How to get smart with colleagues instead of being stupid?

Editor’s note: This article comes from WeChat public account “LinkedIn” (ID: LinkedIn-China) , author Li Ge.

Our ideal team is like this: everyone is an elite in all fields, and after cooperation, they can exert an effect of 1 + 1 = 10 or even 100 or even 10,000.

But it is cruel, more often it is the reality of 1 + 1 <2.

As long as you think about it, how many times a brainstorm lasted for 2 hours was fruitless. How did a cross-group cooperation that required quick action die after persuading the team to perfectly miss the best time point …

It is said that solidarity is strong, but it is often not true when making decisions.

Come and talk today, how can you become smart with your colleagues instead of being stupid?

Do n’t be superstitious with star effects

Now young people have not heard of the “Yi Tang” website. Around 2000, the phrase “Is You Today Yitang” imitating Yahoo’s advertising words really made Yitang beautiful for a while?

It used to be a portal tailored for young Chinese. The founder of the company, Tang Haisong, is an MBA from Harvard Business School, and his “dream team” is composed of 5 Harvard MBAs and two University of Chicago MBAs. It can be said that the stars are bright.

But their website died silently in 2009. The main reason is ungrounded gas.

The elite team often likes to do big things that are “meaningful and passionate”, and is reluctant to focus on small things that are grounded.

They are rich and wealthy and overestimate the wealth and consumption power of ordinary young people.

After experiencing the failure of consumer group positioning and lack of core business, etc., Yitang began to gradually become chaotic, and product positioning began to change.

In the end, Yitang only left empty shells, and the former “dream team” also chose to leave after the company burned out the money.

It seems that a team, even elites, may not succeed.

It is difficult for them to respect differences, forget themselves, and lean down to seriously investigate the needs of market audiences. Out of “you feelIt ’s up to you, I think I ’m better than you. ”It ’s also difficult to achieve positive cooperation.

If members pursue a goal that cannot be achieved at all, or lack methods and capabilities in the way to achieve the overall goal, then the elite gathering is only a physical reaction, and cannot produce a chemical reaction.

What is the reason for group ignorance?

The above story tells us that when a team is “smart people”, it is easy to be bad because of short-sightedness and difficult cooperation.

The following story will tell us that when a team has only one smart person who has the final say, it is more prone to bad things.

As the leading brand in the supermarket industry, Carrefour’s position in the industry used to be far ahead, and once used its own management team as the hardest fist, but it has gradually declined.

The reason for this is that the centralized management implemented by the master around 2006 is to reclaim the power of purchase, ordering, and promotion of the original stores in a unified manner, so that the power and resources originally scattered in the stores are concentrated.

This is more efficient, but the problem also comes with it:

The store director and supervisor no longer need to negotiate with the supplier, do not need to design the arrangement, do not need to consider the promotion, only need to do according to the requirements of the CCU, very simple work makes it difficult to train qualified backup talent The quality of the store staff quickly declined.

Due to this vicious circle, the management of the entire company began to fall into chaos, and performance began to decline, gradually approaching the edge of collapse.

TalentSmart ’s president Travis Bradbury once said that being smart is a good thing. After all, smart people can get a high salary, get rich money, and even live long, but on the other hand, in common sense In the field of sex, smart people are known for making such stupid mistakes.

The starting point for these smart people to do things is often for their own interests, or the interests of their own small groups, which is easy to produce a “small group thinking.”

Such a small group is usually headed by an elite and assisted by several other elites. When the elite led by the elite comes up with ideas, others usually give up critical thinking and obey.

Such small groups will indeed be very united, and everyone has a consensus, but this consensus is superficial and superficial, and members of small groups will involuntarily form some habits, and these habits may cause everyone to make stupidity decision.

IkaleThe small group thinking with Fu CCU as the core is a typical model that may lead to group ignorance.

How to make us smart together?

How to find a team suitable for your own development, and then everyone becomes smart together?

1, re-understand and evaluate what is excellent

Most people think that the best teams in China are Liu, Guan, Zhang, Zhuge, and Zhao.

Liu Bei is good at hiring people. Guan Gong, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Zilong are so high in martial arts and so loyal. Coupled with Zhuge Liang ’s think tank, such a team is hard to find after a thousand years.

But Ma Yun believes that the best team in China is the team of Tang Seng Xitian.

Leaders like Tang Seng do n’t know anything, they know they have to learn from them. Such a leader has no charm.

Sun Wukong’s martial arts are strong, and his character is not bad. The only regret is that he is grumpy. Such people are common in the unit.

Although pig bajie is cunning, without him, life is also a lot less fun.

Mr. Sha is more. Do n’t tell me about humanity and values. “I will do so much work.” After half an hour of work, I will go back to bed.

There are many such people in the unit, but it is just such four people who have gone through all sorts of hardships and achieved the truth.

We need to re-understand what excellence is. Excellent evaluation is by no means a unified standard, but it does its own job. It is excellent to do a good job within its jurisdiction.

Everyone is an ordinary person. Ordinary people do something extraordinary together, which is a valuable team spirit.

2. There must be a reasonable way to express personal opinions

The consequences of the star effect will lead to restrictions on critical thinking. Then, we can involve all members in the design of resolutions and solve them in the form of “brainstorming meetings.”

At the meeting, criticism and comment are prohibited, and no self-humility is allowed. Any ideas put forward by others cannot be criticized or blocked, even if they think they are naive, wrong, or even ridiculous, they must not be refuted. .

At the same time, it does not allow self-criticism, psychologically mobilize the enthusiasm of each participant, and completely prevent the appearance of something like “this rootThis does not work “,” Your idea is too old “,” This is impossible “stifling statements.

Targeted concentration, advocate independent thinking, advocate free speech, do not emphasize personal achievements, should focus on the overall interests of the group, pay attention to and understand the contributions of others. Everyone creates a democratic environment, does not hinder the generation of new personal opinions with the opinions of the majority, and inspires individuals to pursue more and better ideas.

3. Find a humble leader

There is a very famous “Dunning-Kruger effect”, which means that the more incapable people are, the easier it is to overestimate their abilities.

If the leader is blind and confident, it is easy to turn a blind eye to the correct feedback, leading to self-use and even leading a team to go further and further on the wrong path.

So, choose a leader with modesty, because a humble leader can not only make his team more diverse and inclusive, but also create an environment that is suitable for innovation and helps make better decisions. .