As a management genius, his management methods can be divided into three strategies: judging people, employing people and mobilizing people:
Look at people: overcoming six misunderstandings. Zhang's famous saying is that "there is no shortage of talents in the world, but suffering from Tao is useless." In his famous book "Chen Liushi Shu Shu", he specifically discussed the strategy of employing people. In the meantime, he summed up his experience in governing the country in the past ten years, and put forward six misunderstandings that are easy to occur when judging people: being carried away by fame, being bound by seniority, discrediting when shaken, intertwined with love and hate, and covering up its big section with one thing. That is to say, we don't listen to fame and behavior, don't ask qualifications and potential, don't listen to gossip and achievements, don't rely on likes and dislikes, don't talk about heroes by one thing, and don't make a lifelong mistake.
Employment: Pay attention to exams. Evaluation and inspection must be carried out at the same time. At present, enterprise managers tend to choose this or that intentionally or unintentionally, and some tend to assess. With the help of a set of assessment methods issued by the human resources department, the management of selecting the best people is realized. Some managers tend to check, that is, give priority to process supervision, and manage things in the process rather than settle accounts after the autumn. Zhang believes that these two methods must be taken into account.
Transfer: It feels like a promotion. Clever use, rather than abuse, of lateral transfer and job rotation to promote employees can turn ordinary into magic. Generally speaking, rotation of posts has a purpose, which is nothing more than three ideas: first, it is a universal upward channel to train talents and improve their comprehensive quality, especially to work at the grassroots level, because it conforms to the old rule of China people that "famous soldiers are born in martial arts"; The second is to disintegrate gangs. After a long tenure, a habitual force is formed, which is inconvenient for overall management. According to the old system of ancestors at that time in the Ming Dynasty, "three-year, six-year examination" was the rule, that is, three years can be rotated, which is shorter than the four-year term usually used now; The third is to use the participation of newcomers to create new checks and balances, thus helping the top leaders to control the whole team. Therefore, job rotation has become the royal rule of many decision makers.
In order to arouse the enthusiasm of officials, Zhang made great efforts to reform the management of officials, set up assessment methods and regularly assess officials. During his inspection, Zhang abolished a large number of redundant staff and rewarded honest talents. In the nine years of Wanli, 169 redundant employees were laid off at one time. During his administration, the redundant staff of the demobilization accounted for about three-tenths of the total number of officials. At the same time, Zhang extensively recruited talents, promoted those officials who supported reform and made outstanding achievements, entrusted them with heavy responsibilities and used them faithfully. In October of the fourth year of Wanli, I reviewed the report of the magistrate of Changyi County, Shandong Province, and asked Zhang: I am a scholar, why am I so presumptuous? Zhang said: Dare to be so presumptuous, just because he is qualified as a scholar; In the future, we should teach students in accordance with their aptitude, regardless of their qualifications. Zongshen agreed with him. In this way, Zhang took the imperial edict as the direction, broke the traditional prejudice of seniority, regardless of background and qualifications, and boldly used talents. When using talents, he advocates "judging their talents and measuring their elements" to conduct a comprehensive investigation of talents and morality. At the same time, he noticed everyone's strengths and weaknesses, used their strengths and avoided their weaknesses. All the civil and military officials he selected played a key role in the reform.
From the first year of Wanli to the tenth year, Zhang made great achievements. He used famous generals Li, Qi Jiguang and Wang Chonggu, so that every invasion of the northern aliens dominated by Mongols was defeated, so he had to behave himself and conduct peaceful trade with the Ming Dynasty. He also put down the armed riots of ethnic minorities in the south. The country is rich and strong, and the grain stored in the national treasury can last for ten years, and the surplus in inventory exceeds the national expenditure for one year. The traffic station is well organized. Cleaning up the country's land will make taxes fair, so that the poor will not bear too much money and food, and bureaucrats will not pay taxes as before. After ten years of painstaking efforts, the Ming Dynasty has become the most advanced and prosperous country in the world.