Inspiration 1: When the Ford Motor Company of the United States lost billions a year, they invited Dr. Deming back to give a speech. Deming still stressed that there should be a little progress in quality every day, and continuous progress will definitely bring the enterprise back to life. As a result, Ford Motor Company turned a profit after implementing this law for three years, with a net profit of $6 billion a year.
Patrelli, the former coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, also knows this rule. At the lowest point of the Lakers, he told 12 players:? This year, as long as each of us is better than last year 1%, do you have any questions about the contestants? Only 1%, it's too easy! ? Results Free throws, rebounds, assists, steals and defense all improved 1%. As a result, the Lakers actually won the championship that year, and it was the easiest year. Someone asked the coach why it was so easy to win the championship. The coach said that each team made progress in five aspects 1%, that is, 5%, and 12 people made progress in 60% a year. Do you think it can't be a champion?
Let's look at a simple math problem:
50%*50%*50%= 12.5%
60%*60%*60%=2 1.5%
As you can see, each multiplier only increased by 0. 1, and the result almost doubled. In fact, the same is true of success, which comes from the superposition of many small elements. Make a little progress every day. As time goes by, tomorrow will be very different from yesterday.
? Make a little progress every day? What's the name in the Buddhist scriptures? Better every day? . Buddha said:? Daily progress is a virtue. ?
This sentence means that we must work hard every day to make progress day by day, otherwise it is immoral. Although the words are ugly, they are words of wisdom. The purpose is to warn the world to make progress and not to slack off.
Isn't it natural that people should make progress every day? Brilliant sunshine shines on the earth for twelve months; Good rain moistens everything for fifty-two weeks; The wise Buddha provided for all sentient beings, which lasted for 365 years. Those who strive for their careers and studies need to improve day by day if they want to achieve great things, and they can't stop. In today's world, competition is fierce, and shopping malls are more cruel than battlefields. People in the workplace must work hard every day to become the leader in the industry and achieve hegemony. On the contrary, if you don't work hard and be lazy, you will be eliminated by your competitors and the market.
There are three things to do to make progress every day.
First, think hard.
Thinking is a kind of? Ask+answer? This process. Thinking like this every day and precipitating the essence is the best way to grow wisdom. It's best not to just think about not writing, because the ideas in your mind will not be clear, and the unclear ideas will not be productive. The best way is to use paper and pen? Question and answer? The way to record, let your thinking results appear in front of you, visualize, and this kind of thinking will be more clear.
Thinking is also anytime, anywhere, all the time. I have great respect for Japanese management guru Kenichi Ohmae. He used to be the president of McKinsey & Company in Japan and an internationally renowned management consultant. He has a strange habit, that is, whenever and wherever he sees the value of studying business phenomena, he will think deeply until he gets the desired result. Seeing advertisements for cosmetics and food without additives in the subway every day, he thought, if he wants to do cosmetics business without additives, he can deliver them directly to his door. Will it be very popular? When he saw the advertisement of the wedding company, he wondered if he could provide the wedding company with the information service of marriageable youth in the city.
Thinking practice, it is best to come with like-minded people? Play? . Set a topic, and then come up with dozens or even hundreds of plans. This kind of exercise makes it easier for you to find a substitute when your career is difficult. Just like a chess master, through constant research at ordinary times, all kinds of routines have been deeply understood, and no matter which attack method the opponent adopts, it can be easily resolved without panic.
Thinking training every day is the first key to progress every day.
Second, be good at action.
Although I strongly advocate thinking, only thinking without action, perfect ideas are rubbish, for the simple reason that the ultimate goal of thinking is to turn ideas into reality, and only action and a lot of action can do it. Action creates results, and the mantra of all successful people is:? Just do it. ?
There is a top salesman in the world whose monthly income is one million dollars. At that time, he was only 27 years old, and he was still washing dishes in the restaurant at the age of 20. Someone asked him what was the secret of his success: he said that he would start working at 6 o'clock in the morning and pass out in bed at night. In fact, it is to tell everyone that you should take more actions from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you should take more actions all the time. The salesman succeeded because he visited 10 customers every day for seven years.
