Yanzi Valley of Jingcheng

Chapter 242 The Goal of Dimensionality Reduction

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, said, "Leadership is about doing the right thing, while management is about doing things right. Leadership is more about art, relying on the personal charisma of decision makers to do the right thing, while management is about science. , is routine and executive.”

Guan Sha’s computer is filled with a bunch of management books. In order to save money, she bought all the electronic versions. At this time, a large passage was displayed on her computer screen:
Mercer, the world's largest human resources management consulting organization, proposed that future organizational management is driven by digitalization, which mainly includes five aspects:

First, rapid change.The ability to change, and to change rapidly, is increasingly becoming one of the differentiating factors of a firm's capabilities.

Second, a sense of mission at work.Embed a high sense of purpose in the employee value proposition, unleash individual potential and empower employees to be agents of change.

Third, flexible system.Flexibility is more than being able to work from anywhere, it means rethinking what, how and who works.

Fourth, talent platform.Businesses are becoming intelligent platforms for matching skills supply and job demand, while also tapping into the creativity and ambition of their talent.

Fifth, complete digitization.To unlock the growth potential of the age of talent, technology must enhance people's experience at work.

"Studying management?" Xiao Jie's voice suddenly came from behind Guan Sha, and Guan Sha jumped up immediately.

"What are you doing? You were taken aback." Xiao Jie said.

"You scared me to death..." Guan Sha turned pale.

Xiao Jie wanted to explain that his movement was not much, and there were sounds when he entered the door, turned on the lights, and walked, but instead of explaining this to Guan Sha, he smiled and praised, "Being scared means you are focused, which is good. "

The reason why Guan Sha was frightened like this was not entirely because of concentration. She felt guilty about something, and she was so guilty that she broke out in a cold sweat. After all, she herself told her competitor, Shang Nuo, the solution to the long-term rental apartment dilemma.

According to Guan Sha’s understanding, Shangnuo’s long-term rental apartments currently have more than 60 units, and the location of the housing is highly coincident with the business district that Guan Sha is interested in. Shangnuo has been in this business for five years. Industry resources There are more than Guansha, and he has known many landlords before, and these landlords also recognize his personal reputation, so it is easier to start a business.

The reason why the scale of housing stock has not increased is because he is relying on his own funds for development, and has not yet obtained a multi-million financing like the Jinquan Group gave Guansha.

Although Guan Sha knows that the only way out for long-term rental apartments is to reduce operating costs, and reducing operating costs requires refined management, and refined management must be inseparable from digital transformation, those big data systems and intelligent algorithms she talked about I didn't develop it myself.

As a purebred business graduate, Guan Sha doesn't even know how to write code. If she doesn't quickly build a professional team, all this is nothing but Guan Sha's fantasy.

It's just that it's not a good thing for Shang Nuo to know about this fantasy now. If Shang Nuo made this system first, wouldn't he be very passive on his side?

Because of this, after returning home at night, Guan Sha kept thinking about whether to tell Xiao Jie about it.

If she said it, he was afraid that Xiao Jie would get angry and would blame her for being stupid, but if she didn't say it, it seemed that this matter was very serious, not only serious, but also urgent, who knows if Shang Nuo would suddenly get a favor? A large amount of financing and then go straight to work?
"That... that... who are you socializing with tonight?" Guan Sha asked Xiao Jie, she wanted to have a casual chat first before cutting into the topic.

"Client." Xiao Jie answered very generally, but in fact he met two important people tonight and had a detailed chat with them about the Guansha Yanzigu apartment. The other party promised to seriously consider it for two days, but Xiao Jie didn't After getting the answer, she decided not to tell Guan Sha for now.

"Oh..." Guan Sha saw that Xiao Jie didn't want to talk more, so she didn't continue to ask, but she still didn't dare to say, so she went back to the computer and pretended to continue reading the e-book.

"It's good to read more books on management. Many companies have developed later, and management can't keep up." Xiao Jie said.

"Of course, I now stipulate that I must study business management for two hours a day, at least two hours."

Guan Sha originally thought that Xiao Jie would praise her for her hard work when she said that, but Xiao Jie shook his head directly. He took out a bottle of Diet Coke from the refrigerator, sat next to Guan Sha and said earnestly, "Don't quantify."

"Ah?" Guan Sha didn't understand at once.

"Don't quantify the goals you want to accomplish every day, at least don't use time to quantify them." Xiao Jie explained, "For example, exercising for one hour a day and reading for two hours a day actually reduce the dimensionality of your goals."

Guan Sha frowned, "Master, can you speak human language?"

Xiao Jie laughed when he heard the words, he poured himself a sip of Coke, and then said, "It's not difficult to learn management for two hours a day, but after spending these two hours, what problems you solve is the key. I still Take fitness as an example. What problem does 1 hour of fitness every day solve? Walking is fitness, as are yoga and dancing, but if your goal is only the vest line, then walking, yoga and dancing are not efficient, you should do it every day The most important thing is abdominal core training, which means that the length of time you complete the task is not the goal, but the effect achieved is the goal.”

Guan Sha's eyes were wide open, Xiao Jie's words gave her a feeling of enlightenment, she thought she would faint, it turned out that the old lady had been working hard, but the quality of her hard work was very poor!

