Do not add entities unless necessary.
Author: William, an English logologist
Comment: it should be as simple as possible.
The Occam Razor is a principle proposed by William, a monk of the 14th century St. Francis club in England. He was born in ocham town, Sari-gun, England. William studied at the University of Paris and Oxford. He is knowledgeable and eloquent. He is known as a doctor who cannot be refuted ".
William wrote a lot of books, but they have little influence. However, he proposed the following principle: do not add entities unless necessary. Its meaning is: it only recognizes what actually exists. All universal concepts that interfere with this specific existence are useless cumbersome and nonsense and should be abolished. He used this principle to prove many conclusions, including "the conclusion that God cannot exist through speculation ". This made him unpopular with the Pope. Not long ago, he was put in jail as a pagination to avoid spreading his thoughts. After spending year 45 in prison, he found the opportunity to escape and relied on the dead enemy of the Pope, the king of Barbados. He said to the Prince, "you use a sword to protect me. I use a pen to protect you. "It was this successful jailbreak that made William famous. His motto "do not add entities if necessary" is also widely spread. This seemingly exclusive way of thinking was later called the Occam Razor ".
The starting point of Occam's Razor is that nature does not do anything redundant. If you have two principles, both of which can explain the observed facts, you should use the simple one until more evidence is found. The simplest interpretation of the phenomenon is often more accurate than the complex interpretation. If you have two similar solutions, the simplest and least hypothetical explanation is the most likely correct. In a word: cut down the cumbersome and cumbersome items to keep things simple!
"Occam Razor" is the most fair knife. No matter how scientists or ordinary people, who can have the courage to pick it up, who is the person who succeeds. After the razor was taken out of the sheath, one scientist, such as gobaini, Newton, and Einstein, all went after "cutting" the theoretical or objective, the scientific conclusion of "shaving" is not refined. Everyone has solved the most complex problems, but it is the first to use the Occam Razor to shave complex objects into the simplest objects, and then start to solve the problem.
Success and great scientists use courage to use this sharp "Occam Razor" to turn the most complex things into the simplest conclusion, and then go to the brilliant path of genius.
After several hundred years, the Occam Razor has been worn faster and faster by history. It has already surpassed the original narrow field and has more extensive, rich, and profound significance.
Etradecom, the largest securities website in the United States, once successfully used this "Razor", which launched a shocking brand promotion activity: "kick off your broker", a real commitment, shen zhongke's straightforward words aroused a great resonance with his shot, thus making a huge profit. Coincidentally, drugstorecom, an online grocery store in the United States, has launched an interesting advertisement to send a message that it can provide a valuable gift-time. In the advertisement, "Service Team" members in white uniforms drill out of the fireplace like Santa Claus, or drop from the sky like Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible" to deliver daily necessities to customers in a timely manner. This kind of advertisement not only promised to be in place, but also shaved all useless nonsense to highlight the theme of "time", and the story was wonderful and received unprecedented results.
Jack Welch of General Electric is also a true story of William. He used a sharp razor to cut GE's long-standing bureaucratic habits, making it possible for GM to play lightly and achieve great success.
In the American business world, there has been a traditional understanding for a long time, that is, the manager's job is to send a letter to each other between the lower-level and higher-level managers, and hold high-level meetings everywhere, make sure that the factory runs normally like other places. In a word, the manager is responsible for supervising the Department's normal work. But Jack Welch, who became President of General Electric in 1981, despised these practices. He believed that managers who adopted this approach were bureaucratic managers who left behind history. Jack Welch has always been so miserable about the old tradition.
GE is a diversified company with a large number of business units and thousands of employees. Jack Welch has been thinking about how to effectively manage these employees and make them as productive as possible. He believes that excessive management has contributed to the lazy and procrastinating bureaucracy and will destroy a good company. Finally, he concluded that it is the most correct and effective conclusion: the fewer management, the better the company situation.
From the moment he took over Ge, Welch thought it was a very serious bureaucratic style. The proportion of control and supervision in management is too high. He decided to change their management style.
Welch wants to remove the word "manager" from his dictionary because it means "control rather than help, complicate rather than simplification, and its behavior is more like a ruler than an accelerator ". "Some managers," Welch said. "Making business decisions meaningless, complex and trivial. They equate management with high complexity and think that management is wise than anyone else. They don't know how to motivate people. I don't like the features of 'Management'-control and suppress people, keep them in the dark, and waste their time on trivial matters and reports. Keep an eye on them. You cannot make people confident. "
On the contrary, Welch loves the word "Leader" very much. In his view, leaders should be those who can clearly tell people how to do better, and can draw a vision to stimulate people's efforts. Managers talk to each other and leave messages. When leaders talk to their employees and their employees, they will be filled with beautiful scenes in their minds, so that they can move up at what level they think is impossible, then the leaders just need to make their way out.
Under the guidance of these ideas, Welch declared war on the bureaucratic habits of Ge: simplifying management departments; strengthening upper-and lower-level communication and changing management into incentives and guidance; ask all key decision makers of the company to understand all the situations that are equally critical ...... Under the cutting of Welch's magic razor, General has maintained a brilliant record for 20 consecutive years.
Don't think that "Occam Razor" is only around the genius. In fact, it is everywhere, just waiting for people to pick it up. As long as we bravely pick up the "Occam Razor" and simplify complicated things, you will find that life is actually simple, and success is not far from you.
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