Remember, all knowledge should be transformed into action, and only action will produce results. I have a good brother who founded four companies and told me that thinking makes you understand and action makes you become.
Third, be good at change.
The process of change is a process of breaking the old self, remolding the new self, and then fighting and remolding. When broken, it produces the pain of transformation, and after remodeling, it produces the joy of growth. Change, is it necessary? Positive change? . Just like upgrading a computer, you should constantly upgrade the software in your brain from 1.0 to 2.0, then to 3.0, and so on.
Meanwhile, I think a person's? Learning ability? Is it his? Change power? To measure how much you have learned, you must take how much you have changed as a reference. So, how to change? It's simple. Repeated use immediately after learning can produce obvious changes. The purpose of learning is to change, from a small primary school to a big university. If you don't learn or change, the bigger the change, the better. What is the best effect of learning? Wake up, wake up? ; What is the best change? Magnificent, a thousand miles a day? ! An entrepreneur once ranked second in the Hurun Report of China. He told the story of his growth from an ordinary worker to a successful entrepreneur. The changes in the process of starting a business are quite different from the original lifestyle and work intensity. It was a narrow escape. Some people gave up, but he gritted his teeth and survived. This change is called. Reincarnation? ! This change is also the only way to become a big enterprise.
Everyone has to start from? Better every day? Three words always remind yourself, think, change, act, go up, go all out, stick to it and realize your dreams together!
Inspirational Chicken Soup for the Soul Part II: Stealing Art I found that the learning methods of experts and entrepreneurs are essentially different. Different learning methods directly lead to who will become the so-called expert, who will only give orders, who will become a real entrepreneur and achieve a hegemony.
According to my findings, experts like to study or surf the Internet alone, read books, look up information and finally draw conclusions. Entrepreneurs like to go deep into this matter, and use their own hearing, seeing, feeling and asking to get real experiences in many aspects, so as to get the most accurate and effective solutions.
I don't simply deny reading and reading, but even if you read a lot of books and consult a lot of materials, there are still no satisfactory answers to some questions. At this time, another method is needed to solve it. Moreover, the knowledge seen in books is advanced and novel, and it is also a process of writing, editing, proofreading, publishing and selling. In other words, there is a serious lag from the formation of knowledge to the dissemination of knowledge, and the theory in the book may be outdated when it is published.
I recommend a unique learning trick, which is often seen in martial arts movies: stealing art.
There is an old saying in China: Teach an apprentice and starve a master. No one will willingly tell you the secret of his success, which requires you to observe carefully, infer the reason from the observed details, trace the source, and finally use it for me. That is to say, no matter what method you use, whether it is face-to-face consultation, innuendo, undercover or observation, as long as you use other people's wisdom, technology and ideas for me to create more valuable results, it is a good method. This method, I call it Stealing art? , is the core quality of Chengda Industry.
? Very cheap? Is the first nail clipper manufacturer in China, and his boss Liang is a very good one? Stealing art? Entrepreneurs. Liang's education level is not high. He didn't go to school for several years, but he is good at absorbing knowledge and advantages from people around him and using them for him. What is a very lethal learning method that runs through his entrepreneurial process? Consult? , he called it? Stealing art? . As long as you don't understand him, ask someone who does. In order to master the core technology of making nail clippers, he likes to tell employees? Steal? Ideas for entrepreneurs? Steal? Business practice in the eyes of economists? Steal? Theory, to reporters? Steal? Ideas. He took exams all over the world, and wherever he went, he pondered where he went, and he learned to understand the market in an instant. Hawkeye? . In order to ask an opinion, he made a special trip to Beijing to have a long talk with his friends. In order to find a way to open the market of small commodities, he rushed to Chongqing specially. Carpenter Tan? Learn from the teacher; In order to find out the mission and outlet of small commodity producers, he took? Hand sewing needle king? Chen Yu talked for four days and four nights.
