Embrace the country of Extremist

I just finished reading the book "Black Swan" a while ago, and I really like Taleb's straightforward and distinctive point of view. In the book, I can always feel that he is trying to tell people about the black swan, and the unique character of this person can also be felt in the spoken language of the narrative. A little obscure is not so easy to understand, and it takes a long time. But after reading it, I kept thinking that in the post-epidemic era, we are in the extreme world mentioned in the book, and it is also a crazy world. It is always difficult for us to predict what will happen in the future, but it is worthwhile. What I think about is what to do at this stage to improve my anti-fragile ability.

Today I learned "Replicable Leadership 2", which is Fan Deng's second book after the best-selling book "Replicable Leadership". In the book "Replicable Leadership", a lot of space is devoted to discussing management and leadership. From the definition of a manager, three roles are distinguished, namely, leader, manager, and executor . From these three roles, we should think about how to arrange them. Work.

In the book "Replicable Leadership 2", it is more in line with the current environment and time point. The beginning is exactly from the normal world (Mean Stan) mentioned by Taleb in "Black Swan" to the crazy world (Extremist), in the environment we are in now, it is an Extremist, just as the Internet amplifies every Personal abilities do not need to be developed under the system, or the financial market has been fluctuating recently, and you can feel the rapid changes in the world every day.

That is to say, from now on we have to think outside the box and change the way we do things.

From the mechanical state to the biological state, we all need to understand

[Causality is no longer clear]

We always like deterministic affairs, thinking that in order to get to B, we need to find steps and methods that can be pieced together. But in an extreme world, we can no longer use one set of methods to conquer the world. Just like brewing coffee, it's not about buying a bag of good coffee beans and brewing them in a coffee machine to get the most delicious coffee. From the baking time, grinding weight, grinding thickness, grinding blade, brewing water quality, brewing temperature, water flow size, soaking time, there are too many variables, there is no way to simply causal relationship, you can get a clear results.

[Reduce the cognition of reductionism in the mind]

The so-called reductionist cognition is like, I set up a series of SOPs, after clarifying the concept goals, I thought that by handing this concept to the employees, the efficiency can be improved, as long as I find that the work progress is not completed on time, or is not detailed enough. , you mistakenly think that as long as you keep adding rules, you can. But in fact, employees are people, not machines. If these factors are considered, there are other more open issues, and there is no way to apply such a template.

[Core Algorithm of Bio-ecology - Self-Citation]

I think this is like the reengineering of bright spots in genetics. In the process of our iteration, we constantly adapt, produce one after another, evolve into good ones, snowball from constant self-reference, and let the bright spots grow bigger and bigger. increasingly prominent.

How to create a biological organization?

This is also what I think is the most essential part of this book, bringing together five items. These management applications are not only based on the workplace, but also five important points in managing life.

[Ten times better: leapfrogging through method innovation]

To build a bio-ecology in the new era, we must think about how our products and services are ten times better and ten times more efficient than those provided in the existing market. From this perspective, we can make breakthroughs.

[Antifragile: Increasing the Ability to Resist Risks]

To put it simply, we need to find a way to live long enough. In turbulent times, only by adding more skills to ourselves can we increase our ability to resist risks. Just like supplementing vitamins, we can improve our resistance so that we can not resist. Easy to catch cold.

[Low-Risk Entrepreneurship: Solving a Real Social Problem]

Risk is related to ability, and starting a business does not mean that you need to take extremely high risks. An excellent entrepreneur is not a person who is good at taking risks, but a person who is good at controlling risks.

[Decentralization and trial and error: Let grassroots people have the decision-making power]

【Let the organization grow up: Cultivate new businesses with bright spots】

Excellent people are the most intolerable of bureaucracy, this sentence particularly impressed me. Through appropriate decentralization, it is also equal to allowing the people below to have room for development. When I was managing employees before, I had grasped power too tightly, resulting in an excessively rigid organizational atmosphere and less flexibility. This not only caused me to be under pressure every day at that time, but also made me keep making mistakes. Later, after I learned to delegate power, I could let them learn to decide some projects, discuss and stimulate ideas with each other, and also made the organization dynamic and different. The idea is progressing very fast!

Yesterday, a friend asked me, how has it helped my work since joining the book club? I was silent for a while, so I recalled my study during this period, and what I wanted to solve at that time was the ability of management. The biggest setback I encountered in the past was the high turnover rate of employees. Every time I needed to spend a lot of time on education and training, I found a way through learning and worked hard to achieve it. I also practiced many times to adjust from failure. One way to deal with my situation is to make the staff much more stable now.

Yesterday afternoon, an employee was behind in the progress of the work, and communicated several times in the middle, but there was no improvement. Fortunately, during this time, another friend shared with me about the subject of communication and the way of learning from books. This employee is very special to me because he has been with me for a while and has witnessed the changes I have made along the way. From being strict at the beginning to being able to have conversations like friends later on, stirring up different ideas from the project, but her progress has been lagging behind during this time. What you have learned in communication skills, start a conversation.

At first, I thought it was a closed problem, but in the end, after I asked him to have dinner together, I found out that it was an open problem. After encountering a series of setbacks in his life, his mental and physical With the situation, as we found a solution after a conversation, I also shared with him what I learned from books, and let him feel that I am also constantly learning and growing.

At the end of the night, he sent me a message saying "thank you" which was very heartwarming.

In the new era, we always need to learn new methods and thinking modes to meet this extreme world, and this is the book that brings me the greatest inspiration!