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Chapter 10 "Old Stuff" and "Good Stuff"

Please often dig out those "old things" to have a look, because most of them are "good things". crime.One day, I had time to dig out the "old antiques" sleeping in the computer one by one (manufacturer's documents, company's various systems, management methods, experience introductions from friends' stores, documents when experts came to the store for guidance, etc.) After "reviewing" again, I am really moved!There are two things that are lamentable and embarrassing: First, most of the "old stuff" is basically a mere formality in actual work.Many things have only stayed on the "paper" from the beginning to the present, and have not "fallen into practice" at all, let alone talk about "flowering and bearing fruit". Second, most of the "old things" are actually not "bad". ", on the contrary, many of them are "good things", and even you will "can't find them everywhere" many times, and they are "panacea" that can solve many of your "urgent" thorny problems.But they are sleeping in your computer, and have not been touched for a long time.

For example, once an employee gave me a suggestion: the employees in their department were in a chaotic working state, and a complete set of procedures should be developed to regulate them.This opinion sounds right at first glance, because those employees are indeed in a chaotic and inefficient working state, which is a fact.But after thinking about it carefully, anger came from my heart—is there still less process in that department?In fact, it is piled up like a mountain!An employee can't even do the most basic things, how can he talk about efficient processes?Obviously, this is no longer a matter of "making" or "improving" a "process", but an out-and-out "execution" problem.As long as it is "executed" well, any "stupid" process can bring "productivity"!The opposite is also true, if the "execution" is not good, no matter how "pretty" the process is, it will be useless.Sometimes the complexity of human nature is really incomprehensible.It's as if you have a lot of beautiful clothes hidden in the closet, but you often can't find the right clothes to go out, so you have to buy a new one temporarily, or just make do with it and go out, but when you go home Occasionally, you look through the closet and find a lot of good clothes hanging there, which are already full of insect bite holes and make you regret it.We often come up with many good solutions to solve a difficult problem, but due to various reasons, they are not well implemented, so we can only "seal up" these good solutions and gradually forget them.The next time you encounter the same problem, think of the same (or similar) solution, and then "seal" and "forget"...

Repeatedly, countless brain cells died, but nothing was done. I am really ashamed of my countless brain cells that died unjustly!In order to solve this big problem, it seems that there are only two ways: one is to thoroughly implement the "period-style" management.No matter how difficult it is, as long as you come up with a good idea (the "birth" of a good idea is often triggered by the emergence of a "problem" in the work. If the good idea cannot be implemented, it means that the idea has failed. represents that the "problem" has not been really solved, and it is going round and round, in an infinite loop) to implement it unswervingly until you see it really "flower and bear fruit". This does not mean that this good idea will not have Defects, there is no problem with defects, just adjust and improve, but you must not "shoot them out" easily, because doing so is tantamount to "wasting food because of choking".

There is a word in Japanese that I like very much called "trial and error", which means that many things in the world are definitely not absolutely correct from the beginning, and often need to be tested first, and mistakes are constantly discovered and corrected during the test.But never give up, must stick to the end.It only uses a simple word to describe a rather complicated and vivid "process", and the efficiency of using words is admirable.It is a bit similar to what we often say "crossing the river by feeling the stones".The other is, if you really can't do the above method, so be it - please at least regularly dig out those "old things" from the computer to have a look, because most of them are generally absolutely useless. It's a "good thing" (how could it be worthless when you wasted so many brain cells to come up with something at the time?).The reason is simple-we really don't want to do what we have done N times again without any results, it is simply a crime against ourselves.

(End of this chapter)