Today, I am honored to talk to you here. I am both happy and ashamed. I'm glad this three-foot platform is not a place for people like me to come up. Although everyone praises me as a modern entrepreneur, in fact, in my heart, I dare not pretend to be myself He is not so much a modern entrepreneur as a member of thousands of entrepreneurs in Qian Qian.
But since I am a business person, I should say that my decades of business career has really laid a lot of bumpy life resumes for me.
Someone asked me, Lu, didn't you always run sales in the factory after graduating from college, and then went to the sea to start your own business? Why did you set up the "Confucius and Confucian Corporate Culture Forum"?
That's a good question, because I've been running the market in the enterprise, doing sales, and then running my own business, so I'm more qualified to hold the "Confucius and Confucian Corporate Culture Forum".
The reason for holding such a forum is because I also hope that the society will be harmonious forever and our people will benefit from it from generation to generation. Now it is directly conveyed by President Hu Jintao. You said that a person with a conscience and a deep understanding of the truth should not have the responsibility to stand up and add fuel to the fire.
For decades, there have been many social problems that have plagued people's minds, which have been stuck in the minds of our generation. I always feel that these social problems should not appear in the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, but where are the reasons? I've been thinking about another reason. For example, why do modern young people not have the values of our generation? Do not want to suffer hardships, and make money for fear of hardship. Many people have graduated from college and are still at home naked and full of food. Parents are willing to do the same for their children. How can a society go on like this? Today, no parents don't care about their children and spoil them. People who can be children don't know how to give back gratitude when they grow up. This should be said to be a universal reality?
In the 1990s, many traffickers dared to trick female college students into selling in poor mountainous areas for money. Later, the legislation dealt a heavy blow, and the living dared not cheat and sell, so the children had to guard against it. You can see the whole street. Beware of the slogan tips of pickpockets, so as to prevent derailment. Wuhan is a little stronger. If you go to Guangzhou and leave your belongings unattended, you may be stripped immediately. There must be a lot of people here who have had this experience. In the family room where everyone lives, in order to guard against theft and pickpockets, every household has installed a door on the door and locked it. But many families are still hard to prevent and can't lock the gentleman on the beam. Is this the inevitable law of modern civilization?
There are many strange things in today's enterprises. Some people come from poor families. When you promoted him to section chief and factory director, he immediately began to miss his heart, start a new career, roll up your manuscript fee and tear down your net. You say, why doesn't he have the values of gratitude? In this way, how can enterprises in China become "strong" and "big"? Many enterprises began to shrink naturally after three to five years of success, and some even lived shorter lives. How can this social reality, long cycle and national industry compete with the powers?
Some people may ask, what is the relationship between Confucius' Confucianism and modern corporate culture? Then you don't understand. Here I want to tell you: it is not only a related issue, but also a big issue related to the final future of every enterprise and the steady development of the national economy. Therefore, this is also a big issue related to the vital interests of every citizen.
First of all, I have to start with your life and mine. As we all know, our lives are born by our parents. But do you know what is the cultural gene flowing in the blood of your life and mine? That is the root of my 5000-year-old traditional civilization handed down from generation to generation. This "root" is in your life and mine, and no one can change it. Because it is your lifeline and my lifeline. However, due to the great influence of western culture, people today seem to have forgotten this "root". It doesn't matter if you forget, but you can't live without it. Thus, it constitutes the extremely selfish money values in today's society. In other words, for our own survival, each of us should try our best to protect our roots, while for the survival of others, we are all trying our best to "dig" others' "roots". Deceive others with this "inquiring into the root of the matter" method, be dishonest to others, and have no sense of social responsibility and morality to others. As long as you benefit, you can rejoice in the disaster and feel at ease. Once cheated by others, he is dishonest and has no sense of social responsibility. Looking back, he will try his best to protect his right to life and lifeline, which is what I am talking about here. That is, everyone just wants to ask others to attach importance to traditional civilization and deliberately flaunt their own behavior. This is modern civilization. Do you think his life has no roots? But you ask him what is the "root" of traditional civilization? He said your thoughts were too feudal. This is the complex ideology of people today.
