Effective Management of Eighteen Skills

Author: Li Zeyao
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: In the martial arts world, having one or two extraordinary skills is enough to roam the martial arts realm. If you master the "Eighteen Martial Arts" to perfection, who would dare to get close to you? Management has its own set of skills. Once you grasp the key techniques, your management can reach a higher level. Ms. Zhang is a girl who works in procurement. She is beautiful and efficient in her work. During a meal one time, she told everyone about a new type of artificial egg that looks exactly like a real one. When the shell is cracked, both the yolk and the white are present, making it impossible to distinguish between the two from the inside out. Someone asked, "Is it really like that?" Some said they had seen it, while others hadn’t. Xiao Zhang added, "Yes, it’s almost impossible to tell the difference. And the nutrition is the same too." As her superior, I couldn’t help but ask, "The nutrition is the same too?" She replied confidently, "Yes, the nutrition is the same." Then I asked her, "You say the nutrition is the same, but let me ask you a question: Can this egg hatch chicks?" She answered, "Um—Of course not, it can’t hatch chicks!"—Okay, that’s right: Artificial eggs can’t hatch chicks, that’s correct. Therefore, artificial eggs can’t have the same nutrition as real eggs. At the very least, they lack some essential nutrients. If an egg can’t hatch chicks, it means it can’t transform into a living thing, lacking the organic, natural, or life-given nutrients that truly sustain life. I’m telling you this example to explain what nutrition really is. I believe everyone can understand it, and it will surely make your eyes light up. You might think nutrition is just calories, that nutrition is just kilocalories, but that’s wrong. When you eat bread, it has calories. I tell you, one liter of gasoline burned also has calories. Perhaps in the next few decades or centuries, humans might just use charging instead of eating—that’s energy, but it’s not nutrition. Why? Because nutrition requires cells, genes, DNA, and the elements that make up life—the elements that constitute higher-level existence. If that’s not clear enough, let me tell you another story about nutrition—this one is about a soy milk machine: My family makes soy milk every day. If you want to make soy milk, you need to soak the beans the night before. But now there’s a problem: if you don’t make it the next day, leaving the beans soaked for another night—I’m telling you: they will sprout!—Let me tell you again in a loud voice: "Brother, this is nutrition—It will sprout!" There are so many books out there now, I really don’t know which one to read—Hoping that the content of this book can become a nutritional element for effective managers.