The story takes place in Florence, USA. Two young men, John and Harry, entered a vegetable trading company at the same time.

Three months later, Harry went to the general manager's office unhappily and complained to the general manager, "John and I came to the company at the same time." Now John's salary has doubled and his position has been promoted to department head. " Besides, I work hard every day and never arrive late or leave early. The tasks I give to my boss are always completed on time and in quantity, and they have never been delayed. But why is my salary not increased at all, and my position is still an ordinary employee of the company? "

The general manager didn't answer Harry's question immediately, but said to him meaningfully, "Well, the company is going to order a batch of potatoes now. Please go and see where it is sold first, and I will answer your question when you come back. "

So Harry went out of the general manager's office and found a vegetable market selling potatoes. Half an hour later, Harry hurried back to the general manager's office and reported that "there are potatoes for sale in the Farmers' Vegetable Wholesale Center 20 kilometers away".

When the general manager heard about it, he asked, "How many families sell it?" Harry scratched his head and said, "I only saw some for sale just now, not many." Please wait a moment, I'll have a look again! " "

Say that finish and hurriedly ran out, twenty minutes later, Harry panted heavily as he ran to the general manager's office to report, "report to the general manager! One * * * three potatoes. " The general manager asked him again, "What's the price of potatoes? Are the prices of the three companies the same? " (English, Swiss) Harry (name)

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After a pause, he scratched his head and said, "General Manager, please wait a little longer and I'll ask again." Say that finish, Harry ran out. At this moment, the general manager stopped him. "You don't have to go again. Go and get John for me. "

Three minutes later, Harry and John came to the general manager's office together. The general manager first said to Harry, "You have a rest here first." Then he said to John, "The company is going to order a batch of potatoes. Go and see where they can be sold. "

Forty minutes later, John came back and reported to the general manager: "Twenty kilometers away, there are three restaurants selling potatoes, two of which sell 0.9 dollars a catty, and only one old man sells 0.8 dollars a catty."

"I looked at their potatoes and found that the old man's is the cheapest and the best quality, because it was planted on the farm recently. If necessary, the price can be more favorable. They have a van at home and can deliver it to your door for free. "

"I have brought the old man, just waiting outside the company gate. Do you want him to come in and talk? "

The general manager said, "No, you let him go back first!" " So John went out.

At this time, the general manager looked at Harry who was dumbfounded in the office and asked, "You saw it all. If you were the general manager, who would you give a raise and promotion? "

Harry hung his head in shame.

The enlightenment of thinking stories to our workplace is that the talents needed for enterprise development are not only professional knowledge, but also hard work and initiative.

Full of enthusiasm, flexibility and confidence. A qualified employee not only passively waits for others to tell him what to do, but actively understands what he should do, makes a plan, and then goes all out to do what he should do.

This story also needs our reflection: we can't find the reasons from employees, but need managers to think about how to use good people from multiple angles.

First of all, we must have a correct understanding of the team. An excellent team comes from the joint efforts of leaders, middle managers and executors: leaders need to think about the development strategy and direction and guide the team to success; The policies, methods and measures that middle-level managers need to issue should connect the preceding with the following, refine management, and turn enterprise strategy into feasibility; It needs to be carried out by the executors to the letter. Only thought without action, the goal is always a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water; Just bow your head and pull the cart, never look up at the road, you can only draw water with a sieve. In the Journey to the West, Tang Priest and his disciples went to learn the scriptures. Without Tang Priest's firm insistence or the Monkey King's exorcism, no one could finally achieve a positive result. So the roles of John and Harry are both important roles in the team, and Harry, as an executor, is indispensable to the team.

Secondly, employees should be treated equally. There are nine kinds of dragons, each different. Managers can't just stare at the backbone they want to cultivate and think is excellent, but ignore other employees and let them die. Harry may have some shortcomings, but as a manager, he should tell his strengths and weaknesses as soon as possible, give guidance and suggestions, and help him improve. He didn't tell Harry until John mentioned it, like the boss in the story. Compared with John, he "has problems everywhere." The direct consequence of this management attitude is that the communication between managers and employees is not in place, which affects the relationship between superiors and subordinates. Seriously, it will also make employees feel

Encounter "cold violence" in the workplace, affecting work status and performance; Managers will also think that such employees are the burden and burden of the department and will only affect the performance of the team.

Thirdly, when assigning tasks, we should consider "the length of employing people". The above story has also been applied by many managers in employing people, hoping that their subordinates will be like John. But no one is perfect. If a team is all employees like John, I'm afraid everyone wants to be a leader, and the result may be scattered. Such a team is not necessarily high-performance. As a manager, we should explore everyone's strengths, and recommend and promote those who are excellent; Where improvement is needed, more guidance and supervision should be given. Just like the Tang Priest team, every combination has its reasons, and everyone has their own advantages, which lies in how managers can foster strengths and avoid weaknesses.

Finally, carry out personalized employee management. In order to improve the overall performance of the team, managers should arrange different tasks according to the characteristics of different people and adopt differentiated management methods. An employee like John can only arrange for him to buy potatoes, and the rest need not be explained. For an employee like Harry, if you want to explain clearly what you want to ask, Harry can get things done at once.

Just like the book "Execution in place without delay" recently read, when it comes to why execution is always discounted, it is said that 55.7% of the respondents in the workplace have labeled themselves as "busy people", and they are busy to death every day, but they get nothing. If the person subjected to execution wants to change the state of "busy", he must say "no" to some unnecessary things. Learn to refuse, don't let extra demands disturb your work progress, some things don't need to be done by yourself. Moreover, we should use a "priority list" to deal with things, and we should not grab our eyebrows and beards. Leaders must keep their words and do what they say, and they will not do it if they don't say it. What should I do in the future?

Did it well, or even didn't do it well, wasting a good time.

Of course, it is impossible to arrange a reasonable work schedule except that employees have no clue when completing tasks. Has the manager been playing the role of unclear intention, unclear division of labor and unclear responsibility in the assigned tasks, and which one is which? When assigning tasks, you should explain clearly what it is and why. Only when employees know why they want to do it, and what value, significance or importance it has, can they comprehensively consider various conditions and factors and deal with and solve problems as systematically as possible. Otherwise, he may just talk about it and do what Harry does in the story. He needs managers to push him forward. If so, it is not only Harry's sorrow, but also the misfortune of the team! Therefore, if you are a manager, when you feel that employees are not good, first check whether there are problems in your management.