The Complete Works of Wolf Road

Chapter 33 Wolf Discipline (2)
Nothing in the world is absolute, and so is freedom. Without discipline, freedom will overflow and become depravity.The same is true for the employees in the enterprise. Don't think of discipline as a scourge.Clare Company in the UK always introduces the discipline of the company first in the training of new employees. The chief trainer always says this: "Discipline is a high-tension line, it hangs high there, as long as you pay attention to it, or don't touch it on purpose." If it does, you are a disciplined person. Look, discipline is as simple as that."

Indeed, if we devote a little effort, we will save a lot of complaints and troubles, and we will not resent the strict discipline, nor hate the strictness of the boss.

In matters of discipline and obedience to leadership, the correct attitude should be unambiguous obedience.We know very well that the discipline of the army is more important than any discipline. In the army, the obedience of soldiers is the objective requirement of the profession.There is a saying at West Point: "Discipline is an important factor in maintaining the combat effectiveness of the troops, and it is also the key to the soldiers' full potential. Therefore, discipline should be deeply rooted. It is even stronger than the intensity of battle and the terrible nature of death." "There is only one kind of discipline, and this is perfect discipline. If you do not enforce and maintain discipline, you are a potential murderer." Soldiers in the army know discipline so well, and they also enforce discipline in this way.

The key to discipline is understanding and self-respect.It is the willingness to have value that can reach the hearts of employees in the company.We understand that hard work can remove resentment from our hearts.Creative discipline leads to greater rapport between leaders and followers.It also creates a mutual sense of self-esteem between employees who have made mistakes and those who will.More importantly, we must first discipline ourselves before we can effectively impose discipline on others.

Remember the words of Seneca: "Discipline can only be enforced by those who obey it."

4 Obedience is the first step in action

When the wolf king has been determined, the rest of the wolves always obey its leader, which is also the discipline of wolves.

Obedience is a virtue.If an enterprise does not have strict rules and regulations and strict discipline, it will be like a pan of loose sand; "There is no rule without rules." If there is no obedience, the enterprise will be defeated, and there will be no competition and survival.

Please read a letter from a general who graduated from a military academy to the father of a cadet:

Why are we putting these kids through 4 years of hard education?They live in the cold barracks, cannot empty the garbage in the garbage can before 9:30 am, and the sink must be kept clean and unclogged at all times.So many regulations and rules, why?Because once they graduate, they will be expected to be completely selfless.With so much time in the army, they're going to suffer, they're going to be away from home at Christmas, they're going to sleep in the dirt.There are many, many things about the job that make them put their self-interest on the back burner - so get used to it.

What good does it do to have an itch on your back that you can't scratch?The trainees know that soldiers must be able to bear back itches.

Can an army be called a well-trained army if the soldiers in it are shaking from side to side and scratching desperately?
The notion of obedience applies equally well in the corporate world.Every employee must obey the arrangement of the superior, just as every soldier must obey the command of the superior.Whether it is as large as a country or an army, or as small as an enterprise or a department, its success or failure depends to a large extent on whether the concept of obedience is perfectly implemented.

Obedience is the first step in action. In the position of an obedient person, one must follow instructions.

The obedient must temporarily relinquish personal independence and wholeheartedly follow the values ​​of the institution to which he belongs.In the process of learning obedience, a person will have a more thorough understanding of the values ​​and operation methods of his institution.

Of course, the admonitions and requirements of military academies are formulated from the perspective of military command and cannot be copied mechanically in enterprises.Moreover, not all the boss's instructions are correct, and the boss will make mistakes.However, an efficient enterprise must have a good sense of obedience, and an excellent employee must also have a sense of obedience.Because of the status and responsibility of the boss, he has the right to issue orders; at the same time, the authority of the boss and the interests of the whole do not allow subordinates to resist orders.In a team, if the subordinates cannot unconditionally obey the orders of their superiors, there may be obstacles in achieving the common goal; on the contrary, they can exert super executive ability and make the team superior.

There was once a famous track and field coach, whenever he saw the athletes, he persuaded them to cut their hair short.His reason, it is said, is that the problem is not the length of the hair, but whether they obey the coach.

Even if you don't understand the coach's intentions, but obey without making excuses, this is the good player the coach expects.Similarly, obey and execute without making excuses, this is the good employee that the company expects.

For subordinates, orders must be obeyed first, and the effect will not be known until they are executed; before they are executed, they will use their "intelligence" to talk about their opinions and reasons for not executing them, and they will be unwelcome characters wherever they go.For flawed orders, first of all obey, and exchange opinions with the leaders after obeying, and jointly improve and improve, "first centralize and then democratize."Now more and more enterprises tend to militarize management. The most important point is "obedience". Only "obedience" can create a team with high efficiency, full of combat effectiveness and competitiveness, and make the enterprise invincible .