Today, everyone watched CCTV's Lecture Room and Yu Dan's lecture on The Analects of Confucius, which was refreshing. In fact, appreciating her experience is actually everyone's confused appeal. Professor Yu Dan's experience in The Analects of Confucius is not so touching, and people's mental confusion has been alleviated and relaxed.
Therefore, when Yu Dan introduced her experience of The Analects of Confucius on CCTV, people gave her a high evaluation. Of course, I am no exception. But I gave him a different evaluation. I remember saying such a sentence: "The taste is excellent, and I have no appetite, comparable to Zigong, not as good as Zeng Shen;" Realizing this, it's hard to get red lips, and men are ashamed of it. How much do you want? The Analects of Confucius, a profound work, not only bears food and clothing, but also avoids dust; The golden mean is fundamental. Don't do to others what you want them to do to you. Actually, I'm a man, too, and I'm ashamed to face beautiful women. Why can't I stand up and contribute to the harmony of this society like Yu Dan?
In fact, being so hard on yourself seems to put too much emphasis on self-reflection. Because, before Yu Dan published her The Analects of Confucius, I had already registered the first Runmin Confucian Corporate Culture Communication Co., Ltd. in Wuhan and even the whole country. Moreover, I wrote five handouts six months ago, with a content of nearly 65,438+10,000 words. They are the first lecture: Confucius and Confucianism can keep pace with the times forever; The second lecture: people's ability level and their values are always parallel lines; Lecture 3: Modern enterprises urgently need a world view of moderation and harmony; The fourth lecture: loyalty and forgiveness are the foundation of social harmony; Lecture 5: Casting the Soul of Modern Enterprise Talents with Confucius and Confucianism. Unfortunately, I can only spread the Heart Sutra, a social harmony, to people in the inner circle. When several doctors were studying abroad, they overheard me talking about the experience of The Analects of Confucius and compared me to Mencius in contemporary China, which made me feel ashamed. Of course, if we are destined to communicate with Yu Dan, I believe everyone will benefit from mutual influence.
Here, I tell you something about Confucius and Confucianism, just to let you know what kind of "root" 5000 years of traditional civilization is. In fact, it is nothing more than a "root" of harmonious coexistence of human society.
This root makes you talk about morality, honesty, honesty, benevolence, filial piety, compassion, love, moderation, don't do to others what you don't want. In a word, tell us how to be a man.
So, what is the basic meaning of Confucius' Confucianism?
Confucius said: hello, the whole Chinese nation, my future descendants!
I love you with the widest mind and teach you how to be a man! You must think and do according to my teaching, and the society will have eternal harmony and stability. How did you do that? Let me tell you something! When you are in front of capitalists (that is, the business owners you are talking about today), your soul must be the soul of capital; When you are the president, your soul must be the soul of the country; When you are the minister of justice, your soul must be the soul of the law; When you are in front of the minister of public security, your soul must be the soul of social stability; When you are in front of a writer, your soul must be the soul of art; When you are in front of the teacher, your soul must be a tireless soul; In front of the doctor, your soul must be the soul of saving lives; When you are in front of civil servants, your soul must do its own work and serve the people; When you are in front of workers, your soul must be the soul of superb technology and quality assurance; When you are in front of farmers, your soul must be intensively cultivated to maximize the harvest of the soul; When you are in front of students, your soul must be a soul that always studies, studies hard and makes progress every day; Everything else, you follow my principles.
In short, politics has politics, commerce has commerce, medicine has medicine, and equipment has equipment. People in society are all from five grains, and there are thousands of occupations in the world. Business is different, and the character is not noble; There is a distinction between honor and inferiority and dignity is equal. In its place, seek its position and "respect its affairs"; "If you are not in place, you will not seek your own politics." Only in this way can society have permanent harmony and great harmony. This is what I told you about how to be an "ideal", that is, the values you talked about today.
Values are the most fundamental ideology of a nation. Like our ancestors, I have never found any gods in the world. You should use this value to reflect on your daily behavior! Otherwise, the retribution of good and evil will be widespread in this world. "It's good to be a good person if you can correct your mistakes."
