problem, but also pushed the development of the enterprise to a new height.

Generally, large enterprises have the employment strategy of "feeding horses in separate slots". In March 2001, Lenovo Group announced that "Lenovo Computer" and "Digital China" were spun off to enter the capital market, and in June of the same year, Digital China was listed on the market. After the spin-off, Lenovo Computer was taken over by Yang Yuanqing, inherited its own brand, and focused on PC and hardware production and sales; Digital China is led by Guo Wei and created another brand, mainly engaged in system integration, agent product distribution, and network product manufacturing.

At this point, the question of Lenovo's successor has settled in a comedic way, and the undesirable "double young marshal" has Lenovo now, and the other has created Lenovo's future.

Of course, in the process of implementing "slotting and feeding horses", we should also pay attention to how to match talents, so that each talent complements each other rather than hinders each other, and this requires managers to have a deep insight into your "Maxima", and the ideal state is to make the "Maxima" responsible for each other's affairs complementary rather than hindering each other.