The content is compiled from Drucker's classic book "People and Performance", and the relevant views have positive reference and guiding significance.
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Starting from the bottom, or...
Basic skills: communication
Communication: The ability to organize and express opinions in written and spoken language.
- Your success as an employee depends on your ability to communicate with others and show your thoughts and opinions to others; let them understand your purpose and be persuaded by you. For example, letters, emails, reports or memos, oral statements, etc. are all basic tools for employees.
- There is something in words and content.
- Express thoughts, interest in language, can understand other people's words; organize opinions and data, filter out irrelevant content, and inject external form and content into the result, and verbal expression habits.
What kind of employee
- For the job position, is it mainly focused on the performance of routine work and can bring potential security? Or is it devoted to a career position that can challenge imagination and creativity and punish failure at the same time?
- Large organization or small organization? Work through intermediate channels or direct contact? Is it a small gear for a powerful machine, or a big axle for a small machine?
- Start from the bottom and climb all the way up? Or start from a place close to the upper floors? Is it at the bottom of the promotion ladder or is it airborne "management trainee" or an auxiliary position close to the management?
- Professionals are more efficient and happier, or are they more efficient and happier to be "all-rounders" (management tasks)?
Is Anwen suitable for you?
- Accuracy, order, and a system with a detailed description of the position. Can these things bring you real satisfaction? Stability means not only knowing what your job is today, but also knowing your job tomorrow, your position, your relationship with your superiors and colleagues, and you also enjoy a sense of economic security.
- On the contrary, things that look like “routine” jobs are easy to get impatient, and can be in the chaotic situation of life, their relationship with people around them is neither clear nor unstable, they are not concerned about economic security, and do not feel too much about changing jobs. Upset.
- The difference comes from people's basic personality and basic temperament.
- Large organizations do not have enough job opportunities for young people who need challenges and risks. Like purchasing, sales and advertising, it emphasizes adaptability, imagination, and the desire to do different and new things.
Big company or small company
- Small businesses can play immediate effects in small areas. As long as you stand slightly higher than the grassroots level, you can immediately see the effects of your work and decisions. In a small business or a medium-sized business, you can generally gain a variety of experiences and do a lot of things without much help and guidance.
- Large organizations will generally teach you one thing thoroughly. The danger that a small business brings to people is that you will become acquainted with everything and know nothing about it. Large companies are drilling deeper and deeper into the horns.
Starting from the bottom, or...
- Assistants to bosses at all levels, personal secretaries, and liaison positions between departments, as well as auxiliary positions in industrial engineering, cost accounting, and personnel departments. These people can see the macro picture. Generally speaking in the role of silent listeners or bad listeners, in places "near the top", even if the status is low, the salary is meager.
- The position "close to the top" is not stable, the position is vague, and it is nothing for you, but you reflect the status of the boss. In a relatively short period of time, it is possible to speak to the boss to gain real power and influence. Good performance is often the key to rapid promotion.
- On the contrary, as you master more skills and have more judgment at the bottom, you can climb up step by step, and there is almost no chance of making serious mistakes (the layered authorization mechanism fully protects you). The work itself is very simple and requires judgment. There is not much self-determination or initiative.
Expert or generalist
- Expert: Focus on technology, tools, and media. undergo training".
- Generalist: Focus on leadership, plan, point out the direction, and coordinate. To receive "education", humanities are their most solid foundation.
- Few experts are qualified for administrative management, but it is difficult for good generalists to take care of outstanding experts in specific fields. All organizations need these two kinds of people.
The importance of being fired
- Getting fired from your first job is a way to learn how to endure frustration with the least pain and the least damage.
- Taking the initiative to resign once may be more important than being dismissed. People who choose to quit by their own will can gain an inherent independence, and once this independence is gained, it will never be completely lost.
When to resign
- If a job cannot provide you with the training you need as an expert, or the overall view you need for administrative management.
- It doesn't bring you the security or routine that you need. It is a small company rather than a large organization. It is at the bottom rather than close to the top. It is an expert job rather than a generalist job, etc.
- The workplace only tolerates the stubborn, flattering villain.
- I don’t think that promotion opportunities are fundamental to work. The safest way to destroy a job, where a person can be used, is to only regard the job as a bar on the promotion ladder, and no longer think that the job itself deserves to be taken seriously, it can bring satisfaction, a sense of accomplishment, and a sense of pride. .
- The organization itself must provide fair opportunities for promotion, otherwise the organization will stagnate and become corrupt.
- Only an organization that maintains a well-balanced age of employees can provide fair promotion opportunities.
Who can get a promotion
- Promotion form: formal evaluation and development plan; automatic promotion according to seniority; decentralization, re-decentralization of large enterprises into several small organizations, so that everyone can clearly see their development prospects.
- There are sufficient opportunities to fairly ensure that you are eligible for promotion considerations.
- No matter from the perspective of happiness or utility, promotion is not fundamental, but the consideration of getting promotion is fundamental.
Life outside of work
- Stay alive outside the workplace, ignite your interest, and make you happy, and give you a lasting source of self-esteem and status in the community outside the workplace.
- Find something you are really interested in, even if you can't be a master, at least be an amateur master.
- You need it, you will get recognition and acceptance from others who are also in the field, you truly become an independent individual, no longer an employee of the organization, no longer an employee.
- The person who can make the greatest contribution to the company is a mature person, but if there is no life or interest outside of work, you cannot mature.
- It can make you happier, more effective, and better to deal with setbacks and shocks. It can make you more efficient and better to deal with setbacks and shocks.
- Intelligence is not the most important quality, personality and honesty are the most important.
- The quality requirements an employee puts on you are not skills, knowledge, or talent, but personality.