Classic quotations from "Learn Management from Sima Yi"

Learn Management from Sima Yi

Author: Zhao Yuping

Publisher: Electronic Industry Press ; 1st Edition (August 1, 2011)

Others: 256 pages

ISBN: 9787121141225

Barcode: 9787121141225

Content Introduction

This book is one of the books of the same name in the series of Zhao Yuping's "Spicy Talk about the Three Kingdoms" of CCTV's "Hundred Schools Forum". Sima Yi was an outstanding statesman and military strategist of the Wei State during the Three Kingdoms period. He was the founder of the Western Jin Dynasty. He was an important official who assisted the Wei State for three generations. Later he became a powerful minister with full control over the Wei State's government. His most notable achievements in his life were many times. He personally led an army to successfully resist Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.

This book describes the many historical events that Sima Yi encountered in his life, analyzes his coping strategies and handling skills, and focuses on a detailed analysis of Sima Yi’s management talents, and combines them with today’s workplace life. It combines oriental wisdom with modern concepts, the language is vivid and humorous, the comments are in place, and it is full of fun.

Table of Contents

Lecture 1: Strategies for Major Choices

Strategy 1: Don’t seek the best, but seek satisfaction

Strategy 2: No Regrets The choice is a good choice

Strategy 3: Never fall into the options prepared by others

Lecture 2: There are secrets to being a good backbone

Method 1: Diligence , Caution, Forbearance

Method 2: Modesty, Temperature, and Secret

Lecture 3: Dealing with emergencies skillfully

Method 1: Judge in advance and make conflicts public

Method 2: Confirm authority and act rationally

Method 3: Borrow others to take advantage of the situation and make quick decisions

Lecture 4: There are good ways to boost morale

Strategy 1: Maintain consistency and introduce authority

Strategy 2: Use hints to express confidence

Strategy 3: Adjust emotions and explain rationally

Lecture 5: How to resolve competitive conflicts

Strategy 1: Do things in a high profile and be low-key

Strategy 2: See the role clearly and make a gesture

Strategy 3: retreat in order to advance, only defend but not attack

Lecture 6: What to do after authorization

Method 1: Communicate in advance and fully communicate

Method 2: Fighting wits mainly, supplemented by fighting strength

Method Loyalty is observed from afar, respect is observed up close

Lecture 7 There are ways to seize opportunities skillfully

Strategy 1: Build alliances and gain support

Strategy 2: Matching styles and roles Complementary

Three types of strategies match each other to create recognition

Lecture 8: Changing adversity relies on action

Strategy 1 seizes opportunities and leaves no room for anything

Strategy 2: Tighten internally and loosen externally, leaving leeway

Strategy 3: Create a sufficient situation and gain recognition

Lecture 9: Educate children with care

Method 1: Immersion Education, develop habits

Method 2: Maternal love education, cultivate good character

Method 3: Experience education, improve core abilities

Lecture 10: Stabilize the situation and talk about strategies

Strategy of One Force Battle

Strategy of Two Hearts

Strategy of Three Wisdoms

Teacher Zhao and his class (postscript)

Learning Management from Sima Yi (Baijia Forum) Quotes:

The word "Bi" is two knives, hurting others and hurting yourself.

There must be a reason for wearing leather trousers over cotton trousers.

Westerners go to psychiatrists if they don’t know what to do, and Chinese people go to fortune tellers if they don’t know what to do.

In the past, people starved to death, but now people eat to death.

Public opinions must be published, not vented or vented.

High-profile workmanship, low-key conduct.

The most rare thing about the exhibition is the ability to obtain the ultimate permission.

Exhibit sincerity without technique.

Investigation is needed to detect adultery, and display is required to promote good deeds.

Look at the roles and make gestures: the father does not act as a matchmaker, the mother does not act as a teacher, but he is happy to be the father, and sad to be a filial son.

It is not easy for a high-ranking person to show his face, and it is easy to show his buttocks.

Adequate communication is the guarantee of trust.

Butcher’s knife makes people turn around, culture makes people nod. The solution is temporary by force, but always by culture.

Shengping is decided by the general, and the general is not allowed to see it. Conquering the world is the backbone, and holding the world under control is the powder storehouse.

The saddest thing in human life is that you become the person you hate.

This is especially true - the father does not play matchmaker, and the mother does not teach her son. I am not as happy as my biological father, and I am not as sad as my filial son.

