Change until the world gives way to you

Chapter 7 Get rid of the old past and create a new future (2)
Next, he carried out drastic reforms to the company and put forward the "eight principles" of reform.However, the success of the past 30 years has led many employees to oppose the new reforms.Gerstner's answer to this is: "We should not lie in the success of the past, let alone be blindly proud! We must have a sense of crisis and urgency in our thinking and actions, so as to ensure that we can keep up with the pace of success! ...Everything is changing in this era, if you can't keep up, you will definitely die!"

His reform adjusted the unhealthy organizational structure, integrated the company into the fierce competition, and revived its vigor and vitality.

In 2002, when he stepped down from the position of CEO, the company's total revenue had exceeded 800 billion U.S. dollars, and its profit reached a historic record of more than 60 billion U.S. dollars.

The clock of history is still spinning, and the cycle of success and failure is surprisingly similar.Is success really so scary and dangerous?

In fact, after success, you will worship the successful experience as the truth, and then follow the gourd, which leads to mistakes in decision-making and strategy.The ridiculous behavior of Henry Ford producing only one type of car and IBM only focusing on mainframes is not unprecedented. Such absurd assumptions abound.

Apple: Customers only need the most advanced software and computers, we don't need a development alliance;
Xerox: Businesses will always need large copiers that are complex to operate;
Kodak: Kodak is film and camera;
Adidas: We will always produce the most professional sports equipment... As a result, these companies and their leaders have lost their leading edge without exception.It is entirely possible that they will continue to repeat the same mistakes and go further and further down the wrong path.

Excessive nostalgia for the past, in the end, can only make us stay in the memory forever.

When a friendship dies, we learn to cherish the next friendship and the next friend.When one job fails, we have to learn how to avoid failure in the next job.Only then does the past make sense.Life is not static, the earth is always turning, seeing the changes in the world, who can follow it forever?Excessive nostalgia for the past, in the end, can only make us stay in the memory forever.Memory is just a photo of the past, it can only be fixed at that moment forever, but it cannot become the eternity of today.Let the past be the past, grasp today, and work hard for tomorrow's goal.Let the past be the past, from now on, create a brand new self.

In Tao Yuanming's "Returning to Come", there is a sentence: "If you understand the past, you can't remonstrate, and you can follow the one who knows the future." In fact, it tells everyone to work hard to grasp the present life and create the imminent tomorrow.Mere reminiscence, or obsession with the past, will only fill the mind with longing factors and consume our will.If you want to start a life with passion and a future with challenges, you have to let go of the past and pursue tomorrow.

Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1999, 17 years after her death, she was voted by the American Film Institute as one of the world's greatest actresses in a century.

At the age of 18, Ingrid Bergman went to the Royal Drama School with high hopes.Entering the examination room and stepping onto the stage, she performed a well-prepared sketch in an orderly manner.You can play and play.An inadvertent glance at the judging table made her heart sink—the judges were casually chatting and joking, and almost no one was paying attention to her performance.

Oops, how did this happen?Ingrid Bergman panicked more and more, and even forgot all the following lines.At this time, the chairman of the jury said: "Okay, thank you. Miss, the next one—"

Hearing this, she was shocked and her mind went blank.After a hasty exit, she cried and ran to the river, intending to throw herself into the river to end her life.

Don't worry, Ingrid Bergman didn't do anything stupid like that.But then, after she became the brightest star in Hollywood, she did something stupid that sparked outrage.

That year, after watching the films "Rome, Open City" and "Compatriots" directed by Italian director Roberto Rossellini, she was deeply impressed by Rossellini's realistic style, so she gave him I wrote a passionate letter, hoping to cooperate with each other.Rossellini readily accepted. At first, they were just partners, but later they fell in love and became lovers, and gave birth to him a son.And the fact is that she was still a married woman at that time.The so-called "holy idol" in the hearts of Americans was shattered, the media and the public insulted her, and Hollywood mercilessly expelled her. For seven years, Ingrid Bergman remained silent.

Silence does not mean disappearance. Seven years later, Ingrid Bergman stepped onto the screen again, and once again attracted the attention of the world.When her career was in full swing, she found out that she was suffering from breast cancer. Although she had undergone a bilateral resection, the lesion had not been eradicated, and the cancer cells had spread to other parts of her body.Unexpectedly, she, who was very weak, accepted the biggest challenge since she was a film: playing the role of Mrs. Meir, the Israeli Prime Minister, in a TV series, and finished filming the TV series with amazing perseverance.

