Current topic management story: Chef tied Lake Crab (reprint)
Time: 2009-09-29-07:56:55 User: 7 pieces of green pepper professional degree: 375
A hotel with a lake crab is famous and can sell a lot every day. This day they want to recruit a chef, there are two chefs at the same time to apply, according to the regular, the two will be their posts trial placement 3 days, and so on 6 days before deciding who to hire.
The first trial placement chef is very diligent and has a management mind, he is in addition to his own leadership, but also often with other chefs to a "tie lake Crab game." All the games, including the hotel owner, were impressed by his skilful hands-he tied 20 lake crabs in 5 minutes and the other cooks tied up to 12. What makes the boss more satisfied is that he knows how to use the game to improve the efficiency of all things. They can only tie up to 10 in 5 minutes.
The next 3 days is another candidate, the same, he also understand the "competition" truth, so every day at the beginning of the knot lake crab he called everyone to play, but almost everyone did not think that the cook's movements are not fast, but his shout is very big, so, this almost became a joke.
Nevertheless, the chef did not feel ashamed, he instead with a bigger voice shout must catch up with other cooks, he desperately speed chase, other employees naturally also desperately to let him catch up, until the 6th day trial placement end, he tied lake crab efficiency still fall behind those cooks.
Soon to decide who to hire, the first chef thought the boss hired him, and the rest of the hotel staff thought so. But when the boss makes a decision, everyone suspects that he has heard it wrong-he hired a second chef. As a chef, the efficiency of the work is even slower than the staff, how to serve the public ah.
The owner of the hotel said the secret: the first candidate for the chef, although quick and fast, but because he always win and let everyone lack of confidence and motivation.
While the second chef's hands and feet are slow, but his "step-by-step" force everyone excited and nervous to speed up the speed, do not let him catch up, in this chase and into between, everyone in the unconscious to improve the efficiency of labor. The boss then asked all the staff to tie a lake crab for a test, which almost made all the staff surprised-they could tie 18 lake crabs every 5 minutes.
What the employees didn't think of was--just in the boss's office, the second chef had tied a lake crab in front of the boss, and his efficiency was 25 lake crabs every 5 minutes.
"I was deliberately let others win." Only win will give people confidence and motivation. He said, "I am a person less tied 10 Lake meal, but the remaining 10 people have a positive, everyone tied 6, that is, I am a person less than 10, the rest of the people have increased by 60." 60 minus 10, then the total efficiency is equal to 50 increases every 5 minutes. ”
Management revelation:
As a manager, his value lies not only in the benefits of personal creation, but in the overall benefits under his management. Lose to subordinates, this is a manager's wisdom and mind.