Professor Hao Xuguang: The ability of leaders during the epidemic
(Source: "Leadership Science Journal" 2020-03-17)
Facing an unprecedented epidemic, closing cities, quarantining communities, shutting down businesses, etc., w88 casino poses great challenges to leaders’ leadership, especially their strategic vision. Leaders have two important tasks: setting direction and hiring people. Determining the direction is decision-making, and both decision-making and hiring require vision. Decision-making requires foresight, prediction, foresight and perception, as well as insight; employing people first requires knowing people, and knowing people also requires insight and perception. Leaders must have an eye for selecting and recognizing people. To sum up, a leader's abilities include foresight and insight.
Foresight mainly refers to the judgment of market trends, while insight mainly refers to the judgment of things and people. Facing a sudden epidemic, whether to be helpless or to discover new market opportunities mainly depends on the vision of the leader.
Forward-looking
The basic requirement for foresight is to have foresight, and foresight is to be able to grasp the future based on the current situation. Leaders should have a foresighted understanding of industry growth and development trends, be able to keenly seize market opportunities, be able to see things that others cannot see, be curious about changes, and be able to quickly and keenly discover opportunities.
The acumen of leaders can bring new development opportunities to the organization, find new breakthroughs, and provide the right direction for the development of the organization. In this regard, there are many examples of both positive and negative aspects.
Zhuge Liang's Longzhong pair, before he was born, he already knew three parts of the world, which reflected a kind of foresight.
During the War of Liberation, Su Yu keenly discovered the difference in strength between the Kuomintang troops and the Communist troops, and proactively proposed to the Central Military Commission that "the three columns should not stay across the river for the time being, and concentrate the main force to fight a large-scale annihilation war in the Huanghuai area of the Central Plains." Facts have proved how correct this forward-looking decision is!
Jobs keenly foresaw the development trend of personal computers more than ten years ago, and followed this trend and presciently developed new Apple mobile phones, making Apple's mobile phones the new favorite of young people, leading the market and leading the trend. But Nokia's managers turned a blind eye to the rise of Android and Apple systems around the world, and were still limited to the Symbian system, stubbornly insisting that w88 casino "cannot be broken." After smartphones have become a development trend, Nokia still firmly believes that "anti-fall" can keep Nokia young forever. As a result, w88 casino has become an "outcast" in the mobile phone market.
Affected by the epidemic after the Spring Festival holiday this year, many people can only stay at home to work or study remotely when it is time to go to work and w88 casino. A certain company predicted that high-quality remote office software would become a hot commodity. According to the latest Apple App Store free list data, this software has jumped to second place!
Insight
Forward-looking, emphasizing macro thinking. But most leaders can see the big from the small, and know the big things from the small. He may not necessarily pay attention to every little thing, but he must be able to discover the deep-seated problems and contradictions faced by the company from small things. This is a kind of insight, the ability to "see through at a glance", which refers to the ability to quickly see through phenomena and see the essence. w88 casino is manifested in the ability to quickly find the common causes and connections between things that appear to be different on the surface, and the ability to analyze, abstract and generalize things and people. Including being able to make accurate judgments, identify the interaction of various factors, grasp the cause and essence of the problem, predict the development and impact of the problem, formulate measures to solve the problem, and judge what consequences will occur after the implementation of such measures. As a leader, faced with many challenging tasks, we often have to make reasonable decisions under uncertain conditions and under time pressure. Therefore, in practice, they need to understand, analyze, question and solve problems that arise in organizational development in a short period of time, and accurately communicate their choices, basis or decisions to their subordinates. This obviously requires insight.
Insight has several requirements: first, w88 casino must be seen through. See through the essence behind complex appearances. The superficial phenomena of things are complex, and human psychology is ever-changing. w88 casino is necessary to see through the phenomena to see the essence. Only by knowing people's true thoughts can we make a profound understanding, and then adopt appropriate methods, seize good opportunities, and achieve effective work results. Second, we must see accurately. Able to find the key points of things and accurately judge the influencing factors and changing patterns of things. w88 casino also requires an accurate understanding of people’s thoughts, motivations and behaviors. Although human psychology and behavior are ever-changing and difficult to grasp scientifically, they are also regular. Help yourself understand, experience and understand these laws through various channels. Based on in-depth thinking, you will have more accurate insights into your own and other people's behaviors. The third is to look carefully. Emphasis on keen attention to details! Prevent the influence of carelessness and ignore the signs of hidden dangers and the buds of opportunities, which can easily lead to risks and miss the best opportunities to carry out work. Subtleties are sometimes the crystallization of life experience and work insights. The more things you experience, the deeper and clearer your vision becomes.
Seeing things requires insight.
