Confucius' Analects: transmit rather than reinvent
A leader who breaks his own rule announces, that same day, that here there are no rules.
In September a new board rebuilds the registration form, because last year's is 'not our style'. Confucius calls himself a transmitter; to that he adds character, which governs better than an order, form, which carries content across generations, and names, which have to fit things.
- The situation
In September the new board reinvents the registration form, the sponsor pitch and the run of the event, because last year's are 'not our style'.
- What the model says
This is not creativity but a lost semester: the book about transmission is itself a product of transmission, and in a club the cost is measured in weeks.
- What you do
Take one document from last year — the sponsor pitch — and change only what is actually no longer true.
What it claims
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Source
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The same work written for a member: what to do with it in the club.
This text is freely available, so the links go straight to it rather than to a summary of it.
- James Legge, The Chinese Classics, vol. I (1861) — the translation this page cites
- Stanford Encyclopedia on Confucius
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