Li Kaiqiu :: Give Chinese students, I am in the "a letter to Chinese students", I discussed some topics that everyone care about and combined with their own learning and work experience. Students explain my personal opinion on how to treat opportunities, academic, work, others, etc. This time, I would like to talk to you about topics about talents and talents.
Everyone knows that a successful software talent, especially a successful software company management talent, must have enough wisdom, skilled professional technology, good team spirit and rich management and business experience. These factors are the basic basis for Microsoft choices and use of talents. But this is just some basic factors, they can't make sure your success. For a person's career development and leadership, there are more important factors that can determine the role:
First of all, I think that integrity and integrity, active awareness, exchanges and communication, and strive to learn these aspects, these personal qualities are also emphasized in the "a letter to Chinese students". .
Secondly, if you want to be a successful leader, you have to work hard to improve your emotional business (EQ), and develop "modest", "attach" and "courage".
This article is written for those who wish to continuously improve their own basic skills and leadership arts necessary. The first part reaffirmed the topic of personal qualities discussed in "a letter to Chinese students"; the second part explains the importance of emotional and emotional business; the third part gives excellent leadership must have, Don't be the basic characteristics of ordinary people.
1 How to improve personal quality
1.1 integrity and integrity
How is a person's character decided this person to the value of society. In all factors related to character, integrity is the most important point. Microsoft is very emphasizing integrity when employing people, and we only hire the best and trustworthy people. If a candidate is not honest, or not to talk about professional ethics, then even if he performs excellent skills, I will not hesitate to reject him.
For example, a candidate said to me when he can join Microsoft, and he can bring him in the inventive results of the previous company. For such a person, I will not hire him regardless of his technical level. Since he can harm the interests of the previous company when you join Microsoft, he will definitely damage the interests of Microsoft after joining Microsoft.
Conversely, the company should also fully trust employees. In Microsoft, managers at all levels of the company will develop their careers to their employees, and fully trust, support and help employees at work and life. As long as it is a person in Microsoft, Microsoft will trust him 100%. Unlike some software companies to the fact that the employee is defense, the employees within Microsoft companies can see many source code, contacting many technical or commercial confidentiality. Because of this, Microsoft's employees have more responsibility and higher work enthusiasm for the company.
1.2 Cultivate active awareness
Frankly, China's students and staff are more introverted types, and they are not active enough in learning and work. At school, students often need the teacher to arrange learning tasks, or study in accordance with the teacher's ideas. In the company, Chinese staff often have to wait for the boss to do anything, after doing it, they started working. In addition, many Chinese are not good at marketing and promoting themselves, which is probably a great relationship with China's cultural atmosphere since ancient times.
However, if you want to succeed in modern enterprises, you must strive to cultivate your own active awareness: Be brave in your work, take the initiative to set your own goals for yourself, and continue to improve your way; in addition, you should cultivate yourself The ability, in front of leaders or colleagues, it is good at expressing their own advantages. After researching results or technological innovation, they must share with colleagues or peers through speeches, presentations, exchanges, papers. It is also committed to recognition. . Only a proactive person can succeed in the changing competitive environment, only those who are good at showing their own can get real opportunities in their work. 1.3 Objective, direct communication and communication
Kaisheng Brigade exchanges and communication is the most important link in teamwork. People with people cover, unsecaling, unable to dialing is a non-destroying the work atmosphere in the team, hindering the normal communication between team members, and ultimately leads to projects or business failures.
For example, when discussing the problem, all the personnel attending the meeting should be honestly exchanged, so that the correct decision can be made. If a person does not dare to express his own point of view because of some other factors (such as unwilling to refute the opinion of the superior leaders), the only one is only the Ino, I will go to the bathroom to say that "I don't agree with him." I don't agree with him. " Views ", those who worn out the work of the mask can not only stick to their own point of view, but also destroy the communication and exchange channels within the company, and have a negative impact on the work.
Microsoft has a very good culture called "Open Communication", which requires all employees to open their hearts in any communication or communication, express their views as much as possible. When Microsoft meets, you often have disputes because of the inconsistency, usually happening or even quarrel, and must fight for a result. This open communication environment is very important to Microsoft's capacity and innovation capabilities. Of course, the quarrel is also very bad, for the technical problem, there is a crude neck, this is sometimes destroying the relationship between people. Therefore, the president of Microsoft's president Steve Bauer recently put forward this cultural improvement into "Open and RESPECTFUL". This requires us to fully respect each other when communicating with each other, even if the other party's opinion should not use an aggressive language.
