SelectThe most things we do every day are actually choices, so we have to mention this topic when talking about our career.
I always think that, in a very large scope, what kind of person will we become? The decision is on our own. Every day we are making various choices, I may not write this article, Pat bricks on others' posts, or write these words to help others and sort out their own ideas, I can pay more attention to the format to make it easy for others to read, or write it into a pile. I can send it like this, or I can read it several times before sending it, you can choose to go to the interview without shaving, or you can choose to look in the mirror before going out ...... Every day, every moment we make such a decision, we can be casual, you can spend more time, thousands of small choices to accumulate, it determines what kind of person we are.
In a sense, our future is not provided by others, but selected by ourselves. Many people will say that I have no choice but to make a bitter decision, if you think that "go to Microsoft or go to IBM", "Go to Tsinghua or Peking University", and "become vice president of sales or director", you have no choice, most people have no choice. But every day, you can choose whether to be more considerate to the customer, whether to be more patient with your colleagues, whether to make your work more detailed, and whether to understand the situation more clearly, are you sure you want to clarify the unclear questions ...... You can also choose whether to stick to it in pain, whether to discard your negative thoughts, whether to forgive a person's mistakes, or believe what I wrote here, do you want to avoid making the same mistake ...... Every day, life gives you the opportunity to choose. Every day, you are given the opportunity to change your own life. You can choose to stick your teeth on the ground or stand up. You always have a choice. Some options do not have to stand out and need to be accumulated. For example, a farmer can choose to pour the land on his own, or he can choose to let God drop the land. It is true that the seedlings will not grow soon today, but often watering, most of the seedlings will eventually grow out, if you don't pour, the harvest will be very bad.
Every day, life is giving you a chance. He won't give you a stack of cash or give you a good job, but in fact, he is still giving you a chance. My family is an ordinary family with no social relationships. My father was assigned to the frontier after graduation from college, and there was only one street in the small county, in fact, their generation had more reason to complain than we did, and they did not get anything. When they were young, they had no reason to read the books during the Cultural Revolution, and they had no support for the establishment of the frontier team. When they were old, but it is necessary to give young people a chance. He has enough reason to sit there as many as thousands of young people and complain when they are born. However, ten years after the assignment to the frontier, the country resumed recruitment of graduate students and he got back to his original school. After graduation from graduate school, he was assigned to a small enterprise in Anhui. Three years later, the first national recruitment of doctoral students, he admitted to the original school and became the first generation of doctoral students in China, at that time, he was older than me. Life does not give up on him, nor does he give up on life. Ten years of waiting, he made his own choice, he did not give up, he did not break the jar, so the time came, he changed his life. What kind of person you will eventually become will decide between your small choices.
What do you choose to believe? Who do you choose to make friends? What do you choose to do? What do you choose to do ?...... We are faced with too many choices. Among these choices, ideological choices are far more important than objective choices. For example, it is not that important to choose products, the choice is important. Choosing who to use is not important, but how to bring these talents is important. It doesn't matter if you select objective conditions most of the time. There is no right or wrong choice of objective conditions. What matters is how you choose. After a college graduate, he wants to go to Microsoft or sell pork or start a business. He wants to play games and Practice on behalf of others. As long as he does not break the law or harm others, it does not matter, the important thing is how to do things well after you select it.
In addition, you can also choose time and environment. For example, you can choose to put the greatest difficulties in your life at the most physical and energetic time, or take a step by step, when we get to the age of 40, we only get to the age of 40, which is the most vulnerable time in our life. If we encounter a professional crisis at that time, it is really a very distressing thing. It is better to have a bitter time when you are in the age of 20, 30, and so on, so that you can stay calm when you are weak. You can choose to grow up in the greenhouse or sharpen it in the wild. You can choose to work in the office or in the hot air of 40 degrees to see your customers, however, this will eventually accumulate and guide you to the future you deserve.
I dare not say that you have a choice for all things, but you have a choice for most things, but you often do not regard this as a choice. Taking each choice seriously will lead to a better future.
