䷤Hexagram 37 Household for work and career

At work Jia Ren reads an organisation as a household: a team, a firm or a partnership where everyone has a place and the places fit together. The Judgment's commentary — 'let the father be a father, the son a son' — is about role clarity, and the Great Image gives the manager's discipline: say things that have substance, act consistently. The fire inside is the group's energy; the wind outside is its effect on the world, and the hexagram holds that the second follows from the first.

The lines are the stages of building such a group. Line one sets the ground rules at the start, when they are cheap; two is the person who holds the centre without seeking a separate stage; three is the leader deciding between strictness and laxity and told that strictness, though uncomfortable, loses less; four is the team flourishing because each member keeps to a well-fitted role; five is the head who is fully present and trusted; six is authority that rests on example. A changing line below concerns the internal order; above, the quality of leadership.