Thursday, February 1, 2007

Human = Asset

Last week, prof taught us a lot of things, one of parts which I most interested in are “wisdom of crowd”. I think that everyone have their own ability and good in different area, so if they can be assigned works properly and play their role well, it can not only increase productivity of a company, and will also maximize a person ability.

Furthermore, I think that if a person would like to start a business with group of people. They must have almost same believe and passion. Beside it, it is better if they all specialize in different area. For an example, if a group of mechanical students would like to set up business together, although they can produce a good device, they don’t know how to market and promote their product; do you think that they can success in the market?

Give me a chance to tell a story, in the china’s three kingdoms era, Liu Bei asked a wise person why he had so many talented people, but he still could not expand his territory. The wise person replied him that he had many generals who were good in war, and politicians who were good in handle internal affair, but he still lacked of a person who can provide strategic planning to him. After Liu Bei knew about it, he put in his effort and found a person called Kong Ming. And, with helping of Kong Ming, he is able to expand his territory and form the Three Kingdoms era.

From another point of view, if Liu Bei don’t have good generals and politicians, he also can’t expand his territory, even he received helps from Kong Ming. Through this story, I just would like to express that success of a company or a country, it is not depend on one person effort; it is depend on a lot of factors and contribution of many people.

2 comments:

cellprof said...
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cellprof said...

Quite a nice story, perhaps you can edit a bit and contribute it to the blog in the section on Collective Intelligence. Emperor Zhu Di should be included, along with Admiral Zheng.