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“Leading to talk” is a new series of links from LinkedIn. We will work with industry experts to use 3-5 articles to deeply understand the topics of concern to the workplace.

I have been a foreign executive for nearly a decade, and I have been managing an independent research and data consulting company for more than a decade.

For more than 20 years of working and entrepreneurship, I have done a great job in the past, and I have worked as a talented person in the industry. I am also fortunate to have the ability to go and seek common development.

In these experiences with people, I feel more and more that planning and choice before moving forward is especially important when career progress is over half.

Hundreds of people are half-nine, how to become the top 10% of the industry depends on the last 30% of the progress bar.

I want to share my talent concept and growth strategy with you, hoping to help young people who are enterprising.

Working, spanning the lives of people in the workplace for nearly 45 years, the future may be further extended.

35-40 years old is a watershed for most people, and the number of years of work after 35 is actually more than before.

The “waist population” of the workplace that has entered the second half of life will gradually divide into two extremes.

A person, physical strength, labor cost advantage is no longer, the first half of the professional long-distance running did not touch the core of the field, although there are famous schools, famous enterprises, essence is to walk in the company leadership The edge of the layer is human.

Another kind of person can be called the winner in the industry, or the unicorn company promoter, or the top professional manager, forever in the gold medal list in the headhunter.

They have industry insights that keep pace with the times, as a veritable senior insider, with every move, but with the impulse of the first entrant.

In my opinion, being the top 5% may require a combination of luck and super talent, becoming the top 10%, mainly the choice.

Up or Stay,“FindIs ong>springboard or “under the altar”?

In the first ten years of my career, I was a senior executive at a foreign investment.

In that era, foreign companies had a halo.

No matter whether it is a boss, a colleague, or a customer, it is world-class: most of the company’s executives are graduates from prestigious universities, and there are players representing the national team to participate in the Olympic Games. There are also Nobel Prize winners in the R&D department.

As a newcomer to the workplace, I also got used to business class to and from Europe, big mentor counseling and untidy entertainment.

After starting a business, the company started in a room with less than 50 square feet in a university business park.

At that time, “popular entrepreneurship, innovation” was not popular. I left the title of executives of foreign companies. I am a small boss of a local private enterprise.

In this way, embark on a path of life that is very different from most colleagues.

Looking at other people’s backs to big companies, 熬 seniority, MBA, people, and methodically to upgrade, they began to taste the rejection.

I have summarized these two paths as “finding springboards” and “under the altars”. Which way to go is the first choice for the “waist population” when the career progress bar is over half.

After all, the position on the rising channel of the workplace is limited: is to strive for the front row, win the customs clearance in a powerful system? Or leave the stock game, create a new increment by another portal?

This is two different paths and the ability to train is different.

No one can predict the future. I can’t take my own person and pat my chest and say that the result of “under the altar” must be better than “finding the springboard”, but I can help you analyze how to face such a choice.

Take action and do your best,Be wary of the rooted FUD virus

Once you choose to pull yourself down the altar and leave the platform, this kind of active “disenchantment” means that you can no longer hold the halo for yourself.

A lot of young people who are leaving or starting a business often use the projects they have conceived to ask me a success probability.

Single project success rate, I am afraid that no answer will make you make up your mind and put it into action. Because this is the future of standing in the torture of the heart, how can there be a correct answer?

Liu Qiangdong took the logistics of the world and became the most solid fortress of Jingdong.

Bezos began to deploy AWS in 2006. Until the 2016 shareholders meeting, everyone paid attention to the seeds that were buried 10 years ago.

Entrepreneur’s cognitive ability to the overall situationReally stronger than ordinary people, But doing business projects is not a spell-seeking ability, and the basis for making decisions based on the probability of success is often ambiguous.

(For strategic decision making, let’s talk about it in detail later).

Similarly, in the stock game, even if every step is stabilized, there are a few people who can finally climb to the top of the established pyramid.

Some time ago, Oracle layoffs made a lot of trouble. Seeing the N+6 layoff subsidy, many people don’t understand why the cut executives are not satisfied with the seemingly high compensation.

These senior management, mostly diligently follow the rules of the game, from the assistant to the manager, did not expect to have a springboard.

However, people are middle-aged, carrying mortgages, car loans, high education fees, and facing young competitors who are tirelessly fighting in brightly lit office buildings, being laid off and reemployed, for them, almost A suffocating blow.

