Explore the flying of geese and analyze the corporate culture.
Author: Li Changyue Time: 2006-05-04 Source: China Human Resources Development Network
Goose is a migratory bird, which breeds in the north in spring and overwinters in the south in winter. To complete this space leap, it is necessary to fly for a long time. In the process of migration, geese are either arranged in a "V" shape or an "I" shape. Why are they arranged in these two shapes? After a lot of investigation and study, scientists found that the flying distance of geese in this way is 12% longer than that of flying alone, and the flying speed is 1.73 times that of flying alone. Because a stronger goose usually leads the way during the flight, which can help the geese behind or on both sides to form a local vacuum and reduce the flight resistance, the leading goose often makes a cry to encourage other geese not to fall behind. When the leading geese feel tired and weak, other geese will make up in time to keep flying speed. It is through this spirit of unity and cooperation that the geese have completed the flight of 1 to 2 months.
In order to achieve sustained, rapid and healthy development, enterprises must form a corporate culture suitable for their own characteristics. The so-called corporate culture is the values, thinking concepts and codes of conduct of enterprises. Positive and healthy corporate culture will promote the development of enterprises, while negative and unhealthy corporate culture will hinder the development of enterprises. With China's entry into WTO, foreign-funded enterprises have entered, which has intensified the efforts to seize market share with mainland enterprises. In view of the great changes in the external environment, many enterprises pay more and more attention to their own construction and form various corporate cultures, one of which is "wild goose culture".
If an enterprise wants to survive and develop in an unpredictable environment, the most important thing is the leader of the enterprise, and this leader, like the leading geese in the flight process, needs courage and courage to lead all employees of the enterprise to forge ahead and ensure the correct direction of the enterprise. Only in this way can the development goals of enterprises be realized. At the same time, enterprise leaders must lead all employees to create a good working atmosphere, reduce the resistance in their work, and make all employees go into battle lightly, thus improving the overall performance level of the enterprise. When enterprise leaders cannot lead the rapid development of enterprises due to physical, knowledge, ability and other factors, they should choose people with corresponding abilities as the new leaders of enterprises to promote the new progress of enterprises with new knowledge, ideas, management methods and means. Perhaps the leaders of many enterprises are reluctant to do so, especially private entrepreneurs, because they are worried that their authority will be challenged and their status will be excluded. In fact, this kind of worry or stubbornness will only hinder the development of enterprises and lose opportunities for development. Only by letting more capable leaders (such as professional managers) lead the enterprise can the enterprise go faster and further.
In the process of enterprise development, some people may not keep up with the requirements of enterprise development. As an enterprise, the first thing that comes to mind is to eliminate them, but to give more care and support and provide more training opportunities, just like a strong goose takes care of a weak goose in flight, to improve the working ability of employees and finally meet the development requirements of the enterprise.
In a word, a good corporate culture is an important factor for an enterprise to improve its core competitiveness, besides having its own technology, products and core talents. Only when enterprise leaders agree with enterprise culture and lead all employees to work hard can enterprises "fly" further and "fly" higher!
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Wild Goose Spirit and Enterprise Management
Author: anonymous
Whenever autumn comes, the geese flying south in droves in the sky are a model of enterprise management and a perfect team worth learning from. Goose is made up of many geese with the same goal. In the organization, they have a clear division of labor and cooperation. When the team was tired halfway through the flight and stopped to have a rest, among them, there were young and strong geese who were responsible for foraging, taking care of the old and the young, geese who were responsible for keeping watch safely, and geese who were responsible for quiet rest and adjusting their physical strength. When the geese are eating, once the patrolling geese find an enemy approaching, they will send out a long warning signal, and the geese will rush to the blue sky neatly and leave. And the goose that stands guard doesn't eat or drink when others are eating, which is a spirit of sacrifice for the team. According to scientific research, team flight is 22% faster than solo flight. In flight, the wings of geese can form a relative vacuum state. No one gave it a vacuum. In the long migration process, there are always people who take the lead in fighting, which is also a spirit of sacrifice. During the flight, geese bray loudly to encourage each other, and form an airflow by flapping their wings together, providing "upward wind" for teammates behind. V-shaped formation can increase the flying range of geese by 70%. If any wild goose in the flock is injured or sick and can't continue to fly, then two spontaneous geese in the flock will stay to look after the injured or sick geese until they recover or die, and then they will join the new squad and continue to fly south until their destination.
The advantage of strict array is that it has the same goal and strong consistency, so should commercial operation.
Enterprise organization is an organism, it must have clear strategic goals like geese, and establish different teams to achieve the goals, with clear division of labor and full cooperation. As we all know, enterprise organizations exist in society by creating value, and small enterprises pay attention to creating shareholder value, because under the pressure of survival, bosses must make money. Medium-sized enterprises must pay attention to creating employee value and brand value. Only in this way can they achieve sustained growth and become large enterprises, and large enterprises will begin to create real customer value or even far-reaching social value and assume social responsibilities. As we all know, a solid triangle (that is, a tetrahedral pyramid with four points, as shown below) is the most impregnable geometric structure. If enterprises want to achieve sustainable development, four points are indispensable. The formation of the V-shape is the most perfect interpretation. The three-dimensional triangle can be regarded as composed of four V's, each V represents a perfect team, which forms corporate culture while shaping the values of shareholders, employees and brands, and strongly supports the three mechanism facades, thus realizing the final corporate vision.
However, the inspiration from geese is not only team spirit.
Scientific research shows that the leading geese of Yan array are changing all the time, because only in this way can the leading geese always maintain abundant physical strength to fly in front, and the geese will fly up regularly or irregularly, and the following are firm followers. To have a firm follower, there must be convincing top managers. The reason why enterprises are distracted is largely due to the lack of a clear and attractive corporate vision, the inability to make decisions to unite people, and the lack of a mechanism to motivate followers. Goose still knows that it will fly to its own paradise-the warm south. Qi Xin will work together, care for companions in need, shout at each other and inspire all employees. As an entrepreneur fighting in the commercial tide, should we get some enlightenment? Should we advocate an "American presidential" general manager rotation system? By voting regularly, the board of directors and all the staff will choose the general manager in their minds, which will make it easier to promote talents with the characteristics of "leading geese" and form an atmosphere of benign competition and communication and cooperation within the enterprise, because unpopular people are difficult to manage.
But from the side, the general manager rotation system of "American President" may be difficult to implement in China, a country that pays attention to emotional management. It may even form a clique style because of the position of general manager. Because the whole enterprise system is imperfect, the quality of personnel is uneven, and the idea of relying on emotion and relationship management is still deeply rooted, it is urgent to establish a systematic enterprise mechanism that can restrain and motivate employees in our country.
A group of migratory birds can achieve the goal of saving labor and speeding up through division of labor and cooperation, and know how to make individual self-sacrifice for the same goal of the group. The soaring array and writing the word "people" in the sky are enough for entrepreneurs as ideological groups to think deeply.
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