At which stage of your career development?
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Jinghong Space” (ID: JinghongJoyce), author Jing Hong.
01 Adults must not live in their own small world
We spent the weekend at Chaos University on the chaotic line of business school.
The core course of chaos is to make innovations through the related thirteen thinking models, and to make a pair of playing cards in the class. In the online class, I will talk about some theories and cases. As a business entrepreneur and manager, learning the lessons of other companies is extremely valuable.
As technology is iterating faster and faster, corporate life is getting shorter and shorter, and even star-studded companies will quickly become tomorrow’s yellow flowers.
A company has been struggling to find the way to grow its business since its inception. It has experienced the most difficult growth in accumulation. It is very bad luck and will soon die. If various factors coincide with the break-up period, it will enter a period of rapid development. Form a high growth curve. But any enterprise grows to a certain extent. Even giants like Yahoo, Kodak, and Nokia will eventually reach the limit. If they pass the limit, they will irreversibly decline.
Success is not easy, and the foundation is more difficult. Continuous growth always faces the limit.
No enterprise manager does not want his business to go up, but the life cycle of the enterprise is an objective law.
02 Are you GET to the workplace stall?
As a headhunter for more than ten years, I personally experienced the process of a batch of customers who have been prosperous. Ten years ago, our top ten customers still only stayed on the list, only one or two. Does not exist anymore.
Chaotic courses are mostly based on companies, but everyone is like a business, and there is also a career life cycle.
When we completed our academic education and went to the workplace, we began to explore the hard work in our workplace. Through our efforts, after many twists and turns, it took a long or short time. Some people have always been lucky people for various reasons. I finally found a broken point, crossed the dull exploration period of the workplace, and developed steadily in a job, immersed in an industry, tempered skills, accumulated contacts, and improved ability…
is also an S-shaped curve similar to the growth of a company.
embarked on the road of rising career, but the workplace can not always go up, we will slow down to a stage, the continuous growth of career is almost impossible, how many people can really do the same work constantly Continue to develop?
Because:
1, as we continue to devote ourselves to our field, the elements of our work both make us successful and bound our thinking. The longer a field is, the deeper it becomes, the more experts become, the easier it is to narrow the mind. “There is a hammer in your hand, and you can see nails everywhere.”
2, our internal physiological conditions will also decrease with physical strength, and the original growth model cannot be sustained. In the 20s, when 996 is off work, he will have to brush his voice again. The next day, he will be able to meet the new challenges. If he is long-term to endure high-intensity working hours at the age of 40, it will be difficult to maintain efficiency.
So each of us will eventually encounter the stall point of the profession, that is, after reaching the limit point, we will surely go to the decline of the profession, and it will be difficult to return to the glory of the past.
The elements that make us successful are often the elements that make us fail, and we all fall into our own value network. Especially when there is a major change in the external environment we rely on, we tend to deal with fatigue.
The value network of the company depends on the following. As individuals, we are like a company, relying on our customers (employers), competitors (newcomers), capital (learning inputs), suppliers (our time) Energy resources), our status is actually only a professional role under the value network, as long as one dimension of the value network changes, we will not be irreplaceable.
03 Open the second curve of the workplace, the key is to actively change, avoid linear efforts
Although the law of the S-curve is irreversible, there are always companies that have crossed one or more cycles and are constantly making new heights on different tracks. They can always deploy new technologies and products before a major technology and product cycle is declining, and begin the cycle development of new S-shaped curves.
There are always some outstanding talents that span multiple industries, and career life continues to expand in many areas. Before the first curve of the profession to the apex, it has already been laid out in the second curve. Some even achieve remarkable achievements in different industries, and the greatest possible extension of their professional life.
These companies and talents are doing the layout early, re-split the elements and re-layout the resources, thus changing their value network and opening the second curve of the enterprise or profession.
To continue to grow, across products and technology cycles, excellent companies will open the second curve before the limit point comes after the first curve breaks through the break point. However, most of the companies have not achieved great success in one area, and they have done more and more, and everything is done, but everything is flat.
The same is true in the profession. If you want to continue to develop, cross the industry and the restrictions of seniority, excellent talents must start the exploration of the second curve before the limit point comes after the first curve breaks through the breaking point.
The second curve is developed to have a clear-cut and comprehensive understanding of the internal and external situation, and to retreat from the original value network that allows you to succeed, and thus rely on you, to recombine and invest in major resources. To break through the breakpoints in the new field, we can succeed in the second curve.
But the success of a field is not easy. It is even harder to succeed in cross-disciplinary areas. Therefore, many people are distracted and will become general-purpose generals. The main business is general, the sideline industry is many, and the slashes are many, but they are not prominent. The results, I wanted to make a full feast, but made the mala on the stall.
04 Extend professional life, learn to think like this often
So we can always think about what stage of the profession is now, can my work continue to develop my ability? Is my growth sustainable?
1, have you broken through the break point in your career and surpassed your peers? If not, what inputs and adjustments should I make?
2, are you in the rapid development stage? Is your resource investment enough at this stage? Is it enough to make your first curve enough?
3, have you reached the limit of the first curve? How much resources do you have in new areas?
4, if your career stalls, do you have any resources on the second curve?
5, is there a break in the second curve? If not, what adjustments can I make?
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We first need to work hard in the first curve, professionally strive to achieve success in the first curve, and get returns far beyond the average.
While enjoying the wonderful growth of the first curve, be aware of when our growth can last, is it natural physiological constraints, or is it already facing changes in the external environment?
Before this, we need to recombine our resources and carry out the second curve. We need to consciously and deliberately practice the thinking methods needed at each stage, focus on resources in our strengths, and make breakthroughs at different stages.
I hope we can have the first curve of high spirits, and we can also open the second curve of occupation in time (the second curve is not only one time). In our desire, we can extend our professional life infinitely and extend professional success.
Thank you for reading.
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Article title: At which stage of your career development?