Whenever you climb to the middle of the mountain, you have to go through a few steep slopes, and then go up, you have to usher in some more dangerous gates.

Whether you are “springboard” or “under the altar”, these barriers are inevitable – The other way around Rome means that each road may be a dead end.

Everything can fail, and the secret of breaking the problem is to clarify what kind of failure is unacceptable to you, and then stride into those acceptable failures.

“Acceptable failures” vary from person to person, and the failures that will be regretted in the future can generally be classified into two categories: One category is because the timidity has not been tried, it is a full stop, and the other is Because I did not do my best.

This life gate can be summed up in one of the most popular words in the IT world when I was working in the early years: “FUD”:

Fear, fear;Uncertainty, not sure;Doubt, doubt.

In those days, software and other vectors that are commonplace in the Internet world are still new:

IT salespeople found an air force to create some false news about competitors:
  As long as the customer’s doubts or fears are aroused, even if the truth comes out, the customer will turn a deaf ear and be influenced by emotional traction to make relevant purchase decisions.

Standing around the Kushiro, there is always a path to choose. First of all, ask yourself, these options, such roads, what are the reasons for their own fear, confusion, and doubts?

Be wary of those rooted FUD viruses.

If you want to understand what is caused by belief, what is intuitively summoned, which is coming to yourself in a moment of weakness, the choices made are not necessarily comfortable at the moment, but the probability is not regretted in the future. .

According to acceptable failures,Expanding trial and error space

Using FUD to measure two choices, the road to the next altar of “winning standing, losing and lying down” is obviously more uncertain and more frightening.

Compared with a stock system with a fixed gameplay, trying to open up the world in a chaotic world is also more likely to cause confusion.

For newcomers and healthy waist-workers who have been “domesticated” by organizations, FUD is the bastion of a large platform company that allows you to stay in the organization with peace of mind, even if you are a 996 screw. Do not leave.

Since you read this, there must be some awareness in the awakening, and some kind of heart is sprouting.

Unplugging our hidden FUD seeds is no easy task, and it also matches the personal ability threshold.

I don’t recommend to go out alone when your comprehensive soft power skill tree hasn’t buried a seed yet, but if you continue to “find the springboard,” you can consider looking at the various offers.

For those who have a new portal to create new ideas, the most important factor in the evaluation platform should not be industry recognition, salary packages, or even the title and management space promised to you, It can give you the fault tolerance rate.

In other words, taking the lead in picking things up and going to the ground is still necessary, just to hedge the FUD, let the system share some of the risks for you, and melt away some uncertainty, fear, and doubt.

Silicon Valley investor Aurang Hoffman has a saying: When you have a 33% to 66% probability of failure, the growth rate is also the fastest.

How important is the trial and error space for a person’s life and a product?

A few days ago I interviewed a young man, a typical excellent waist worker.

After twenty years of living distance, his ambition to rush out of the line is so familiar, but in his blinking eyes, I caught a trace of hesitation.

I asked him, you haveWhat concern?

He said: Normally, a research director can get 3 million annual salary in ten years. According to the existing path, when my child is in the first grade, she can just earn a Beijing 5 million school district.

Even if you are desensitized to FUD, choosing to bet on the future is never as simple as choosing one. The future is unknowable, no one can be sure that the road to bet is correct, and the reality of the shackles will never be loosened.

So, in the next conversation, I told him what he can try in our company, what can earn 5 million in three years, and which may accomplish personal financial goals in five years. Most importantly, the high risk of these things, the company will bear together.

In the end, let him join our company, not to have the tempting school district as soon as possible, but the company’s far-reaching opportunities for trial and error.

The two qualities of foresight and cowardice can exist in one person at the same time. Every step is safe, meaning completely bypassing the new world.

The new world’s disintegration of the old world is precisely the source.

Columbus actually found the New World.

A highly inclusive company, even if you go to the Americas, not Asia, the company will give you the power to explore Africa.

To give yourself a certain trial and error space, there is a possibility of creating new things with a fault tolerance rate.

Skiers, the goal is to make the shortest time. They don’t care about the shortest path between two points, but the fastest path—because only the path along the steepest curve slips, it gets more acceleration.

When you are entangled, remember that between the two points, the line segment is the shortest, but the curve is the fastest.

Next I will talk to you about a very important top 10% quality – determination.

The so-called “high-level decision-making, middle-level understanding, grassroots-level implementation”, why in the strategic management, strength and willingness is the core competence.