Cao Cao’s analysis to his officials about the great enemy Yuan Shao of the 4 generations before confronting the master of the Yuan family, a passage too expensive and too many lessons for our founders.
“As a master, narrow-minded, shallow in perception, jealous, jealous, conservative and suspicious, scheming but not decisive, strong-mouthed but cowardly, many soldiers but inconsistent in command, arrogant, The orders were not clear; the father let his children use their troops arbitrarily, fighting for the throne, the monarch used relatives rather than talented people”…
Current status: 200,000 Cao Cao troops fought 700,000 troops + 2000,000 Vien’s grass jelly.
Startup: If you want to be weak and strong, it depends on knowledge, qualities, vision, and experience.
In Vietnam, if you want to keep your fortune, you should not be FOMO; unless you are so young that no one cares; Just try to grow strong (about 200 – 500 billion/year or more); a lot of risks. 😄
In the past, when I joined companies during the Equitix accelerator period, I had 12 – 15 classes to open the Founders up about leadership abilities, asking them and me to rewrite all the pain of the team about using people and leadership that made his employee was upset, frustrated, left, said bad things about the company, situations where the founders made a decision that seemed very reasonable, but… lacked emotion; There are times when we are not mature enough and cannot control our EQ, causing difficulties and discomfort for the people around us that we lead.
At that time, the BOD team asked my project assistant to leave BOD, because they trusted me; I just want to dissect BOD’s private issues with me.
To do this, you must have two abilities: a) You must be able to look back at yourself before commenting on others and b) You must sympathize with their difficulties in growing up as a leader in terms of people.
If you can’t do that, you can’t explore the leadership of the whole team.
The founders in the team must pull out and recall the most detailed situations of themselves in running the business within an average of 5 – 8 years to practice awareness, develop character and style. his leader.
Returning to the main topic, this is Cao Cao’s comment to Yuan Shao. I think we all will encounter one of several factors in the process of developing our leadership qualities; So this part is extremely valuable for those of you who are on the path of training to become founders with great style and energy that can attract real talent.
Note that true talent, distinguishing between truly talented people and not is also an obvious thing that leaders/kings need to practice; What’s real, what’s fake, what’s fake in the marketplace, it’s hard to measure… all of it.
Otherwise, when you invite them back, you won’t be able to use them, you’ll lose your relationship with them.
1. Being the owner, narrow-minded:
– Only aiming for your own and your family’s interests without a clear vision or business purpose for the group you lead. So why do they follow you?
– Leads to frequent use of military techniques, but lacks clear explanation and clarification.
– Leads to worrying about the little things people do to you that make you unhappy; On the contrary, it makes them underestimate their ability to master.
Without a big enough vision, it will give rise to a narrow-mindedness and attention to details. Running a business cannot avoid details to make decisions; But if you indulge in unnecessary details, the wise master will be judged as… narrow-minded.
2. Shallow awareness
– Lack of knowledge, real combat goes from miserable to upward; due to lack of real learning and real doing; So the language of thinking is not fully developed.
Just do the smallest jobs, there’s nothing to fear.
Fully develop the professional knowledge of departments to reach the middle manager level, which means understanding what mid-level managers have expertise in, and what they need to do equivalent to the scale; When you have enough experience in your business home, you will not fall into this 2nd situation.
I have a founder who studied economics and spent 5 years doing technical research on his own, repairing each system of weighing machines, measuring machines, separators, classifying input materials, and arranging the factory area scientifically and optimize costs; even spending time working as a worker to build a fortune, to learn, importing from Taiwan costs about 2 billion; Too expensive; do-it-yourself horizontal arm.
I went into the field and thought; OMG! Sweating; The king is here. ;))
Lie down and taste honey to think about a distant vision; few people are well-educated and well-groomed and can do this job.
I give up. hi hi hi
Real learning, real doing is here.
3.Jealousy and envy
– When you don’t really learn or actually do; giving birth to jealousy and envy towards the courtiers; It will be difficult to attract talented and powerful people.
– When you are busy thinking about who is better than who, how can a monarch use other talented people?
Doing so is like being jealous of… yourself. hi hi
4. Conservative and skeptical
– Cao Cao’s suspicion stems from caution; There are wise masters who are skeptical; Just because of your own lack of clarity or clarity, you have to avoid it.
– Being conservative, always thinking you are right, not having enough time to listen to others; just can do it alone or you can only attract middle-level managers and spend a lot of time training them.
5. Conspiracy but not decisive:
The core reason is wanting all the advantages of good and/or bad options; and don’t want to encounter all the good/or bad options. But in reality, that doesn’t happen, right?
6. Strong mouth but cowardly:
Kaka, you guys keep encountering power from the government in many forms. Not the right size, can’t feel it yet; Let’s just stay humble.
7. Many soldiers but inconsistent commanders:
Easy to change decisions; sunny in the morning and rainy in the afternoon; Without enough information, there is a rush to judge.
This must learn about organizational charts and understand the flow of information when making decisions.
8. Arrogant appearance, unclear orders:
Every master is a servant; I am arrogant and arrogant; so it will be with you; I adjust myself first; starting a business, not a DJ stage, right everyone?
9. Father but lets his children use the army as they please:
This is… the family is too deeply involved in the management work when F1 is not capable enough, not to mention the situation of fighting for the throne of the heavenly son; Houses with assets worth 10 billion still compete for a few meters of land, let alone assets over 10 million USD. kaka
Helping F1 experience, learn and be talented, conquer the battlefield and develop liberally in accordance with the qualifications must have a methodical strategy on both reputation and internal strength.
10. Using relatives is better than using talented people:
Talented people or relatives must have talent and be reviewed and trained like ordinary people; or even many times more intense than ordinary people, always being next to other entrepreneurs and founders to learn from their wisdom, who should be relatives of the Founder.
A passage that is too valuable and insightful for your leadership work.