Select a career In general, career choices are nothing more than sales, marketing, customer service, logistics, administration, personnel, finance, technology, and management. An interesting phenomenon is that, among the top 500 CEOs, the most came from sales, and the second most came from finance. The total number of CEOS is more than 95%. In the modern IT industry, they have also developed technologies to become bosses. But in fact, they still engaged in many sales and marketing jobs and did well before the company was successful, almost none of them rely solely on technical capabilities to become the company's boss. There is a reason, because sales is a learning to deal with people, and management is actually a learning to deal with people. There are a lot of things in the two, their common goal is to "let others do something specific." Finance is to understand the nature of business from the digital level, to look at the nature of business from a macro perspective, and to have a profound understanding of whether a business can make money and operate normally.
When a company is small, it is a sales-dominated company, while when a company is large, it is a financial-dominated company. The limitation of sales is that it only looks at human feelings rather than numbers, the limitation of finance is that it only depends on numbers, not human feelings. In the early stages of the company, the operation cost was low, and the order was enough to survive. There were no conditions for negotiation with the customer, and others were willing to do business. Thank God. At this time, the order was overwhelming, the customer's requirements are overwhelming, so of course we need to be considerate. When a company grows bigger, everything should be standardized to avoid unnecessary risks caused by non-standardization. Meanwhile, the operation cost also increases and the profit rate must be increased, place limited funds in the most productive places. For a listed company, shareholders do not care whether your customers have recently gone abroad or whether the province has been operating hard recently. When the time comes, they will take out their performance and leave the stock if they cannot get it, in this case, numbers are overwhelming.
I heard someone say a word two days ago and it makes sense. At the beginning, we thought, "What can we do ?", When the company grows bigger, we can't do anything ." Many people feel that the leadership is so conservative at work, and this is not the case. They miss many opportunities. Most of the time, you are still young and want to "What can you do". As a company leader, there are many things to consider. He cares about "what can't be done ".
I do not advocate that everyone is engaged in sales or finance. What kind of career is related to what kind of life you want to choose. Some people like to go home on time after work, read books, and listen to music, that is also good, but it is not suitable for finding a sales job, or else it will torture yourself. Some people like the limelight and like to become the center of a group of people. If they choose to do financial work, they will probably do it too soon, because the boss doesn't like finance too actively or financial too much. First think about what kind of life you want, and then decide what kind of career you want to find. There are a lot of unhappiness, in fact, from dissatisfaction, but not satisfaction, often from uncertainty, and uncertainty is because it is not clear what you really want, I don't know what results I want, but I don't know what results I want.
I think we still work because of our life, not because of our work. Life is the most important thing. Work is only part of our life. I always feel that all aspects of my life are mutually influential. If my life is messy, my work will not go smoothly. Therefore, you must have entertainment, social networking, physical exercise, and harmonious families ...... The most important thing is to be happy. My two sales staff chatted with me and suffered a lot. I asked them, two years ago, you did not have anything, your salary was not high, and there was no customer relationship, without performance, you are on the verge of being launched. Now you have much better conditions than at that time. Why are you even more unhappy now? If you do better, the less unhappy you are, why do you need to work? First of all, people should make themselves happy and make their mentality better. This kind of change from the heart will make you more patient, more confident, more temperament, more inclusive ......
Otherwise, look at you in the mirror. Are you satisfied?
Some people may say that you can easily say that if I work overtime every day, my boss will trigger me off if I don't work overtime. I am so tired every day. How can I have time to entertain, socialize, and exercise? That's why people set their goals too high. If you are still on the verge of being fired by the boss, you certainly cannot set too high goals. Do you still want to play golf every day? You don't have time to go to the gym to exercise, but you can take a few more steps to get to and from work. Can you walk the stairs without taking the elevator when there are stairs? Can I twist my neck and pull my shoulders between office spaces for push-ups? Who makes it necessary to take two hours to go to the gym every day for exercise? You don't have time to socialize. You can join an outing once a month. You can join a music class or a painting class on weekends. You can try to meet your peers, can I contact them for a chance? It was always difficult at the beginning, but taking this step will develop towards a virtuous circle. The daily work is very boring, and the rest of the time is used to chew the bitter, will only fall into a vicious circle, making life worse. Sun Zhenyao wrote an article about retirement and life. Text/Sun Zhenyao, former President of Hp in China
Although I had only 15 days away from HP, I felt that HP was far away from me. My mind is more focused on planning my second-stage life. This does not mean that I have no crush on HP, but I want to drive myself forward.
