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Chapter 62 "Team Spirit" Can Be Sniffed Out
"Team spirit" is a kind of "atmosphere", a kind of "smell", it is "everywhere" and "everywhere", and it always permeates every corner of the enterprise, so that individuals can "smell" with their noses come out.Today's bosses always talk about "team spirit" in their mouths. At least in their mouths, "team spirit" has become a "panacea" to solve all management problems.But the irony is that people who have really figured out the true meaning of "team spirit" and even achieved "superficial" level of "team spirit" are rare in real life, and there are really only a handful of them.I am no exception. I am still in the stage of "struggling to search" for the eternal subject of "team spirit" in management, so I dare not make rash comments.Here, I will only introduce my research experience from two small aspects.Most of our enterprises adopt the method of "determining people according to their positions".

That is to say, when you come, you can only stay in the place that "belongs to you", don't worry about other places.Just do your part honestly.It's a really weird corporate culture.In enterprises with this kind of cultural atmosphere, such a phenomenon often occurs: various departments "do their own thing" and no one "connects with anyone".Therefore, "mountain doctrine" is rampant in the enterprise, and the overall interests of the company are seriously ignored. One of the major disadvantages of the system of "determining people according to the post" is that because employees are quickly absorbed into a specific department as soon as they arrive at the company, they have almost no chance to fully contact with other departments. "method" will naturally only start from the perspective of their own department, lacking the perspective of looking at problems from the standpoint of other departments and colleagues.This will inevitably lead to "mountainism" and "contradictions" among departments, which will greatly damage the overall competitiveness of the enterprise.

In fact, in companies in developed countries in Europe, America, and Japan, when any new employee reports for duty, he needs to undergo a "cross-border internship" within the company before he can start his job.That is to say, this employee will be assigned to a specific department after he has been intern in all relevant departments of the company for a period of time.Moreover, every once in a while, the company will also "interchange" employees from different departments.The advantage of doing this is that it can eliminate the "mountainism" to the greatest extent (since you have been in any department and know each other's difficulties, so it is easier to achieve "mutual understanding" in actual work), and it can also improve employees' morale. Comprehensive skills to achieve the purpose of training and cultivating talents.Not only that, this method can also provide employees with a steady stream of "freshness", delay the occurrence of "aesthetic fatigue", and enable employees to maintain passion and creativity for a long time.It's very strange, why can't such a good method of "killing multiple birds with one stone" be accepted by our own enterprises?Some business managers may say: "Every department has its secrets. If the employees go around like this, don't they lose all the secrets?" My God, you are just a company, aren't you? How can a country have so many "secrets" to keep?
Even the insiders must be "strictly guarded"?To be honest, as long as your management is excellent, the quality of your personnel is excellent, and your corporate culture is excellent, even if you invite someone to "learn" your secrets, they may not be able to learn your secrets. "Core secrets" is something that is integrated into DNA, and it is not so easy for others to "steal lessons".Therefore, I still want to sincerely recommend the "cross-border" internship method to all companies, and we must make our companies as many "all-rounders" as possible and have more harmonious atmosphere.In addition, in order to truly establish a "team spirit", as a manager, he must value, respect, and care for every "member" of the team from the bottom of his heart.A successful entrepreneur once said, "My management philosophy is to let no one on the team fail, not one." "Let no one fail", how well it is said!If an enterprise is compared to an "eagle", then employees are its "feathers".Only by cherishing every feather of yours can you become an eagle with strong fighting power.Of course, the quality of people is high or low, and the character is good or bad. It is really impossible for you to keep every employee of yours forever.However, as long as you make the effort of "not giving up any employee easily", "not letting anyone fail", or even just making a gesture, your employees will feel very "steady" and have a special "sense of security" , When you mention your own company, you will feel "warm and harmonious" all over your body.

It is impossible for such employees to have low loyalty, and it is impossible for such a corporate "atmosphere" to be bad, so it is impossible to be uncompetitive.But unfortunately, many of our current enterprises have a "deformed" cultural atmosphere: let employees "fend for themselves" and "train themselves" in a cruel environment.Although there are certain benefits in doing so-employees who "get ahead" have super abilities, but at the same time, they will also be extremely lacking in "sense of security", "corporate identity, loyalty" and "team spirit".That is to say, although the employees who "survived" in the cruel environment are all "martial arts masters", they are "cold-blooded killers"; although they are full of "wolf nature", they are "lone wolf" wolf nature.

An enterprise with such a "cluster" of masters may not necessarily be a promising enterprise.Because, without "team spirit" and only "individual heroism", an enterprise will be "a mess", and everyone's combat effectiveness will "offset each other" in "mutual combat", resulting in a sharp decline in the overall competitiveness of the enterprise.More than that, the "cold-blooded killers" who lack "loyalty" and "team spirit" will leave you sooner or later, or bring significant harm to your company in other ways.In contrast, companies with a "family-like" relationship among employees and a "harmonious and harmonious" atmosphere are more effective.Because this kind of enterprise relies on "team spirit", as long as there is a "joint force" of the team, even if the individual's combat effectiveness is weaker, it is easy to defeat those "rabble" who have "peerless masters" but low morale.

Ma Yun, the president of China's IT giant Alibaba, once said that "the atmosphere of a company can be 'smelled' with the nose."I can say responsibly that the quality of an enterprise's "atmosphere" is absolutely proportional to the level of competitiveness.No matter how "superb" you think your management skills are, as long as you don't have the ability to create and maintain a good "atmosphere" and the "good nose" that can "smell" a good or bad atmosphere, you will never be that " the final winner".No matter how "iron" you are, or how "organized" your business appears to be, it's an "illusion" and unsustainable.In short, only a company with "team spirit" is a company with real "permanent" competitiveness.Therefore, "team spirit" is a major management issue "a matter of life and death" for any enterprise, and must not be underestimated.

However, if it is because of this, there is no need to regard "team spirit" as an unfathomable "martial arts cheat". "Team spirit" is actually not mysterious at all, not esoteric at all.It can be fully embodied in the "appearance".To put it bluntly, "team spirit" is a kind of "atmosphere", a kind of "smell". It is "everywhere" and "everywhere", and it always permeates every corner of the enterprise. "Smell" out.No matter how strong you are, how confident you are, how good you feel about yourself, chances are your sense of smell has dulled.So it may be helpful to have someone (not necessarily a "savvy person", preferably a normal person) to give you a "smell" of your company's atmosphere as soon as possible.

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