我的朗道 MY TAO
（一）河
去年冬天，我把家搬到了离市中心20公里的地方。
我希望由此获得新的生活和自由体验。
那里有这个大城市不多见的树林，一条绵延的树木繁茂的林间路，还有一条拥有美丽名字的河。
那时，地上的草是枯的，树上没有树叶，河面上封着薄薄的冰。每天经过河边的时候，我会幻想这里春天的样子，甚至想起朱自清的句子“..…山,朗润起来了，水,涨起来了，太阳的脸红起来了……”
当春天真的来了，树木发芽了，草叶变绿了，冰化了，但是露出的是湿漉漉的河床，并没有流动的河水。我于是又在期盼和担忧中盼望着雨季。今年的雨水很多，无论晴天雨天，我每天看着这条河。现在秋天已经来了，但是河水还是没有充沛地流动起来。
近一年的时间里，我养成了观察河的习惯；我会每天注意我经过的河，城市里的河很多是正在装修的样子，护城河-半露着水泥砖砌成的河床，但是迟迟没有水。郊外的一处自然水域，非常美丽，于是人们开始围绕它兴建起时尚餐厅和酒吧，但是我居然看到，餐厅的污水是直接排进河水的。几乎所有相对洁净的水域都是房地产商和人们追逐的地方，人们将这些地方用于钓鱼，划船，水上餐饮，娱乐等等。
安静的，洁净的，自然的水域越来越少。
北京的河，令我担忧。我不知道它们从什么时候开始水少的，我也不知道是否有河水可以再次流动起来，在我繁忙的生活和工作时间之外，我甚至没有更多时间想起它们，更多关注它们。但是它是如此牵动我，让我想到人的生命，还有这个城市的生命。
（二）道
最近看过一个设计短片《POWER OF TEN》.拍摄于上世纪70年代，但是即使今天看来，它仍然具有前瞻的科学浪漫和经典精神。影片拍摄的是美国，某个周末午后，一对恋人在草地野餐后，躺在洒满阳光的草地上午睡。镜头从离开他们身体10米，即10的1次方，向下靠近身体达到皮肤，即10米的零次方，然后10米的－1，－2次方，进入皮肤，看到细胞内部…；然后逐渐回到离身体10米的零次方的地方，然后向上，到10米的1，2，3次方，…离开地面，升上高空，离开地球，进入太阳系…这是我们的视线跟随镜头在日常生活世界进入微观世界及宏观世界的一次旅行。影片没有表现任何情绪和感情，留给我们自由的想象空间。
很久以来，我一直试图找到一种介质或者一种沟通，可以让自己在自身和外界，生活与工作；现在与未来之间保持和谐，同时自然自由切换，消除冲突和阻滞。
去年，我创建了自己的公司，我把它叫做“朗道”，这是一家很小的新公司，从事商业创新和设计管理培训咨询。在此之前，我总感觉自己的生活，特别是工作，在平静的外表下处于无形而深层的矛盾中。在我身处的家具行业，很多中国企业，只追求利润，它们抄袭产品，但只注重外型，没有未来方向。我也去过广东一些城市，看到“蓬勃”的“365天不落幕”的展览会，还有在10里长街不断重复的，大量的，相似的产品。在这样的环境下，城市逐渐形成了一个典型的面孔－开放发展型中国城市，除了植物可以告诉我们身在何种气候环境，除此之外，每个城市的人和建筑都惊人的相似，但是城市的文化和环境都被忽略了。这是一个充斥着产品和生产的世界，人们追逐和享受生产带来的财富和满足。
朗道策划的第一个培训项目叫“百草纲目”，取义中国历史医学经典“本草纲目”，我们采用五种植物针对中国企业五种问题，以身体健康和外部环境的关系比喻企业成长和外部环境的关系。希望促进一部分中国企业从新的空间，时间，关系思考成功和未来，关注商业创新，原创设计和可持续竞争能力。使更多企业从盲目生产走向个性化创新的未来，规划长久和根本性的成功与和谐是我们的目标。
朗道的LOGO图像来自于我的儿子读的天文书籍，那是地球磁力线的照片。我想这是我在漫长的找寻中开始实践的道，寻找那些看不到的联系和规律。道是无形的，但它是万物的来源以及归宿。如果一定要用比喻，我喜欢把它比作光，人们看不见光，但是光能够令我们看到世界。往往看不见的东西是重要并且强大的。
我籍此获得平静，快乐和力量。
A MOTHER THAT WANTS TO CHANGE LIFE FOR HER AND HER SON
"Men, methods and machine, all cheap enough to be accessible to virtually any business in china. it is the mindset that makes a difference. Development doesn’t start with goods; it starts with people and education, organization and discipline: holding up business to the mirror of Tao is my way of contributing to "Chinese material civilization"--- tang lan, design management training consultant
Last winter, i moved out of the city, A 25-minute- car ride away in a good day and double even triple the time away on a typical Beijing day. i didn’t look up city's future planning for this area before the purchase, and it was my excited neighbor who told me about the planned metro station. What made me tick was an imagined garden of lush green and a dancing river just 5 minutes walk away.
