Sunday, October 29, 2017

【领导。Leadership】失败是个机会。Failure is an Opportunity

有一次在一个电影里,有这一目。公司的CEO坐在一间大房的中间,站在她的身边是她的助手,站在她前面有个刚被入取的管理层员工。他们在策划着一个项目,而员工是项目负责人。

负责人提出一个提案。这提案直接就被CEO助手反对了。双方就开始了理论对战,婆说婆有理的,公说公有理的,分不出胜负。照理说,CEO助理的呈词应该比较有说服力,毕竟他是公司的老蒋。

突然CEO开口说话了。她问负责人:“你有把握吗?”负责人很自信地说:“有!”CEO二话不说就批准他的提案与需要的资金,让他去实行他的计划。
几星期后,同一个房间,同样的人物与位子。负责人带着承重的声音看着CEO问说:“你一开始就知道提案不会成功对吗?”

CEO很淡定地回道:“是的,一开始我就知道你的提案必然失败。但是你既然是我选出的负责人,我就应该让你有这个决定权去执行这个任务。我愿意亏损这少少的钱来让你从失败中吸取经验,让你处理往后的任务时更加全面性地策划。”

故事说到这,有没有一个灯泡出现了一下?如果小小的失败或牺牲可以换来一个人的成长,为何不做这个投资呢?如果小孩跌倒会让以后的他小心一点,为何不让他跌倒呢?如果员工的失败对公司不会造成明显的伤害,而员工的尝试可以让他们更自信引而让公司的能力相对提高,为何不大胆让他放手一搏呢?相对的,如果你失败了,是要放弃吗?还是重新开始?如果放弃,会不会辜负当初给这个机会的你自己或别人?

共勉之。

In a movie, there was this scene. A CEO was sitting in the middle of a room with her assistant standing to the right and her newly employed management member standing in front. They were strategizing a project.

The new member was assigned to take charge of the project. He raised a proposal but was immediately rejected by the assistant. There was a debate among the parties and each brought up valid points. Logically, assistant's words would be more convincing as he had been in the company for awhile.

However when CEO spoke, she didn't sided any side but to ask this to the new member, 'are you sure?'. 'Yes! ', he confidently responded. CEO then approved his proposal as well as the budget needed for the project.

Few weeks after, same room and same settings. The new member looked at the CEO with a bearable voice and says, 'You knew from the beginning that the proposal will fail, weren't you? '
CEO calmly replied: "yes, I knew from the beginning your proposal will fail, but since you are the person I elected, I should let you have the discretion to perform this task. I am willing to have bear this bit of sacrification to enable you to learn from your failures and plan more comprehensively in the future to come."

Until here, is there a light bulb blinking above your head now? A small failure or sacrifice in exchange for a person's growth, why not? If a child falls will enable him to learn to be more careful with his movement, why not let him fall? If it is predicted that a failure by an employee will not cause any significant harm to the company, why not let the employee to take the lead? On the contrary, if you fail, should you give up or start over? If you give up, Will you not disappoint the person who give you this opportunity in the first place, either yourself or others?

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