Thinking Big..or small ?

Today I have a discussion with my bosses…the discussion run pretty well, quite interesting although it is not very fruitfull though. But there are 2 things that I learn today. Hopefully I could learn from this:

1. When you are in the position like them there is no doubt that you are an exceptional manager. Ussually you are smart and have a strong persistent. But sometimes, just sometimes, this will not always bring good thing for you. See, you become rigid, un-flexible, pesimistic and cannot see whether you are good or bad. So, when you are at their position, sometimes you need to look at really carefully of what you are arguing. When you are so persistent with yourself just like you handle a problem, supplier or customer, then there is an opportunity that you become a blind man. You cannot see whether you are already good. So ask your sub-ordinates whether you are good enough in some specific point. Improving and learning is the only way we could survive right? If we keep thinking with in-the-box problem definition, then we get in-the-box solutions. Einstein once said that “It is a stupid thing hoping that we get a different result by doing the same thing”. Change the way we think, change the way we see the problem, may be your sub-ordinates or peers have an interesting view to try.
2. The other thing is, sometimes when we get more mature then we simply forget many small thing that we ussually do. We think so big, it reach the sky, forgetting that there are many things that we still could do in earth. Big thing is a good one, but small thing is also great. See, thinking to have a major projects to improve employee proudness for example is great, but this kinda efforts required carefull planning, many resources and time. So why don’t we start with many small things? Greeting, talking, communication, recognized, talk more about family, talk more about them (employee), join their discussion (although sometimes like spend time for nothing), playing with them, laugh with them, etc. ?

So 2 things that I learn from today is that many times we need to look down, back to earth, and then back again soar to the sky. Remember the story of “Back to Frontline” program in Virgin Atlantics, where a manager one day in a year do a supervisor jobs just to remember how it feel to be a supervisor? Look at the other opinion without persistent & look down. Journey to terra incognita is a dangerous and full of risk, but that’s how they found America….and later on build USA.

 

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