Chapter 102 The Knowledge of Management
To be serious, the so-called "root-system" management system proposed by Tao Donglai is not completely divorced from the shadow of later village committees. However, he made some changes to the original village committee based on the specific conditions of this era. Many localization changes have been made to the organizational structure. These functional settings were exactly what the previous commune management committee lacked in detail.
As Tao Donglai said before, the most important thing to solve the conflicts among ordinary people is to establish a complete and effective mechanism so that various people's sentiments can find appropriate communication channels. The refinement and in-depth functions of the "root system" management system can achieve this goal. These "root systems" that go deep into the people involve all aspects of social life, and can be targeted to resolve conflicts at the earliest stage to the greatest extent possible.
Of course, everything has two sides. The method proposed by Tao Donglai seems to be very targeted in solving the current problem, but it also has its inevitable drawbacks. Ning Qi is worried about this: "With such functional refinement, even at the commune level, members can establish semi-independent organizations to carry out operations, but we still have to set up a higher-level management unit to handle these operations. Management of the refined grassroots organization ”
Tao Donglai responded: "I am afraid that for the time being, the current competent departments can only take on the responsibility. After several of our large infrastructure projects are completed, we can devote more manpower to management positions. I hope everyone Remember one thing, here, in the area we control, our role is as a senior manager, the one who sets the rules of the game, not the nanny who has to do everything personally. ”
"Before time travel, our government has been talking about streamlining administration and delegating power. I think we can borrow this concept now to simplify our work as managers and gradually decentralize some less important powers. We only have more than 400 people. My friend, in the future we may need to manage areas with millions of square kilometers and millions or even tens of millions of people. Decentralization is only a matter of time, rather than changing our practices when we are beyond our capabilities. It is better to start now. Starting to establish an effective management mechanism, at least we will have enough time to slowly find loopholes, make adjustments and improve them. ”
After Tao Dong finished speaking, the conference room fell into silence. Everyone chose to travel through the wormhole and come to this world. Of course, they all wanted to be high-level managers, but how to truly be a senior manager, few people in the entire time-traveling group understood the truth. The vast majority of people who travel through time are highly professional and technical talents. Only a few of them have worked in senior managers or the bureaucracy. Even in the executive committee with relatively strong capabilities, Ning Qi and Gu Kai , Meng He and others are also novices with no administrative experience.
After such a group of people enter management positions, they are more concerned about how to make their work perfect and watertight, but they do not have a clear understanding of the scientific management system. It wasn't until Tao Donglai said these words that everyone seemed to notice the misunderstandings in their previous work.
When it comes to management experience, Tao Donglai is undoubtedly the leader among those who have traveled through time. His company before time traveling had more than 200 formal employees, which of course did not include the construction teams for the properties developed under his company's name. If those who work for him directly or indirectly are included, then there are at least three to four thousand people. The current executive committee is actually a senior board of directors from a certain perspective, but the identity of the directors does not come from the number of shares, but the nomination of small shareholders. Tao Donglai, who still plays the role of leader in this team, also pointed out the right path to his lost companions in a timely manner.
"It is unlikely that all future indigenous cadres will be trained through the education system. Most of them will have to start at the grassroots level and work their way up step by step based on their own abilities. In addition to assisting our administrative agencies in fulfilling their duties, this grassroots organizational structure system In addition to management functions, we can also gradually select a group of indigenous cadres." After a moment of silence, Tao Donglai continued to elaborate on his point of view: "Whether it is the construction of a grassroots management system or the training and selection of indigenous cadres, we What we should do now is to formulate rules and then institutionalize them, so that our energy and time can be saved for other more important places.”
"Old Tao, what you said today is really inspiring!" Yan Chujie exclaimed after listening: "I used to want to implement militarized management in the control area, but after listening to what you said today, I feel that my previous thoughts There are still many unrealistic aspects.”
"There is no problem with militarized management in itself. When our rule over the control area is not stable enough, a certain degree of militarized management is still necessary." Tao Donglai first affirmed Yan Chujie's point of view, but then the conversation changed. Said: "However, we must also consider how to smoothly connect it with civil administration. We can train militia to a limited extent, but ordinary people are not soldiers after all, and we cannot generalize based on the requirements of soldiers. Moderate militarized management can strengthen Internal cohesion, but if the scale is not properly grasped, it will easily cause dissatisfaction among the people.”
