Cultivation (My Ten Years in the Workplace)

Author: Xie Yun
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Publish Date: April 1, 2006
Features: China's first overall concept blog book,47, with a blogger popularity index of 7,329,152. Over these ten years, I have experienced a transformation from a student to a professional, from an employee to a manager, and have felt the growth of an individual—those things that led me to success and recognition, as well as those past moments that still make me feel regret and awkwardness, have given me the greatest gift—self-cultivation; the places where I once worked, whether foreign companies, start-ups, or large private enterprises, have given me valuable opportunities to deepen my understanding of management through practice; over the ten years, my leaders, colleagues, and many friends have given me countless helps, guidance, and teachings, even life-saving assistance, for which I am forever grateful. (Author's self-introduction). This book records a ten-year career after graduating as an engineering doctor. During these ten years, the author Xie Yun moved from an entry-level professional to the top tier of a renowned enterprise, experiencing a role change from a technical expert to a manager, and a promotion from a grassroots manager to a senior manager. This book genuinely documents the growth journey of an outstanding professional manager, serving as both a vivid and three-dimensional management textbook and a career success manual that readers wish they had discovered earlier. The typical encounters and reflections of the author in his career, rather than the author himself, are the protagonists of this book. This includes personal professionalization, learning project management skills in the midst of chaos, successes and failures in learning to delegate authority and build teams, and struggles, doubts, and perseverance in professional mindset, as well as profound reflections on the essence of management and management issues. His experiences have broad universal relevance, and every manager can find a familiar version of themselves within them, prompting introspection; his work methods and insights stem from practical experience, bringing readers strong resonance and great inspiration; his reflections are unique, and at times sharp and uncomfortable, but his independent and serious thinking gives the book greater value. Xie Yun wrote this book not for publication; many of its contents had already spread among the people in various ways before it was published. His expressions are simple yet thought-provoking, and astonishingly honest. Many readers who followed the online serialization, especially middle and lower-level managers in enterprises and IT professionals, were deeply moved, and their emotions were reflected back in various ways. Perhaps only with the courage to face oneself can one maintain the motivation for continuous excellence. From the authentic growth of a manager, we may gain more than from rigid textbooks. The most suitable readers for this book: professionals in the workplace, corporate managers, MBAs, and university students.