The path to management: Start from asking for help

Imagine that you have joined a new company, a new team, or a new company or team. How can we become one of the leaders?

Discuss the qualities required by leadersArticleBut in fact, we seldom see how to cultivate these capabilities in practice. Everyone knows what to do and how to do it? I think you may wish to start by asking for help.

1. communicate with others to accomplish things

Imagine a scenario: assume that you-codera is writing a module A'sCodeYou find that you need to use a function of Module B, but you are not familiar with Module B, what do you do?

1. Method 1: Implement Module B by yourself (maybe only implement what you need ).
2. Method 2: Study the code of Module B to understand Module B.
3. Method 3: put it aside for the moment and raise this question at the meeting.
4. Method 4: Ask coderb, a developer of Module B.

The person who chooses the first solution-I believe everyone knows that this kind of person doesn't need to talk about team consciousness, it is simply a destroyer! The code written by such a person is self-claimed to be a system and is usually hard to understand (because he does not use other people's code, he does not consider other people's use of his code), and the maintenance capability is basically zero. There should be very few such people, but I did. Of course, this person is eventually abandoned by the team.

There are certainly a lot of choices in method 2. There are not a few people who want to do things, especially technical personnel. However, such people cannot talk about team consciousness. The word "effort-consuming" is for such people.

Method 3 is a good choice. However, the choice of this method is usually passive, as the person to be coordinated rather than the person to coordinate others.

Method 4 is the correct choice. As an administrator, the most important thing is communication. It is done by others rather than by yourself. Method 4 is the best embodiment.

2. Information Asymmetry

An important factor in the overall situation view is the degree of information mastery. In a project, a very important reason is that the project manager has more information and the decisions made are in line with the interests of the entire project.

By taking advantage of the help opportunity, you can understand the development purpose and development ideas of other modules, which is the best way to understand the overall project situation. In general, open-minded answers from developers will give you answers that you can't believe. This is probably because it satisfies the developer's desire to "speak" in their sultry character.

3. Get and give

It is a good opportunity for others to use it to solve some problems. If you can return, it will be more perfect. There are many forms of return, such as a thank-you phrase, praise in public places (especially regular meetings and so on), or treat yourself for dinner, and buy a small gift for others .......

Some people may think that it is silly to pay for the help of a colleague for the sake of official business-it is clearly what he should do. But from another perspective, you have done your job through him and paid for him. From a very micro perspective, there is no difference between you and his boss. Further, if all the people are following your arrangement to do things for you and get the reward from you, aren't you the boss?

Someone will ask, where will my money come from? This money is your investment and will get a greater return from your salary increase, bonus, appreciation, and time saved! (If you are the boss, the money will definitely come from the customer)

4. Results

If I am the boss of your team, face you like this one. communicate well with everyone in the team. understand almost all modules of the project. people who can let others do things according to what you mean and are willing to do things for you. I can't think of anyone else who can promote you.