Clear thinking.
These 2 words are unremarkable, but you must be familiar with these words in your work:
"That man's brain is just a mess!"
"Please think about it clearly before telling me the needs."
"The boss's plan is messy, and the people below are exhausted."
All of the above can be attributed to unclear thinking.
If employees are not clear about their thinking, work efficiency will be delayed. Problems that can be solved in one hour cannot be solved in a day.
How many 996 and 007 are caused by unclear thinking rather than too much work? Everyone may wish to reflect on it.
The boss is not clear about his thoughts and is even more terrible. From the top to the next, I want to do this and I want to do that tomorrow, and I want to do this one day.
But the people below all played with the boss, and in the end nothing was done. This is called the general incompetence and exhaustion.
In my own experience, 80% of the workforce is wasted in the workplace because I didn’t think of a good idea and started doing it indiscriminately.
Then found that the road was nowhere to go, but the leader was unwilling to give up the previous efforts, or because he felt sorry for others, or because of his own face, anyway, he was not willing to admit his mistakes.
In the end, trying to find the right answer on the basis of the error is like planting a watermelon seed but thinking that it will grow a radish after hard watering every day. Do you think it can be successful?
At this time, someone will definitely say, no, I call it trial and error, it's Internet thinking. Sorry, trial and error is not such a trial.
The real trial and error is not excluding costs and rewards. The boss is not the stupid son of the landlord, and the company's resources are not endless to squander you. Even if it's trial and error, try and error with clear thinking.
For example, do you have an overall plan for trial and error? How much manpower and material resources need to be spent in total? What conclusion do you want to draw after trial and error? How much trial and error can you tell? Is there a time or data node that terminates trial and error once it arrives?
This is called a plan, not "just leave it alone, let's talk about it."
If you have a clear idea of how important this point is in the workplace, you will know what the great people around you do.
For example, now the company wants to start a new project and do a field with no experience at all. The boss arranges you to lead the team and tells you what resources you need and how much manpower you need, and then just leave.
What would you do?
Some people may feel that they are finally able to do a big job, and they are ecstatic; some may immediately start planning, arranging meetings, and arranging work; others may choose to go out to celebrate first, after all, the boss gives power It's bigger, and more resources can be mobilized. This can be regarded as a prelude to one's promotion.
But my friend S encountered this situation, he told me this:
"I feel scared."
Because I don't know anything, I don't know where to start. Moreover, the boss did not give S further instructions or plans. Although on the surface it is absolutely trustworthy, if it is not done well, the pot is not for S to recite. Think about it, is it scary?
But terrible is terrible, S did a few things to resolve. Let me talk about it in detail, you can also write it down, it is very practical.
First, he made a feasibility report.
What is a feasibility report?
You want to accomplish this. How much resource investment is required, what kind of experience, technology and equipment are required, how much time is required, and to what extent is the initial success. Based on the current team conditions, the probability of ultimate success is probably How many......
Regardless of the simple writing of these questions, S has prepared for a full month.
He surveyed and visited several technical experts in this industry, and contacted several fellow entrepreneurs based on his personal connections to learn from others.
Regardless of whether someone tells you the experience or makes a fool of himself, he respectfully writes it down in his notebook.
Then, he collected many reports on this industry on the Internet to understand how the upstream and downstream of this industry operate.
For example, what are the companies with the largest market share, what are their respective advantages, where are the barriers to competition, what are the key directions of their respective development, and where will the industry's development trend go in the future.
Then he bought the best-selling products on the market and took them home one by one to disassemble them. Look at the structure inside, look at the materials used by people, and even the product manuals, compare each function by function.
In the end, he put the above into a 150-page PPT, which was presented to the boss at the group meeting one month later.
The boss thought he was going to talk about how he planned to do this new business, but he didn't expect to see all his analysis: if we do it, can we do it successfully.
Naturally, the boss praised him a lot and said that he did not misunderstand him.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to say that S was from a consulting company before. This set of skills is all his professional habit. A friend asked me if it’s good to go to work in a consulting company. Do you think it’s good if I write so much?
After the feasibility report was completed, S did the second thing:
Desperately allocate resources and build a team.
Because no one in the company has done this new business, it must have been halfway from the existing people. S firmly believes that professional things must be done by professional people, otherwise it is better not to do it.
To this end, he made a recruitment budget plan.
The plan clearly stated that within 2 months of the start of the project, how many people at the technical director level are needed, how many engineers with relevant development experience, what skills these people need to have, and what projects they have done, it is best to stay in the past. Which companies.
And all of this information was inquired by S early when doing the feasibility report.
Of course, his initial recruitment was not smooth.
Professionals have never heard of this company and are unwilling to come. It's like a computer foundry who has come over and said to be a smart phone, but do you know this? Do you have technical accumulation? Do you know why mobile phones that sell well now are popular?
These questions slap S in the face every time during the interview.
I don't know what magic he later used to dig up these powerful people one by one. Perhaps it was the ability to pay money, or his "unique insights" as a layman. In short, the start-up team was finally built.