The experience of Vanke Wang Shi On Mount Everest has inspired me a lot. Although a large amount of materials are carried at departure, the load must be continuously reduced during the summit, in the end, only one oxygen cylinder and he mounted to the peak. It's not a long life to climb a mountain.
After I announce my retirement, I receive congratulations from my colleagues and friends. Most people think that it is a kind of courage and blessing for me to retire in such a position and age.
Some people suspect that I just want to take this opportunity to change my job. Of course, some people say that I can't do it at HP, so I can leave.
I have been used to what others have said to me for many years, but for my friends, I am very concerned about whether everyone really understands my thoughts. This is also the purpose of writing this article.
Due to the influence of my father's early death, I have made up my mind for a long time to fulfill my wish in my lifetime. I don't want to be as sad as my father in my life, I am annoyed that I have many unrealized ideals.
An article in a magazine mentioned that we should think about our tombs during our lifetime, because it represents your own definition of a perfect life, and we should try our best to achieve it in our lifetime.
I hope that in addition to the content related to my family and friends, my tomb inscription says:
1. this person has been serving the world's largest IT company (HP) for 25 years and has experienced several major changes with her, looking at her transformation from an electronic instrument-focused business to the world's largest IT company.
2. this person once worked in the world's fastest-growing country (China) for 16 years and served as the president of HP China for 7 years. He witnessed and experienced the key and latest breakthroughs in China's reform and opening up, grow with China.
3. This person loves to fly. He used to be a licensed pilot. He has accumulated more than X hours of flight and once landed and landed at X airports.
4. This person has obtained a master's degree in management, pays special attention to the organizational behavior and performance of Chinese enterprises in leadership management, and is recognized by the Chinese business community in this field.
It took me 25 years to summarize the results of 1 and 2. I don't know how long it will take me to fulfill the aspirations of 3 and 4, especially the 4th aspirations that require academic training, in order to sum up my experience into knowledge.
Otherwise, my experience will not be able to effectively influence and teach others. Therefore, it is necessary to enter the school again to obtain a Management degree. What's more, this is my very important wish.
On the other hand, I spent more than 25 years in the field of operation, working diligently to do a good job for professional people. It is a good job, especially in HP, this job also helps me build a financial foundation to support family development.
However, I don't want to end my life in the field of operation. I think entrepreneurs have the opportunity to make money by some ideas (IDEAS). Although the risks are high, it is worth a try, even if a failure occurs, it is a part of the 4th wishes.
Carly Fiorina once said to me, "There are a lot of people in the world who have good ideas, but few people who have the ability to implement them." In his speech at Peking University in May 21, 2007, someone asked me that these books have a great influence on me. One of the books that have an influence on my outlook on life is called trigger point. Its main point of view is: what life needs most is not planning, instead, you can seize the opportunity and take action at the right time.
My wishes have been brewing for a long time in my heart. At the beginning, I may think twice or twice a year, and I will forget it. But gradually, the voice in my heart, as it grows, the frequency of appearance is getting higher and higher. When it comes to talking to me almost every week, I know the time is ripe.
However, like anyone else, they need to lose their current, familiar environment and stable income and turn to a path that has never experienced and has unknown risks, it requires great courage, support from family members, and encouragement from friends. It's really easy to know how to do it. I'm glad that I finally took the first step.
I would like to thank HP's eer early retirement preferential policy, which is one of the key trigger points, and another key factor is what happened last year, May, June.
