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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 190

亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导

We suffer frequent periods of so-called bad luck only because we manage so badly. If we had a vast crop failure, I can imagine the country going hungry, but I cannot conceive how it is that we tolerate hunger and poverty, when they grow solely out of bad management, and especially out of the bad management that is implicit in an unreasoned financial structure. Of course the war upset affairs in this country. It upset the whole world. There would have been no war had management been better. But the war alone is not to blame. The war showed up a great number of the defects of the financial system, but more than anything else it showed how insecure is business supported only by a money foundation. I do not know whether bad business is the result of bad financial methods or whether the wrong motive in business created bad financial methods, but I do know that, while it would be wholly undesirable to try to overturn the present financial system, it is wholly desirable to reshape business on the basis of service. Then a better financial system will have to come. The present system will drop out because it will have no reason for being. The process will have to be a gradual one.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
定位:Additional excerpt 190 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

我们常遇到所谓的坏运气,其实只是管理太差。若真有大面积歉收,国家挨饿可以想象;但饥饿和贫困主要源于糟糕管理,尤其是不讲道理的金融结构所隐含的坏管理,这我无法接受。战争搅乱了各国,管理更好本可避免战争,但战争不是唯一原因。战争暴露了金融体系的缺陷,更说明只靠金钱支撑的生意多么不稳。我不确定是坏金融导致坏生意,还是坏动机造出坏金融,但我知道:推翻现有金融体系不可取,按服务原则重塑生意则完全可取。更好的金融体系会随之而来,现有体系会因失去存在理由而退出,但过程必须渐进。

上下文

福特在书中批评金融体系与坏管理导致贫困,主张以服务为基础渐进改造商业。

今日一问

你所在的生意,有多少决策是围绕服务客户,有多少只是围绕钱?

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