Confucius Advising The Manager: Confucius, #1

By Claudio Pardo Molina

This book provides practical advice for the daily management of a company. Managers have to deal with ethical or moral issues all the time and do not necessarily have the academic background to respond to these challenges.

Because of this, I wrote this book with a series of recommendations for decision making based on Confucius' millenarian book "Analects". It is as if we were lucky enough to be able to hire as external consultant the wise Confucius, born more than 2000 years ago.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Aug 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781071544242

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Confucius Advising The Manager

Claudio Pardo Molina

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Translated by Denise Tarud 

Confucius Advising The Manager

Written By Claudio Pardo Molina

Copyright © 2020 Claudio Pardo Molina

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Translated by Denise Tarud

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Confucius advising the manager

Part I

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Claudio Pardo Molina

Copyright © 2018 Claudio Pardo Molina

All rights reserved.

ISBN- 9781980945833: Publisher: Independently published

Dedication

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I dedicate this book to all 21st century managers aware of the new economy, which combines humanistic values with the materialistic vision of the past century.

Contents

On Confucius, The Consultant

Chapter 1 A New Manager

Chapter 2 Institutional Commitment

Chapter 3  Manager Luxuries

Chapter 4  Managing Humanely

Chapter 5 Work Environment

Chapter 6  Training

Chapter 7 In-House Courses

About The Author

Acknowledgements

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To my wife, Giannina Colombo, the founding pillar of this initiatory journey called life.

Book Description

This book provides practical advice for the daily management of a company. Managers have to deal with ethical or moral issues all the time and do not necessarily have the academic background to respond to these challenges.

Because of this, I wrote this book with a series of recommendations for decision making based on Confucius' millenarian book "Analects". It is as if we were lucky enough to be able to hire as external consultant the wise Confucius, born more than 2000 years ago.

On Confucius, The Consultant

In this book I pursue a fictitious exercise where a 21st century manager hires Confucius, a Chinese wise man born approximately in 500 B.C., as a consultant.

I hired this coach or advisor because in my opinion he targets many ethical and moral dilemmas that we have in the day-to-day management of a typical private or public company. Confucius was a genius in his time, especially because he had to advise a government in the midst of a social crisis that could be compared to the current one. And as a good genius of his time, he had to live through the two reactions that society has to a luminaire like this thinker, they crush him or exalt him, never a middle ground.

Another advantage to having Confucius as an advisor will be his incredible ability to provoke new ideas as his works are read. As you read the recommendations I have written, it is my clear intention that the reader will be able to create a new book in his or her mind. It doesn't matter that it can be misconstrued, misunderstood or enriched. Because a classic book must have just that capacity to generate new ideas.

Trying to analyze this consultant who will guide us in the following pages, I will present his ideas accepting that they are recommendations of an exceptional human being, but a human being with flaws and virtues after all. As Confucius proposes essential ideas for the present administration. One of them is the need to look at business administration, or management as I have called it in this book, as an opportunity to generate profits without losing sight of the balance with social justice within the company.

Confucius proposes that in order to obtain political support within the company, advisors have a moral duty to criticize managers, even at the risk of being fired, when they abuse power or when they pressure employees in a nonsense of maximization. Confucius, thousands of years ago, already noted the need to set high performance goals, without this meaning high turnover rates or job stress.

Confucius considered it necessary to manage with a humanist ethic of universal brotherhood of the human being. And to demonstrate this with successful business cases I ask the reader the following: Have you noticed that today's successful companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Huber, Amazon, Alibaba and Apple meet these requirements? Because they all seek to make money by making the social groups they lead win as well.

Confucius has an additional advantage as an advisor. He represents many values of the Chinese market, with which we are used to trading and which is expected sooner rather than later to become the main economic power in the world. Then the recommendations given by this consultant will be useful to us to fit in with Far Eastern companies, as well as to hire and achieve a cross-cultural union of collaborators who may come from China.

Of all the works of Confucius I will only use his book Analects, as it is the book that best summarizes the opinion of this thinker. Analects implies a sort of summary of experiences and recommendations. For this reason the book describes a set of conversations between a 21st century manager and Confucius, the man from 2,500 years ago. These analects