"I think most of us here still need to make up for our mistakes." Ning Qi said with a wry smile. He previously had reservations about many of the plans proposed by Tao Donglai. His biggest concern was that Chuangzhong had limited manpower, and if too many projects were being carried out at the same time, it would face the restriction of a lack of human resources. But after listening to Tao Donglai's words today, Ning Qi also felt that his opinion seemed to change in due course. After all, immigrants had begun to be introduced in batches, and the labor gap was not as big as before. With the passage of time, With the gradual liberation of Zhongcong's labor force, how to adjust and arrange existing human resources has become a new topic before Ning Qi.
Seeing that everyone had understood what he meant, Tao Donglai made another suggestion: "If you are interested, you can read some management books in the large database in your spare time. The information in this category is The book list I wrote and the electronic documents I asked Meng He to collect are all relatively practical management introductions and examples. I believe they should be able to help everyone improve efficiency in actual work. ""About the refinement of grassroots organizations in communes. Detailed arrangements will be discussed internally by each department, but it is best to come up with the implementation details as soon as possible. Time waits for no one!" Tao Donglai tapped the table: "Let's move on to the next topic."
"On behalf of the Ministry of Industry, I would like to report a situation." Bai Kesi raised a hand to indicate that he had something to say: "The current production situation in the metallurgical workshop is somewhat problematic."
"Oh? Which link is the problem? Raw material supply or processing technology?" Tao Donglai asked smoothly.
"Raw materials. The current situation has made it difficult to maintain continuous production in the metallurgical workshop." Baikes emphasized in particular: "In fact, starting yesterday, we had to make adjustments to the production plan and reduce pig iron production by 15%."
Ning Qi said in astonishment: "Isn't the mining of iron ore going smoothly? I heard during dinner last night that the metallurgical workshop is preparing to build a steam hammer to build rails and build a simple track for the mine."
"There is a plan to build the track, but there may not be enough iron to build the track. It is estimated that the iron sheet-covered wood track will have to be built first for temporary use." Bai Kesi raised his voice: "I must remind everyone that although the Tiandu Iron Mine has We have invested in mining, but our pig iron reserves are not as large as you think. So far, we only have a dozen tons of pig iron in the warehouse, and the uses have been clearly defined. If Chef Fan of the cooking class needs to build one. I’m afraid he won’t be able to get the kitchen knife until two weeks later.”
"Is it because there are not enough manpower for mining? If necessary, half of the people sent from Yazhou can be transferred to work in the mines. The two industries we need to ensure most now are food and iron ore. Metallurgy cannot be allowed to do so no matter what. Stop the workshop," Tao Donglai said decisively.
"It's not a problem of manpower." Baikes shook his head and said: "It's a problem of fuel. The production of charcoal cannot keep up with consumption, and the import of coal and coke is too small, which is far from enough for large-scale smelting."
Seeing that almost half of the people present still looked confused, Bai Kesi had to give a brief explanation on the current pig iron production situation.
At present, iron ore smelting in metallurgical workshops still relies on charcoal as the main fuel. Although charcoal is easy to obtain and there are endless trees available in the mountains and plains of Sanya, its production is time-consuming and laborious. However, the iron-making operation in the metallurgical workshop consumes a lot of charcoal. For every ton of pig iron produced, only two to three tons of iron ore are consumed on average, but more than seven tons of charcoal are consumed. Because the charcoal manufacturing speed could not keep up, the metallurgical workshop's original plan to build the No. 2 iron-making furnace has been delayed.
Although the commerce department has been working hard to collect coal and coke from Yazhou and send it to the base camp, Yazhou itself does not produce coal. The little coal that can be found on the market is simply a drop in the bucket and is far from enough to ensure production. The Executive Committee now wants to build guns, cannons and steam engines, and the demand for pig iron has soared, which has resulted in the current situation of pig iron production being in short supply.
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