wolf road

Chapter 12 Wolf-like qualities (2)
A person who can lead others to cooperate and perform effective team work, or inspire others to become more active, is no less active than a person who can provide effective service in a more direct way. people.In a business enterprise there is a man of great ability to inspire and direct all those under him to greater success than they would be without this commanding influence.It is well known that Carnegie directed some of his personal staff so ably that he made many of them rich as well.Every sales manager, every military leader, and leaders of all walks of life understand the need for a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation.To be successful, you must have this spirit.This harmonious mass spirit can be achieved by automatic or compulsory discipline.In this case, the minds of the individuals will be fused into a kind of think tank, which means that the minds of the individuals are revised and the minds of each other become one.There are as many ways to bring about this fusion process as by placing individuals in leadership positions in various industries, each leader having his own method of coordinating the minds of his followers.Some use coercion, others persuasion, others punishment or rewards, all with the aim of reducing the individual thoughts in a group, and bringing them all together into a single thought.Readers don't have to delve into politics, business, or finance to find out the techniques their leaders use to fuse individual ideas into a collective one.

No matter how great the star is, without the cooperation of the collective, he cannot win the game alone; only a united team can become an organic whole, and can cooperate closely during the game to win the final victory.

Personal success is inseparable from cooperation with others. The favorite sentence of every successful person is:
I cannot be what I am today without the support of everyone, and the achievements should be attributed to everyone.This is a humble word, but it also tells a secret of success. There are too many things in life that require cooperation. Let us firmly remember this sentence: cooperation is strength.

Sense of honor - the soul of the team
The tacit cooperation between wolves is the decisive factor for the success of wolves.Several scattered wolves become a cooperative, powerful and united team in hunting. They all know the tasks they must perform, and no matter what they do, they can always rely on the strength of the group to complete it.They can completely sacrifice themselves in order to achieve collective goals.

When we learn the team spirit of wolves, we must cultivate the sense of honor of the wolf team.

A team without a sense of honor is also a team without hope. An employee without a sense of honor cannot become an excellent employee. West Point’s "Code of Honor": Every student will never lie, cheat or steal, and will never allow Others do.It is precisely because of the sense of honor that distinguishes the outstanding from those who have not made any achievements so far.

In all education, honor education is always in a priority position, and honor is regarded as the highest.In the military academy, every cadet is required to memorize the styles and differences of all military ranks, badges, epaulets, and medals, and remember the meanings and rewards they represent. How many liters of water is stored in the pool and so on.Such training and requirements will virtually cultivate students' sense of honor.These are also worthy of reference by enterprises, because an excellent employee must have a comprehensive and clear understanding of his work and the company he works for.

Soldiers regard honor as life, and any language or behavior that damages the honor of soldiers is absolutely prohibited.

Similarly, if an employee has enough sense of honor for his work, is proud of his work, and proud of his company, he will definitely glow with incomparable enthusiasm for work.Every enterprise should also educate its employees on the sense of honor, and every employee should arouse a sense of honor for their position and the company.It can be said that the sense of honor is the soul of a team.If an employee has no sense of honor, even if there are tens of thousands of rules and regulations or requirements, he may not be able to complete his work perfectly, and he may not understand some requirements, or feel tired and troublesome because he thinks they are redundant.

Everyone at the Hilton Hotel may have such an experience.When you wake up in the morning, as soon as you open the door, the beautiful waiter standing at the end of the corridor comes over and says, good morning, and calls you by name.It's normal to say good morning, but why do I know your name.You ask her, how do you know, and she will tell you that before going to bed last night, they had to memorize the names of the guests in each room.Then I went to have breakfast and a snack was brought while I was having breakfast.I asked, what is the red thing in the middle?The waiter took a look, took a step back and said, what is that.What is that black thing next to it.She took another look, took a step back and said, what is that.Why did she take a step back?Because in order to avoid her saliva touching my dish.

