Management story 216 027-cobblestone and water
[story]
One day, the professor put a water jar on the table, and then took out some of the pebbles that exactly from the tanker in the jar. The professor took the stone and asked his student: "You said, is this jar full?"
"Yes!" All students answered in concert.
"Really?" Professor smiled and asked. Then take out a bag of gravel from the table, pour the gravel from the jar, shake, add some, ask the students: "You said, is this jar now is full?"
This time, his student dares to answer too fast: "Maybe it's not full."
"Very good!" After the professor finished, took out a bag of sand from the table, slowly poured into the jar. After finishing, he asked the students in the class: "Now you tell me again, is this jar full?"
"Not full." The whole class learned this, and everyone replied.
"Good!" The professor took a large bottle of water from the table, poured the water into a jar that was filled with cobblestone, small gravel, sand.
After these things, the professor asked the classmates in his class: "What is important in learning from these things?"
A student replied "Whether our work is busy, the itinerary is much full, if you want to force it, you can do something more, this course is time management."
After the professor heard such an answer, he nodded and smiled: "The answer is good, but it is not what I want to tell you."
Say this, this professor deliberately paused, and smashed the whole class with his eyes and said: "I want to tell you the most important information, if you don't first put big pebbles into the jar, you may I will never let them put them in the future. "
[Management Enlightenment]
Every day we are busy, every day we do is very important. Every day we are constantly pushing small crusions or sand in the jar. Have you ever thought about it, what is your own pebble?
[成 片 大 点 评]
1. In the face of a lot of work, don't worry about it, calm down, see what is the most important, do those most important things.
2. For the project manager, for the project group, and the progress of the project, the incompetent eyebrow is arrested, and the most important thing to distinguish between those things is the most important.
3, this also conforms to the so-called 80/20 rule, complete the most important 20% of the matter, may have completed 80% of the requirements.
