On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 1, 1999, the thesis defense meeting of the 199th class of business administration graduates from the School of Business at Saint-Nière University in New York was held. The defense venue was located in a pre-arranged teaching and research room.
It has been a few days since Fang Di returned to school. Today is the day for her graduation thesis defense. She is the second batch of defending students. Fang Di has experienced the graduation thesis defense of the School of Journalism and is fully prepared for this business administration defense.
I also participated in the pre-defense organized by the defense committee, and I was not nervous. The defense table was on the podium, and there were defense committee members sitting under the stage. The person who was in charge of the defense was the deputy dean of the college. Fang Di came on stage and said to the defense committee members, "Teacher"
OK" and then start the thesis statement.
The title of Fang Di's graduation thesis is: "The Law of Decision-Making Can't Be Done at the First Sight".
Fang Di said: "I admit that when I first heard the word "see the road but not go", I was very repelled. I even laughed in my heart and felt that it was being mystical. After I understood the meaning of the word, I felt that I was very shallow, and I was also ridiculed.
And be ashamed."
Fang Di said: "In this great school, I believe every student is familiar with the word innovation, and every teacher emphasizes innovation, technological innovation, management innovation, and thinking innovation. If I don't stick to the literal meaning, my understanding
Yes: Innovation is not about being obsessed with the old and the new, but rather being good at discovering and creating methods that are more in line with reality. Market conditions are changing, which inevitably requires decision-making and management to adapt, and the methods that are constantly being spawned generally have new characteristics, and people get used to it.
Use the word innovation to express it. This is a convenient expression, and its essence is to be more adaptable to conditions and more in line with needs."
Fang Di said: "Why does every teacher emphasize the spirit of innovation to students? My understanding is: because people are used to labeling every successful example as correct, advanced, and trendy, and then take it with them
This standard measures all management methods. As long as it does not meet this standard, it is wrong and backward. This is terrible, because the specific situation of each enterprise is different, and no conditions can be copied in full. We are in the classroom
I have learned a lot of methods and techniques. As the teacher said repeatedly, it is to guide and inspire our thinking and cultivate our independent thinking ability, rather than asking us to follow the script and copy it by rote. Its essence is to cultivate our ability to see the road without taking it.
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Fang Di said: "In the past, I judged things based on polarity, either good or bad, right or wrong, this or that. This kind of thinking is very narrow. In fact, many things cannot be judged by simple right or wrong.
, is whether it is possible or not under conditions. Everything is regular from cause to result; what conditions produce what results, what results require what conditions, this is science. If it is more important to conform to a nice-sounding concept than to conform to reality, for
Enterprises are very dangerous and will lose touch with reality. There is a very Chinese term called emancipating the mind. It basically means the same thing as the innovation the teacher talked about. They both advocate breaking away from the shackles of model thinking and seeking truth from facts, discernment, and proof.
Use scientific thinking to understand things. The so-called decision-making refers to an important decision with directional significance. Correct decision-making is the basis for the survival and development of an enterprise, and failure to follow the path is the rule of enterprise decision-making; it is not based on experience or dogma; it is not based on experience or dogma;
Only labels and models; only aiming at the fundamental interests of the enterprise; following the law of cause and effect and following the conditions. Only in this way can the enterprise have strong vitality."
Fang Di said: "..."
It took Fang Di less than 7 minutes to complete his thesis statement; starting from the word "innovation", analyzing the original meaning of innovation; continuing to "need", "purpose", "correctness", and continuing to "seeing the way out".
Go, method.
The next step is the defense.
The main defense question: "Is the law the road?"
Fang Di replied: "No. A law is a law; a road is a road. A road is convenient, empirical, patterned, solidified, and existing; a law is inevitable, causal, and regular."
One of the defense committee members asked: "Don't we need to learn from the experience of our predecessors? Don't humans make progress through the accumulation of knowledge from generation to generation? These are two questions and one question; and answer one question."
Fang Di replied: "Knowledge includes laws and experience, but the topic of discussion now is not to classify knowledge; it is to discuss the relationship between experience and the law of cause and effect. To not follow the path is not to rely on experience and dogma; it is not to exclude experience and dogma; it is not
Weiyi already includes learning and reference. Any successful experience is not called a road at first. It becomes a road when there are more people walking on it. Not walking on the road is closer to scientific thinking. If it does not represent a road, it is useless. For
We can't understand people who don't follow the road; just walking when there is a road is also a way; as for where you can go, you have to rely on luck. People are lazy to use their brains and diligent in using their hearts, and they like to magnify a certain condition into a cause.
Everything is so easy to compare and gain confidence. The simplest example is: everyone is human, and I can do what others can do. This is not the case. I may not be able to do what others can do.
Being human is just one of the conditions. Only if I have all the conditions that others can do, can I do it. In fact, it is difficult for me to completely copy other people's conditions. I can only do it according to my conditions.
It is not divorced from reality."
Another defense committee member asked: "How do people travel without following the road? Are there such stupid people in real life who just follow the road without looking at the road signs? If not, does your proposition still make sense?"
This is also a question that deliberately confuses concepts and logical relationships. It tests the respondent's thinking.
Fang Di replied: "If everything can be seen with the naked eye, it would be simple. I believe no one would be so stupid as to walk without looking at the road signs. The problem is that many things need to be seen with the eyes of the mind. To identify
A road is simple, but identifying a road of thinking is not so simple. I don’t know how comparable it is. The method of understanding thinking is called liberating the mind by the Chinese, wisdom by people around the world, and opening the third eye by Buddhism. It can be seen that
It is much more difficult to recognize with the naked eye.
The Lord replied to the question: "I understand what you mean, and I agree with your point of view, but should we have a term that is easier for people to understand? For example: the right way."
Fang Di replied: "I think the right way is a correct, safe and error-free way of expression. At the same time, it is also an expression that has no qualitative screening and cannot be operated. Please forgive me for being presumptuous.
It is not positive enough to abandon possible ways of expressing the law. The road includes models, experiences, and dogmas. No matter what formulation is used, these things must be eliminated first, and qualitative screening, emphasis, and cause-and-effect must be highlighted.
It is possible to make conditional decisions. I very much agree with the teacher's point of view. There should be a more understandable formulation, but with my current ability, I cannot answer such a question. I treated the teacher's question as an extracurricular assignment and left it to myself.
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The defense director smiled slightly, looked at the two defense committee members, and then said to Fang Di: "You can go down."
Fang Di graduated.
Fang Di thanked Lao Jiu's notebook for helping her a lot. In her opinion, it was 50% plagiarism, 30% thinking, and 20% improvisation, and she just got through it.
Graduation ceremony, awarding of degree certificates, taking photos in academic uniforms, carnival... procedures that will never fade. (To be continued)