Maybe everyone has experienced such a thing, just think it is very normal and ignore it.But I think these seem to be small things, but they reflect very profound truths.If the waiter didn't have a sense of honor that Hilton was proud of, how could she behave so conscientiously?Achievements can create honor, and honor can allow you to achieve greater achievements.Can an employee without a sense of honor become a proactive and self-motivated employee?If you can't realize the importance of honor and what it means to yourself, your work, and your company, how can you expect such employees to strive for and create honor?

Every team should educate its members on the sense of honor, and every member should arouse the sense of honor of their position and the company.If a member has enough sense of honor for his work, is proud of his work, and proud of his team, he will definitely glow with incomparable enthusiasm for work.In the process of striving for honor, creating honor, defending honor, and maintaining honor, we are also unknowingly integrated into the collective and achieve better development.

Factors of Successful Team Building

As the specific implementation project manager, it is necessary to accumulate a considerable amount of experience and make a serious summary, such as: the project leader project, efficient and advanced implementation methods, clear implementation goals and scope, effective plan control and time management, and continuous phased implementation Work summary, necessary risk control and emergency measures, etc.One of the most important and easily overlooked is team building, so how can we build a successful team?
First, assessment and incentives are the same.Appraisal is a means of evaluating the performance of team members. When using this method, managers must pay attention to rewarding the good and punishing the bad. Only by combining the appraisal with incentives can it play a role in stimulating team morale.

Second, enhance the overall cohesion of the team and the sense of personal accomplishment.The organizer of the team can try to organize some activities similar to team development, such as: crossing the high-altitude broken bridge, high-altitude grabbing bars, survival in the wild, moving gasoline barrels, etc. Through these activities, everyone can realize self-confidence, trust in the collective, collective Wisdom and the power of the team are unimaginable and so on.Indeed, through such activities, on the one hand, everyone has enhanced self-confidence and dispelled frustration, and at the same time, the team has also developed a strong cohesion; , the dedication of the implementers, and the achievements of the project, etc., a large number of extensive publicity will be carried out in the enterprise, so that on the one hand, everyone in the enterprise can keep abreast of the situation and give corresponding support. The important point is to enable those involved in project implementation to have a strong sense of responsibility and accomplishment.

Third, let project team members learn to empathize and change roles, and correctly understand the strategic significance of the team.

Members of the team should be aware of the ten functions of the team:

1. Help enterprises improve operating efficiency.

2. Help enterprises reduce costs.

3. Help enterprises better face changes.

4. Contribute to the establishment of an excellent corporate culture.

5. Help enterprises to better implement improvement measures.

6. Help enterprises to increase execution.

7. Help enterprises to better cultivate and develop the ability of employees.

8. It is conducive to motivating employees.

9. It is conducive to the fair assessment of employees.

10. Promote employee participation in decision-making.

Alfie Cohen, the author of "No Rival", has spent more than ten years observing some effects of competition and cooperation of hundreds of companies.His conclusion is clear: the operation of the super not only does not require competition, it does not seem to allow competition.A study by David and Roger of the University of Minnesota in an educational setting reported that 173 studies found that collaboration resulted in more achievement than competition or going it alone; 13 studies found that competition resulted in higher success; Another 78 studies found no major differences.Red Auerbach, the tireless coach of the Boston Celtics, won 16 NBA championships under his guidance.Baseball commentator and former coach Harbie Brown remembers Auerbach helping create the Celtic style.Reid knows how to make everyone subordinate to the team... The Celtics understand this principle: There is no ego in the team.Even in a competitive society, we should be mindful of the benefits of reward systems that work teams create to encourage cooperation more persuasively than competition.Everyone benefits from being appreciated.

