Management Ten Days Talk

Author: Cheng Gang
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Management is a fascinating and practical discipline. Effective management is everyone's responsibility, and we must learn, think, and understand management as managers do. What is the most important technological innovation of the 20th century? Is it the use of antibiotics and immunology techniques that doubled human lifespan? Is it the emergence of cars and airplanes, which redefined traditional distances? Or is it the telephone, television, computer, and internet technologies that propelled us into the new economy era? All these technological innovations have greatly changed our lives. But without the intervention of another discipline, it would not have been possible for these harmonious technologies to be mastered and popularized so rapidly and widely. This discipline is management, a summary of thoughts and practices that enable organizations to operate. The development of management has made various organizations the carriers of many tasks in modern society.
——Joan Maglietta
Since humans began working together, management activities have accompanied them. In practice, some people are good at observing and summarizing, accumulating bits of wisdom. In this process, there are always a few rational thinkers who can stand on the shoulders of giants, by summarizing and generalizing management thoughts, systematizing and scientificizing them, forming management theories, and using them to guide practice. In the practice of management, they are tested, enriched, and developed, and new thoughts and theories emerge in new environments, driving the progress of human civilization in a cycle.
Today, when it comes to theory, many people frown, and indeed, there are some successful individuals in reality who have not received systematic management theory training. However, without a relatively systematic theory, you cannot understand what is actually happening around you or the connections between them. A good theory is not about giving you instructions on what to do, but about helping you think and analyze your surroundings to find the key issues. The more the external environment changes, the more important the fundamental principles become.
Management is a science combined with art, a product of the integration of emotion and reason. Management knowledge means: no matter how you refer to management itself, we will think like managers, and we need to continuously learn and understand management. In the next ten days, night represents emotion, and day represents reason. Let us learn and understand management together.