Want to succeed? The smartest choice is to help others succeed.

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I often see some people in the workplace, and even some are already senior and middle-level managers. They all share the same "Confusion ": do you want to show your "talents" in front of your boss "? Is it better than a leader, will it affect your career development and career success?

In fact, in my opinion, this problem does not touch the essence of the problem. The essence of the problem is: whether it accurately understands the true way to success! So,Who are truly successful, how do they achieve their career success? In my opinion, it is easy to say: Use your own talents to help others (especially your superiors) to succeed.

If we reach a consensus on this, the so-called workplace confusion mentioned above (or even some middle-and high-level managers) will not be confused. Because the answer to the question is obvious:It is not a question of whether or not to present your own talents. But how to display it? Why? Is it to show itself smart? Or to help the leadership (or colleagues) succeed?

The Confusions of the following netizens are a typical example. A brief analysis.

 

Theme: Do you want to look better than your superiors?

 

Most leaders are always willing to show that they are better at handling all major things. So if we are employees who are occasionally "brilliant", will we be confused? Or provoke jealousy from colleagues and superiors?

Most people do not care too much about luck, but no one prefers to be surpassed by others in terms of intelligence and ability, the "smart" and "creative" that you often reveal will make others unhappy. Therefore, you do not need to overmask the common advantages, but do not show off your superiors in terms of intelligence, because intelligence is the "Billboard" of personality characteristics and the biggest face of your superiors, offending it is tantamount to committing a "big sin ". If everyone in the team holds this idea, the consequences will be more terrible. All things have leaders to make suggestions. Once the leaders give a solution, no one can give a better solution, in the long run, the team may have no meaning.

As the most basic employee, do you want to be better than your boss?

 

My point of view

 

1.People who are truly successful are truly wise (not wise. They will not simply regard the workplace as a "zero-sum game" place where "you lose-I win. They will have a greater mind, broader career vision, and do not care about the gains and losses of "one city, one pool" or "one thing at a time". They will try to "make the cake bigger ", instead of simply focusing on "more than one piece of cake ". They will try to make all their work as much as possible"Win-win"(Win-win) results.

2.People who are truly successful are people who know how to help the leaders succeed first.Taking myself as an example, many things have been promoted smoothly when I worked at Panasonic. However, before a major task, I always think about the problem and solution from the boss's standpoint, and before promoting decision-making, communicate with my boss, Mr. Kuboda and Mr. Fu, in the early stage (or even casual, consult style. I often find that my boss often adopts my opinion in fact when speaking at a formal decision-making meeting (although everyone thinks it is the boss's opinion, and therefore the boss is very smart ). However, this is actually very helpful to my career development: one is to have the opportunity to practice my own management philosophy, participate in management practices, and accumulate management experience (because, the solution was initially proposed to my boss and is generally handed over to me for leadership and promotion). Another benefit is that it helps the leadership to succeed, leaders will trust me more and give me more development opportunities and space in the future (not necessarily the space for promotion ).

3.In my opinion,The essence of leadership is influence. Its core function is to provide internal driving force to employees (or even your boss) so that they can voluntarily follow your opinions, suggestions, and ideas.United States pre-overall systemHarry·He once defined leadership as letting others do things that he didn't necessarily want to do, and he liked it.If you are really smart and smart enough to make good plans or decisions, it is even more important to cultivate and possess such leadership (that is, influence!

4.As Jim Collins, author of "from excellence to excellence", said:If you think of leadership as a means of manipulating or engaging behavior that improves your personal interests, people have full right to doubt everything.Let alone admire you, follow you, and achieve you. In an interview with the Chinese and Foreign Management Magazine, Francis hselburn, president of the American Society of leadership and leadership:"Why can you let so many outstanding figures do what they didn't have to do ?"Her friend Jim Collins replied for her: "The most important reason is that,Francis's ambition is not for herself, but for the whole organization, which is also a common characteristic of all the best managers. Otherwise, why should the best people in the world use their creative power and energy to increase the personal glory of Self-centralized leadership ?"

5.Of course, it takes a long way to cultivate itself into a superior leader. It's not a matter of two. However,If you want to succeed in the workplace, you need to effectively manage your "weaknesses in human nature" (for example, you always want to show yourself and always want to feel better than others ), and strive to have some basic ideas and qualities towards superior leaders. The two most important items are:

①Successful people must be able to help others succeed;

②A truly smart person must be a person who can give full play to the wisdom of others;

6.To achieve great success in the workplace, it is difficult to become a superior leader (often to fight against weaknesses in your own nature,The path to excellence is easy to learn. However, as long as the direction is right, are you still afraid of a long journey?