Ding Gong asked: The king envoys the ministers, and the ministers are the king, what is this like? Confucius said that the king should treat his ministers with courtesy, and the ministers should be loyal to the king.

Dinggong's period happened to be when Confucius was an official. Lu Dinggong asked how the emperor and his ministers should get along with each other.

The king envoys the ministers, and the ministers are the king, so what? Among them, the superiors are against the subordinates in the classroom, and the subordinates are making trouble against the superiors. Many words have similar specific usages. For example, "regicide" can only be used between the lower and the upper, such as regicide and patricide, but not between the upper and the lower.

Confucius's reply was very good. It was clear and precise, and revealed the essence of things. Confucius once put forward the core concept of human resources management. He said that the king should treat his ministers with courtesy, and the ministers should serve the emperor with loyalty.

To understand the subtlety of this sentence, we might as well think about it the other way around, why can't the emperor and his envoys treat each other with courtesy? Ministers serve the king with loyalty.

To understand the subtlety of this sentence, we might as well think about it in reverse, why it is not possible for the king to treat his ministers with courtesy, and for the ministers to serve the king with loyalty.

To understand the subtlety of this sentence, we might as well think about it in reverse, why it is not possible for the king to treat his ministers with courtesy, and for the ministers to serve the king with loyalty.

To understand the subtlety of this sentence, we might as well think about it in reverse: Why can't the king treat the ministers with loyalty, and the ministers serve the king with courtesy?

To give a modern example, some company bosses will preach gratitude to all employees, claiming that loyalty is the greatest wealth of employees, and instill in employees the idea that without a platform, you are nothing. This is called Jun Envoys are loyal. The boss demands bottomless dedication from his employees, requires them to do their best and be completely loyal to him.

Will this strange request really increase employee loyalty? He will probably get feedback from employees that they just want to be a monk and clock the clock for a day, comply with labor laws, and make no mistakes. If they want to fire employees without reason, they must compensate them in accordance with the law. This is a gift from employees to the boss. , make requests according to etiquette, everything seems to be in compliance with the law, restrained, and cunning, but they only work in full accordance with the rules of the workplace, lacking motivation and enthusiasm.

With such interaction, the atmosphere in the company is actually very bad.

What would it be like to manage a company according to Confucius' proposition that the king should treat his ministers with courtesy, and the ministers should serve the king with loyalty?

When a boss hires employees, he must manage them with etiquette and give employees the most basic bottom line. Just ask for it.

As long as employees comply with labor laws and abide by the company's rules and regulations, managers do not have to force employees to devote themselves to the company, let alone force employees to show their loyalty. You must know that every employee is free, and only when employees feel respected will they be willing to take the initiative to work.

A minister should be loyal to the king. When employees serve the company, they should not treat us with an extraneous attitude. Of course, they can step forward, take the initiative to play their role, contribute their best, and get things done. Well, make the company stronger.

When bosses and employees can cooperate with each other in this way, a win-win situation can be achieved. The abilities of employees have been greatly improved, personal values ??have been thoroughly reflected, the company's competitiveness has also been enhanced, the platform has become better, and it is also helpful for employees' personal development.

Unfortunately, in real life, it is just the opposite. A large number of bosses always feel that their employees do not pay enough, while a large number of employees think that they have done enough and that is almost enough.

What is a good company? A good company will never brainwash its employees and won't talk about kindness and loyalty all day long. Okay, the company is talking about the bottom line, just abide by labor laws. In the company, everyone is free and independent. They can even start a business internally, or they can leave their job to start a business as a manager. Only by treating employees as human beings, not as a tool to make money, not as the boss’s private property, don’t mention too much. Only by requesting can employees create surprises for you.

We may be able to get a glimpse of why the Analects of Confucius has been able to travel through more than 2,000 years and still have such a powerful charm today from this sentence of Confucius. If we interchange the meanings of this sentence before and after, we can immediately feel the difference in realm.

Therefore, the superiors make excessive demands on the subordinates, and the subordinates are perfunctory to the superiors. This is the way of management.

In the following chapters of the Analects, it is easy but difficult to include the word gentleman. If you don't say it, don't say it;

For example, if you give a mobile phone to someone, he will be very happy and say, great, you are so sensible, I will definitely promote you. This person is a villain. Just a cell phone can make him lose his principles. A gentleman will not be happy about this. It is difficult for you to please him with these external things, but it is easy for you to cooperate with a gentleman, because a gentleman is easy to do but difficult to say. He never asks for perfection and blames, and all his requirements for you are reasonable. , and always do what you should do.

When cooperating with villains, it is often difficult for villains to do things but say things easily. You help him move, he will be very happy. If you give him something, he will be very happy. If you give her a birthday gift, he will also be very happy. External things can easily make him happy, but it is difficult to make him happy. When he asks you to do something, he will always nudge you, have extremely high demands on you, think that you are doing nothing wrong, and make you constantly revise. In the end, you will find that you have not satisfied him no matter what. This is not the emperor's envoy. Be courteous.

This is the difference between a gentleman and a villain.

The king treats his ministers with courtesy, and the ministers serve the king with loyalty. It has great practical significance today. The core of courtesy for the king and his ministers is to have rules, and to use bottom-line rules to ask people. The loyalty of ministers to the emperor has great practical significance today. The core of courtesy for the king and his ministers is to have rules, and to use bottom-line rules to ask people. The core of a minister's loyalty to the king is to have no limitations and to do the work with unlimited dedication. You should set bottom-line requirements for your subordinates, and your subordinates should try their best to create value for their superiors. This is not only for their superiors, but also for themselves.

The king treats his ministers with courtesy, and the ministers serve the king with loyalty. It can turn this game into an infinite game, with upper and lower levels linking up to promote each other, but if it is reversed, it can quickly turn into a wired game, where cooperation will reach a deadlock because of mutual dissatisfaction.

I don’t know if Lu Dinggong heard this. I think he probably didn’t, otherwise Confucius would not have traveled around the world. If you want to understand this passage more thoroughly, you can listen to a book I interpreted at Fan Deng Reading: Talent Change in the Alliance Internet Era. The content of this book can just confirm this sentence of Confucius and extend it.