I want to say that another China person is even more remarkable. He founded three enterprises, and in just ten years, all three enterprises were listed on NASDAQ, becoming the only entrepreneur in the world who went to NASDAQ three times in a row. The average market value of these three companies now exceeds $654.38+0 billion. The names of these three companies are Ctrip, Home Inn and Hanting. create
The miracle is Miracle. He can be called? Stealing art? A generation of masters
Miracle graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University majoring in mechanical engineering and has never worked in a hotel. But he is optimistic about the industry trend of budget hotels and plunged into this industry. Let's take a look at this master? Stealing art? This process.
At that time, the boss of the economy hotel industry was Jinjiang Star. Miracle heard that the location of Jinjiang Star near Shanghai Zhenru Station was remote, but the business was good, so he decided to find out.
Miracle went to Jinjiang Inn and opened a big bed room. Then take out the camera, steel rule and notebook prepared in advance, and then start taking pictures. Every corner of the room was photographed by him, and the bathroom was the most important, from tiles to walls to ceilings, shower heads and tubs, and every detail was spared. Due to the lack of experience in the first time, the wide-angle camera lens is not enough, and the shot is off. Now the camera is updated. When Miracle went out for inspection, he brought a Canon wide-angle lens with a red circle and 180 fisheye glasses, so that he could photograph the layout of the whole room. Next, he began to take notes while observing the room. Then measure the room, doors, tables and chairs and make detailed records.
After studying the room thoroughly, he went downstairs to chat with the manager at the front desk and the staff on duty. I asked many detailed questions, such as the pricing method, the usual occupancy rate, the number of people, the organizational structure, whether there is a laundry room and so on.
This secret investigation made Miracle know all about budget hotels. Later, many ideas and concepts of being home inn and Hanting originated from this time? Stealing art? .
Learning is multi-faceted, and we can't just focus on reading. Mao Zedong said? Reading is learning, using is learning, and it is more important to learn. ?
Entering an environment and mobilizing each of your senses to experience it seriously is the way to learn effectively.
Those who study law should enter the law firm and follow a successful lawyer to experience the whole process of a case from beginning to end;
If you study marketing, you can use weekends to work in a clothing store and observe how the boss talks to customers, how to win their favor, how to bargain and how to clinch a deal.
If you are an English major, you should join a translation company to experience conference interpretation or simultaneous interpretation.
In a word, stealing art is an all-round learning process of eyes, nose, ears, brain and limbs. Of course, the most important thing is to study hard
The purpose of stealing art is to be able to use it quickly, use it for me, create more valuable achievements to serve the public, and achieve myself by the way.
Soul Chicken Soup Inspirations 3: I will never? Fuck? The story of life is about me Like many of you, my university has been planned. From 65438 to 0996, my father chose a major I didn't like, carpentry, and entered my dear alma mater, Hunan University. 10 that day, that is, one month after the start of school, I had just finished military training, and after dinner, nine other roommates and I crowded into the stuffy dormitory where the power was cut off at eleven o'clock that night, and looked through the textbooks of our university for four years, only to find that everything was extremely boring to me.
I couldn't sleep that night until the light went out. I lit a candle, and the candle flashed and lit up my ceiling, which is the bed board on the upper bunk. I vaguely saw a word on it! I put my hand on it and saw a big word, asshole!
I couldn't sleep that night. I am besieged by fate, and it seems that I will be besieged for four years. I don't know what to do, especially with a one-square-meter one. Fuck? Words, when they are on your head.
This lasted until three o'clock in the evening. Later, I learned that that time was the most awake time for my subconscious. I did the right thing in my life. I decided to ask some questions about my own life:
Classical, what do you want?
If you want a life, why not create one?
That was the first time I asked a question about my life, which changed my life.
