䷍Hexagram 14 Great Holdings for work and career

In work Da You is the hexagram of resources: a well-funded project, a full-strength team, a leader with everyone's cooperation. The judgment is 'supreme success,' and the Tuan credits it to a yielding centre that strong people willingly answer, acting 'in step with heaven and at the right time.' The Great Image sets the manager's duty in such plenty — 'suppress the bad, promote the good' — because abundance tolerated indiscriminately decays.

The lines are roles in a rich organisation. One is the newcomer, safe as long as the difficulty is remembered; two the capable deputy with the great wagon; three the senior who passes results upward instead of building a private empire; four the right hand who deliberately does not outshine the chief; five the chief whose mutual trust and dignity keep people from slacking; six the elder who defers to the one in charge. A changing line in the lower trigram asks how your strength is used; in the upper trigram it concerns the leadership holding all this together — restraint, trust, and the dignity that prevents complacency.