Nothing can be accomplished without heroes, but trouble can easily happen if there are too many heroes!

Enterprises can have idle things, but they cannot have idle people. Life lies in movement, management lies in tossing.

Life requires fighting, but not every battle must be fought. Fighting every battle is not fighting but seeking death.

When you are a leader, you should be close to the virtuous ministers and govern the villains. Being able to use a gentleman is a character, being able to use a villain is a level.

Look at the world in a big way and people in a small way.

Enterprises do not hire the best people, but the most suitable people.

Power without scientific support is blind power; science without power support is lonely science.

Managers must go beyond the limits of personal power to complete missions that cannot be accomplished by a single person, which requires courage and ambition; at the same time, management must achieve goals through others, which requires humility and tolerance.

Every culture contains an understanding of management. Chinese people like plum blossoms, and plum blossoms have four qualities: they are more expensive than bland, which is the beauty of passion; they are more expensive than young, which is the beauty of maturity; they are more expensive than slanted, but not straight, which is the beauty of freedom; they are more expensive than dense, which is the beauty of freedom. It’s the beauty of simplicity. Have you ever thought about being a manager like Mei?

To do big things, we need to do it in stages. Many times we want to do it all at once, but the result is often inconsistent.

Nothing can be accomplished unless it is forced, and a horse cannot go fast unless it beats a horse. A thousand-mile horse also needs a whip. Maintaining moderate pressure is conducive to success.

Five minutes of self-abuse a day is called exercise, and five hours of exercise a day is called self-abuse.

The common sense must be consistent with everyone else, otherwise it will be difficult to be accepted by the group; the skills must be as different as possible from others, otherwise it will be difficult to stand out.

Ten things are not as good as three things, and three things are not as good as one thing.

When famous people do things, they respond to a hundred responses; when people who are not famous do things, they respond to a hundred responses. Just a response, or a "Bah!"

Be content with what you have in life, and strive for excellence in career. Failure to do the former will lead to insatiable greed; failure to do the latter will lead to accomplishing nothing.

Thoughts are like knives, the more they are sharpened, the sharper they become; thoughts are like stones, only collision can produce sparks.

The essence of management is to complete tasks through others.

Pay attention to outstanding people in ordinary groups, and pay attention to ordinary people in outstanding groups.

Providing opinions in private is called trying to shore up the situation, and raising opinions in public is called breaking up the situation.

Plant a plane tree to attract phoenix birds; give birth to a handsome boy to integrate Mu Guiying. Why did Taijun She have so much credit? It was because she gave birth to so many attractive and handsome men in the Song Dynasty. This is called using motivational characteristics to target key talent.

When you develop your skills, you must focus on the core. When practicing martial arts, you need to practice 18 kinds of weapons. However, the great heroes from ancient times to the present only have one or two weapons to conquer the world. Mr. Guan is the sword, Zhao Zilong is the gun, and Li Yuanba is the hammer. Who has ever seen Master Guan go into battle, change weapons in three minutes, and still show off "I know everything!" That's not Master Guan, but Crazy Guan!

Among the Journey to the West team, Sun Wukong is the most capable, but You cannot always use the most capable person to do big things. Imagine if the team all uses the most capable ones. Sun Wukong is the monkey who explores the path, the monkey is the monkey who carries the rake and chats with the leader, the monkey is the one who carries the burden and does the logistics, and Tang Sanzang rides the monkey. This is not learning from experience, but doing acrobatics. of.

Appearance is more important than appearance.

"Appearance" refers to a person's inner world and psychological state, and "appearance" refers to the number and position of a person's limbs and five senses.

Leaders only focus on exceptions and not on normality, and only on exceptions and not on routines. Normal things and routine things are managed by the system and managed by subordinates, and there is no need for leaders to take care of it themselves.

If you can do one thing well, that is called qualified; if you can do ten things well, that is excellence; if you can do fifty things well, that is called excellence ; If you still try to do a hundred things well, that's called seeking death.

If someone asked us to do one thing twice a day and repeat it every day for 20 years, we would definitely be very annoyed. But there is one thing that we insist on doing for a lifetime and do it at least three times a day, but we are not annoyed every time. Not only are we not annoyed, but we also work very hard at what we do. This thing is eating. So it makes sense that there is a demand!

Don't tie two thousand-mile horses to the same trough to eat grass. Don't arrange for two capable people to do the same thing at the same time.

