"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Tells Us 60 Truths
1. Liu Bei's story tells us: a group president can start from street vending.
2. Zhuge Liang's story tells us: entering a private enterprise may have more development space than a state-owned one.
3. Lü Bu's story tells us: frequent job-hopping directly leads to no boss daring to hire you.
4. Pang Tong's story tells us: being too ugly might affect your job application results.
5. Ma Su's story tells us: professional courses learned as great as they are, in work they're basically useless.
6. Yang Xiu's story tells us: in the workplace, always making yourself seem smarter than your leader will end up badly for you.
7. Gan Ning's story tells us: having a bad record doesn't affect your ability to pass civil service exams; heroes don't ask about origins.
8. Yuan Shao's story tells us: if there is free competition in the market, state-owned enterprises may not outperform private ones.
9. Cao Cao's story tells us: to make a big impact in the market, one must first uphold national policies.
10. Guan Yu's story tells us: even if you're an MBA, a temporary marketing mistake could make you lose to someone from another field.
11. Xiahou Dun's story tells us: self-mutilation indeed has a strong deterrent effect. Even against such adversaries, we fear.
12. Jiang Gan's story tells us: in the securities market, favorable news released by major players is usually to trap you.
13. Gongsun Zan's story tells us: good swimmers often drown, those who play with fire get burned; the stock market is risky, enter with caution.
14. The Da and Xiao Qiao's stories tell us: talented, wealthy, and handsome men generally cannot be with you till the end.
15. Liu Shan's story tells us: when large enterprises are acquired, top managers will certainly pay attention to employees' psychological dynamics.
16. Jiang Wei's story tells us: double degrees sometimes are more competitive than postgraduate studies.
17. Huang Yueying's story tells us: studying well is not as important as marrying well.
18. Liu Biao's story tells us: health is the capital of revolution. No matter how great you are, once you die, someone will sleep with your wife, spend your money, and beat your children.
19. Zhao Yun's story tells us: personal strength no matter how strong, if only thinking of high salary, the result will be: having a career but no business.
20. Sima family's story tells us: working for others is not as good as starting your own business.
21. Kong Rong's story tells us: giving pears is a virtue, also a show, it’s a strategy planned since childhood to raise one's fame. Remember: become famous while young.
22. Zhang Fei's fate tells us: treat employees well. If you suppress them for a long time, retaliation will come or collective strikes and resignations.
23. Yu Ji's story tells us: gods and ghosts can be disbelieved, but should not be disrespected.
24. Huang Zhong's story tells us: age isn't an issue, key is having ability. Don't underestimate old employees, sometimes they perform better than youngsters.
25. Liu Shan's story tells us: rich second generation without skills, even with excellent managers, can still face acquisition.
26. The Qiao sisters' story tells us: marrying shouldn't just consider power and wealth, joining a wealthy family may not lead to good outcomes.
27. Cao Zhi's story tells us: in the workplace sometimes there are no brothers, only interests!
28. Zhou Yu's story tells us: meeting an equally matched opponent requires patience, playing to strengths and avoiding weaknesses. Do not let personal wins overshadow overall interests!
29. Cao Song's story tells us: whether son is adopted or biological doesn't matter, key is potential. Talented people are worth cultivating at any cost.
30. Visiting thatched cottage three times tells us: having diplomas and experience doesn't matter, mainly knowing how to promote oneself, hype oneself to gain recognition, then naturally high salaries will come knocking. Also remember to act diva-like to increase value.
31. Dong Zhuo's fate tells us: sons should not be recklessly recognized, especially those with records. Moreover, being wealthy, some would pretend to be grandsons for property.
32. Meng De's story tells us: to grow a company, constantly acquire and merge, suppressing individual businesses!
33. Chen Gong's story tells us: finding good employees is hard for bosses, finding a good boss worth dying for is harder.
34. Wei Yan's story tells us: job-hopping shouldn't be blind, especially if disliked by the boss's right-hand man. Such companies lack future prospects, might as well jump again.
35. Guan Yu's fate tells us: maintaining good relationships is crucial, don't look down on others, especially the boss's godson or brother-in-law, even if closely related to the boss, don't discriminate against those the boss values.
36. Yuan Shu's story tells us: pretending to be a state-owned enterprise can end tragically...
37. Zhang Jue's story tells us: being a farmer entrepreneur is tough...
38. Dian Wei's story tells us: while you work hard, the boss might be enjoying himself with women.
39. Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse tell us: advanced machinery is necessary, not only improving efficiency but reducing human resources.
40. Chi Tu Ma's story tells us: branded items are different, even second-hand, still fetch high prices, even as luxury items at home, showing owner's wealth.
41. Zhuge Liang tells us: large enterprises relying solely on personal ability find it hard to break through performance. Knowing how to manage, distribute, develop lower-level employee energy, assign heavy responsibilities, cultivates excellent teams to prevent talent shortages.
42. Hua Tuo's experience tells us: having technical expertise isn't enough, key is national certification, all five certificates required, clinical trials needed, small private clinics or wandering doctors are hard to trust.
43. Sun Quan's experience tells us: sometimes guarding a business is harder than starting one.
44. Emperor Xian's experience tells us: when family businesses are taken over by relatives or outsiders with larger shares, eventually the chairman will change.
45. A Meng's experience tells us: if lacking skills in a company, follow a capable leader, achieving success like Wu's A Meng.
46. Cao Cao inviting Xu Shu tells us: talent competition can be ruthless, even if getting paid without working, don't let competitors take them for planning, affecting one's business prospects.
47. Zhuge uncle-nephew relationship tells us: rather than eating from the same pot in the same company, better to be in separate companies.
48. Wang Yun tells us: no matter how large or powerful an enterprise, as long as personal interests exist, given provocation and division, it can be brought down.
49. Liu Biao and Liu Zhang's endings tell us: when a business achieves some success, beware of relatives or friends wanting to invest or work, to prevent losing control of your own company.
51. Yuan brothers' enterprise tells us: family businesses should be harmonious, peaceful, united, not split or dissolve, otherwise leading to decline.
52. Lady Sun's fate tells us: when your husband conflicts with your maternal family's business, standing on either side is difficult.
53. Diaochan's experience tells us: associating with any kind of man doesn't matter, regardless of age or looks, most important is having capability.
54. Dong Zhuo's experience tells us: being vice president in a branch office is not as good as being manager in headquarters.
55. Ma Chao's experience tells us: when unable to work alone, better to find a wise boss to follow.
56. Guo Jia's experience tells us: beautiful yet short-lived talents are envied by heaven.
57. Hua Xiong tearfully tells us: never mistake Guan Yu for PR, confusing hearing leading to underestimating opponents' strength.
58. Huang Gai tells us: enduring beatings is also a skill, key is acting ability, the more realistic the higher the reward, also opportunity for promotion.
59. Battle of Guandu tells us: tense standoffs might mean opponents seeking new strategies to defeat you. Police vs criminals battles are good examples!
60. Warriors of the Three Kingdoms tell us: without money and power, forever just a pawn, manipulated and killed, only courage to sacrifice can change fate.