Norwegians love sardines, but when fishermen transport their sardines back to the port, they find that most of them are dead, and the dead fish can't be sold at a price. What should they do? The clever fisherman came up with a way to put the catfish, the natural enemy of sardines, together with sardines. Whenever fishermen go out to sea to fish, they always prepare a few active catfish. Once the captured sardines are put into the sink, they also put them into the sink. Catfish swim around because of their vitality, occasionally chasing sardines. Sardines are highly nervous because of the catfish's pursuit, so they flee everywhere, stirring the whole tank of fish up and down, and making the water surface fluctuate constantly, thus ensuring that sardines are transported back to the fishing port alive and kicking.
Catfish, like a stone thrown into the water, broke the calm and dead water surface, aroused the ripples of circle expansion, and injected vigorous motivation into the tired sardines; Catfish, like a needle of stimulant, magically shows a powerful external driving force, mobilizes the dormant potential of sardines, and achieves a miraculous effect that is both unreasonable and unexpected. It can be said that it is a panacea for put in order's laziness and motivation.
Fishing is like this, so is management. In enterprise management, we often find that if an enterprise has long-term stable personnel, it will lack freshness and vitality, produce inertia, and there will be overstaffing and inefficiency within the organization. Members of an enterprise organization are usually composed of three kinds of people: first, indispensable talents; Second, hard-working talents who take the company as their home; The third is a fool or a waste of talent who wanders around all day and drags the enterprise back. How to use these three kinds of people? We can use the "catfish effect", that is, introduce some people with high personal quality, strong professional ability and strong personal appeal, so that they can have a certain range of power in the organization and drive and motivate other people in the organization through the power of example. When their new official took office, the sardines in the company immediately felt nervous. ? "Look how fast the new supervisor works!" "Let's step up our work, or we'll be fired." In this way, by promoting the enthusiasm and initiative of catfish, we can drive and stimulate other people in the whole organization and overcome organizational inertia, thus forming a good competitive atmosphere in the organization, improving the working efficiency of the whole company and forming the competitiveness of enterprises.
From the above story, we can see that the effect of "catfish effect" is stimulation. For enterprises, managers' stimulation to employees is not to create tension, nor to exert pressure. Stimulation is that external things act on organisms and make things change positively. In enterprises, we can use the "catfish effect" to stimulate the enthusiasm and vitality of other employees with the enthusiasm of excellent employees.
[Case study]
Japanese enterprises attach great importance to the work of managers, and promote their business success with effective "manager" work.
The original operation of Misawa House Company was stagnant, and the machinery and equipment it produced could not be sold. Later, based on the principle of "catfish effect", Misawa House Company focused on "hiring" some smart and quick-thinking 25-35-year-old fresh troops from outside. In order to give full play to this promotion effect, the company even deliberately hired a "big catfish" at the level of managing director, so that all the "sardines" in the whole company feel "electrocuted", so why worry that the whole company is not full of vitality! ? Now, the "catfish effect" management method of Misawa House Company has been widely popularized in Japan. In this regard, Misawa Chiyoji explained: "In fact, employing people and fishing are the same reason, and recruiting talents is only an initial goal. How to use and how to use them is the most important issue. If a company has long-term fixed personnel, it will lack freshness and vitality, and it is easy to produce inertia. Therefore, it is necessary to find some "catfish" to create a tense atmosphere, so that enterprises will naturally be full of vitality. "
[Skillful touch of gold]
One function of the catfish effect is to mobilize everyone's positive factors, effectively activate the enthusiasm and passion of employees, and let employees show their vitality under the stimulation of role models, so that they can better serve the development of enterprises.
The second function of the "catfish effect" is the driving effect. Because those "catfish" have high personal qualities, strong business ability and strong personal appeal, the people around them are always paying attention to them. No matter whether they have power or not, their enthusiasm and initiative will influence and influence the people around them through words and deeds, so that the people around them can follow them unconsciously. ? The third function of "catfish effect" is stimulation. The activity ability of "catfish" will break the existing balance. Their positive attitude, leaders' concern and support for them and great changes in their treatment will bring pressure to the surrounding people and stimulate their self-esteem. Under the strong consciousness of "you can and I can", with proper guidance, there will be a good situation of "competing, learning, catching up and surpassing". ? Finally, the "catfish effect" is one of the effective measures for enterprise leaders to stimulate employees' vitality. It is manifested in two aspects. First, enterprises should constantly replenish fresh blood, introduce those young fresh troops who are full of vigor and quick thinking into the workforce and even the management, and bring competitive pressure to those lazy employees and bureaucrats who are complacent and conformist, so as to arouse the survival consciousness and competitive heart of sardines. Second, we must constantly introduce new technologies, new processes, new equipment and new management concepts, so that enterprises can fight the storm in the market tide and enhance their viability and adaptability.