“木桶理论”是从装水的木桶得出的一个重要哲理,它在管理决策科学中有一定的地位。木桶是由若干块木板做成的,围成木桶的木板必须高矮一致,如果参差不齐,那么这个木桶的盛水量,就取决于最矮的那一块,高出这块矮木板的水,全部会从它的上面流走。而那最长的次长的木板,或平均高度的木板,统统成了影响木桶整齐美观的赘物。这就告诉人们:必须增长系统观念,提高对整体功能的认识,抓好那些影响整体功能发挥的薄弱环节。我们是做档案工作的,不难懂得无论整个档案事业或是某一方面的工作,都是由互相作用和互相依赖的若干部分组合而成的具有特定功能的有机整体。各个组成部分不能随意增减或顾此失彼。有些时候,由 “Barrel theory” is an important philosophy drawn from water-filled barrels and has a certain place in the science of management and decision-making. The wooden barrel is made of several pieces of wood, and the planks that form the barrel must be of the same height. If it is uneven, the water content of the barrel will depend on the shortest piece above that piece of plank Water, all will flow away from it. And the longest second-long board, or the average height of the board, have all become a neat and tidy appearance of the buckets. This tells people: we must increase the system concept, improve the overall function of awareness, do a good job that affect the overall function of the weak links. We are working as archives. It is not hard to know that no matter whether the entire archival work or one aspect of the work is an organic whole with specific functions, a combination of several parts interacting and interdependent. The various components can not be arbitrarily increased or decreased. Sometimes