In my Analects, I define this kind of values, that is, ideals, as "a gentleman's trip". On the contrary, you are the villain of society. In other words, a gentleman thinks according to reason, but a villain doesn't act according to reason. The sentence is magnanimous, a petty man is anxious and worried.. 》； "The gentleman likes virtue, the villain likes soil, the gentleman is pregnant with punishment, and the villain is pregnant with benefits"; A gentleman seeks for himself, while a villain seeks for others. In your words today: an upright man is open and poised, broad-minded, horrible villain; Gentlemen pay attention to morality, while villains only pay attention to efficiency; The gentleman is disciplined and disciplined, and the villain is mercenary; A gentleman takes responsibility, but a villain shirks it. This is the "ideal" that I advocate in The Analects. This ideal was summed up by me through the moral rules inherited by his outstanding descendants since Yan Huang II. Don't you young people all talk about your ideals and ambitions? But do any of you know the true meaning of the word "ideal"? In fact, the rule I give you is to "think" things and control your behavior with moral rationality that conforms to being a man.
This is definitely the value I set with you according to the rules of my ancestors. You must adhere to the values of being a man, so that our future generations can prosper forever. I taught 3000 disciples today, and only 72 of them can pass. Only Yan Hui understands what I said best. Of course, after Yan Hui's death, Zeng Shen and You Ruo were also my favorite students. So you must strengthen your study and exercise, and you must infiltrate it. The essence of this Confucian system I have set for you must not be taken out of context and used only for me. After I die, there will definitely be black sheep and grandchildren who will use this method to play my banner, which is immoral. But by then, I was already dead. You should learn to protect yourself and attack them in groups. Don't let these Xiao Xiao people defile your teacher. What worries me most is what you do. You can't put your soul and body into it. Because the variability of human nature is too great, you must cultivate and control yourself, and don't let this variability happen without the development of moral laws. This is called "similar in sex, far apart". How can it not change? Just like everyone wears clothes, the thing "sex" will change with the change of environment. Because people are selfish, but you must remember that "a gentleman loves money" and must "take it wisely". Otherwise, even if it is "unexpected food", in order to preserve your personality and dignity, you can't just "eat" and would rather starve to death. This is called "don't do it when something happens, don't do it when something happens."
Sorry, I know many people will laugh after listening to this speech. When did Confucius say the above remarks, was it not a pure fabrication?
But don't tell me, I'm not making this up, it's the essence of the whole Analects. Anyone here who has deeply studied and understood Confucius' The Analects of Confucius will appreciate my free translation skills. Because, I am not a teacher who teaches in words, but a scholar who tries to figure out social practice with Confucius and Confucianism. So I am more qualified than a teacher to have a deeper understanding of Confucius and Confucianism.
In fact, I can also use the teacher's essay-to-essay style, but it is difficult to tell me the truth clearly. If you don't believe us, let's try. For example, Confucius said, "A country has thousands of times. It respects things and believes, saves money and loves others, so that people can make time."
I'll translate this teaching to you in modern Chinese used by the teacher, and see if you can hear the profound truth after my free translation. Confucius said: "To lead a big country with thousands of personnel carriers, we must abide by such a truth, that is, to do things seriously, to keep credit, to be diligent and frugal, to love the people for the people, to think carefully about the seasons, and not to neglect farming." But I translated it through free translation: as president, his soul is the soul of the country. Isn't this clearer? Isn't "a thousand times the land" talking about a president's sense of responsibility?
Please analyze it carefully. Isn't this more in line with the original meaning of Confucius' original words?
If you can't understand it this way, then I can only say that you can only read dead books, which is too pedantic, and you can't find the way to turn with bamboo. In fact, as long as the bamboo is placed vertically, isn't this winding alley passed right away? Do you want Confucius to tell you me himself? It only shows that your life experience and social experience are too shallow to read dead books.
At this point, we should learn from Mao Zedong. Confucius said, "A good man can teach people for seven years, and he can be brave." If translated into modern Chinese, it means: "Good people can teach the people for seven years, but ordinary people who are not soldiers can also take part in the battle." But Mao Zedong distilled this teaching into two words, which are called "soldiers and people". The word "soldier" before these two words is a verb. Please don't interpret it as "the army and the people". If it's just the army and people, isn't Chiang Kai-shek's army and people more than Mao Zedong's? Why can't he beat Mao Zedong, but Mao Zedong completely defeated millions of Kuomintang troops with the military thought of "soldiers and people"? Therefore, Mao Zedong came to the conclusion that "soldiers and people are the foundation of victory".