Distribute the pie to the old comrades, draw the pie to the young people, and eat the pie with the backbone. This can improve the satisfaction of the entire team under limited material conditions.

In the game of mahjong, some people play it to win money. This is a typical material need and is on the first floor. Some people can play it as long as they don’t lose money. This is a safety need, rising It's on the second floor; some people play mahjong just to get together and have fun, which is a social demand. You see, it has risen to the third floor; some people play mahjong just to prove to others that they are smart and skilled. Okay, this is the need for dignity, which is on the fourth floor; there are still people who play mahjong for no other reason than the pleasure of drawing cards. This is the inner satisfaction after completing a challenging task. This is self-realization, which is the need on the fifth floor. . A game that contains the five major human needs must have strong vitality. If our management system and marketing methods can be designed into this mahjong model that fully meets the needs of all levels, it will definitely become popular and invincible.

It is not the details that determine success or failure, but the choice of details that determines success or failure. Grasp the big picture first, then focus on the details. You know, you can't see an elephant with a microscope.

Standing out from the crowd is more difficult for a crane than a chicken. It has to withstand a lot of pressure from the group. There is a price to pay for being outstanding, so outstanding people often need protection.

The common people say: One soldier is a raging enemy, and a general is raging in a nest! Napoleon said: A flock of sheep led by a lion can defeat a flock of lions led by a sheep.

We are just a little ant. Anyone can trample us to death, but the little ant cannot grow up in a short period of time. What should we do? The best way is to stand on the back of an elephant and see who dares to step on it. This is the leveraging principle of management.

Those who do not believe that their goals can be achieved will not survive, and those who believe that their goals will be achieved soon will not survive either.

If you like someone, no matter how you look at it... spring looks like flowers, autumn looks like fruit, summer looks like ice, winter looks like fire, oh, I like this...

A sense of accomplishment makes ordinary things glorious, makes ordinary days shine, and gives wings to ordinary people.

Wake up every morning and do a little exercise to wake up your body. Reading a few pages of a book can wake up your mind. You might as well put a favorite book by your pillow before going to bed. It can give you strength for the next day. Life increases strength.

Power comes from scarcity. The scarcer the resources you have, the greater your power.

Verbal praise is sometimes childish, but it is very important and effective. No matter where you go, don’t forget to bring your praise with you.

Inspecting work seems to be just to find shortcomings, but only talking about shortcomings will cover up big strengths with small shortcomings, which will inhibit the enthusiasm and creativity of subordinates. Smart leaders also check for strengths when inspecting work. , and sometimes, it’s just for the merits.

History will not repeat its facts, but history will repeat its laws.

Great virtue begins with self-control, and great wisdom begins with knowing people.

What makes people feel tired is not the long distance, but the small grains of sand in the shoes. On the road of life, only by pouring the sand out of your shoes can you walk more steadily and further.

Therefore, no matter how big a business is, it must start with self-management.

Performing beyond normal circumstances is called excellence, and performing normally under extraordinary circumstances is called excellence.

When an outstanding architect builds every ordinary brick in front of him, he must have a majestic palace in mind. Therefore, before a person succeeds, he has actually succeeded many times in his heart.

Life is like climbing a continuous mountain range. Our sight is often blocked by the mountains in front of us, and we cannot see the future at all. It’s not scary to have no lofty goals at this time. As long as you walk down the road steadily and climb the mountain in front of you, you will be able to see a magnificent future. Therefore, lofty ideals are actually included in our down-to-earth progress every day.

Human behavior can be guided. If you pretend to be stupid for a long time, you will become really stupid; if you pretend to be happy for a long time, you will become really happy. So, if you are not successful, at least think and act like a successful person.

Go to the core of everything you do. The finishing touch lies in the two eyes. But please note that the dragon can only tap two eyes and one whole body. That is not a dragon, that is a sieve.

Too many opportunities means no opportunities, too many opinions means no opinions, too many friends means no friends, and too much money is the same as no money.

Management means appointing people who are better than yourself to work for you. When Wu Dalang opens a store, Wu Dalang is 1.5 meters tall, the second-level manager is 1.4 meters tall, the third-level manager is 1.3 meters tall, and the doorman is 1 meter tall. The leader is indeed the tallest in the company, but this leader is a bad leader. This kind of management is recession management.

When Jiang Ziya became Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces at the age of 81, he did two things in the first 80 years: study hard and exercise.

The best state is normal; the most effective means is balance; the highest state is nature.