Sun Taoran, the author of "Five Strategies of Effective Management", founded many well-known companies including Lakala and Koala Fund.

The current chairman of Lakala, the book "Five Strategies of Effective Management" is his "secret book" for managing Lakala.

During the reading process, there was a "Five Elements Bagua" with words jumping up and down in my head.

This is a modern management book. The original intention of the book is to teach us how to be a leader, how to operate and manage a company.

Why is it related to the "Five Elements and Bagua"?

Isn’t the “Five Elements and Bagua” a sophisticated thought and a fortune-telling thing?

In fact, I was reading the "Tao Te Ching" recently. In the book, the "Tao" mentioned by Laozi is the root of the existence of all things. "Tao" is the original initiator of nature, and it has unlimited potential and creativity.

The author of "Five Strategies of Effective Management" tells us the gist of business management from the perspective of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Our ancestors used the Five Elements Theory to explain clearly to the world: the transformation and interrelationship between everything in the world.

The Five Elements culture is an ancient wisdom in our country. This wisdom was applied by our wise ancestors in the fields of traditional Chinese medicine, calendar, numerology, physiognomy and divination.

Today, the author Sun Taoran has cleverly used it in business management.

Lakala's five-element culture is in line with my country's "five-element culture": "Wood produces fire, fire produces earth, earth produces gold, gold produces water, and water produces wood." The five-layer pyramid corporate culture restricts and promotes each other.

What do metal, wood, water, fire, and earth represent in the Five Elements and Lakala respectively?

01 Soil: The fifth level of Lakala’s pyramid Lakala’s three elements of leadership: building a team, setting a strategy, and leading a team.

This is the source of Lakala's prosperity; it is the way Lakala's leaders manage and run their companies.

Earth has the function of carrying, biochemical, and accepting in the culture of the five elements. "Earth" is at the center of the culture of the five elements. The characteristics of "earth" are growth and fertility, which are attributes that leaders should have. "Earth" is at the center of the five elements of Lakala.

The top of the cultural pyramid.

02 Fire: The fourth level of Lakala Pyramid Lakala implements a four-step method: setting goals, controlling progress, focusing on evaluation, and managing standards.

This is the way Lakala cadres manage people and is the vitality of the organization.

This is highly consistent with the attribute of fire in the Five Elements culture, which is warm and rising.

Through the attributes of fire, we seem to see that Lakala manages people's positive and upward temperature.

03 Water: The third level and four-ring methodology of the Lakala Pyramid: first ask about the purpose, then make deductions, make samples by hand, and review in a timely manner.

What I’m talking about here is Lakala’s way of thinking about and solving problems; the way Lakala cadres manage things, and Lakala requires a rigid execution methodology.

This mechanism of nourishment and downward movement is the characteristic of water in the Five Elements Culture.

04 Wood: The Twelve Orders of Lakala on the second floor of the Pyramid of Lakala: This is the code of conduct of the Lakala people. These twelve orders distinguish Lakala from the general public; these twelve orders enhance the

The work efficiency of Kara people; making La Kara's work more organized, clear and comfortable.

It perfectly explains the growth and organization characteristics of "wood" in the Five Elements culture.

05 gold: The first level of Lakara's pyramid Lakara's core values: The mechanism of cleansing, subduing, and convergence in the Five Elements culture was summarized to the extreme by Lakara and Sun Taoran.

The core values ??are the watershed. Things that are not in line with the core values ??are not allowed in Lakala.

For example, the author in the book expresses the concept of being an upright hero rather than a tyrant: a leader who cannot be realistic and follow the right path cannot be a good role model.

Gold is a kind of purity and a kind of killing.

Laozi said: "All things are created together, and I watch their recovery. All things return to their roots. Return to their roots." The five-element corporate culture leads us to seek the "roots" of corporate management.

How to find it?

Some of the stupid tricks in this book are the keys to success.

Such as learning: starting from rigid learning, then to optimization, and finally to solidification.

"See the simplicity and embrace the simplicity, and reveal its true nature."

The five-element culture achieves natural harmony through mutual checks and balances. From the five-element culture, we can understand the "road" of operation and management, recognize the natural laws of the internal operation of the enterprise, and follow the trend for the enterprise to flourish.

What I wrote at the end: Before I receive the book, I read the prefaces of Yu Minhong and Liu Chuanzhi on Douban.

Sun Taoran, the author of "36 Rules for Entrepreneurship", instantly came alive in his mind, and his expectations for "Five Strategies of Effective Management" were a little higher, because: Traditional management books are mostly taught by professors

Written for students, it is highly theoretical.

However, due to a certain lack of "practical experience", there are also many criticisms in reading.

After receiving the book, I was completely impressed by the combination of theory and practice.