1.4 Challenge yourself, learn without end
From a college student to a programmer, then to a manager, learning is never ending in the growth process of software talents. During the university, we have to make the foundation, cultivate our own quality and ability; after work, we should strive to learn new technologies and accumulate related experience in actual work; even if you have embarked on management positions, we should continue to learn Continuously improve yourself. The software industry itself is a new technology every day, the new concept is born, full of vitality and creative industries. As a software industry, if you only know that you will be closed, you will be able to be eliminated by the market.
Many Chinese students like to compete with others, but this competition is more representative as a "zero and game", which cannot make yourself and others really improve. I suggest that everyone can compete with themselves - don't always want to win others, but strive to surpass yourself and keep progress in your own level.
In the process of learning, it is the most important. From the software industry's demand for talents, we must learn the two basic disciplines of mathematics and English. Mathematics is the foundation of all engineering sciences, whether it is the development of software products, or software technology research, a large number of mathematical methods and mathematics principles. English is the international language in the software industry. To understand the development trend of international software technology, master the latest research results, or conduct technical exchanges with foreign counterparts, you must master English listening, speaking, reading, writing, Skilled in our work to use English to solve the problem. 2 emotions and emotional cultures
For software talents, IQ (IQ) and emotional (EQ) are two key factors that can be used to measure personal qualities. IQ reflects people's wisdom levels, and emotions reflect people's emotional, emotional self-control and coordination skills. In modern software companies, the importance of emotions even exceeds IQ. I have seen an article, the author of this article surveyed 188 companies, and he tested the IQ and Emotion of each employee in these companies in a psychological method, and linked the test results and the performance of the employee. Conduct analysis together. After research, the author found that in terms of the impact of personal work performance, the influence of emotional business is twice the IQ. In addition, he also analyzed senior managers in the company. He found that in senior managers, the influence of emotional business is 9 times the intelligence. This shows that if the IQ does not have a higher emotional index, it can be successful if you have a higher emotional index; contrary, the IQ is high, but the people who are inadequilly are difficult to make achievements in their careers.
2.1 What is a Chinese?
In modern society, if you only know IQ, you don't know that you are at least conscious. Most psychologists have long stated that the standard use IQ standards examine a person's performance and is not enough to accurately predict that this person may have achieved in their career. In order to fully examine personal capabilities, especially to examine individuals in social life, psychologists present the concept of emotional business.
Emotional business is mainly personal capabilities related to understanding themselves, control emotions, motivate themselves, and handling interpersonal relationships. Among the various capabilities described in the emotional business, conscious, co-care, self-discipline and influence are key factors that have decisive effects on the success of modern people.
2.2 conscious
The Chinese often say that people have some other things. This is actually said that everyone in social life should have a clear understanding of their own quality, potential, special, defect, experience, etc., there is a role that may play in social work life. Clear positioning. Psychology is called "consciousness" in psychology, which usually includes aware of their own emotions, understanding and correctly assessing their qualifications, capabilities and limitations, believe in their own value and ability. .
There is a "self-satisfaction" in my subordinates: he is very high, always is not satisfied with his current position, and it is always dissatisfied with the status quo. For a few more time, he decided to leave my group and expect to see another high in other groups in Microsoft. However, he finally found that he not only couldn't find a better job, and the colleagues in the company were quite a micro-speaking, and they thought he lacks self-knowledge, expectations and reality are too far away. Recently, he left the company frustrated. People who take his position are a strong ability, and very "self-conscious". Although this person is not very successful when the last position is working, he is willing to be a job at first level, and it is very confident - he is still very good now.
Simply put, a person can not judge his ability to be too high, and you can't easily underestimate your potential. People who have judged high to judge it easily, advancing, not good at working with others, and have a big psychological drop when the cause is frustrated, and it is difficult to treat objective facts; Before, there is no courage to bear responsibility and shoulder, and there is no enthusiasm for the initiative. Whether it is the above situation, the potential of individuals cannot be fully played, and the personal business is impossible to achieve the greatest success. People who have self-known Mingming can display their own shortcomings in front of others, and will not deliberately cover their shortcomings. Sometimes, telling others that he is in some ways, but instead can express his self-confidence to personal abilities and win the favor of others. For example, when a leader said to a staff member, "I am an expert, I am not as good as you, I want to learn more, the staff will think that this leader is very modest, and will definitely trust this leader.
People who have self-knowledge will take the initiative to ask others to help, but will not care about whether they will be technically better. In Microsoft, everyone can help each other in technology, encourage each other in the work, no one in the sky every day, there is no one who consciously dwarf, this naturally creates a frank, open work atmosphere .
