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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 362

亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导

The natural ally of the banker is the lawyer. Such games as have been played on the railroads have needed expert legal advice. Lawyers, like bankers, know absolutely nothing about business. They imagine that a business is properly conducted if it keeps within the law or if the law can be altered or interpreted to suit the purpose in hand. They live on rules. The bankers took finance out of the hands of the managers. They put in lawyers to see that the railroads violated the law only in legal fashion, and thus grew up immense legal departments. Instead of operating under the rules of common sense and according to circumstances, every railroad had to operate on the advice of counsel. Rules spread through every part of the organization. Then came the avalanche of state and federal regulations, until to-day we find the railways hog-tied in a mass of rules and regulations. With the lawyers and the financiers on the inside and various state commissions on the outside, the railway manager has little chance. That is the trouble with the railways. Business cannot be conducted by law.

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定位:Additional excerpt 362 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

银行家的天然盟友是律师。铁路上玩的那些把戏需要专业的法律建议。律师和银行家一样,对商业一窍不通。他们以为只要合法,或者法律能被修改或解释得符合目的,企业就运营得当。他们靠规则活着。银行家把金融从管理者手中夺走,安插律师确保铁路只以合法方式违法,于是庞大的法律部门发展起来。铁路不再根据常识和具体情况运营,而是听从律师建议。规则蔓延到组织每个部分。接着州和联邦法规如雪崩般涌来,如今铁路被大量规则法规捆住手脚。律师和金融家在内,各种州委员会在外,铁路管理者几乎没有机会。这就是铁路的麻烦。商业不能靠法律来经营。

上下文

福特在《我的生活与工作》中批评律师和银行家对铁路的过度控制,认为商业应基于常识而非法律规则。

今日一问

你的工作中,是否也有规则压过常识、流程阻碍效率的情况?

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