Management is so simple: 6 ways to avoid tediousness and return to the essence of management
- The basis of management
Sometimes, we really need to think about what is the foundation of management.
The foundation is that we should move forward with purpose, and no one can stand work without purpose. In primitive society, the goal of tribes is to survive and reproduce; in modern society, what companies need is more chances of survival. At all times, we should accomplish our mission with purpose. Customizing goals, customizing small goals, and achieving big goals are familiar to us. However, how and how to do it are all questions we need to address.
How to do things simply
Do only what needs to be done
"Good" doesn't have to be: management should strive to be direct, reduce unnecessary steps and focus on the core business. But that's not always the case. The bigger companies grow, the more they resemble federal bureaucracies with one purpose: to justify their existence.
Don't do things that aren't worth doing: Things that aren't worth doing make you feel like you've accomplished something, like listing articles on your resume that no one has heard or read, and you're just content to waste your time.
Never do what others are doing: the best, cheapest and most effective way to avoid disaster is to avoid any popular "dogma".
- Use simple guidelines
Guiding principles can provide a range of tools and frameworks to help people solve problems. Companies use these guiding principles to create connections or avenues of communication between different viewpoints or ideas.
What are effective guiding principles? The simple principles we want to talk about are basic and universal principles related to human relationships and organizations, such as fairness, impartiality, honesty, integrity, respect, and trust. These principles are self-explanatory.
How the rules work: The key to rules is that they are fully internalized and tacit. The rules allow for broad autonomy.
Start simple with language and text
Do subtraction
We often think about "what we can do" rather than "what we can't do". The former is an addition rule, and the latter is a subtraction rule. The reason why the rule of subtraction is a simple method is based on the fact that "there is a middle and a second"
- The rule of right and wrong
Everyone makes mistakes, but the problem is that most people refuse to admit their mistakes and always like to pass the buck. Only those who can face mistakes can succeed. Our life experiences often tell us not to make mistakes, but to do things right. However, the reality is that the more one does, the more mistakes one makes. If you don't do things, you won't make mistakes, because the object of mistakes doesn't exist.
- Numbers in Simple Management
Simple "1": sole responsibility, sole command, sole standard
The magic of "3": Anything less than 3 will be perceived as too little, and more than 3 will be perceived as too much. When you want to convince someone, or make a point, a great way to do that is to group your ideas into three categories.
- Preventing management traps
Fourth, learn to observe
At work, we should actively observe the working status of team members. Sometimes team members don't know their own productivity cycle, but we need to know the general productivity cycle of each team member.
When we give tasks to team members to perform, do not insert other tasks in the process of task execution, because it will interfere with the work status of team members. Of course, if too few tasks are assigned to team members, they will feel unappreciated or challenged, which can eventually lead to problems such as slack and low productivity.