People who have self-knowledge will not fail when they have a setback, and they will not be complacent when they achieve results. The ability to understand self-and accurate positioning of self-value can not only help individuals find their right space and development direction, but also help companies build outstanding teams to work together. People who have self-knowledge make people feel that he is a confident, modest, sincere person.
2.3
Empathy is a relatively abstract psychology concept, but it is very simple to explain: The same heart refers to people who are often said to be the same as the mind. In other words, when a conflict or misunderstanding occurs, if the parties can think of themselves in the opponent's situation, it may be more easily understanding the original intentions of the other party, eliminate misunderstandings. We often say that "people are in the same heart, the heart is the same", which is this truth.
The relationship between people is not fixed, and it is necessary to start from the perspective of care, understanding others. When doing things, leave space and room for others. When there is a misunderstanding, I want to think about others, take the initiative to reflect on my own negligence, courage Take responsibility. As long as you have the same care, we can avoid many complaints, blame, laughing and sneaky in your work and life, you can have a pleasant work and life in an environment full of encouragement, understanding, support and respect.
For managers in software companies, the most important thing to reflect the heart is to understand and pay attention to the idea of staff. To make the staff think you are a very well-known leader. Take myself, I will not blindly praise it in my work. If I don't move, I will give the staff some "very good", "good", "great", etc., but I will do it in the staff. When I got a score, I pointed out that his contribution to the company and put his performance in public. For example, I will give an electric email in the department to say that an employee has achieved excellent results in the last week of work, and in detail his work results, listed his work for the importance of the company, give specific specific value. Commendation. This way of exciting employees can truly win the trust and support of employees, which can have a huge impact on the cohesiveness of the company.
The same is also an effective way to understand and understand others. When I was transferred to the new department as a leadership position, more than 400 employees in the department didn't know. So, I first selected 10 employees and got lunch with them. At lunch, I learned in detail the name, resume, working situation and their suggestions for their work. This information is very important for a department leader. After the lunch, I immediately arranged the relevant work according to the recommendations of the department, and sent back feedback to these 10 employees, telling them my handling method. My plan is to understand and understand each employee in the department, and reasonably arrange the work based on the adequacy of employee comments. 2.4 self-discipline
Self-regulation refers to the ability of self-control and self-adjustment. This includes: self-controlling emotions or impulses, maintains a clear mind in front of the pressure; win trust honest, and clearly understands your behavior at any time will affect others.
Self-discipline is more important for leaders. As the leadership of the software company, to manage others, let the subordinates convince, you must start from self. This is because the leadership practice is usually the goals and examples of everyone. Every time the leadership will have a deep impression on the subordinates. If there is not good to handle it, it may cause negative impact. Especially when the company or team is in a critical moment, it is necessary to lead everyone to overcome difficulties. When the leadership is more impatched, if the leadersome is more impatient, they turn to the idea, everyone will lose confidence in leaders, the company or team also Will therefore fail.
Once, I have seen the two groups in the company will be merged. The personnel of the first group lack self-discipline, when the meeting said to his team, not his decision, he didn't know what to do next. This manager has no confidence in the future and guess your team may be layoff. And the manager of the second group told his team before merger, why did the merger are reasonable? He also honestly says that he does not master all the information, but he promises to remind the upper level to make decisions as soon as possible. And, the second manager also tells everyone that he will do its best, help each employee arrange the most reasonable and fair way. The final result is that people in the first group quickly spread, their manager left the company, and the second group of managers took over the merged institution.
Of course, it is very difficult to do real self-discipline, this first requires us to be honest. In order to express the so-called "self-discipline", it is very unsaptable in front of others, covering their shortcomings. Only on the basis of the trust of others, it is strict from the discipline, widgets to treat people, in order to truly get respect and thumbs up others.
2.5 Interpersonal relationship
Interpersonal relationships include the influence of social interaction, listening to communication, dealing with conflicts, establishing relationships, cooperation and coordination capabilities, persuasion and impact capacity.
Some people in interpersonal relationships are neither. They are in the semester or celebration, as long as they can make friends with everyone in a short time. But some people do not have such talents. They often have intrinsic in social activities. I would rather be hiding in the corner and I don't want to take the initiative to talk to people.