Work team rewards are a great way to encourage team achievement and cohesion.When we evaluate a reward system, we should pay more attention to the performance of the whole team rather than the performance of individuals.We believe that when the entire team achieves unexpected success, the appropriate bonus and salary increase should be distributed equally to the whole team, and should not be given to some individuals who the company believes have made special contributions.Anything else can damage the organization of a good team.If all are indeed working towards a common goal, they should all be rewarded equally.In the case of Whirlpool, the leader of the global task force had to defend his team to ensure that each team member's achievements were recognized.He believes that the joint efforts of each member of the team make his team a first-class team in the entire company.In addition, he insisted on equality and offered to forgo his share of the bonus.This leader displays uncommon integrity and dedication in earning proper credit for his teammates, but it doesn't have to be so relentless in rewarding individual members.In fact, rewards don't have to be expressed in money or prizes.A reward can be as simple as just a pizza lunch.Sometimes the managers we work with choose members of the barbecue, hamburger, or hot dog serving team as rewards.Leading a personal effort can be very effective in showing praise.Like Dr. Bill Cross said: I think workgroups make workspaces easier, more enjoyable, and more rewarding, if I can call it that.And we've also tried to make work enjoyable, and we've succeeded to the greatest extent possible.

Barrel Law and Team Spirit

The barrel law is an important theory in management, also known as the short board theory. Its core content is: the amount of water a wooden barrel can hold does not depend on the highest piece of wood on the barrel wall, but on the The shortest piece.

The objects to which the barrel law applies can be divided into two types: organizations and individuals.The law of barrels can inspire us to think about the importance of team building.

In a team, it is not the person with the strongest ability and the best performance that determines the combat effectiveness of the team. On the contrary, it is the laggard with the weakest ability and the worst performance.Because how much water a barrel can hold does not depend on the longest plank, but on the shortest plank.It also depends on whether the combination between the planks is tight.If there is a gap between the planks, or if the gap is very large, it will not be filled with water, not even a drop of water.

The law of wooden barrels enlightens us: If we want to increase the overall capacity of the bucket, we should not lengthen the longest board, but work hard to fill up the shortest board in turn.

It is easy to find that the wooden barrel and the enterprise have something in common, that is, the various parts that make up the system are often not the same, and the inferior parts often determine the level of the entire system.Because the shortest plank is limiting and restricting the longest plank, thus determining the combat effectiveness of the entire system, thereby affecting the overall strength of the entire system.

Therefore, an organization cannot be invincible only by being superior and outstanding in a certain aspect, but depends on the overall situation and strength; whether a group has strong competitiveness often depends on Does it have outstanding weaknesses.Weaknesses determine advantages, and disadvantages determine life and death. This is the cruel law of market competition.

The Barrel Law also tells the leaders that in the process of management, we must work hard to pay close attention to the weak links of the company, otherwise, the overall work of the company will be affected. It is difficult to improve the overall effect of the work by only learning from the strengths and not making up for the weaknesses.

Mr. Henry Hawkins, the general manager of the Henry Food Processing Company in the United States, suddenly discovered from the test report one day that although the additives in the food formula they produced were not very toxic, they would be harmful to the body if taken for a long time. Deleting additives in food will affect the freshness of the product.If it is announced to the public, it will inevitably arouse strong opposition from colleagues.Finally, he resolutely announced to the society: preservatives are poisonous and harmful to the body.

As soon as Mr. Henry Hawkins said this, all the bosses engaged in food processing immediately convened to fight back against him by all means, accusing him of having ulterior motives—to beat others and promote themselves!They quickly united to boycott Henry's products, and Henry's company was on the verge of bankruptcy.This controversy also lasted for 4 full years!Unexpectedly, when Henry's company was on the verge of bankruptcy, its reputation became a household name. Not only did it receive support from the government, but its products have also become popular products that people can rest assured!The reason seems to be very simple-Henry Company is the first company that honestly cares about customers, and the first company that reveals its shortcomings like a friend!Since then, Henry's company has recovered in a very short period of time, and its scale has also doubled, and it has become the number one in the US food processing industry in one fell swoop!
This reminds us of another story:
When Joe Ham first came to Ed's martial arts training, he was often beaten due to lack of skills and experience.

He tried to cheat, but always to no avail.One day, Parker invited him to the office, took a piece of chalk, drew a line on the ground, and asked: If it were you, how could you shorten this line?After looking at it carefully for a while, Ham gave several answers, including cutting the line into several sections.But Parker shook his head in denial, drew a line longer than this line, and then asked: How do you see the first line now?Ham replied suddenly: Oh, it's short.

(End of this chapter)