Zizhi Tongjian: King Qi Wei and King Hui of Wei on "What is Treasure"

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Introduction: From the small story of King Qi Wei and King Wei Hui on "What is Treasure", we learn that first, repentance is regret and correction, and comparatively speaking, "correction" is more important. Second, talent is a treasure, it is talent that can do professional technology, and it is also talent that can integrate resources. Knowing and employing people mainly depends on two aspects, one is whether they can accomplish things. The second is whether it will destroy the existing organizational unity.

The Zizhi Tongjian tells a small episode in which king Qi Wei and King Wei Hui met, and King Wei Hui showed off his treasure to King Qi Wei, saying that he had ten night pearls with a diameter of more than ten inches. King Qi Wei said, my view of the national treasure is different from yours, my treasure is four ministers, Tanzi, Panzi, Qianfu, and Seed Chief, because they have the town to guard the border and govern the country, so foreign countries do not dare to invade the country of Qi, and the domestic road is not left behind. King Wei Hui's face was ashamed.

The story ends abruptly at this point. What King Wei Hui did after he looked ashamed is not recorded, but we can see that the State of Wei was completely in decline during the reign of King Hui of Wei. Today we will briefly talk about 2 things.

First, there is a word called, "repentance," regret and correction. King Wei Hui's face was ashamed, and at that moment he should have been a little regretful, ashamed that he only knew pleasure, ashamed that he knew that he did not have the Qi Wei King profoundly, and regretted the words he said. However, he did not take measures to correct it later, and perhaps he also tried to correct it, but how difficult it was to get rid of a bad habit. The formation of good habits requires constantly honing yourself, constantly reminding, and constantly spurring.

This is very much like us ordinary people. Anyway, I am such a person, the mobile phone is pulled for half a day, can not stop, do things inattentively, inefficient. In fact, when playing, I am not too happy, always thinking that I can't do this, if so, my life is not all idle, walking dead, how can I be a good example for my child, how can I provide him with a better material and spiritual environment. Although the heart is very struggling, but the temptation of those things that play or something is too great, so most of the time it is idle.

Later, I also took some measures to correct it, and it will have some effect. For example, to refine and clarify the goals, I now have several major directions of effort, doing essential work, reading work-related standards and norms, reading humanistic books, and reading "Zizhi Tongjian" on today's headline platform every day. For example, when entertaining, limit yourself from the number or time, brush the video is it, 10, count, to 10 will end. Another example is to give yourself some positive hints and rewards. In short, you can't always stay on the top of your mind, real knives and real guns are done.

Second, what is the real treasure is talent. From the above story, we can see that King Hui of Wei has been very different from the governing policy of his grandfather Wei Wenhou Weisi, who attaches great importance to talents, with Confucius's students Bu Zixia, Zigong's students Tian Zifang and Duan Ganmu as state teachers, and famous ministers such as Wei Cheng, Zhai Huang, Li Ke, Wu Qi, and others. King Hui of Wei knew pleasure. Once again, it interprets the danger of living in peace. What is the real treasure? For the leadership level, it is talent. Identifying talents and using them in the right place is to treasure and find Maxima.

What is talent, can do professional technology is talent, can do resource integration is also talent, in short, can do things, but not limited to the type. From the perspective of human nature, it can talk, it will please people, it is a person, and it is also the leader's favorite, but it cannot be greedy and comfortable without screening. How to identify, for leaders, is a skill.

I think there are two main points to look at, first, whether it can be done. Second, in the organization, will it destroy the unity of the organization. Space is limited, do not expand on it, there is a chance to make more nonsense.