"What is your goal in learning management?" Xiao Jie asked directly.

"Huh? Uh... I just want to be a great entrepreneur..." Guan Sha felt even more guilty, because she hadn't thought about this question at all.

"The two hours you study every day, or the 60 hours you study a month, must be aimed at solving the company's actual problems." Xiao Jie emphasized.

Xiao Jie's theory does run counter to the "quantitative goals" that everyone usually advocates.

From childhood to adulthood, we are often taught to quantify our goals, such as the 10000-hour law, as if anyone can become an expert as long as they spend 10000 hours in the study and practice of a certain industry, maybe this person can really become an expert, but if he Think more about the quality of the time spent, maybe he will improve the method of hard work, the level that can only be reached in 10000 hours, and finally this person can reach it in 5000 hours.

Therefore, in Xiao Jie's view, quantifying goals, especially the practice of using time as a quantitative indicator like Guan Sha's, is to "reduce dimensionality" of one's tasks. There is an illusion of "I'm already solving the problem".

Guan Sha felt that what Xiao Jie said made sense at first, but she thought about it again, and felt that her original method could not be completely wrong, "Didn't people say that excellence = efficiency x time. If I want to become excellent, I must either improve efficiency or If I add more time, I think my efficiency is not bad. I can read two books a week, and it takes time. As long as I do both well, I can become excellent."

After hearing this, Xiao Jie raised his head and took a big gulp of Coke. After drinking, he accurately threw the empty Coke bottle into the trash can in the kitchen.

"You think it is, but it's not." Xiao Jie said, "Let me give you an example. For example, if you throw a snowball on the ground, you will eventually build a snowdrift. If you throw a snowball, it will not form a snowdrift. Throwing two will not work, throwing a hundred, a thousand, even if you throw it fast and for a long time, will it form a snowdrift? Not necessarily, it depends on which direction you throw it. Did you move around at the time, if you threw it casually while walking, you would only find scattered snowflakes all over the ground after throwing it for a long time..."

Guan Sha: "..."

"What I want to say is that methods are more important than efficiency and time. Your management problem is actually a company system problem, and system problems must be solved with systematic thinking." Xiao Jie continued, "You read more books every day, Two hours a day, is that the point? No."

"Then what is the point?" Guan Sha asked.

"It's the system behind it." Xiao Jie replied, "Your goal should be to establish a knowledge system for long-term rental apartment management. If you encounter difficulties in practice, this difficulty will stimulate your need to learn. You have the ability to meet this demand. Purposeful reading and perfecting your management thinking system after acquiring knowledge is the key point, if you do this in a targeted manner, you may be able to solve the problem in half an hour instead of spending 60 hours in a month."

Guan Sha was completely convinced this time, so she asked weakly, "Is there any specific method?"

"It's very simple. It's to make up for the weak points. You can make up for where you think you are weak, and don't study management in a general way. Isn't your master's degree in management? Isn't what you learned in school general enough? Need it Do you want to learn it again?"

"This..." Guan Sha was completely dumb,
"Actually, if you don't tell me, I know where the current weak link of Yanzigu Apartment is." Xiao Jie said bluntly, "In terms of finance and operation, you have been recruiting people for a while, and it is obvious that the current management model cannot be changed. Yes, but the more people you recruit, the more expensive it will be, and the company is not very profitable yet.”

"Yes, yes, yes!!" Guan Sha held Xiao Jie's hand excitedly, "What should I do?"

"Have you studied the example of the gold-collar shoe industry I told you before?" Xiao Jie asked.

Guan Sha nodded desperately, "Of course there is, but I don't know how to set up the system, where to start, how to do it, who to do it with, I'm as if I'm blind..."

"You don't have to worry about this, I will take you to see two people in two days, they will most likely be able to help you." Xiao Jie said.

"Really?" Guan Sha was both surprised and delighted. Before she could continue to ask, Xiao Jie began to tell her about refined management and the foundation of the ideological system necessary for founders. Of course, it also includes Guan Sha's current company management. some weak points.

Xiao Jie told Guan Sha: "Your finance department needs to have basic financial thinking, so that they understand that the ultimate goal of organizational management is to create profits. For example, you are eager to reduce operating costs, but the essence of operations is to create profits. If The operation has been done very efficiently, so this part of the cost is actually not a cost.”

Xiao Jie then explained to Guan Sha in detail the relationship between human asset input and output value, the service awareness in marketing, the system construction, management methods and systematic thinking in operation logic.

Various words were implanted in Guan Sha's brain.

Synergy, integration, symbiosis, efficiency, diversification... All of these things are ultimately to be tested to see how much Guan Sha can do, but Xiao Jie did open her horizons. Guan Sha couldn't help but ask Xiao Jie, "You don't have your own How do you know so much after starting a business?”

"I've seen too much." Xiao Jie said leisurely, "Being a venture capitalist is actually watching hundreds of companies fail every year. Each failed company has its own shape, but successful companies, organizational management Systematic thinking basically looks the same, so you..."

Before Xiao Jie finished speaking, his lips were tightly blocked by Guan Sha, and the hot breath and the fragrance of Guan Sha rushed towards Xiao Jie.

(End of this chapter)