Wu Bin was silent for a while and asked tentatively: "Mr. Pei, I have some questions."
"You said that the statement in this booklet has certain 'advantages'. What are they specifically?"
Pei Qian fell into silence.
This question is very good and pointed, and it immediately gets to the core of the problem.
I also want to tell you what its merits are, but I can’t say it clearly!
Pei Qian thought for a while and asked: "Then what do you think is undesirable about this pamphlet?"
Wu Bin replied: "I think the most important thing is to grasp the core of Tengda spirit!"
"If you look at these superficial details, such as these specific choices, it seems quite right."
"But the interpretation of Tengda's spiritual core is too far off."
"In my understanding, the Tengda spirit should be a high-spirited spirit of struggle, not a hedonistic spirit."
"If there is a problem with the most fundamental understanding, it will naturally lead to completely wrong conclusions, and the final results will naturally be very different."
Pei Qian said in his heart hehe.
This is exactly the result I want!
Your high-spirited interpretation is off track, okay?
Pei Qian has always wanted to say before that there is something wrong with the interpretation of Tengda spirit by the people below. Now it is completely confirmed that there is indeed something wrong, and the problem is still big!
I just took this opportunity to make some corrections.
There was no such pamphlet before, so even if Pei Qian wanted to correct it, there was no suitable opportunity.
Because there are some things he can't say clearly, and if he suddenly says something like this, it will appear abrupt and arouse suspicion.
Moreover, Pei Qian has never found any tangible evidence to prove that everyone's understanding of Tengda spirit has gone astray, so naturally he has no way of starting.
But this time is a very good opportunity.
Although I still can't explain it very clearly, I can at least take this opportunity to make some insinuations to help everyone's understanding of Tengda spirit move in a relatively correct direction.
Pei Qian asked: "Is the salted fish spirit necessarily wrong? Why do you have such a prejudice against the salted fish spirit?"
"I think there is nothing wrong with the salted fish spirit. Not only should we not oppose it, but we should vigorously promote it."
“Being proud of work and ashamed of pleasure may seem to be absolutely correct on the surface, but if you think about it carefully, is it really absolutely correct?”
"How did pleasure become something that was shameful and difficult to talk about?"
Wu Bin: "Ah?"
Should the salted fish spirit be vigorously promoted?
Is there something wrong? The original meaning of Xianyu is "If you lose your dream, what's the difference between that person and Xianyu", which means that people have to have dreams, have goals, and work hard.
To carry forward the salted fish spirit, doesn’t it mean that people give up their dreams and goals, stop struggling, and just muddle along?
How could such an idea come out of Mr. Pei’s mouth?
Pei Qian added: "Have you ever thought about why the starting point in this booklet seems wrong to you, but in the end it came to the correct conclusion?"
"Should you take a good look at yourself?"
Pei Qian felt that this could not be explained more clearly.
What I mean is that the explanation in this booklet also interprets the correct answer, so why don't you reflect on it and find out that the answer you gave is actually a misinterpretation? Instead, the answer in the booklet is the standard answer?
Reflect carefully, are you overcomplicating things?
Wu Bin couldn't help but be stunned.
He seemed to understand somewhat, but when he thought about it carefully, he didn't understand it at all.
What Mr. Pei said seemed to be very philosophical and profound, which made him feel that his previous thinking was too one-sided.
Pei Qian asked: "Have you figured it out?"
Wu Bin felt a little ashamed: "Mr. Pei, I... seem to understand a little bit. I will try to understand it when I go back."
Pei Qian was a little speechless.
Yes, it's a waste of effort.
If you don’t understand it on the spot, what you understand afterwards will only make you even more wrong.
In fact, I am just encouraging everyone to fish, and encourage everyone not to work hard. Is this so difficult to understand?
"Don't think so complicated. Many principles are very simple. Don't always think too high when thinking about problems. Be more grounded. Understand."
Wu Bin still seemed to understand, but he had a good memory and could just write down everything Mr. Pei said and then slowly figure it out.
So he nodded: "Okay, Mr. Pei, I remember everything."
Pei Qian sighed silently in his heart.
Hey, where did I find these lively employees? Each and every one of them has a big problem with their understanding.
I hope the training institution’s help this time can save it a little bit.
…
Coming out of Mr. Pei's office, Wu Bin felt sincerely confused.
His brain waves seemed to be at odds with Mr. Pei's again.
What's going on?
It must be that my understanding of Tengda spirit is still lacking.
Wu Bin immediately returned to the human resources department, secretly dug out the manual hidden under the drawer, looked at the content of Tengda Spirit, then compared it with the brochure from the training institution, combined with what President Pei said today, and reflected seriously.
It has to be said that the superficial interpretation of Tengda spirit in these two booklets is very close, but the interpretation of the deep connotation is quite different.
The spirit of Tengda summarized by Wu Bin ultimately encourages everyone to work hard and work hard. As for entertainment, it is just an adjustment after work, and is a rest and adjustment made to allow everyone to work better.
But the brochure of the training institution directly understands it as fishing and enjoyment.
In terms of attitude, there is an essential difference between the two.
