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Chapter 6 Don't use yourself as the "Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee"

The most important value of private enterprises is "pragmatic".Any form of "bureaucracy" is ridiculous.We all know that private enterprises are based on "doing things" and "making money".This major premise determines that for private enterprises, the starting point for everything should be two words: pragmatic.Anything that has nothing to do with "pragmatic" should be discarded.But in the real world, there are so many private enterprises who have confused this point!I don’t know if it’s because I watched too much TV when I was a child, or because the “legacy” left by the “planned economy” was too deep, but now many managers of private enterprises look almost the same as the “secretary of the provincial party committee” and have a “leadership style” ", speaking must be bureaucratic, and words must talk about "meetings".It is true that "meeting" is one of the important forms of implementing "management" work in any kind of organization, and it is indispensable.But if things only stay at the level of whether the "meeting" has been held, rather than whether the "things" have been done, then the "meeting" itself is just a mere formality, becoming a "meeting" for the sake of "meeting". The matter of "meeting" will become a typical symbol of a ridiculous "bureaucracy" in private enterprises (although such things are common in public institutions, they are the "imperial food" that people eat, and they are supported by the state. But you are a private enterprise, your "food" has to be "earned" by yourself, don't mistake the role).

Of course, maybe everyone fantasizes that they have a "dream team" that can do things quickly and quickly. If there is a problem, hurry up and hold a meeting. When the meeting is over, the brothers will act immediately, work together, and get rid of it. Two, it's done beautifully, and you don't need to worry about it at all-how cool!This kind of execution is not covered!The question is, do you have such a "dream team"?I am afraid that most of the time what makes you depressed or even painful is that no matter how many meetings you have, basically what you say is "repetitive" and what you talk about is "repetitive" things-meaning that your " "Meetings" are held extremely inefficiently, and they are held in vain, because nothing is resolved and nothing is accomplished.That is to say, you call it a "meeting" for the sake of a "meeting", or you can also call it a typical "bureaucracy" - don't care if things are done or not, anyway, I opened the "meeting" and "things" "My son" I arranged (meaning that I have fulfilled my responsibilities), and it is "their" business to fail, and has nothing to do with "me".Now comes the problem. Although you can understand this matter in this way, as I said before, you are not a "national team" after all. You are supported by the state. You are a private enterprise and have to "support yourself". If the enterprise collapses , you will have nothing to eat.No one will "cover the bottom" for you, and your "bottom" has to be "covered" by yourself.It's as simple as that.In the final analysis, "meetings" are for the purpose of "solving" things, and meetings that can't "solve" any "things" are better not held, or at least should be held less.

If there is no meeting, how to solve the problem?Quite simply, some things are better and stronger done "one-on-one".Because "meeting", to put it bluntly, means "bringing everyone together to discuss one matter".Does the form matter?Truth be told, it matters.But without formalism, it loses its meaning.Therefore, if you can do many things without "bringing everyone together to discuss", try not to do so.Because if you do this, it is equivalent to giving a lot of people the opportunity to "make up the number"-on the surface, they are recording things in their notebooks, but in fact they don't listen to anything in their minds.Therefore, in many cases, it is more "real" to speak "one-on-one" than to "talk together".This may seem inefficient on the surface, but the "results" are solid and real. Accumulate this real and solid result little by little, and eventually you will receive the results you want.It's better than if you have more than 1 meetings and things are still "not moving".

"Meeting" is like a "one-size-fits-all" approach. On the surface, it seems that you want to make a "big action" that can be "fixed in one fell swoop", but in fact its effect is often like a piece of glass, fragile and vulnerable.Taking a step back, even if it can achieve good results, it is often not "sustainable", that is to say, the results are "fragile" and not "solid".The "one-on-one" and "man-to-man" methods are like the "guerrilla warfare" of "digging the wall and mixing sand", which is flexible and maneuverable.Although the results are extremely "tiny" each time, they are "solid" and "real". If such "small results" accumulate bit by bit, you will eventually have a real "towering tree" "of.This is the classic principle of "accumulating small victories into big victories", taught by the great leader Chairman Mao.Don't always compete with yourself, always want to do "big things" and "eat a big fat man with one bite".In fact, we are all "mortals" and are used to doing "little things".But you have to believe that a hundred small things can always make up a "big thing".Do what you are used to and are good at, don't always be whimsical, and be a "provincial party secretary".

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