Isn't this the typical result of "living reading" the Analects of Confucius? Of course, how to "recruit people" is another theoretical and practical problem. As long as you read Mao Zedong's works carefully, you will know the motivation and effect, and how he combined them. This is the typical evidence of "living reading" the Analects of Confucius.
Imagine that I am here today to explain the profound essence of The Analects with this method of "learning and using". Any scholar should deliberately argue with me and say that I am not rigorous. As long as you tell me the truth, I will listen and worship you as a teacher. I dare not interpret The Analects like this again.
Confucius, as the humanistic ancestor of our nation, founded Confucianism more than 2500 years ago, aiming at promoting a basic law of interpersonal relationship, namely the golden mean and the way of loyalty and forgiveness. About what is the "golden mean" and "loyalty and forgiveness", because of the time limit, everyone wants to listen to my course in the future. Please contact me and discuss with you. )
In fact, "the golden mean" and "loyalty and forgiveness" are a complete interpersonal relationship system in a harmonious society. This system takes the word "benevolence" as the core, thus promoting the courtesy and honesty of the society, that is, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust. Therefore, the Chinese nation has been praised by the world as a "state of propriety and righteousness" for thousands of years.
Here I will briefly talk about "courtesy" and "righteousness". "Rite" and "righteousness" are everywhere in people's social life. What are "courtesy" and "righteousness"? In the Confucian system of Confucius, what is actually said is the "morality" and "order" that a person should abide by. Today we have evolved it into four words and two phrases, namely "responsibility" and "obligation".
Imagine the stability of a society, how can every member of society have no sense of responsibility and obligation, that is, a sense of mission?
Therefore, the humanistic theory of Confucius and Confucianism is a natural concept of people.
With the rapid development of today's society, it should be said that the material conditions of people's basic life have been enriched to the point where nothing is lacking. What is lacking is this long-lost humanistic concept, that is, the values in the psychological background of social people. For the vast Chinese nation, the competition with the world powers is becoming increasingly fierce. Whether it is a blessing or a curse, I am afraid that only people with lofty ideals who are deeply worried can deeply understand the taste.
Being a man, you can't just care about your own life without worrying about future generations; Seeing a doctor, as long as you are a smart doctor, you will never only treat headaches and pains, unless you are a quack or an apprentice. Therefore, as long as doctors diagnose and treat diseases, they will always consider finding the cause first and then prescribe the right medicine. This is the way to save lives.
When we turn a page of history, which careless hero, or public servant, servant, son or knight, can seize power and finally succeed without using the banner of "doing justice for heaven" and "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and wisdom"? Isn't this what Confucius, an Asian sage, said, "If you get the Tao, you will get more help, but if you lose it, you will get less help"?
Imagine Liu Bang, Li Shimin and his son, Kublai Khan, Zhu Yuanzhang and Nurhachi. In those turbulent war years, which one of them didn't use this humanistic system to control himself and his soldiers at the same time, thus winning the hearts of the people and getting much help, which finally decided victory and established rule? Isn't that how our thousands of years of history are recorded?
Therefore, the problem is not that the system of Confucian culture is not good. Exploitation and oppression of the people serve the ruling class. Therefore, the "Kongjiadian" or the "Cultural Revolution" must be destroyed. On the contrary, it is precisely because Confucius expounded the essence of social human nature and revealed the natural laws of systematic social ethics that it reached its peak and even later generations were qualified to interpret it.
It is precisely because of this sacred land that later interpreters used various flags to address him for their own group interests, party interests and even friends' interests. Even Zhuangzi, a wise man in Lian Chao, is one of the humanistic ancestors of the Chinese nation. He pushed people's speculation on the laws of nature to the peak. It can also be said that he is the originator of modern natural science speculation-the super-development of human wisdom and the founder of Taoist theoretical system. In his fable "Zhuangzi", Wang Yang teased Kong Old Master Q with a lot of humorous language, which made his theory spread through the ages. Moreover, he did receive such an effect later.
