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If we review the late Qin and early Han dynasties, we will find a very interesting phenomenon:
Liu Bang named a total of 143 meritorious servants and noble relatives as marquises, and according to scholars, there were 51 people whose origin was in Pei County and the surrounding Feng and Yan regions; during the Gaozu period, 17 people of the Three Dukes and Nine Qings could be known, of which 8 were born in Pei County.
Even today, Peixian is only a county with 4 sub-districts, but its super high "materialization rate" makes it a "talent base" in the early Han Dynasty.
Then we have to ask that question:
Why little Pei County,
There are so many well-known people such as Xiao He, Cao Shan, and Fan Duo?
Without them, would anyone else have shown up?
Talent is cultivated, not singled out
Talent is cultivated, not singled out.
In short, a person's origin is not the most core factor of success. In the thinking of the Chinese people, talents are selected by examination. Come up with a set of questions, pick a few of the smartest in the examination room, and select the "talents" with the highest scores.
However, this is not the case in reality, and people's growth environment, experiences and opportunities are particularly important, and people will grow rapidly with the tasks and challenges given to them. The environment points out the direction for you, and the organization gives you the space to grow and the opportunity to help you survive the test and complete the transformation, which is indispensable.
Life is a bit like a game, a level of monsters to do task upgrades, instead of giving you a test paper you did 100 points, and then define you as a full level of bravery, arrange to rush to fight the Great Demon King.
Lin Biao was only a probationary platoon leader at the age of 19, while at the age of 23, he had become the commander of the Fourth Army of the Red 1st Army, only 4 years old. This is not the result of examinations or talents, but the result of complex revolutionary struggles.
Marshal Lin Biao of the People's Republic of China (stills)
Many teenagers today may be smarter and more talented than the revolutionaries of the time, but they cannot achieve the great deeds of that year, because they have not encountered that environment and have not had a chance to go through the experience.
When Ali started his business, the selection criteria were difficult to say. In the words of Ma Yun, as long as "the limbs are sound and the intelligence is normal", not to mention college students, college students have to be treasures, it is not difficult to enter high school, and first-class famous schools are dismissive of Ali.
What about today? The key colleges and universities that have been brushed down are also countless, and many of the Alibaba interviewers who brushed them are high school students of that year. Can you say that those high school student leaders are geniuses? Maybe there is, but definitely not 100%. Most of them have a platform and experience, and the ability will naturally come out.
Jobs once said that if it was "today's" Apple interview that year, he would not be able to enter Apple at all.
Apple founder Steve Jobs
Organization is the fertile ground for the growth of talents
Fei Min, former executive vice president of Huawei, once said that the strength of the organization is strong, the strength of the individual is weak, and the relationship between the individual and the organization is like fish and water, seeds and soil, without the organization, even the best seeds can not sprout.
In fact, when many people are in the organization, they cannot feel the power of the organization, and after leaving, they really feel that they are like a flat boat on the sea, drifting in the furious storm.
For example, many people who originally left Huawei have a feeling that it is like a fish leaving the water and suddenly finding that it is difficult to do anything. In turn, in fact, his good ideas, if you use Huawei's platform, even if you start a little later, you may finally see the situation that the spark of stars can burn.
Admittedly, quality organizations do bring us more dividends, resources, and opportunities to avoid many detours.
Therefore, if there is no Xiao He, Cao Shan, and Fan Duo in Pei County, there will be other talents. Riding on this giant ship, a steady stream of small boats continues to accumulate energy, update and iterate, and stand out.
Han Gao Zu Liu Bang (stills)
Although the individual and the organization achieve each other, most of the time the growth of the individual will require the nourishment and support provided by the organization.
When we follow the same channel, accumulate experience, do more and more smoothly, and repeat the cycle, such a cycle can help us drive smoothly for a period of time. However, after a certain period of time, there will be other landscapes that we have no way of knowing and lack the ability to control other waterways.
This is actually the "ability trap" proposed by Eminya Ibera.