This requires sensitivity to details and the ability to grasp key elements based on limited information. Behind the data and superficial phenomena, in places that people usually cannot observe or ignore, w88 casino requires deep thinking based on experience and practical insights. Explore the current situation, changes, influencing factors, development trends, laws and future of things, and explore the key and laws of the problem through the complicated surface.
Professor Wald from a famous university in the United States received consultation from the military during World War II on how to improve the survival rate of bombers. Professor Wald carefully observed and analyzed the distribution of bullet holes on the aircraft bodies returning from bombing missions in order to determine where the aircraft bodies needed to be armored.
Through Professor Wald’s observation and analysis, w88 casino was found that the wings, noses and fuselages of these surviving bombers had dense impact points, and the most penetrated places were distributed. But his final suggestion was to reinforce the cockpit and tail as much as possible.
This is obviously inconsistent with the facts people have seen. Wald analyzed the reason: According to the flight rules of the aircraft, if the cockpit and tail are hit, w88 casino is basically impossible for the aircraft to return. So these are the two key parts that need bulletproof reinforcement the most.
Based on the analysis of the results of an encounter in the Liaoshen Campaign that year: compared to other battles, the proportion of short guns and long guns captured this time was slightly higher, the proportion of small cars and large vehicles seized and destroyed was slightly higher, and the proportion of officers and soldiers captured and killed was slightly higher. Through these easily overlooked data and phenomena, w88 casino was accurately determined that w88 casino was a Kuomintang army headquarters, and based on this, a quick response was made, and Liao Yaoxiang was finally captured alive.
A well-known domestic medical dressing production and export company originally decided to hold a year-end executive meeting in Wuhan on December 20, 2019. However, according to scattered news reports about the epidemic, w88 casino made a decisive and temporary decision to change the on-site meeting to other local venues and a video conference in Shenzhen. On January 10, 2020, the company forward-lookingly made a decision that many people thought was very "absurd" at the time, but now w88 casino seems very wise: w88 casino arranged for its only mask workshop not to take holidays during the Spring Festival, and fully produced N95 masks, surgical masks and nursing masks, and produced 109 million masks one month in advance. Contributed to winning the battle against epidemic prevention and control.
This is a classic example of insight. When analyzing things, we cannot stop at the surface, but should see through the phenomena to see the content and laws behind the surface.
Knowing people requires more insight.
The talented and strategic leaders in history who were able to achieve great things were all insightful.
For example, Sun Quan during the Three Kingdoms period had the foresight to see clearly the outstanding talents of Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lu Meng, and Lu Xun. He was good at identifying talents and turned the tide many times. For example, he used Zhou Yu before the Battle of Chibi, promoted Lu Meng before crossing the river in white clothes, and reused Lu Xun before the Battle of Yiling. These battles allowed Soochow to turn a corner and achieve a generation of hegemony.
Liu Bei also had vision and insight. He eagerly sought out Zhuge Liang, which became a turning point in his career. When he was entrusting an orphan in Baidi City, Liu Bei had a profound insight into Ma Di's "exaggerating the truth and failing to be of great use". The subsequent defeat of Jieting just proved his judgment. Ma Su's strengths and weaknesses are outstanding. Ma Su has read military books since he was a child and is proficient in the art of war. When he is asked to serve as a senior staff officer, he can put forward correct opinions with strategic foresight. However, once he is asked to serve as a general and face the complex war environment and the ever-changing battlefield when decisions need to be made, he is at a loss and unable to cope. At best, he is just a high-ranking strategist. He does not possess the characteristics of a general, nor does he have the ability to act independently and make decisions.
Song Jiang in "Water Margin", in addition to making friends with heroes from all walks of life, he also has unique vision. For example, to Wu Song and Li Kui, he was Bole and had the ability to know people. He was able to discover in Chai Jin's manor that Wu Song, who was seriously ill and disgraced, was a talent and a hero. But Chai Jin couldn't do w88 casino. He had been with Wu Song for so long, and he didn't even see Wu Song's extraordinary qualities. This is the difference in vision. Therefore, although Chai Jin was of noble birth, his achievements could not be compared with Song Jiang.
In the Battle of Huaihai, Chairman Mao saw Su Yu's extraordinary military talent with his majestic strategy and entrusted him with an important task. As a result, w88 casino was Su Yu's outstanding military talent that became the key to winning the Huaihai Battle.
Including Emperor Kangxi’s choice of Yongzheng, Zeng Guofan’s choice of Li Hongzhang, and Jones’s choice of Welch, all showed amazing insights.
The ability of a leader includes foresight and insight. If a leader has a keen and accurate vision, he can determine the correct direction of the organization and the identification and use of talents to a considerable extent.
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