Harvard Business Review: Seven from the leader 3
World Business Review ICXO.com (Date: 2004-09-07 17:37)
Upload: Harvard Business Reviews: Leaders 'seven paragraphs 1 Harvard Business Comments: Leaders' seven paragraphs 2 full-faced school children's initial leadership is a painful learning process. Just like raising children, because you are more or less to be responsible for the happiness of others, and your life is not well prepared for you. Worse, you have to learn how to do this at the majestic, and your words will be concerned about the uneasy employees. In this case, most people may be nervous in addition to the few people who really want to attract others. No matter whether you like it, as a new leader, you are always the focus of people, and everything about you is the topic of people's head, people will review, criticize, interpret (or misinter). Your dress, your spouse, your budget, your wording, your fun, your friends, your child, your child is in the end of your child, all of which are seen in the eyes of others, by others Analysis and judged by others. People are most concerned about your original words and deeds. As the candidate of the first election president may tell you. It is said that in psychotherapy, doctors and patients are most important in their ten minutes. Studies have shown that college students have the most lasting friendship when they have just entered school. Social psychologists have found that our views of people are often only based on the very few part of the other. We can judge that you can talk to another person in just two seconds. The same is true for leaders and organizations. The initial action you first can win, you can make others against you, sometimes this object is permanent. These initial actions may have a long-term impact on the performance of the team. Therefore, the newcomer is best low-key to the leadership position. This can make you have time to collect information, and have cleverly build various relationships; so that you have the opportunity to understand corporate culture, benefiting from the talents of old employees; low-key entering the leadership role can show that you welcome others to make contributions; You are a leader, not a dictator. Revereded, I realized that I have made me a small victory in the house that was blown up in the house in Belgium. Although the school's instructors arranged four months of training time, let us learn a variety of survival skills, but they still tell us again and again, listening to the soldiers of those who have commanded the Sandy Square will be our real teacher. At least, we have just taken office. This is also the same in any organization. Especially in the initial stage of your leadership role, those who are most talented, most experienced, and the most university will be people who have survived in the organization. When Steve Sample became the leader of the University of South California, Steve Sample became very well. He did not expose his identity at least twice. One of him was to watch a football team, and talked with teachers and students present, and teachers and students didn't know who he was. These activities have made him understand the true situation of the school, not his most confident client wants to let him see. In the first six months of the last, he did not make any major decisions, because he understood that after the faculty and students were more accused, and he could do more stable relationships with him. Important things. Regardless of the choice of timing or from the content, the major reforms in the first six months will inevitably be considered arbitrary, autocratic and unfair. However, it is worth mentioning that no matter what kind of action you start at the beginning, you can only affect the views of others in a limited extent. When you enter your office, those who will work under your leaders will form a view to you, even if they never have seen you.