But what surprised Wu Bin was that Mr. Pei did not deny the pamphlet at all, but instead denied Wu Bin's own opinion.
"What exactly does Mr. Pei mean? Is it true that, as this pamphlet says, Mr. Pei actually encourages fishing and paddling?"
"How is that possible? If Mr. Pei is really that kind of person, how can Tengda develop to its current scale?"
"Did I miss something?"
Wu Bin wrote down all the words Mr. Pei said and thought about them over and over again.
"Mr. Pei asked, is the salted fish spirit necessarily wrong? Why should we be prejudiced against the salted fish spirit?"
"It is not necessarily correct to be proud of work and ashamed of pleasure. Enjoyment should not be something to be ashamed of."
"You also ask me why this pamphlet has a wrong starting point in my opinion, but it reaches the correct conclusion? Let me reflect on myself..."
"Um……"
"I think Mr. Pei's interpretation of Tengda spirit should be very broad and tolerant. What this booklet says cannot be completely correct, but it just happened to notice a blind spot that I didn't notice before. And this blind spot,
This is what Mr. Pei focused on, and it is also my shortcoming."
"That is to say, Mr. Pei affirmed the relatively novel interpretation in this booklet, and asked me not to rush to deny it, but to draw nourishment from it seriously."
Wu Bin frowned and entered a state of deep thinking.
When it comes to understanding the spirit of Tenda, Wu Bin believes that no one in the Tenda Group, except Mr. Pei, has a deeper understanding than him.
But it is obvious that even he still has an incomplete understanding of Tengda spirit.
"Mr. Pei said that it is not necessarily correct to be proud of work and ashamed of pleasure. So what is wrong with this sentence?"
"Looking at it separately, these two sentences are certainly correct."
"Does it mean that... we have to look at them together? Mr. Pei is actually hinting to me that they shouldn't be clearly opposed to each other at all?"
Wu Bin feels that judging from Mr. Pei's workaholic physique, Mr. Pei is definitely not a person who indulges in pleasure. He should be very immersed in work, work hard to develop Tengda, and change one industry after another.
Therefore, Mr. Pei must not be a person who hates work and indulges in pleasure.
Since these two sentences are both correct when viewed apart, it only means that they are incorrect together.
The only explanation is that the two should not be so clearly distinguished at all!
Wu Bin suddenly thought of a point of view, which is "alienation of labor."
Originally, labor should be something that can bring happiness to people.
Because labor is the process in which people use their intelligence and talents to create value for the entire world.
Just like sculptors are carving works, painters are painting, and craftsmen are making tools. In this process, they turn raw materials into valuable works of art and condense their own ingenuity. After completion, they should have a sense of accomplishment.
Yes.
However, over a long period of time, labor has turned into a kind of pain and oppression. What people feel during labor is not the joy of creation, but physical torture and mental destruction.
It is precisely because of this that people began to emphasize frequently that work itself is painful, but adults should work hard to overcome this pain and should take the initiative to bear this pain.
Consumerism turns this pain into motivation for consumption.
You have worked so hard, why not buy some luxury goods to reward yourself?
Thus, a perfect closed loop of "beating workers" was formed.
The pain caused by labor is due to the alienation of labor, and this alienation is in turn exploited. Work and entertainment are strictly separated, while they could be one.
Wu Bin has seen this point of view before and thinks it has a certain degree of rationality, but inertial thinking is, after all, difficult to reverse.
But now after thinking about it carefully, he found that Mr. Pei's statement was actually similar to this!
This made him pay attention to this point of view again and incorporated it into Mr. Pei's theory.
"In other words, Mr. Pei's appreciation for this pamphlet is mainly because it points out the rationality of entertainment itself?"
"Before, I divided work and entertainment into two distinct things, and regarded entertainment as a supplement and support for work."
"In the final analysis, the value of entertainment is still not correctly understood."
"But Mr. Pei told me that entertainment is not only about pleasing the body and mind, but also regulating work status. Sometimes, entertainment is the labor itself!"
"Why does the pamphlet have the wrong starting point but reach the right conclusion? Because it mistakenly interprets Mr. Pei's emphasis on entertainment and elevates it to a higher position."
"Although my direction was correct, it was precisely because it seemed so correct that I naturally ignored some equally important content."
"In that case...there is no need to clarify the contents in the pamphlet!"
"After new employees join the company, as long as they combine the content in the brochure with the Tenda Spirit Manual, won't they be able to understand the Tenda Spirit more comprehensively?"
"This pamphlet is wrong, but it is very typical, very enlightening, and very educational!"
Wu Bin suddenly understood Mr. Pei's intention.
I thought that Pei always emphasized the role of entertainment in promoting work, but now it seems that is not the case.
Mr. Pei thought deeper. He thought that entertainment and work might be one in itself, and wanted to change the alienated state of labor and return it to its original state!
Let Tengda's work no longer be a simple, painful, and consuming work, but become the original "creative" state of labor.
There is no doubt that this idea has been taken to a higher level.
It seems that the Tenda Spirit Manual is going to be completely overturned again and the content will be updated!