It became a habit of mine to observe the river everyday since then. But after the spring melted ice way, the river never woke up, even after the raining season. It lies still, half naked under the riverbank, more embarrassing than sad. Can a still river also be called a river? I "discovered" a nice lake nearby later. But soon it also became an open secret. Following the popularity came posh restaurants from which I saw used water dismissed directly to the lake. The lake turned muddy green in 2 months. We don’t live with nature here, we only consume, and certainly we have to pay for it, all of us.
For a long time, I have been looking for a medium, or a language of my own to communicate a cultivated sense of harmony, transforming life and work, mind and heart, little me and colossal world into a comprehensive fellowship rather than a head to head dead-end battle. After all i am a mum first, then a training consultant.
The cover of my son's astronomy textbook inspired me to create my company logo. The image of light sweeping around a planet moved me. As
a Taoist in denial, the closest metaphor of Tao i can come up with, to explain my son, is the light- it is omniscient yet we don’t see it, but it helps us see the world. I believe an educational system, no matter how specialized or how dynamic, needs to be connected to a centre, like rays emanating from the sun. The centre is constituted by our most basic convictions, by those ideas which really have the power to move us. So I incorporate "Tao" into my company name: doing business the Right way.
Following real estate market boom comes China's "refurbishing era", the best time and the worst time for domestic furnishing and design industry indeed. Few are not exhilarated with the young industry's achievement that transformed the face of Chinese home in record speed. But the industry's many internal problems were worsened together with the miracle.” quantity over quality" is the Bible rule for many of today's local market players. The usual rule of thumb in creative industry of "being the first" is adapted to " being the first to copy". The fast track racing game inflames a negative competitive environment that kills creativity and subsequently the industry's sustainable growth. After working in this industry for 10 years, I chose to step aside and try to be the first to call for a change, although aware that ultimately the change can only come from market players collectively. "Good idea but too early" was the typical comment I get from most people. But I am not in a hurry.
Even though most of our teachers come from design Mecca Italy, I designed our training curriculum named after a Chinese medicine encyclopedia, 本草纲目，
"Compendium of Materia Medica". Chinese medicine doesn’t treat a patient only as an independent entity, but a part of the dynamism of which one's physical condition is directly related to its interaction with the environment. This explains ancient Chinese reverence to nature. By looking into both the source of a patient's problems and considering other outside influence, a doctor then prescribes a remedy accordingly. Painkiller- like immediate impact is not the priority, because it is considered to be short-lived and usually "tackles only the stem not the roots". Real healing takes time and starts within and realizing a problem is the first step to better being.
I try to facilitate this knowledge and way of thinking in our training program. 5 courses are named after 5 herbal plants, each targeting to tackle one typical problem that companies suffer internally or/and facing outside. According to each individual case, courses are mixed "in different portion and doze", but the focus is always-- be a fair and active market player with a niche, based on the conviction that contributing to the industry's vitality and healthy growth will guarantee one's own long-term returns.
I am sure I will be successful. But my perception of success maybe also quite different: I see doing business as practicing internal Qigong: It all starts from within, you can go with the flow, try all directions and movements, yet as long as you are in touch with the centre, in no doubt about your basic conviction, you are on the right track and the inner clarity will give you strength. It of course takes time. But if you believe it, take your time, because time is on your side.
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