On August 1982, 8, Ingrid Bergman celebrated her 29th birthday.When she woke up in the morning, she felt very uncomfortable and in great pain.This made her realize clearly that her life had come to an end, and she would return to heaven on the day of her birth.

In the afternoon of that day, relatives, friends, journalists and movie fans sent bouquets of flowers to celebrate her birthday. Ingrid Bergman entertained the guests with great pain, poured champagne for them, and drank together.During the dinner, friends jokingly asked: "I heard that you thought about jumping into the river after taking the Royal Drama School exam. So why did you change your mind?"

"Standing by the river, I kept thinking, and I told myself that the past will pass, and I will let the future come," Ingrid Bergman smiled, and said: "The next day, I received an invitation from the Royal School of Drama." Later, I met the chairman of the judging panel. Speaking of the situation that year, he was very surprised and said: "What a big misunderstanding. When you came on stage that day, we all agreed that you are great, you should Got in. So I said to the other judges: Well, don't waste your time, call the next one.' My thinking saved me."

"Dear Ms. Bergman, please forgive my abruptness," a reporter said of an episode of her affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini: "During the seven years since you were fired from Hollywood, what have you been thinking about?" ?”

"I'm only thinking about one question, that is: the past will pass, and I should let the future come." Ingrid Bergman said seriously: "Whether it is right or wrong, it will always pass, as long as you are willing to believe, a better future will come." It will definitely come."

memory is the worst enemy
Have you ever watched an American western?Notice how the cowboy hitches his mount.You see, the cowboy came down the street on a strong white horse and stopped in front of a bar.He jumped off his horse, tied the reins to the railing, and ducked in.

Now let's stop and think.Why didn't this strong, powerful, hundreds-pound steed stand still when it was tied to the wooden railing by a thin rein?

The answer is clear, the horse has been trained since childhood, and it has been firmly tied to the post.It knows it can't be free, can't do what it wants - it can only stand where it's chained.Therefore, now it will not try to escape at all.

Are there similarities between you and this horse?You are also always in place.Just because you think your life won't change?
We are all influenced by suggestion.If a teacher or someone else decides that we won't succeed, we often believe it, and often stop trying to succeed afterwards.Because we have failed once or twice, we also tend to believe the negative cues we give ourselves.

Let me tell you another story, from which you can learn how the main character succeeded twice.The protagonist of the story, Johnny Cash, has often worked in the fields since he was a child.After graduating from high school, he joined the army and left his hometown.Once, in a store, he bought his first guitar in his life.Because when he heard music for the first time at home from the radio his father bought, he had this dream: he wanted to be a singer.

He began teaching himself to play the guitar and practice singing, and he even composed some of his own songs.After his military service, he started working hard to realize his long-cherished dream of becoming a singer, and although he didn't succeed right away, he still believed in himself.He was never asked to sing, not even a job as a radio disc jockey.He had to make a living by selling various daily necessities door to door, but he still insisted on practicing singing.In the end, he produced a hugely successful record that attracted more than [-] fans, the money, the accolades, appearances on national television screens—it was all his.

However, after several years of touring, he was so worn down by the rabid fans that he had to take sleeping pills to sleep at night, and he also had to take "stimulants" to maintain his mental state the next day.He developed a habit of drinking and taking drugs and lost control of himself.This caused him to gradually lose his audience and no longer win awards.He is less on stage and more in prison.

As he was being released from a Georgia prison one morning, a sheriff said to him, "Johnny Cash, I'm going to give you back your money and your narcotics today because You know better than anyone else that you have full freedom to choose what you want to do. Look, here's your money and your pills, you throw these pills away now, or you're going to anesthetize yourself, destroy yourself, you choose Go!" Kashu chose life.Once again, he affirmed his ability and was convinced that he could succeed again.He finds his personal doctor.The doctor didn't quite believe him, thinking that it would be difficult for him to get rid of the bad habit of taking narcotics. The doctor told him: "It is harder to get rid of drug addiction than to find God."

Kash began his second struggle, single-mindedly trying to eradicate his addiction. For this he locked himself in his bedroom and endured great pain and frequent nightmares.What was in front of him was the temptation of narcotics on one side and the call of his goal on the other, so his belief prevailed. Nine weeks later, he returned to his original form, returned to the stage, sang again, and finally became a superstar again.