Now, this new project of S has been up and running for 2 months, and everything is going well. Although I don't know if it will continue smoothly in the future, after listening to the history of blood and tears that S told me, I only have one feeling:
True TM is clear!
To be honest, I have seen and talked about many entrepreneurs since the media these years, and several friends around me have started to build their own businesses one after another, but like S, I follow my own plan step by step from the beginning. People who practice it are really rare.
Many people have an idea first, and they do it when the idea is only 50% mature, and the remaining 50% is left to luck.
This is actually no different from gambling.
But the way S does things makes me feel different. Although he doesn't know whether the remaining 50% can succeed, he knows what conditions he needs if he wants to succeed, and how to strive for these conditions.
The meaning of clear thinking is not to say that you have thought about what to do with every step, but you know what you should do if you succeed, what you should do if you fail, what you should do if you are in a deadlock, and what you should do when you catch the wind.
Simply put, you have a corresponding solution for each situation. there is always a solution to a problem.
Remember what I said earlier, when S’ boss gave him this task, he patted his butt and left without saying anything?
Later S told me that the boss was testing him. Because the company didn't pay much attention to this new business at that time, just holding on to the idea of giving it a try.
If things are really messed up and S takes the blame and resigns, he still has a way out.
Although I failed, failure is also experience, and it is extremely valuable experience. So when he made the feasibility report, he deliberately established relationships with people in that industry. In the future, if he leaves the original company, it is not impossible to join the other party.
If you can't beat the opponent, join the opponent, he even thinks about this back path. And I can only throw five bodies. I don't believe that God will not let him succeed like this.
The thinking is clear, these four words are simple to write, but they are not simple at all. Although S's story is more like starting a business, it actually has a lot of enlightenment for us in our daily work.
Finally, summarize two important reminders. If you also want to be a clear-minded person, you are right to follow:
a) Whatever you do, there must be steps
As small as a daily plan PPT, a speech draft, as large as the completion of a project, a major business initiative, there must be steps and methods.
Talk about one, two, three in everything, so your mind won't mess up.
You can write down the following thinking framework to help you clarify your thinking:
1. Determine the first step: Where is your starting point?
Take the previous story as an example. S received the boss's task. His starting point was not to make a plan, but to make a feasibility report.
What is the truth behind this? First judge whether it works, and then think about how to do it.
If the basic starting point is wrong, no matter how much effort is needed, it will be wasted. Do the investigation first, collect the information first, see how others do it first, and sketch out a general map of this matter in your mind. This is called an introduction.
2. Extend from the first step to the Nth step: interlocking, step by step for action
Determine the first step, use this as a starting point to derive the second step, the third step... until the Nth step.
Keep one sentence in mind, the result of the previous step is best the starting point for the next step. Don't mess up the sequence between the steps, it's best to write them in line on paper.
It's like cooking. You have to wash the vegetables first, heat the pan after washing the vegetables, add oil after the pan is heated, add green onions, ginger and garlic, and finally pour the vegetables and start frying. If the order is wrong, the fried dishes will taste wrong.
3. Develop evaluation indicators: make each step have corresponding responsibilities
Still take cooking as an example, there are many "indicators" whether the food is good or not:
Too oily, too sweet, too dry, too light, not chewy, the vegetables are not fresh, the food is sandy...Every small result corresponds to a step in the step.
Too oily, it means that you put too much oil in the cooking step; the sand in the vegetables is the first step when the vegetables are not washed; the lack of chewiness may mean that you did not pay attention to the dishes when you bought the vegetables.
Every step of your action will eventually produce a corresponding result. It is possible that one step corresponds to one result, several steps correspond to one result, or one step corresponds to multiple results.
When formulating evaluation indicators, we strive to make every result that appears can be mapped back to a certain step, instead of saying that we did not do a good job when something happened.
Where is it? Be specific, be more specific.
b) In any situation, you must be stable and in control
If the steps listed are the "techniques" to ensure clear thinking, then a steady state of mind is the "dao". How can we achieve a calm mind and not be surprised when encountering anything, and the soldiers will stop them?
One word, experience.
I've seen a lot of worlds, and I've played against all monsters and ghosts, and I will naturally have a bottom when I do it again. There is not much methodology on this point, just to experience and feel.
The most important thing is to write it all down and think about it. What should I do if I encounter the same situation again next time?
For example, when I first came to the stage to give a speech, I was so panicked that I would forget the lines after two days of recitation. After three years of ugliness, he just got better a little later.
Now, even if someone interrupts me, challenges me, or questions me in the middle of the speech, I have a set of methods to deal with:
Interrupt me, tell the other party politely, please let me finish the discussion; challenge me, look for the logical loopholes in the other party’s words, and then focus firepower to refute; those who question me, repackage and state my views with the other side’s words Once again, and then seek common ground while reserving differences.
This is not innate talent, it's all through social training. I can do it as an ordinary person, and I believe you can too.
The above is today's content. I have written a little bit. I hope I can give you some inspiration and help. I hope you can be a clear thinking person from now on.
For you, for me, for us :)