Give you a company, see how you manage

Chapter 7 "I have already explained this matter"

Remember, our managers are not state cadres, as long as everything is "accounted for", it will be over.It is your unshirkable responsibility to promote and implement "execution".All business managers will encounter such a classic "headache" in their daily management work-the things you arrange for your subordinates do not respond for several days.When you call this subordinate to inquire, he will say quite confidently or sometimes aggrieved, "I don't blame me for this, I have already handed over this matter to the people below."The implication is that he can only be a "microphone" and "spread out" the "word" and the job is over. As for whether the people below do it or not, that is their responsibility and has nothing to do with him.The Chinese call this phenomenon "the big lazy child supporting the small lazy child".Everyone counts on "others" to do things, and they are only responsible for "giving orders".

Indeed, in enterprise management, "level management" is very important.As long as employees at all levels of the organizational structure are able to take on their respective responsibilities even "step by step", things can be effectively moved forward.However, this ideal situation of "everyone fulfilling their responsibilities" is often difficult to truly realize in many Chinese enterprises, especially many private enterprises.Therefore, this kind of work habit of "big lazy people support small lazy people" often leads to many things being "talked about" by everyone, and they are not actually implemented at all.Everyone is "talking", but no one is "doing".In the above article, I criticized the phenomenon of "bureaucracy" in private enterprises quite "sarcastically".For a private enterprise, "doing things" is the highest guiding principle and the ultimate embodiment of all corporate values, while "showing off" is meaningless.No matter what kind of manager you are, this "general manager" or that "general manager", as long as you are a "cadre" of a private enterprise, you will have nothing to eat if you don't "do things".However, many of our managers may "have something to say" - and I don't mean to put on "official airs".

I am also very busy!There are tons of things to do.Moreover, it is impossible for me to "do everything by myself", so why do I need the people below?Quite right.I am not opposed to "tribe people" doing things. On the contrary, I always believe that truly smart and capable managers should minimize the chance of "doing everything by themselves", and must be brave and good at "tribe" others to do things.To put it to the extreme, those managers who are too conscientious and do everything by themselves are often "second- and third-rate" managers. Their excessive dedication and "hands-on" are not so much the role of "models and leaders", but rather the role of "models and leaders". The counterproductive effect of "depriving the subordinates of their sense of responsibility, professional opportunity and performance stage".Really good managers should never be the kind of fools who "let others (subordinates) be idle and exhaust themselves".Of course, this "leisure" does not mean encouraging our managers to be "lazy", on the contrary, because it fully mobilizes the enthusiasm and subjective initiative of the subordinates (to do this in itself is a vivid example of a manager's strong management skills). Performance.

Remember, only those who "let others do things" are managers, and those who "do things by themselves" can only be ordinary employees), and they will have the opportunity to be free, and to use this precious "leisure time", managers need to go Do a more important thing—supervise whether the things you "confessed" have been effectively implemented.Think again.Managers must be good at "distributing" others to do things, so that they can be relatively "free", so that they will have sufficient time and energy to monitor whether the things they "accounted for" have been well implemented.Otherwise, not only will I be exhausted to death, but none of the things I have explained will be implemented, and I will end up with the result of "nothing to fetch water from the bamboo basket" and "busy work".Remember, you are only a "cadre" of a private enterprise, not a "high-ranking official" of a government agency. "Pragmatism" and "doing things" are the only basis for your survival. It is better to have less "official tone" like "I have already explained this matter."

(End of this chapter)