The promotion rules of Alibaba P8 architecture experts (thinking method)
Today we are not talking about technology, we are talking about the way of thinking, how to let you complete twice the workload of other programmers in the same time
time management
Most people seem to be busy, but they are actually busy most of the time. The essence is that time utilization is too low.
The first step in time management is to find out your high-efficiency period of the day. Specifically, use the time log method to faithfully record your expected goals, actual completion, and work status every hour, and count after the end of the day. Working eight hours a day (of course, IT practitioners may be 12 hours or more), there is not much productive time. The definition of the three states of high efficiency, inefficiency, and rest in the book is this.
1) Concentrate on work: no distractions; enter a state of ecstasy; high efficiency.
2) Pointless waste of time: open the browser and wander aimlessly; play online games with colleagues; talk about mountains in the office; unable to concentrate; restless.
3) A real rest: take a nap; take a walk downstairs.
To be honest, according to my own statistics, the actual situation is far worse than what I imagined. Most of the time of the day is in an inefficient state: open the browser to look around, or keep swiping the phone, or be irritable disturbed.
To measure whether something is meaningful or not, it is mainly to see whether there is an expected output after we invest time. If the expected output is achieved, then the time investment is meaningful, otherwise it is a waste of time, and the time black hole is all wasted time. collection.
Then we must first try to reduce the time of falling into the black hole of time. The book gives many good suggestions; second, we must make good use of our efficient time period and arrange important things to be handled in the efficient time period. This begs the question, what are things that should be handled in an efficient time period?
Four-quadrant rule
The four-quadrant rule is also a time management rule. As the book says, most people have heard of this rule, but very few people really understand it.
The four-quadrant rule first requires the correct placement of transactions into the corresponding quadrants.
The four-quadrant rule is to divide a coordinate axis according to the importance and urgency of the matter, and then place the matter in one of the four quadrants.
So what is the degree of importance depends on professional values
The so-called values refer to a person's general evaluation and general view of the meaning and importance of the surrounding objective things (including people, things, and things).
The closer you are to your professional values and career planning, the more important it is.
The urgency is the time limit of the task. This is easy to understand, and the things that need to be dealt with immediately can be determined to be the most urgent.
To give an example of a four-quadrant division from the book:
For transactions in each quadrant, there are different processing principles.
Quadrant 1, Important and Urgent: Nothing to say, do it now! The main stress in our work comes from the first quadrant, and the main crises in our life also come from the first quadrant.
Quadrant 2, Important but not urgent: have a plan to do it! We should invest time in quadrant 2, align time 1 for decomposition, and make timetables
The third quadrant, unimportant but urgent: leave it to someone else to do it! We should clearly recognize that the affairs of the third quadrant are the source of our busyness and blindness. The affairs in this quadrant are best to be delegated to others to do, or to reduce the occurrence of such affairs by euphemistic refusal
Quadrant 4, neither important nor urgent: try not to do it! This is a quadrant for buffer adjustments.
It is worth thinking about the affairs of the second and third quadrants.
First of all, let’s talk about the affairs of the third quadrant, which are not important but very urgent. For example, a colleague asks you to help solve a problem, such as a suddenly notified review meeting. The biggest problem with this quadrant is that it disrupts your schedule and wastes your time. The solution given in the book is called the art of monkey management: get rid of the monkeys that others impose on you (that is, things outside your own responsibilities); properly delegate power and give some things to subordinates to do.
The focus is on the affairs of the second quadrant, which is the focus of time management. The work plans and work goals we often formulate are relative to the second quadrant. What happens if a second-quadrant transaction is delayed?
If it's a task (what the job says must be done), it will one day become a very important and urgent thing, the book says "if you can handle the second quadrant well, it will reduce the first quadrant. 80% of transactions";
But if it is the goal specified by oneself (without external pressure and deadline), then it will be delayed again and again, and it will be nothing.
So how to deal with the affairs of the second quadrant more effectively, that is the second quadrant work method: goal description and task decomposition. The process is as follows
For example, a transaction: learning Linux, which is a very general goal, and it is not clear what to do, which is why we are reluctant to deal with transactions in the second quadrant. This goal, the project in the picture above, needs to be broken down into specific actions and then implemented step by step. For example, the project to learn Linux, possible actions are:
Install the Linux operating system
Familiarize yourself with daily instructions according to "Brother Bird's Private Kitchen"
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Learn "APUE"
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The benefits of goal descriptions and task breakdowns are: "Remove the impact of the three biggest killers of time management -- procrastination, indecision, and unclear goals."
When we break down a big goal into step-by-step actions, then there will be no dog chewing on the pumpkin and no way to speak. The project can be decomposed into multiple actions, but the actions are likely to be in mutual order. For example, you cannot learn APUE right away, which involves the concept of "next action":
Any identified next single action that takes more than 2 minutes to resolve.
At this point, we may have a large number of actions, which may not necessarily be dealt with immediately; of course, there are some things that are not broken down by a project (such as a second quadrant transaction), such as replying to an email. In daily work, how to deal with these things, that is, the wardrobe arrangement method.