I personally significantly lack the talent of interpersonal communication. In the past, I didn't think this is something wrong until I have encountered a very personal employee. Shortly after the employee just arrived in the company, I met almost every capable person in the company, and many of them became very good friends. I don't know how he did this, but I quickly discovered that his ability is very useful to the company. For example, when I need to select some staff to work to my department within the company, I can get many details about the staff; when working with other departments of the company, his interpersonal relationship network can also play a very large Role. Since then, I found that the ability to deal with interpersonal relationships is very important for one person, especially a leader. I start special attention to cultivating my own influence in interpersonal relationships. Communication and persuasive capabilities are also critical in technology research and development. For example, we have developed an advanced technology to turn it into the company's products. This first is to convince the company's decision-making layer. We must prepare our product proposals and make the leaders who believe in the company. It is advisable to develop products through the wonderful speeches and live demonstrations. These tasks require us to handle interpersonal relationships, show yourself, affecting others.
3 from excellent to excellence
In the book "From Excellence to Excellence" (China CITIC Press, 2002), the author of the famous enterprise management (CITIC Press, 2002), discussed and analyzed a company or a leader of a company How to rose from excellent (Good) to the level of the Great). Collins and his research team took 10.5 people, read and systematically organized more than 6,000 articles, recorded more than 2,000 pages, and conducted a questionnaire survey on 1435 companies, and collected 28 companies for the past 50 years or even more. Early information, has made a wide range of qualitative and quantitative analysis, and how to make the company and the company's managers from excellent spanning an amazing and exciting answer.
According to Jim Collins, there are many outstanding companies and excellent leaders, and many companies can achieve good performance in their respective industries. However, if you meas out the company and individual achievements with excellent standards, you can maintain a long-lived, healthy and growing leaders who can have successful successful business. On the basis of success, the leader of a company will continue to increase yourself, so that your business will continue to grow, so that your personal ability will move from excellence to excellence, you must work hard to cultivate yourself in "modest", "persistent" And the quality of these three aspects of "courage".
Modesty makes people progress. Many leaders are only emoticated in their work. They can't listen to others, they can't tolerate others and their opinions. These do not know how to be modest, but they can achieve temporary success, but they can't make progress in their career, reach outstanding realm. . This is because a person's power is limited. In the changing business environment, the leader must constantly learn, good at integrated the opinions of others, otherwise it will fall into the quagmire of the orphan, and is eliminated by the market. Bill Gates is a very modest person. After he is often over, please write a speech, what is the shortcomings of his speech, so that the next improvement.
Perseverance means that we insist on the correct direction, sneakers, unwavering determination and will. Whether it is company, it is still a person, once it is recognized, it must work hard to work in the direction of the direction. I can't get a real success in the work of giving up or giving abandonment or in the three priests. After Microsoft has achieved huge success in the Windows 95 operating system, Microsoft still adheres to the development of enterprise-level Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems. This is because the company sees the broad prospects of the enterprise market and the huge potential of Microsoft in this regard. After several years of development, Microsoft's enterprise operating system finally succeeded in the market originally used by UNIX, now all Windows products, including personal operating systems have been built, more secure, reliable Windows. The NT architecture is above. Successful people need enough courage to face challenges. Any business achievements are not easy to get. One person wants to be outstanding in the work, it must face a variety of difficulties, and must face the career setback and failure. Only those who have courage to face reality, have courage to meet challenges can truly realize their own goals and achieve superior realm. As Mark Tween said: "The courage is not lacking fear, but the ability to defend the psychology."
4 Conclusion
Many people believe that in the field of IT, Westerners will behave more excellent, and Chinese only have the Western corporate culture to get a place. Indeed, there are many new ideas, new ideas, and a lot of differences between Chinese ancient oriental cultures. For example, the awareness of Westerners directly communicate and active participation is the traditional Chinese culture. However, from this article, we are not difficult to find that some of the most important, most basic qualities needed to success, and the traditional virtues of China. In the Forbidden City, I see the plaque of "Guangming", the meaning is "integrity and integrity"; "learning without end", "people are expensive", "the heart is compared to the heart", etc. is a moral view of China. " Self-discipline is also a conduct of conduct a very attachment of conduct from ancient times; interpersonal relationship is the secret of success in China; the most important "modest", "attracting", "courage" is the direct embodiment of Chinese traditional culture. Therefore, I am very optimistic about the future of China IT talents.
In the era of opportunities and challenges today, in the software industry, in the high-speed development of the software industry, only those unremitting efforts, good at grasping themselves, and those who have a courage to meet challenges can achieve truly success. I personally hope that China's software industry can flourish in the new century, China's software talents can continue to succeed in their career, and achieve the leap from excellent to excellence.
