Refined management

Author: Wang Zhongqiu
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: In this book, the author proposes fine management as a management system, attempting to integrate it with some known scientific management theories and counteract our past extensive management. We strive to provide some basic rules and operational approaches. "Fine" means removing the rough, continuously refining, and meticulously selecting to find the optimal solution to problems; "Detailed" means delving into the root causes, from broad to specific, to find the inherent connections and patterns of things. Alternatively, one could say, "Detailed" is the necessary path to refinement, and "Fine" is the natural result of refinement. Refinement is a hurdle that Chinese enterprises must overcome. Whether in any industry or any company, without refinement, it is like grasping the branches to climb a tree—futile—in the increasingly fierce international competition. Facing the direct pressure of global economic integration, private enterprises lacking technological and financial advantages must achieve industrial specialization, management specialization, and capital specialization, adhering to the path of "refinement."
— Wu Jinglian
Maintaining a balance between the long-term and the short-term is the essence of management.
— (American) Jack Welch
Refinement is the inevitable path for the next decade.
— Wang Shiqi, Chairman of Vanke
In this book, the author proposes fine management as a management system, attempting to integrate it with some known scientific management theories and counteract our past extensive management. We strive to provide some basic rules and operational approaches. "Fine" means removing the rough, continuously refining, and meticulously selecting to find the optimal solution to problems; "Detailed" means delving into the root causes, from broad to specific, to find the inherent connections and patterns of things. Alternatively, one could say, "Detailed" is the necessary path to refinement, and "Fine" is the natural result of refinement. Refinement is a hurdle that Chinese enterprises must overcome. Whether in any industry or any company, without refinement, it is like grasping the branches to climb a tree—futile—in the increasingly fierce international competition.