Beyond Excellence - The Basic Training for Professional Managers

Author: Wu Honggang
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features:
—Effective decision-makers are rare, and leisurely managers are even rarer. The encouragement for the "weariness" of business managers far exceeds the examination of their "efficiency."
—“Leaders” is our general understanding of leadership and management, and “leading from the front” is also a management style that has been advocated in China since ancient times. Therefore, in Chinese films, we often see a scene: a brave general charges ahead on horseback, leading his entire army into battle until the entire army is defeated. This phenomenon can be called "positive negligence."
—Smart people are meticulous in their calculations, and they are often considered qualified candidates for professional managers. However, for a manager, the meticulousness of "seeing the fine details" often makes them too focused on details while neglecting the bigger picture and corporate culture.
—If Chinese business management is still in its infancy, it will undoubtedly attract many criticisms. But if we conduct a practical and careful analysis of the problems that arise in enterprises, it will not be difficult to find that the probability of committing high-level errors is not high, at least most of the problems that arise in enterprises are not as complex as those described by consulting firms.
—Western management scholars can and have the energy to study management techniques because developed Western countries have moved beyond the stage where management serves as a humanistic foundation, and their societies have already formed a more suitable humanistic foundation for the modern market economy. However, if Chinese managers only stay at the Western technical level of learning and research, it is likely that they will not be able to shoulder the responsibility of modernizing Chinese business management.
—Only from the perspective of individual managers, the "Chinese-style management path" can make managers become "astute" managers. But if it is magnified to the scope of enterprise groups or countries, it will be disastrous. An enterprise combined by astute individuals will be a market-responsive and innovation-deficient enterprise.
—Only from an artistic perspective, the study of management techniques in China over the past 5,000 years can be considered perfect. But if we draw the conclusion that "what makes the West superior is not management philosophy, but completely"