How to organize your wardrobe
It is also a time management law. The book uses the steps of wardrobe organization to correspond to time management. There are five steps in total: collection, processing, organization, review, and action.
Collect: The key is to put 'everything that catches our attention' in the 'collection basket'. Note that the emphasis here is to put in the collection basket, not to dispose of it immediately. Personally, I feel that this is very important. When we are in a productive period and concentrate on dealing with problems, the most annoying thing is to be interrupted.
Treatment: Sort laundry. After we have finished dealing with the things in our hands, we will take out the collection basket and classify the collected transactions, which ones cannot be executed and which ones can be executed. Tasks that cannot be performed fall into three categories: garbage; maybe sometime in the future; reference. The things that can be performed are divided into five categories: Things that can be done in 1.2 minutes: do it right away. 2. Projects that need to be completed in multiple steps: Most of the tasks encountered at work need to be decomposed before we can execute them. 3. Assigned to others to complete 4. Things to do at a specific time 5. To-do list: remaining A common task that you have placed under, and you can get it done as soon as you have time.
ORGANIZATION: Restock sorted laundry. After processing, the transaction is divided into three lists: a future/maybe list, a to-do list, and a project list, each of which corresponds to a different transaction type
Review: Know Your Clothes
1. Review your sometime/maybe list: see if there are any actionable items on this list
2. Review your project list: Take the project list out and take a good look at it. What should you do next? How complete is the project now?
3. Review your to-do list: What did you do last week? What else to do next week?
4. Re-examine your goals. Usually, such goals take more than 1 year to reach them. Have I gotten any closer to my goals this week?
Action: After we put all the transactions into the corresponding list, then the next step is the specific action. How to deal with the affairs in different lists is different. For example, in the future list, then make an alarm clock; in the to-do list, take out the next action and execute it; in the project list, first do the goal description and task decomposition.
The process of organizing the wardrobe is as follows:
The above are all time management. The essence is to arrange and use your time to do the right thing at the right time. Management by objectives, then, is all about deciding what is appropriate.
When I introduced the four quadrants earlier, I mentioned that values are the criteria for measuring whether a matter is important, and values are also the guiding ideology for our career planning. "Xiaoqiang Promotion" points out that life and work should be divided into six heights to examine and plan:
Principles (50,000 meters): Think about your own values, principles, goals
Vision (40,000 meters): 3-5 year goals, which can be positions or abilities. What is the goal, who are already on this goal, how did they achieve it, and how does reaching this goal affect my life and work?
Goal (30,000 meters): Phased results within one year
Scope of responsibility (20,000 meters)
Mission (10,000 meters)
Next move (runway)
And you need to think and plan from the top down, implement it from the bottom up, and revise your plan at any time
big tree decomposition
Of the six heights, the goal layer is a watershed for setting goals and making plans.
The difference between setting goals and making plans is that the former is what to do (What) and the latter is how to do it (How). Of course, the goal should be set first and then the plan.
The big tree decomposition method is suitable for medium and long-term goals longer than 1 year and shorter than 5 years. Therefore, it should correspond to the six-level medium vision and below.
The big tree decomposition method is based on the structure of a tree (numbers in nature, not trees in data structure) to decompose a medium and long-term goal, from bottom to top, it is the root, trunk, branches, and branches. Among them, the root is the examination of the goal. There are five questions to ask yourself about the root, that is, the goal:
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Root 1: Write out your goals
Root 2: Why do you want to achieve this goal? Write your most important reasons at the top. When you encounter setbacks and want to give up your goals, you can see if the reasons you wrote down still exist now.
Root 3: Why am I able to achieve this goal?
Root 4: Which individuals, groups, and organizations are helpful for me to achieve this goal? When you write down who may be helpful for you to achieve this goal, you will take the initiative to absorb the people, social, and resources around you, and these , will be your wealth.
Root 5: How long will this goal take?
The target time limit is too long, and there are too many unknown factors encountered. It is recommended to decompose a large goal into small goals, and then decompose and achieve these small goals.
The trunk, branches, and branches are concrete plans
Trunks: Write down the planned steps to achieve your goals
Twigs: Write down how you plan to complete the planning steps in the monthly goal plan
Tree Branch: Refine the content of the monthly plan to each week
Improve execution
When we break down a big goal into each week, and into each "next action", we are no longer blind and clear until what to do. But it is easier said than done, and to achieve the set goals requires strong execution, especially in the absence of external pressure. The book gives three tricks to improve execution:
1 Find the largest stone. Do the most difficult thing first, this is executed in the tree branch (that is, the weekly plan) in the big tree decomposition method
2 Write it down. Write until you can do it; pen and paper refine the action; black and white is a contract
3 Reject the first failure
Develop your own method
There are definitely differences in the specific methods of time management and goal management used for different occupational nature or career planning and occupational values. The most important thing is to find a method that suits you. Of course, this is definitely a process that needs to be explored. For me, it feels like four quadrants plus closet organization (collection, project list, future maybe list, action list) is enough to manage time, and the four quadrants are used to prioritize things and put them on the corresponding list. . For management by objectives, try to use the big tree decomposition method for a specific target system plan, and use the smart principle to test whether it is reasonable.
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