I was listening to a product thinking class recently, which mentioned that we can use the four-level thinking model of "point-line-surface-body" to improve our strategic thinking ability. I felt gained after listening to it. Very big.
We personally are a value creation point, and the products we personally participate in creating are lines. Through products, various upstream and downstream resources can be connected, and the company or organization we work for is a surface, which creates for us Value provides a basic platform, and finally an ecological economy is formed by many related companies or organizations. The entire human business system is actually composed of such ecological economies.
The so-called strategic thinking ability means that although you are only at a value node, you can look up from your own point and see the line structure behind your point and the structure. relationships with structures, and their ebb and flow of development trends.
Regardless of whether you start a business or make products, this strategic thinking ability is a cognitive ability that people living in this era must possess.
Luo Zhenyu gave a very classic example to illustrate the importance of strategic thinking ability. He said that in a village, there was a very diligent young man who earned income by carrying and delivering water. There was also a young man who wanted to install tap water for everyone in the village. Of course, this would require a large investment. And it takes a long time to get the revenue. Before the tap water is installed, the first hard-working young man can still make money to live on, but once the tap water is installed, the first young man will face unemployment, and the second young man will receive a stable income for a long time. The first guy is getting income in a point-like way of value payment, which is always very limited. The second young man embedded himself into a tap water system and completed the integration of resources, which is a current way of paying value. Therefore, they are not competing on the same level, and the final result is of course self-evident.
In addition, in this product lesson, the author raised a very profound question: a profitable company and a valuable company are not the same thing at all. Many companies that are very profitable at this stage often have difficulty raising money in the capital market. Many companies that are currently not making money or even losing money can raise a lot of money in the capital market.
Why is there such a difference? Because the first type of company itself is in a weak economy, even if it is very profitable today, it is still in decline. The second type of company is in a growing economy. Even if it is not profitable today, it will continue to achieve stable and sustained growth as the entire economy develops.
We can beat our opponents, but we cannot beat the trend. In the face of trends, we can only go with the trend! The American futurist Nesbitt has a famous saying: Those who follow the trend will win the world. This sentence is very reasonable.
As individuals, we must learn to make full use of this "point, line, and surface" thinking structure to help ourselves improve our strategic thinking capabilities, and try to keep ourselves in a growth-oriented organization or growth-oriented industry. Only in this way can you get the fastest development and progress!