Break through the ability trap and try different directions. However, in a healthy and efficient organization, it will try to adopt a "rotation training model" to help potential leaders "learn from the work" and grow rapidly, using job exercises, leadership feedback and repetitive practices to improve their leadership.
The embodiment of the "rotation mechanism" in the military:
In 1899, in order to solve the widespread isolation of officers in the staff, the 41st Secretary of the Army, Elihu Lutter, proposed a system of rotation in the U.S. Military, which was mainly divided into "job rotation" and "regional job rotation".
The former mainly refers to the rotation of posts in the military, government, and military order system, such as the exchange of talents between grass-roots units, staff organs, and scientific research academies; the latter mainly refers to the rotation of troops stationed in developed and hardship areas, and between local and overseas garrisons.
The normalized rotation has mobilized the enthusiasm and enterprising spirit of officers at all levels for long-term service, broken the boundaries between the military and government military order systems, promoted the positive interaction of various talents, and provided a solid guarantee for the reform of the US military after World War II.
Another example is Country Garden Group, because it has the industry's leading "whole industry chain coverage" capability, the main real estate industry and the upstream and downstream industries rely on each other, efficient linkage, and gradually upgrade from the past talent supply chain to the talent ecosystem, to achieve the "internal circulation" of outstanding talents - there are more opportunities for tempering and development possibilities.
Country Garden Group business ecosystem
From 2020 onwards, Country Garden proposes career grid development, and career development can not only develop vertically in the main real estate business, but also flow horizontally, so as to achieve cross-field and cross-professional multi-dimensional development, so that employees can find more possibilities.
Discover a new self in another new field and gain new growth. This is a metamorphosis and a rebirth.
A person's success is inseparable from the underlying thinking
Of course, this is not to say that the role of the individual is useless.
The organization is strong, but it can't make everyone talented. After all, the difficulties in the process will follow, and even some of them are more difficult than imagined. In this process, in addition to the role of the organization, what helps us grow is not the complicated skills, but our own "underlying thinking".
The underlying thinking system actually determines the direction of our progress and the boundaries of cognition, and then determines whether we are admiring the sea of stars or sinking into the mud and shoals during the voyage.
If the underlying thinking system is dismantled into two levels: cognition and mental strength, then cognitive power is to choose, identify, and judge information to make decisions, and mental strength is willingness, concentration, creativity, and insight, the more powerful the mental force, the more stable and long-term the pace.
Confucianism emphasizes benevolence, etiquette, and inner sacredness, and the study of the mind can actually be understood as the inheritance, development and supplement of traditional Confucianism, and it emphasizes the Confucianism of the subject self, highlighting self-confidence, self-improvement, self-discipline, and self-reliance.
If the mental strength is summarized into a core model, it can be: to the conscience→ things to practice, it is difficult to get → this mind does not move, randomly moves→ the unity of knowledge and action.
In this closed loop, people's cognitive ability will be systematically improved. The closed loop of psychology is a continuous, continuous system closed loop that goes to a higher point, and the end of the previous closed loop is the beginning of the next closed loop.
This spiral helps individuals become transitions from version 1.0 to 2.0 to version 3.0 up to the next level.
epilogue
Why is Peixian full of talents? This is a true proposition and a false proposition.
Talents are trained, and Liu Bang is not born to manage a big country. Fan Duo was only a person in the city at the beginning, and if there was no historical opportunity, he might have been just a "gold medal butcher" throughout his life.
However, organizations can greatly exercise people. Looking back at your self many years ago, you will find that your current self and your former self have changed so much that you may even feel that they are two people who are completely different — as if they have undergone a wonderful journey.
The journey is full of adversity and obstacles, the "mental strength" is constantly being sharpened, and every minute and every second we are unlocking unknown problems and crossing ravines. A lot of the time that sustains us in this process is the energy of the organization.
Returning to our title, it essentially seems to be asking:
Leaving the organization, who are you...
Resources:
1, Wu Shichun, "Heart power, is your core competitiveness"
2, note-taking man, "Don't mistake the platform for ability"
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