How Chinese Management Differs from Western Management

Looking at successful companies in China and the West, their management is inseparable from traditional Chinese philosophical wisdom, even if they have not specialized in traditional Chinese philosophy, they still apply traditional Chinese philosophical wisdom in the same way. 12Reads series of management textbooks in the "What is the philosophy of enterprise management" mentioned that. "The optimal management philosophy is to combine the fluent traditional Chinese philosophical mode of thinking with the rational scientific management of the West." Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Motors, said, "You can't imagine how difficult it is to make people simple. They fear simplicity, fearing that if they become simple, they will be called simple-minded. In reality the opposite is true; those who think clearly, are resilient, and have the ability to achieve are the very simplest of people!" The source of his philosophy is the philosophical thought of Confucius, "The Way is Simple".

While foreign managers are learning about traditional Chinese culture and management wisdom, our entrepreneurs are turning a blind eye to their own cultural treasures, which is actually just a lack of self-confidence and blind worship of foreigners. In the current society where western management concepts are prevalent, how to rebuild national cultural self-confidence, add China's excellent philosophical thinking mode inherited from thousands of years into enterprise management, and use traditional cultural leadership strategies in modernized management system to reach the Chinese management mode of "learning from the middle school as the body, western learning as the use", which has become a key issue to be solved by the entrepreneurs and the management consulting industry in China in the new century. It has become the primary problem to be solved by entrepreneurs and management consulting circles in the new century.

The road is simple, seemingly complex management process, if we grasp the essence of management, in fact, the management of the management will become very simple, and the Chinese traditional wisdom is to open the key to the essence of management.

The theoretical practice and exploration of Chinese management centered on traditional Chinese philosophical wisdom provides a possibility for Chinese management theory to take its place in the world management science, and we should boldly practice on this road and summarize the relevant theoretical system, which is afraid that this is the most noble mission and responsibility of Chinese entrepreneurs and management scholars.