5. Proactive execution, no excuses
Every time they hunt, each wolf must strictly follow the orders of the wolf king, even if they fight to the death, they must not be afraid.

No excuse is the performance of execution, no matter what you do, you must remember your responsibility.No matter what you do, you must take responsibility for your actions.Execution is to execute without any excuses, this is the discipline of the wolf, the execution of the wolf.

When NBA star Kidd was young, he often went bowling with his father.In every round of the contest, he scored lower than his father.Losing to his father again and again made Little Kidd very unconvinced. Every time he always found out one reason or another to cover up the gap between himself and his father in football skills.

After bowling that day, he suffered another crushing defeat, and he found an excuse to explain why he didn't play well.This time my father "cut to the point"

Say, "Stop making excuses. You can't bowl because you didn't work hard enough."

Whether a person evades responsibility or shirks his fault, he can always find an excuse.At any time and under any circumstances, excuses will not help you succeed, but will slow down your progress.The harsh words of his father shocked Kidd a lot.From this day forward, he devoted his attention to hard work and practice instead of making excuses afterward.

The reason why Hisense Group has been able to maintain the production and sales scale of its leading products such as TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators, and mobile phones at a double-digit rate every year in the fierce competition at home and abroad, reaching the current 221 billion yuan, is not so much a decision-making Success is better to say that Hisense has a high-level execution team.The leader of Hisense Group once said such a sentence: "For an enterprise, the loss of execution is fatal."

What this kind of execution culture strengthens is that every trainee tries his best to complete any task, instead of finding excuses for not completing tasks, even if they seem reasonable.Behind trying to complete the task, it reflects a service attitude, a professionalism, and a perfect execution.

For example, a large state-owned enterprise in China went bankrupt due to poor management and was later acquired by a foreign consortium.Surprisingly, the consortium only replaced the senior managers of several key departments such as finance, management, and technology with locals. Other people and machinery and equipment remained unchanged, but the employees were required to stick to the original system. With continuous implementation, the company turned a profit in less than a year.

"According to this, it can be concluded that strategy alone cannot make an enterprise stand out in the fierce competition, and only execution ability can enable an enterprise to create substantial value. Without execution ability, the enterprise will lose the guarantee of long-term survival and successful development of the enterprise." Hisense The chairman of the group once said: "Although Hisense Group has never had the experience of being resurrected from the dead, it has felt the power of implementation in terms of the success or failure of a certain decision."

Execution is a systematic way of exposing and acting upon reality, a process that includes rigorous discussion of methods and goals, questioning, relentless follow-up, and concrete accountability.

How to strengthen the executive power of the enterprise?The most fundamental purpose of a business is to make a profit.Therefore, the team should require every employee to resolutely implement the company's business policy for the fundamental interests of the company, and never blindly implement any instruction that is contrary to the company's business policy to please the boss.For managers at all levels of the team, they are required to have the ability to instill ideas and implement behaviors, that is, to instill the company's business ideas into employees, so that they consciously have the behavior of unswervingly implementing the company's business ideas.

"The core competitiveness of an enterprise lies in the strength of its execution." At present, it has become the consensus of enterprise decision makers.Execution is closely linked with corporate strategy and core competitiveness, and is equated with corporate philosophy, ambition, and responsibility. Doing what you should do wholeheartedly, without any excuses, is the ideal that companies want to achieve by strengthening employee execution. realm. "

In the eyes of team decision-makers, the source of executive power is culture.The competition among enterprises is actually the competition of executive power, and the competition of executive power is ultimately the competition of executive culture.Therefore, an enterprise should spare no effort to cultivate a strong executive culture in terms of corporate philosophy, spirit, and culture, so that each employee's "execution" has the highest code of conduct and the deep soil of ultimate goal culture.

For executive culture, a leader has his own unique understanding: "People are always the decisive factor in an enterprise. All enterprise problems are actually human problems, and only culture can change people's consciousness, thereby changing people's attitudes. Behavior. Any new strategic model will attract many imitators, but culture cannot be copied. The failure of most enterprises is due to the failure to establish an execution culture, making execution a tree without roots and a source of no source. water."

"1% non-execution will lead to 100% failure." Therefore, the company's execution culture is "execution" unconditional.In order to enhance the executive culture of the enterprise, the enterprise should start with cultivating employees' sense of identity, responsibility, mission, and belonging to the enterprise, and actively guide employees to love the enterprise, love their positions, and strive for dedication. Through subtle corporate history education, concept education, and inspiration All employees have the work enthusiasm and fighting spirit of "thinking in one place and working in one place" and "individuals obey the organization and execute without excuses".

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