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When we used to work in enterprises, we often had a saying: the boss is not at fault. The boss is the founder of the company. He has a lot of ideas. From time to time, he will come up with some ideas, and he will quickly ask the employees below to implement them.
However, for front-line employees, they often feel that these ideas are not realistic at all, that is, they cannot be implemented, and they are not recognized ideologically, which leads to difficulty in cooperating in actions, or even slack. When a smart company president is in a meeting, he said to the employees: If you don’t understand the boss’s instructions, you must implement it first, and understand it during the implementation. He never said there was something wrong with the boss’s mind.
more interesting thing. During an internal training session, an employee asked the executives:
The boss said that each project needs to develop a building to make the flat-floor apartment larger, but the sales data shows that it is not good. Why does the boss force such a request?
This executive is also really good, he replied to us this way:
The boss said to develop a large apartment, but the boss did not say that you should build it right away!
Over time, we all understand that the boss is not wrong. The company belongs to him, and the cost of his failure is much higher than that of us regular workers. The only fault is the workers. What’s more, the boss stands so high, the layout is so wide, and he has so much information. We grass-roots employees are simply frogs in the bottom of the well. The only fault is the workers.
Looking back now, I have a new understanding of this practice. Of course, business bosses have a lot of ideas. They are not as organized as the professors in the school. The bosses are more likely to have a feeling and put forward their ideas. They don’t have to realize every idea successfully, as long as a few ideas succeed, the bosses will realize everything, and one good looks a hundred ugly.
So when bosses come up with new ideas, they ask employees to implement them right away, which also serves several purposes:
- Pay close attention to the executive power of the company’s executives and employees. If there is no execution power, everything is equal to zero, and no matter how good the idea is, it is useless;
- Test the loyalty of the company’s executives and employees. If the loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal. Whoever implements the boss’s instructions shows his allegiance to him.
- By how executives and employees implement instructions, they can test how much tolerance they have, that is, how easy it is to manage employees.
It is not surprising that the presidents and executives made statements and explanations for the boss’s instructions. It’s just that those of us with low emotional intelligence are still struggling to figure out whether the boss’s idea is reasonable, and thus miss opportunities again and again.
However, the boss often flaunts his openness, saying that “only the truth can walk sideways in the company”. Maybe it’s because everyone doesn’t have the guts to eat crabs, so I’ve never seen anyone walking sideways, but I thought for a long time before I realized that maybe the “truth” is the boss, so how could he be wrong?
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