the value of excellent talents lies in their own opinions and original ideas, and they don't go with the flow or look at other people's glances. The characteristics of talents are: strong creativity, can bring performance to the organization, create a new situation for leaders, and even their ability exceeds that of leaders. Innovation and development will inevitably be inconsistent with tradition and authority, and may even be incompatible with leadership. No invention, innovation and enterprising can guarantee 1% success, and mistakes and failures are inevitable, even more than success. A leader who is better than himself should have the magnanimity of "a big belly can accommodate people who can't tolerate the world", so that a great cause can be achieved and an ordinary person can't do it.
If you dare to use someone better than yourself, you must overcome the mentality of seeking perfection and blaming. To seek perfection and blame means to be too strict with others, not to tolerate any defects of others, to criticize people when they are short, and not to be appointed. Perfection and blame are the taboos of employing people, which suppress people's work enthusiasm, hinder people's growth and hinder people's full play of intelligence; It makes people cautious and not enterprising; Hinder people's creative thinking and imagination; It makes people lack vitality, competitiveness and adaptability, resulting in a great waste of talents, especially outstanding talents. Talents are human beings, with their strengths and weaknesses.
Drucker has a wonderful comment in The Effective Manager: Whoever wants to employ people without shortcomings in an organization is at most a mediocre organization. Whoever wants to find people who are good in all aspects, only those who have advantages and no disadvantages, can only find mediocre people or incompetent people. In fact, there is no perfect person in the world.
those who dare to use better than themselves should be tolerant of others. Because, if you are tolerant of others, you should use people who are better than yourself. First, you should use them. Second, "pearls and jade are on the side, and I feel ugly" is very dangerous to "replace" me. Therefore, tolerance requires a greater "capacity". A leader once pointed out: "using a person with strong ability will only improve your own status;" People with good conditions not only improve the effectiveness of the whole department, but also make you famous for your tolerance. Why not? " It can be seen that tolerance has been recognized by most intelligent people.
those who dare to use more than themselves should tolerate failure. In creative activities, there are more failures than successes, but there is no success without failure. Kelvin, a British physicist, said in his later years, "I have been struggling for 55 years. I can express the characteristics of my hard work in one word, and that is failure." American management scientists Tom Peters and Nancy Austin visited dozens of units, from a few large companies with advanced technology and strong strength to small and medium-sized companies, financial industry, service industry and traditional handicrafts; From schools and military units to government agencies. It is found that the best organizations are those that can tolerate failure. For example, Citibank, General Electric Company and Pepsi Company all strongly advocate that "failure is a normal phenomenon" and even think that "reasonable mistakes" should be rewarded. The most famous high-tech park in the world, Silicon Valley, has a famous saying: "Learn while doing, learn while losing." Treating losers with tolerance is the key to Silicon Valley's success.
Carnegie, the American steel magnate, said, "You can take away all my factories, equipment, markets and funds, but as long as I keep my organization and personnel, I will still be the steel magnate in a few years." After Carnegie's death, people engraved this passage on his tombstone: "There is a person buried here, and his best ability is to organize those who are better than himself into the management institutions that serve him." Carnegie's success lies in making good use of people who are better than himself. Therefore, modern leaders need the courage and ability to dare and be good at using people who are stronger than themselves.