Chapter 8 Let the seventh letter grow together with the company!

What does it mean to never forget to study for a lifetime? Dear Julie: You did get a shock the other day when you found out I replaced Robert with Fenton as operations manager.If I say that the final factor for me to make this decision is not because of the difference in experience and quality between the two people, but because of their positive attitude of continuous learning and hope to grow together with the company. When the difference hears this, you may feel surprised again, right? I'm glad to hear that you recently signed up for a class at a new business lecture.There are several reasons for my joy, but the biggest one is your eagerness to learn.After graduating from school, most of your friends think that what they have learned is enough to meet their future needs, and their future life will be carefree, so they all hold a calm attitude, right?In fact, such an idea is completely wrong.Whether in private life or professional life, the value of a lifetime of hard work is inestimable.Many people lament why they don't have the opportunity to be promoted, life is like hell, life is so boring that they don't even have the strength to get up in the morning, mainly because they ignore this fact.It is a fundamental principle in the business world that continuous learning is necessary in order to be successful.The greater the accumulation of knowledge, the greater the possibility of success.

Generally speaking, the more experienced the person, the better the chance of promotion.However, there are very few people who can use things other than experience to gain the appreciation of management personnel and get promotion opportunities.Let the people in the management know that they are constantly enriching themselves with a positive attitude. Such talents are the ones who will really stand out.That is to say, in addition to the experience gained from the daily work from nine to five o'clock, in order to improve the current technical level or performance, Ken will spend at least two hours a part of the remaining 128 hours a week. Someone who takes three hours to learn a new technology or know-how is bound to be far ahead of competitors who don't make the effort.The first to be promoted are such people, and the deeper the knowledge of these people in the professional field, the more important assets in the company will become.However, what kind of people do I pay special attention to, you know?In addition to accepting lectures related to their own business, they are more willing to accept other related lectures.Of course, any business has different units such as finance, business, management, and production. In addition, there are often departments that deal with special matters such as reinvestment, tax laws, and patent laws.The larger the organization, the more such units there will be.Those who are willing to allocate more study time for the homework content of more departments can be said to be the ones who make a great investment in their future.It is common for people to see some management personnel being promoted at an astonishing rate and they are amazed. In fact, this is a matter of course, because such management personnel are willing to devote themselves to studying all aspects of the company's work outside of working hours. It can also be said that they are knowledgeable people.This kind of studious person will be promoted, shouldn't it be?

Although this is not the conclusion of the investigation, according to my opinion, there is only one person in a hundred who is willing to study things related to his work outside of working hours (even for a minute), right?Therefore, if you set up a constructive learning plan that has been planned in detail and complete it step by step, it should be easy to leave most of your competitors behind.What I want to say here is to set up a constructive study plan that has been carefully planned, and to complete it step by step steadily. I hope you pay special attention.Didn't Confucius also say that learning without thinking is useless, and thinking without learning is slack.The study plan you set up must take many years (although not as long as a lifetime) to complete.Although I am a person who has reached the autumn of my life, in order to maintain the distance from competitors and to maintain the hard-won status, I am constantly enriching myself.

You think about it: the growth of any country, of course, must be based on universal and high-level national education.In most western European countries, including Canada, the dropout rate of high school students is quite high.Considering the fact that even high school graduates fall short in reading and writing (deficiencies in basic language skills), I have to be extremely disturbed.What this means is that we are gradually losing our most precious resource, the educated people. Isn't that a worrying fact? Japan has achieved amazing development in the past 40 years, which is something people all over the world are looking at with admiration.In fact, considering the fact that ninety-five percent of Japanese people have graduated from high school, and their abilities are comparable to the educational level of first- and second-year students in most Western European countries, the country's recent growth is astonishing. It didn't surprise me.Japan's greatest strength is that it has well-educated and hard-working citizens, I believe it will bring greater benefits to Japan's future!The combination of these two factors will become Japan's two-stage attack force in improving its international status, which is inevitable.

If a country wants to maintain an ideal standard of living, it must strengthen its national education in order to keep up with today's rapidly advancing industrial technology.Taking the examples around you, if all the employees of the company, including you, do not keep working hard to keep up with the pace of the times with their own learning plans, can the company survive?The answer is simple: Only companies that invest in employee education can survive.As with a country, so with a company.Since you are part of the management, this must never be forgotten.Otherwise, after my death, when you come to pay respects to my grave, you will not ride a Lincoln sedan, but a trolley, right?By the way, this principle includes your personal growth as an operator, which cannot be overtaken by the company's growth.With the development of the company, your management ability must also improve, so that you can.Otherwise, you will end up with most of the managers who were fired, or transferred to idle positions because they failed to wake up and take action in time.

In addition to participating in business lectures and reading as many books as possible on the overall business management, I hope that when you make a learning plan for enriching yourself, you should also include personal problems.For example (I'm sure you know it too), studying human psychology will be of great help to you.It's a pity that I didn't know such an important thing when I was in my twenties, but I didn't understand it until I was in my fifties.You are still young, so hurry up and learn such knowledge while you can still learn!I hope you will find such a book from my collection today and verify whether what I say is true or not.

There are many self-study books covering everything from health maintenance methods to etiquette at mealtimes in libraries or bookstores.In addition, I would like to advise you to read more history books to deepen your understanding of the course of life.By reading history books, we can understand how our ancestors dealt with ordinary and extraordinary things, challenged goals or conquered goals, and how they overcame difficulties.Many encounters in life are repeated.Most of the methods we want to know have already been tried by predecessors, and the book that records this process is waiting for readers to read.These books also record mistakes made by people in the past, and we should use them as a warning to avoid making the same mistakes.

Hopefully what you gain from your first lecture will drive you to take more lectures.After a long time, you will take learning as another habit, and you will experience the experience of the eighteenth-century British novelist Lawrence.What Stein said is that the desire for truth and knowledge is the same as the desire for money, the more you save, the more you increase.Work forty hours at work every week, and set aside another five hours for reading. In this way, you have one hundred and twenty-three hours of sleep, meals, and leisure time a week. This is something worth thinking about .And your worth in the company will be directly proportional to how you look at this issue and whether you take action. I hope you don't forget this.

Ten years from now, you will certainly be ten years older than you are now. At that time, will the deepening of your wisdom be proportional to your age?Or is it just long teeth?I hope you can become the former and not follow in Robert's footsteps. full of love a studious student