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Chapter 48 How to make a difference in "existing" conditions?

Tell you how to learn from Chairman Mao's theory of "guerrilla warfare" and "positional warfare" to achieve your goals in the "existing" environment and conditions.There is always a problem of poor management in a key business department in my company. A middle-level cadre expresses emotion-if this department is entrusted to me to manage and I have the final say, I will give it a "teng" "Cage for bird", "Start from scratch", change everyone, and definitely manage this department well!Similar to my colleague's emotion, many of our managers always like to say this sentence when encountering difficult things-if this matter meets these conditions, I can definitely get it done!To understand this sentence in reverse, that is to say, because these conditions are not met, this matter has become something that cannot be done in 1 years.

Such a manager can only become a "verbal hero".And as long as they don't change this point of view, I'm afraid they will never have the chance to become "true heroes" in their lifetime.The reason is very simple.I don't doubt that many of them may really have "strength", but no matter how great your "strength" is, there are not so many "off-the-shelf" things waiting for you to play.Take this colleague in my company as an example, if he stubbornly believes that only by completely "vacating the cage and changing the bird" for him and "starting from scratch" can he really "do a big job", I am afraid that he will be very sad all his life. It's rare to come across a few "good things" like this - in our careers, how can there be so many opportunities just for you?In the same way, no matter what it is, if all the conditions are prepared for you in advance, then I am afraid that this matter may not require you to do it, right?

In the final analysis, "conditions" and "doing things" are a pair of twin brothers, they are mutually causal and cannot be separated.If you only want to reflect your "strength" by "doing things", but you want to put "conditions" outside your "ability", you will only prove your own "incompetence" in the end.To put it simply, those who cannot create the "conditions" to do things by themselves, or those who cannot do things under the "existing" conditions, are not worthy of the word "strength faction".It is true that starting from the state of "a blank sheet of paper", it is very "cool" to "do whatever you want", and it is easy to arouse the passion of "doing a big job".However, in the vast majority of cases, such "opportunities" you will not come across.Could it be that as long as you don't have such an opportunity, you are willing to be a "whiner" for the rest of your life?The real "strength faction" should be brave and good at doing things under the "existing" conditions (if these conditions cannot be changed for the time being), even if the "existing" conditions are extremely unsatisfactory for him.The following are several methods and ideas for doing things under the "existing" conditions.First, the leader does not support it—you can try every means to persuade the leader, or simply do it secretly behind his back.As long as you firmly believe that your starting point is good and serves the interests of the company and the boss, don't be afraid.

Moreover, after you have made a certain achievement, you will naturally get the understanding and support of your boss and colleagues (do you know the story of the birth of the digital camera? Originally, in order to cut costs, the project of several engineers who invented the digital camera at Sharp Corporation The group has been canceled by the company, and the research and development work of the project has also been ordered to stop. But they were not discouraged, did not give up, worked secretly behind the company's back, and finally invented this revolutionary product that completely changed the technology of human photography).Second, colleagues do not understand and do not assist - remember, "There are hundreds of people, and there are all kinds of people".There can be no two identical rocks in the world, and there is absolutely no possibility that the colleagues around you are "iron plates".As long as you are a "caring person", you will always find one or two "sympathizers" for yourself, and you can tenaciously open a "breakthrough" through them to create a condition for yourself to "do things".Third, there are always "villains" around you who are "against" yourself—remember, "hostility" is mutual, and other people's "hostility" towards you often comes from your "hostility" towards him.Therefore, it is a good way to try to give up "hostility" first.The Chinese have a problem. They don't want others to think that they "bully the weak and fear the hard".That is to say, the more "hard" you are, he will behave "harder" than you. If you "soften" first, he will lose his temper with you.Of course, there will indeed be some real "villains" in the world, who can't be boiled until they are steamed, and it is clear that they want to "oppose" you.

At this time, you can also adopt some "flexible" methods, such as "bypassing" his interference, or grabbing one or two of his "little pigtails" to contain him, or finding a "natural enemy" of his to use his strength You can "subdue" him and so on. In short, as long as you want, you will come up with a hundred ways to deal with him. He is far less terrible than you imagined.Of course, there are many, many ideas and methods, so I won’t go into details here.In the final analysis, I want to explain one meaning - as the saying goes, "Don't be afraid of thieves stealing, just be afraid of thieves thinking about it", as long as you don't give up, are willing to use your brain, and have the courage to put it into action, then there are not many things in the world that can stump you .Taking "war" as a metaphor, when the conditions of both sides are similar, or when our side is in an "advantage", it is appropriate to conduct "positional warfare" to achieve the effect of "the brave man wins when he meets on a narrow road" and "annihilates at one stroke"; on the contrary, if the conditions of both sides There is a huge difference, and when our side is at an obvious "disadvantage", it is suitable for "guerrilla warfare". It is necessary to "digging the wall" and "mixing sand" to create our "advantage" conditions in the battle, and "accumulating small victories into big ones" "Victory", through the continuous elimination of the enemy's "viable force" to achieve the ultimate goal of "turning over" the overall situation.This is the "super classic" strategic discourse on "guerrilla warfare" and "positional warfare" by the great leader Chairman Mao.As a "universal truth", it also applies to our corporate management work today - "vacating the cage and changing the bird", starting from scratch is like "positional warfare"; doing things in "existing" conditions is like "Guerrilla Warfare".

Of course, when the conditions are ripe, it is "exciting" to carry out "drastic" reforms on enterprises, that is, to adopt the method of "positional warfare" in order to "get it done in one fell swoop", but in most cases, I am afraid that we Managers still need to be mentally prepared to fight "guerrilla warfare", strive to "accumulate small victories into big victories", and finally achieve our goals through continuous and unremitting efforts.However, in order to do this, you must get rid of the "impetuousness" in your heart, be willing to spend a certain amount of "time", and even be mentally prepared to fight a "protracted war".In fact, "guerrilla warfare" does not necessarily mean "boring".It can also be an interesting, exciting, and addictive "tactics".Managers who can really "play" "guerrilla warfare" will definitely feel that this is a "joyful" thing.This is like the video games we usually play such as "Tetris" or "racing car". The greater the "difficulty", the more exciting and addictive, and the greater the "sense of accomplishment" after successfully "passing the level". The world of "video games" is still like this, but on the big "game board" of "life", can't you find the one with the least "difficulty" to play?
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