At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, when the time came to discuss the rewards for meritorious deeds, the generals advocated that Cao San should be placed in the position of the first meritorious man, but Liu Bang said that the greatest merit was not Cao San, a representative figure recognized by the generals, but Xiao He. Without Xiao He, there would be no way to support the war, and there would be no victory for the Han army.
This is the different result of the boss and the department leader's perspective on the problem. From the point of view of the sales department, we are making money to feed the whole company, from the perspective of the financial department, I am paying everyone in the whole company, and from the perspective of the business department, we are working to feed the whole company. Anyway, from the perspective of any one department, other departments are waste, idle meals, and only their own departments are creating value for the company.
Therefore, the generals are equivalent to the business department, the work of the whole company is done by us, and it is only by shedding blood and sweat that we have laid the foundation, of course, we have to work hard and work hard, and we have to choose one person from among us as the first hero, which is reasonable. In fact, this is the typical business department brick-moving worker's thinking, completely do not understand the problem from the boss's point of view.
As the boss, Liu Bang pointed out very decisively that the greatest credit was not in the business department, but xiao He, who had been engaged in logistics, which showed that he, the boss, knew better that although the generals who had shed blood and sweat in the front had made great contributions, it was more important and more crucial to carry out the construction of base areas in the rear. There are no generals, especially generals like Cao Shan, but as long as there is Xiao He, others can be trained, such as Zhou Bo, Fan Duo and others, who can be substituted.
The problem is that if there is no Xiao He, then Liu Bang really has nothing. Even if he had Cao Shan, Zhou Bo, Fan Duo, and so on, no one was constantly sending him grain and troops from the rear, as long as he was defeated by Xiang Yu once, he had to game over and directly quit the game, and how could he be defeated by Xiang Yu once like Xiao Qiang, who could not die later, and then make a comeback again.
Liu Bang's Han Chu Sanjie, Xiao He, Han Xin, Zhang Liang three people, Han Xin and Zhang Liang are actually workers, from the boss's point of view, is to use it in the short term, used up to stand on the side, Xiao He and Cao Shan, Zhou Bo These people are different, belong to the original stock of the entrepreneurial elders, but Xiao He and others are different, the replaceability of other military generals is relatively high, and Xiao He's management ability is Liu Bang's relatively scarce talent, the fungibility is very low.
This is also the meaning of the words that Han Xin said when he complimented Liu Bang, from the perspective of military ability, Liu Bang is certainly not a first-class military general, commanding thousands of troops and horses is not as good as Han Xin, strategizing to win a decisive victory thousands of miles away is not as good as Zhang Liang, managing the rear is not as good as Xiao He, but he can still be the boss, can command these people, because he is a "good general", that is, he knows who to use to do what, when to reuse whom, and can be balanced when the interests of different departments are in conflict.
This is what a qualified boss should have. Therefore, when discussing the reward of merit after the founding of the country, Han Xin, a person with personal ambitions, was immediately deposed by him and strictly disciplined, until he was later killed, Zhang Liang also quickly stood aside, but Xiao He was able to never fall, because he was a Yuan Conggong hero who had joined the stock since the beginning of his business, and he was always obedient to Liu Bang, and he could not see a trace of personal ambition.
Another very important factor is that from the perspective of the generals, the reward for merit is mainly to be sealed, that is, before the company goes public, it is necessary to give everyone a share, and who takes the big head at this time is a very important issue. If Cao is the first, it also means that to recognize their greater contribution, it is necessary to share their shares. But Liu Bang's reaction means that your contribution is not as great as you think, and you should not be too greedy, just take the benefits given to you.
This is where Liu Bang's brain is relatively clear as a boss. If he didn't start to suppress this meritorious group at this time, he would become more and more powerful in the future, and he could still deal with it himself, but what if he died later? Can wives and children control these unruly founding heroes? Because he put Xiao He first, the stepmother could gradually improve the status of civilian personnel in the process of ruling the world, so that the whole country was on the right track.
After all, the large-scale war is over, and when it comes to governing the country, you can't always use a bunch of illiterate warriors to govern the country, right? Therefore, the reward of merit and deeds at this time is not only a retrospective and recognition of past contributions, but also an arrangement for future status.
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