At that time, my boss graduated from college, and my second child graduated from high school. Before they continued to work and study, this was a prime time for our family to get together for a long time, for this reason, I planned to take a long vacation and take them to different places to play.
But this plan had to be canceled because of an important task at work (Mark Hurd's visit to China. This incident has stimulated me to take my voice seriously. Will I continue to miss many key opportunities?
If I have been 50 years old, will I go the same way as my father? Charles, chief executive of the Ministry of Personnel, told me that many people missed the opportunity when listing all the stars that benefit him.
I know the reason. how difficult it is to give up and change people. I believe that most people have their own life ideals, but I also believe that many people simply regard these ideals as fantasies, then, he constantly sought out An Infeasible excuse for himself. Former South African President Mandela once said, "It is more difficult to change oneself than to change the world.
What is a happy and meaningful life? I believe that everyone has different definitions. For me, the content on my tomb is my definition.
Although the position of President of Hp in China can attract a lot of attention and attention, my wife and close friends know that it is not what I pursue, that's just what we have to do to play this role well.
As a person without a business card, although I only spent more than ten days, I found a lot of space and energy in my head, so that I can quietly make careful research and planning for my new life in chapter II.
I booked two years to complete the preparations for the transition and spent more time with my family. In the past two years, I hope to get a flight license, a master's degree in management, a higher level of English, a new network, more people from different industries, and maintain contact with the Chinese mainland. I hope that two years later, I will go back to the Chinese mainland to fulfill my fourth wish.
No surprise. In my life, I found many places to be adjusted.
Over the past two decades, the pace and pace of my life have been almost totally influenced by the company and work. The endless deadline and tasks have driven my daily arrangement. Once I leave such an environment, the first thing to adjust is to rely on your own self-discipline and willpower to drive daily activities. It is absolutely incorrect to go to bed and wake up naturally. Relax yourself and do not set goals or schedules for things, or it doesn't matter if you miss the time target, or if you don't have an annual, quarterly, monthly, or weekly plan.
I have been a senior manager for many years and have developed the habit of explaining things. I spend my time thinking, making decisions, and tracking project progress, it is more dependent on a large team to execute specific matters and secretaries to handle a lot of coordination and tedious tasks.
After arriving in the U. S., many things need to be contacted by phone number 800, but these calls are very busy and often let you wait for a long time on the waiting line. When I'm waiting, I can understand the hard work of the secretary before, but I also remind myself that at this stage, I should change my attitude and cultivate more patience and the ability to do it myself.
The content of life also needs to be greatly adjusted. More time is required for exercise, more time is required to pay attention to family members, more time is required to pay attention to friends, and more time is required to experience different leisure activities and flights, step by step, I hope that my life will be gradually adjusted to the expected track. I hope that the two years of life will be both full and interesting.
The first happy experience is preparing to participate in the engagement ceremony of the eldest son. It is really nice to be fully engaged and don't worry about the number of jobs. At the same time, I rented an apartment, bought furniture and a car, and spent some time with my family on Reno and Lake Tahoe over the weekend. Lake Tahoe I 've been there for many times, however, this experience is different. I appreciate its beauty in my heart.
But at the same time, I am stepping up my research work to prepare for applying for a university or flight school. During this time, I also met my friends in Silicon Valley and some venture capital companies to learn about different industries.
My outlook on life is "perfect performances come from full preparation", "The courage to change yourself, adapt to the changing environment, and opportunities will continue to emerge ", "A happy and meaningful life comes from the realization of your own desires, rather than the external applause ".
When I left, two good friends gave me two different greetings. Baron said, "over many years of success and smoke", and Yang Hua said, "mo Chun, dancing, "They represent my departure from HP and the future.
In my summary, there are three stages in my life: one is to find a job for reality, and the other is to make a reality, but you can select a job you are willing to invest in, one stage is to do something for the ideal.
I cherish my blessing and appreciate the support, encouragement, and assistance provided by HP and my colleagues and friends. I will share this article, which will make my speech a word, with my friends. |
