Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on innovation in working methods

(Baonghean.vn) - President Ho Chi Minh affirmed: 'All successes or failures are due to good or bad cadres. That is a certain truth'. According to Ho Chi Minh's point of view, cadres and civil servants have no other duty than to serve the people, do things for the people and also be responsible to the people.

In October 1947, in a small hut in the middle of the ATK Dinh Hoa forest, under the pen name XYZ, President Ho Chi Minh wrote the work "Reforming the way of working". This is a very important work, addressing many major issues, both theoretical and with profound practical guidance. His teachings on the way of working and the personality and ethics of cadres and party members 70 years ago still retain their value.

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Drawing from practical experience in the process of leading the revolution, President Ho Chi Minh affirmed: "All successes or failures are due to good or bad cadres. That is a certain truth." Therefore, the work of educating, training and using cadres is of special importance. According to him, the Party must nurture cadres, like gardeners cultivating precious trees, must respect talents, respect cadres, respect each person who is useful for the common work, must supplement cadres, preserve old cadres and train new cadres because the issue of cadres is a very important and urgent issue.

To become a good cadre, according to Uncle Ho, there is nothing difficult, but first of all, it depends on each cadre himself. If in the heart of each cadre only knows to work for the Party, for the Fatherland, for the people, then he will certainly progress to impartiality, and will become people with humanity, justice, intelligence, courage, and integrity. That is revolutionary ethics. Uncle Ho considered ethics to be the foundation of all successes in the revolutionary struggle. Therefore, training revolutionary ethics is an important issue in the work of training and educating cadres.

The work "Reforming the way of working" by President Ho Chi Minh, signed with the pen name XYZ, written in October 1947.

In addition to training and cultivating revolutionary ethics, President Ho Chi Minh always promoted the spirit of learning for each cadre. Right in the first part of the book "Reforming the way of working", he wrote: "Our cadres and party members, because they are busy with administrative or military work, neglect their studies. That is a very big shortcoming. It is like a doctor who only treats others but forgets to treat his own serious illness. From now on, we need to practically study and correct our shortcomings. Because only by eliminating shortcomings can our work progress."

President Ho Chi Minh considered cadres to be the root of all work and cadre training and education is the Party's fundamental work. After specifically analyzing the shortcomings of cadre training and education such as: training not suitable to practical requirements: "Training cadres in administrative agencies without touching on administrative work" or rambling and unrealistic such as "teaching politics is vast but impractical, and cannot be used", Uncle pointed out effective ways to train and educate cadres.

That is, when training and educating a profession, "we must practice the slogan: learn what you do", cadres working in any field must master the work in that field. In learning, there must be investigation and research of the actual situation, there must be experience transfer and especially a combination of both theory and practice. When training and educating about politics, we must focus on two issues: current events and policies, this is a very important issue, however, depending on each cadre, we must focus on more or less training, not spreading out or rambling.

Uncle Ho tested the improved rice transplanter at the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Forestry's Rice Cultivation Experimental Farm, July 1960

One issue that President Ho Chi Minh paid special attention to was the smooth combination of theory and practice. If in studying, we only apply dry theory, general slogans while applying experience to practice carelessly, then it is just empty theory or only practice without theory, it is like having one eye clear and one eye blind. While studying theory, we must study practical work, know how to skillfully apply experience to practical situations, according to Uncle Ho, that is practical theory, useful theory.

In the work of training cadres, Uncle Ho pointed out several points that need attention: "Understanding cadres. Using cadres skillfully. Promoting cadres. Loving cadres. Criticizing cadres". It can be said that the contents of the work "Reforming the way of working" all reflect his thoughts on humanity, for the progress of each cadre and party member. "Party members and cadres are also people. Everyone has good and bad qualities. However, having understood, having volunteered to join a Party for the people, for the country, being a revolutionary, one must strive to develop good qualities and correct bad qualities". According to Uncle Ho, cadres and party members must practically self-criticize and criticize their comrades every day. The purpose of criticism is to help each other improve, help each other progress, essentially to correct the way of working to be better, more correct, essentially to have more internal unity and solidarity.

Uncle Ho visited the people of Pac Bo, Ha Quang (February 1961). Photo: TL

To effectively select and utilize cadres, Uncle Ho pointed out that the Party must put the right person in the right job, and must know how to use people according to their talents because "If talented people are not used properly, the job will not be done." According to Uncle Ho, the purpose of skillfully using cadres is to fully implement the policies of the Party and the State, and at the same time, to prevent diseases such as: wanting to use relatives, acquaintances, friends, thinking that they are more reliable than outsiders; wanting to use people who are good at flattering oneself while avoiding upright and dedicated people. Therefore, in cadre work, it is necessary to use the right person, in the right place, in the right job to achieve high efficiency.

Published more than 70 years ago, President Ho Chi Minh's work "Reforming the way of working" is still one of the important documents in the current innovation cause. Imbued with Uncle Ho's teachings, every cadre and party member clearly understands their responsibilities, always trains and strives to become "diligent, thrifty, honest, upright, impartial and selfless" cadres, worthy of being "loyal servants of the people" as he wished.

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