Wen Sheng, a nation that has been illuminated for centuries, and its later interpreters, have different views, and even the devil sees the devil, and the evil is invincible. Should we blame Kong Old Master Q for all the decadent debts of feudal society and let this great humanistic system take the blame, which will remain unchanged throughout the ages?
In today's era when people's wisdom is super developed and all kinds of knowledge and information are highly transparent, can't we restore an original Confucius and Confucianism system under the modern scientific system and let it benefit our future generations?
In addition, what is an enterprise? I have been thinking about this problem since I started my own business in the 1990s.
Every time I recruit talents in the talent market, I don't care which famous university you graduated from, and no matter what so-called red book you have with high gold content, you must be the talent my enterprise needs. Of course, I can't arbitrarily conclude that you are not the talent I need urgently. Therefore, the only way to test your employment mentality is to ask you a written question for you to answer.
I think that a person with a good employment mentality always has a sense of "courtesy" and "righteousness" in his heart. But the experience over time tells me that the cultivation of gratitude is often born through family education. On the contrary, it seems that the higher the level of modern education, the more lost this mentality will be. Is there something wrong with my judgment, or is there something wrong with the modern educational theory system itself? I haven't understood it yet (but one thing is certain, education is related to family education, and traditional civilization must be obtained through genetic inheritance, parents' temperament and innate knowledge, and passed on to the next generation through chromosomes. Of course, this is also a "bad" thing proved by modern science. Please judge, is that right? )。
It doesn't matter if I don't know, but I only asked 30 or 50 entrepreneurs who feel the same way, and their feelings are basically the same as mine. The higher the institution of higher learning, the higher the salary for young people to talk to you, and some children are even ridiculously high, as if all the money of enterprises fell from the sky. It's just that no one wants to face employment with the mentality of "courtesy before soldiers", which is completely different from the employment psychology of our generation.
Therefore, the questionnaire I wrote is also ridiculous, and it is actually very simple to dispel their high emotions. The topic is: What is an enterprise? What is an enterprise? Another question is: What is employment? What two ranges does it include? What is this for? What attitude can people take to achieve the best results? But ten people who hold a "red notebook" with high gold content have five pairs of answers. Those gifted social students who are totally ineligible to enter institutions of higher learning will always answer some irrelevant questions, and some even get right answers.
I think you might ask: Is there something wrong with your ability to mark people? I'm afraid such a simple question and answer can't beat the top students in the university, can it? Then, I'm here to ask you to answer on the spot and see which smart lady and gentleman can fully answer the standard answer I gave. Then you are the first person I want to look for in this speech. I will regard you as Zhuge Liang, please come to my enterprise and join us. If you don't want it once, then I will definitely go to your home three times until you are willing to join us.
But I must tell everyone here that the answers to these questions can only be found in Confucius' The Analects and Old Master Q's understanding of everything he said about being a man. Or, judging from your bumpy social life resume. As far as I know, so far, no textbook of an institution of higher learning has given the standard answer to this questionnaire. This is not to say that colleges and universities can't give such an answer, but because no scholars are willing to do such a "wrong" heart for modern enterprises. Just as what is talent? What is a first-class talent, what is a second-class talent and what is a low-class talent is the same as a question and answer of a super-class talent. At present, the domestic talent market is a dime a dozen. How to define talents? No scholar is willing to take the trouble to study these social problems.
If you want to hear the standard answers to these social questions, please keep in touch with me, and I will discuss with you in the future lectures to see if my conclusions are the same as yours. To be precise, I have defined these answers and will apply for a patent for intellectual property definition. However, a few young people with low academic qualifications have occasionally listened to all my lectures. They told me that they often spend "stupid money", ranging from "3,500" to "3,500", sometimes even outrageous, and even "35,000" to let you learn the management of foreigners. Some people earn some money and want to learn something, but they spend such "stupid money" and participate in such and such corporate culture training, and all they learn is from the original. Some of them are bits and pieces of experience in their life as small bosses. Screaming and falling in love with it. After listening to your voluntary lecture, I didn't spend a penny, but I learned something that benefited me a lot in my life, including all kinds of business management knowledge. After returning home, I thought: excellent enterprise management culture and enterprise management system, I will do it myself.
This makes me very happy. Because I know that besides moral values, money values have become a heavy psychological burden for young people now. I have achieved my career goals.