Many years later, I recall the classicism in the lower left bunk of Room 1996 10 of Hunan University, and I am still grateful, because he turned over and asked himself, if I think that in 2000, the day I graduated from college, I had no regrets in my life, was it because of what I did? He slowly heard the inner response, and he recorded many answers. Some are very ordinary, such as passing the CET-4 driver's license test, some are very interesting, such as learning kung fu and having an earth-shattering love in a band, and some seem a little far away, wandering for a month, riding a bike to Beijing and going to the highest and deepest place in the world.
From writing these words, his life began to change.
I passed Band 4, learned to drive, and confessed to the girl I like. I formed a band and began to learn kung fu. /kloc-in the summer of 0/998, I wandered with two friends, one of whom was Xiaoming. We swore all the way and rode from Changsha to Beijing in such a slapstick way. In 23 days, 8 provinces,1more than 500 kilometers, we arrived in Beijing, becoming the difference between life and death. I also went to the deepest place I could find, the coal mine in Pingxiang, Jiangxi. Accompanied by several miners, I stayed 400 meters underground all day, feeling breathless and dark as ink. I think this is the deepest place in the world.
Finally, when I crossed off my list, I found that the highest place in the world is Mount Everest in Tibet, but that place needs money and time that a college student doesn't have. Later I left school and became an engineer. After half a year, I left this industry. Then I was lovelorn. The failure of my first love made me miserable and wanted to escape from this country.
So I came to Beijing and became a student of New Oriental. When I finished TOEFL GRE and even got an OFFER, I asked myself, is this the life you want? I remember 1996 10, Hunan University 1-206, the classic on the lower left.
Later, I stayed and became an English teacher in New Oriental. I began to save money, then I saved time and my declining health after work. In 2004, I came to Tibet. This is the base camp of Mount Everest, with an altitude of 5,500 meters. This is me before I left. Below the snow line, the snow on Mount Everest turns into water and flows down into the river. I can see the white Everest around the top of the mountain, which makes me want to die there all the time when I climb it. There is a post office that sells expensive postcards and sells them well? Not only because it is the only way to communicate here, but also because of the stamps on it? Everest base camp? You can send friends and collect them. When you are old, you can brag to your grandson that grandpa is awesome, so people always buy so much for nothing. And I bought three at once, one for my mother, who decided that I would die on the snowy mountain and be dug up hundreds of years later, vivid and lifelike. I said, mom and dad, I'm safe. One was sent to my department head. After listening to my plan, he doubted whether I could attend the summer school because I used up all my savings. I told him I was safe and arranged a class for me. The last one, guess who I sent it to?
I'm 1996, and 10 posted the classic of the lower left berth in Room 1-206 of Hunan University in the evening. I told him, thank you, your ten wishes have finally come true today.
If you don't want your present life, you can really create one.
So what do you want to do next? I have ten more wishes. I hope to be the best vocabulary teacher. I hope to help more people grow up. I hope to write 10 a book that can change the world by instinct. I hope to help more people ask questions about life, find their dreams and become the masters of life? Those who have bright eyes and are obsessed with their dreams under the impact of life.
As we all know, I have become an excellent vocabulary teacher and trainer of New Oriental lecturers. When one day I realized that it is more important to tell others why they should study and work than to help others how to study and work. Later, he left New Oriental and started his own company? The new elite career helps young people to become their own wonderful heroes in their new lives. I wrote "Tearing Down the Wall in My Heart", hoping to help more young people grow into themselves.
Remember the metaphor of the kung fu master? When you are attacked by life, please stare at those words and read them out loud when you are attacked.
Finally, let me tell you one of my favorite answers to this story. If I were the host, I would go to the middle of the room first and then shout! When they attacked, I knocked down the nearest person and turned my head and ran away. Then I left all those shocked attackers. I ran and ran to those words, read them out loud and let my hair fly.
Remember, when you are attacked by reality, ask yourself, what do I want? Then focus on your dreams, not your enemies!
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