The smartest way to use people
A gentleman is a person of high moral character and outstanding ability. Excellent character, well-trained in life, widely trusted, and outstanding ability, often have evaluations such as "really self-cultivation" and "good character". The villain can be interpreted as having outstanding talents, but immature personality and lack of self-cultivation. Although it is not enough to be called a villain, the personality still needs to be perfected. Japan's Daxian Saigo Takamori advocates talents who combine talent, learning and virtue, that is, "gentleman" talents, but at the same time he also believes that "villain" talents can also be used reasonably. In management philosophy, we can still use the gentleman and the villain. After all, no matter what era, there are not a few villains.
The smartest way to use people
Talent is a strategic resource of the society. Different from other resources, the success or failure of talents often determines the success or failure of the collective. Especially in the fiercely competitive business society, the key to the competition of major business groups is often the competition for talents. If you outsmart your competitors in talent resources, then you're on the winning side of the competition. However, if you are not good at using the talents in your hands, then it will be fatal to your career.
Xixiang's posthumous instruction mentioned that since the creation of the world, seven or eight out of ten people in the world are villains. They should be good at understanding the thoughts and thoughts of villains, take their strengths, use them as subordinates, and give full play to their talents and skills. This shows that the management should use the "gentleman", but also make good use of the "villain".
The villain also has talents and skills, so they should make good use of them, arrange them in suitable positions, and give full play to their strengths.
In a team, no matter whether it is a merit-based system or a meritocracy, as long as success or failure is based on ability, you will experience this kind of contradiction between status and personality. Originally, personality and status should go hand in hand. That is, people with outstanding personalities should be promoted to high positions. However, the difficulty lies in the fact that in real life there are few gentlemen and many villains. It is "the vast sea of people, the fittest is hard to find". Then, if the villain is refused, the organization cannot be established, and the work cannot be carried out. Xixiang's solution is that although the villain's personality is not perfect, since he has talent and ability, he should be appointed and provide space to give full play to his strength. Please keep this in mind. Even if you don't want to hire someone who lacks self-cultivation, it's hard to achieve great things without such a person. It is the leader's task to see through the shortcomings of the villain being not a great player, and then consider how to play his strengths and abilities within the team.
The smartest way to use people
Being good at using villains is not only because villains also have usable talents, but also to avoid excessive rejection of villains, causing villains to hinder or even destroy their own affairs.
The most important thing for a leader is to be good at selecting, employing, and retaining people, to know people well, to choose talents based on merit, and to recruit talents. There is no doubt that people with virtue and talents will be used. They are rare management talents, and they will also be the backbone of the team and the backbone of the society. However, in fact, leaders who have both virtue and talent are rare. To deal with the contradiction between virtue and talent, we must grasp the following points: people with virtue and talent do not need to use it, big things can’t be done, and small things can’t be done well. Talented and virtuous people cannot be used. Not doing things is a trivial matter. No matter what happens, it cannot be forgiven for interfering with work or destroying unity. Morality and talent are generally used. "Ten fingers are long and short." Talents are generally people with excellent moral character. Such people are used, have a sense of responsibility, have a sense of justice, have enthusiasm, and have cohesion. This kind of person is the main force for the formation of righteousness.
The best way to avoid bad things from a villain is to use him in the right places.
The villain may be of average character and can be outstanding. This kind of person should be used, but if he needs to be assigned tasks, he must also strengthen the supervision of him, so that he will become the right arm of the entire group. Zeng Guofan said: "Talents are earned by rewards. Most of the talents are medium-sized, and the generals encourage them to become great. If they are blindly reprimanded, they will gradually become mediocre." There is a problem in selecting a person. First, see what he can do. , and then look at what he can't do, it's very different when you turn it upside down.
The smartest way to use people
When a person lives in a society, it is inevitable to deal with people. A person's strength is very limited. If you want to live, you need to use people; if you have a sense of enterprise and want to do something, you need someone to help. A hero with three gangs is not a hero without help. Most successful people are good at employing people. To use people, there is a premise, that is, you must be good at knowing people and trapping people before you can use people. Leaders who are good at employing people are commanders and planners who grasp the overall situation and plan for the future, rather than concrete implementers who have to do everything personally. As a leader, you must know how to know people, know how to know people, and know how to use people, use people's strengths, and avoid people's shortcomings. To use "gentleman", but also to use "little man".