Hello everyone, I'm Bao Minggang. Today's exchange is a question that has no standard answer - management is the best dojo for cultivating the soul. Let's see if what I said makes sense.
Kazuo Inamori said that the workplace is the best dojo for cultivating the soul. The word soul, with different beliefs and understandings, has different meanings. Why is it said that for managers, management is the best place to cultivate the soul?
In the classic competency model of human resource management, there is a very important middle layer, called "self-awareness". In Buddhism and Zen wisdom, it is believed that "me" is an illusion, which has an important relationship with the consciousness of the end of the seventh consciousness, and that transcending self-knowledge, self-seeing, and slowness, and breaking the "me" in the seventh consciousness is an important cultivator for cultivating the soul.
Many modern Western management scholars, such as Peter Shengji, have also studied with Mr. Nan Huaijin, and his theory of learning organization is deeply influenced by the philosophy of Eastern wisdom.
But the classical view of the philosopher, mathematician, and physicist Descartes, that I think, therefore I am, is that "I" is "existing". The two seem contradictory, but from a practical point of view, you will find that the two are very similar. Descartes' skepticism is often misunderstood, and the essence of skepticism is not to accept "the knowledge of what I see, hear, and think", but to experience and verify, and at the same time to think about why I am, to transcend self-preconceptions and constantly surpass myself.
In contrast to non-managers, managers do not directly create benefits themselves, but through others, and in this sense, it becomes even more important for managers to be not self-centered.
In Confucian thought, transcending oneself is not only transcending oneself in terms of knowledge, but also transcending oneself in values, not taking self-gain and loss as the value standard, but taking the collective and overall goals and gains and losses as the standard. Wang Yangming's core to conscience is to go to selfish desires and save heavenly principles, and it is also to go to the word "private". The higher the status and the greater the power of the manager, the greater the need to transcend personal self-centeredness. In modern society, management scientists and sociologists continue to improve the social system and promote the pursuit of the maximization of the overall welfare and happiness of the society, which is essentially another way to "overcome selfish desires".
Management stimulates the potential of human nature to be upward and good, and for managers, management is a dojo for self-soul cultivation.
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