Design Viewpoint: The Circle Art of Leadership

"1979 It was a spring, an old man drew a circle in the South China Sea," see, even if great like Grandpa Deng, also known as "China's reform and opening-up of the general designer," I think this is the "designer" the name of the first time in mainland China to obtain the highest affirmation. Of course, not all designers are smooth sailing, more impossible to have a "circle" of opportunity, especially from the bottom to do, hard work some students should be able to empathy.

As a "leader", there is a period of adaptation, this stage, perhaps the hands of that a little bit of the right will become obstacles, you find that the past familiar colleagues, speech began to have scruples, formerly lively and prosperous QQ group, because your online also become a bit deserted. The real difficulty is that, just become a leader, you do not know how to "lead" to a better direction of development, also do not know how to put the past defects "guide" to the correct thinking.

I'm not talking about you pulling to the VCs. When the CEO claims, I'm talking about the evolutionary process of a grassroots leader. A friend mentioned airborne to a company, a department, in bold and long to find a balance, there are many people because of the result of the acclimatized-I can understand, but also powerless, I can only use this short-sighted article to tell all the friends who are preparing for the direction of management: In fact, the art of circle circles is only the art of doing things, not to the height of the Battle of Machiavellian.

Often some recent molecules complain: eh, now do the leadership, things are more and more busy and busy dead, or as a general designer. In fact, a leader can never be the person who does the most things , but should be the one who does the most fine things .

The following words can be used as a guideline for junior leaders, or as a textbook for general designers to figure out leadership ideas.

In general, there are four categories of things in front of the leader:

1. What the leader wants to do, is good at doing, must do

To see a leader is not a setback, it depends on whether he will look at people, employing, employing the way China's thousands of years of power distribution in the classic story is not poor enumeration. The most basic technology is, do not put a potential small white pressure to tears, do not put an integrity of the design of the strongman to death, not jealous, not exclusive, not indifferent. Most of the small white design leadership of a psychological circle is "I must be the strongest department, whether it is design ability or eat food"-in fact, the most difficult to do is to keep a low profile, the high profile of others, Halo too strong will be the other people open their eyes, is the beginning of your failure.

Decision-making ability is the second necessary thing to do all kinds of decision-making is to be responsible for the leadership, you do not think let you stamp signature you are very awe-inspiring, you do not have to put their professional reputation, so risk and honor coexist. Some things should you get an idea of the time, do not hide behind, not necessarily a wall, if standing on the edge of the cliff, the only retreat is to go forward, "do" or "do not" this is a problem, but not to make people ashamed to see people. In the face of the doubts of other departments, the faults of the subordinates, the ambiguous demands, the unjust treatment, all these require absolute decision-making ability.

2. What the leader wants to do, must do, but is not good at

Looking for capital, well, this is the weakness of the design managers, because this is the marketing department and the business sector concerned, but even if the design can not directly access to investment, but also to save costs? Within the company, it's understandable that leaders want to ask for some funding, but the premise is to get a decent budget analysis, and work results to prove it. "The child that will be called has milk to eat" is not feasible in a company with reasonable flow and management details.

For incentives, many people are waiting for the subjective policy of the personnel and administration, and the question of motivation seems to be a matter of pie in the sky, and designers and design executives are resigned to it. In fact, leaders should first make some feasible incentives, according to the specific situation of staff and personality to determine the proportion of performance bonuses, incentives and negative incentives need to be balanced and transparent.

3. Leaders do not want to do, not good at, but must do things

Decentralization and authorization is a meaning, each designer should have their own part of the scope to control, so that designers can build a professional self-confidence and responsibility for the design of the attitude, some leaders of the small things are caught in the hands, like an old lady, it is not necessary, reasonable decentralization can be self-government, of course, after democracy, In the big decision-making still want to concentrate on.

Dealing with contradictions is often a difficult problem for leaders to solve, including communication is not smooth, design works PK process, the leader may have a good relationship with a designer, will also affect their impartial judgments. To know that the mood of the designer is the norm, then the leader how to solve the knot in our hearts, but also an art to. A lot of "good" type of leadership is always afraid of direct resolution of contradictions, subordinates appear when contradictions do not care, and even pretended to take the phone out of the office, this is too 2.

4. Leaders do not want to do, do not good, do not have to do things

Some just sit in the leadership, there will be greatness emotions, this can be understood, but do not indulge in this too long, after all, the above people are also watching your performance and real results, and the worst case is the other people's achievements mounted on their own credit thin. The so-called "God's God, Devil's devil", if you are a good material, the company's good tailor will give you tailored. If your boss is passionate about talking to you after your carry work, asking you about your employees ' emotions and even making you a paparazzi, I think it's not a meaningful thing for you.

Meeting can, open a small meeting can, open meaningful will be quite can, but boring meeting or try to open it as far as possible, solve the problem, save time for the outline, if you can not control others will be on the show, you could put the phone alarm clock to bring in. There are a lot of good articles on the subject of the meeting that I'm not long-winded about. A good meeting can handle any problem in 30 minutes, which is really effective execution. As a design department leader, if you often open meaningless meeting, then waste is the creative valuable time.

Finally, the prerequisite for a leader to draw a circle is not to harass your employees, and then your employees will not bother you.