One of the fundamental ways to manage people is to learn to govern people by borrowing them. How so?

Any leader will encounter a few traitors and villains who are quite difficult to deal with. For these subordinates, as a leader, the correct attitude should be to guide them according to the situation, prescribe the right medicine, help enthusiastically, criticize seriously, and actively urge them to change their faults and transform in a good direction.

However, in the eyes of some leaders, treating them like this is too incompetent, and it is far less "clever" than the power trick of fighting poison with poison.

Because the latter method can save the leader a lot of energy and time; Second, you can turn harm into "profit" and waste into "treasure", and make full use of these special subordinates to serve yourself; Third, these subordinates can be completely subdued; Four can have a lot of fun by harnessing them.

Therefore, these leaders are generally willing to use the means of fighting poison against poison.

The so-called fighting poison with poison means using the shortcomings and faults of subordinates to subdue subordinates, or taking advantage of contradictions between subordinates to instruct this subordinate to subdue that subordinate.

Common means are:

(1) Use the "poison" of others to treat the body of others

A person likes to pass on information in the leader's house and betrays others. In response to his problem, he deliberately provided him with false information and false information, and through his mouth, it was transmitted to the ears of a certain leader, causing the leader's decision-making mistakes, and finally causing a certain Person A to be punished by the leader.

B likes to act as a "thug" for a certain boss, and suppresses those who oppose the boss according to the boss's intentions. In response to his problem, he deliberately created a false impression and tried to instigate him to jump out and attack a person who opposed his boss, but in fact, this person was precisely a confidant of the boss, and as a result, a certain B did his boss a disadvantage, and he also suffered for it.

(2) Punish the wicked with evil

A certain subordinate has a bad character and does not obey discipline, and no one can subdue him. The leader deliberately handed him over to a middle-level leader who was known for his ruthlessness, and it didn't take much time for the subordinate to become honest.

(3) Cure lazy people with lazy people

Zhang San is not diligent, loves to move his mouth, and does not use his hands; Li Si works at a slow pace, working for one day and resting for half a day. The leader simply put them in the same department, set various hard indicators for them, and designated Li Si to "manage" Zhang San. In this way, none of them can rely on anyone, and they will be punished if they fail to complete the task.

(4) Treat traitors with traitors

A subordinate fell in love with the leader's home and made a small report. The leader deliberately arranged for him to work under a section chief who also liked to go to the top. They both have common problems, they watch out for each other, expose each other, suffer from each other, and learn from each other - after a long time, neither has a good reputation. Gradually, both of them felt that it was quite boring, and the behavior of making small reports was somewhat restrained.

The above-mentioned means are the strategy of "borrowing a knife to kill people", and as long as it is appropriate when used, it can generally subdue subordinates with shortcomings and problems.

In real life, the "borrowing a knife to kill" strategy is commonly used, which is intended to induce peers or friends to defeat each other in order to preserve their own strength. This is the method of "losing the lower and gaining the better", that is, retreating oneself and achieving one's own goals by borrowing people, things and things other than oneself. For example, take advantage of the "celebrity effect" and take advantage of various opportunities to make a difference.