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The up and down of all organization and society generally depends upon the success or failure of management, which is determined mainly by ‘timeliness’ of strategic decision making. However, the concept of timeliness, grasping the point of kairos, will remain in the realm of human wisdom, no matter how sciences advance. This is the reason why we should learn about kairos or timeliness, and also the reason why we seek a broad answer out of I-Ching. And the gòuguà (姤卦) is the first of hexagrams of I-Ching which are concerned with kairos. In this paper we are trying to give a new perspective on the construal of hexagram statements and six line statements of gòuguà in the managerial point of view. The guàcí (卦辭) of I-Ching foretells the rise of new types of leadership assimilated in the image of heroines under the age of structural changes. The six yáocís of gòuguà (which means encounter) are related with the concurrence of the rise of new authority and new age. In the gòuguà, the wind of change comes out of the earth, while in the guānguà it comes out of heaven. So the guàcí of the two are starkly contradictory. And there are only two hexagram of gòuguà and tàiguà where its guàcí begins with “Posterior king takes it as follows:” Here we can find out there are two types of newly emerging future authorities by comparing them: One is revolutionary and pioneering leader of gòuguà, the other is succeeding and transformational one of tàiguà. Although both of them should keep it in their mind that the timeliness is the most important thing in exercising their leaderships.