The enterprise overlord Li Shimin who takes advice like a flowing stream

Author: Liang Xi
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Accepting advice is a very subtle and profound art. Whether a manager is good at accepting advice directly affects the rise and fall of a company. Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty was an outstanding master of accepting advice. The positive atmosphere he promoted for advising and his own high-level skills in accepting advice have become the golden rules pursued by modern business managers. The eleven-character aphorism for accepting advice that every manager cannot afford to miss. This book focuses on the examples of Emperor Taizong accepting advice as a breakthrough point. Based on the modern management theory that "decision-making power" is the most important function of a manager, it closely ties in with the "decision-making" link in the "Discuss—Decide—Execute—Evaluate" process. While tracing the series of tracks of Emperor Taizong seeking and accepting advice, it emphasizes explaining his methods of accepting advice and proposes the eleven-character aphorism: "Use," "Guide," "Accountability," "Motivate," "Praise," "Reward," "Evaluate," "Correct," "Leverage," "Warning," and "Punish," for readers' reference.