Of course, we will take Kashu's success for granted. Detoxification is a very painful thing. With such amazing willpower, coupled with previous talents, success is inevitable.However, please go back to the source first.Isn't our addiction to memories just like being addicted to drugs, when everything is colored with the color of "thinking about the past...then..." and so on, our life will be ashamed, and we no longer look forward to what will happen tomorrow Brilliant, but let the shadows of the past persist into the present.This cycle goes on and on, and every day the sun will carry the shadow of the moon, and no longer see any brilliance.

Success comes from the right attitude, and a change in attitude determines a change in your behavior.

If you are bored at work, change it yourself.In fact, you are an F1 racing car, you can fill up your fuel tank with 1 liters of oil in just 12 second, and then rush forward at full speed to the "E" point (forget about work)!After all, everyone loves working in a dynamic environment!
There is something that we cannot see or touch.But it always seems to be able to feel its existence.This is "potential".

Don't tell me, you don't believe in potential, if possible, I will put a tiger behind you to chase you, to see if you have potential to tap?
However, when Billa Cesar was a child, even with a tiger chasing him behind, he still couldn't run fast.Because he was born with unusually long legs. "One leg is long and one leg is short". An accident at the age of 5 made him walk with a limp on his left foot.Although not in a wheelchair like Roosevelt, Cesar has basically said goodbye to the word "running".

However, Cesar prefers to use his feet a lot.

At the age of 8, he put his crutches aside and practiced walking with bare feet without fear of falling;

By the age of 11, he can already walk like a normal person;

At the age of 15, he was able to run more than 400 consecutive laps around the 10-meter-long track and field track, although his running posture was still a bit weird.

When he was 18 years old, he heard the news that the youth track and field team in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was going to hold selections, and Cesar volunteered to sign up.As a result, due to physical reasons, he was deprived of the qualification to register.But he did not give up, and actually found the old coach Lucibio Beto, who had trained many Brazilian track and field champions, and begged the coach to give him a chance, and said: "If possible, please allow me to compete with the selected players." In a 5000-meter race, if I can finish in the top 5, please accept me!" The old coach was helpless.Had to agree to Cesar's request.

The result was unexpected, Cesar ran into the top 3 in one go.So, he logically made an exception and entered the youth track and field team of Rio State.

After that, he also worked extremely hard in the training of the track and field team: after each training, he always took the initiative to practice for another 2 hours; usually he also forced himself to eat more food to strengthen his physical fitness, strengthen his physical training, and strive to make himself stronger. The thin body becomes a little stronger.

Due to his hard training, his competition results are naturally among the best, especially in the 5000-meter event, he is always the top 3 players.Although limited by physical factors.However, he still failed to be the first to cross the finish line.

Therefore, when the Rio State Athletics Youth Team participated in the Brazilian national competition, the coaching staff, out of strategic considerations, let Cesar take the lead, or asked him to cooperate with his ace teammates to ensure that he won the gold.

Although it is inevitable that there will be a psychological gap, Cesar is always able to complete the tasks assigned to him by the coaching staff excellently.As a result, people often see a figure with a strange running posture.Exit about halfway through the field, or follow teammates wearing the same uniform across the finish line.

Time flies, and before you know it, Cesar is 27 years old.

He is already an old member of the Brazilian national track and field team, and his game performance is still very good, but unfortunately, Cesar still failed to win a championship.Because he is used to helping his teammates complete the task of winning the championship, not to mention that he has never had much hope for himself to win the championship.

27 years old, this age is the pinnacle of his career for athletes.But to Cesar who was physically and mentally exhausted, it already seemed a bit heavy.Maybe it's because he has participated in too many games with his special feet all year round, and has worn out too many sneakers; maybe it's because he has excellent test scores and has been admitted to Indiana University, a famous American sports school. Book: Maybe it's because he never won a shiny gold medal... Anyway, he decided to announce his retirement after participating in the South American Athletics Grand Prix that year.

Before the game, he only told the news to his mentor, the old coach Lucibio Beto, who gave him the opportunity to embark on the path of track and field.Although Coach Beto is no longer a coach, he still pays attention to Cesar's performance on the field.

He was not surprised by the news that Cesar decided to retire.Coach Beto didn't try to persuade Blockar, but just said to him:

"That's fine, I believe you made this decision after careful consideration. However, Billa, this is your last race, I hope you make a change and run for yourself! Just like 9 years ago, The first time I saw you."

(End of this chapter)