Don't fight unprepared battles

In terms of leadership and management, the strategy of "waiting for work with leisure" has one main characteristic, which is to avoid blindness. This requires leaders to fight a prepared battle.

What is the overall intent of your company? What are the short-term goals? What are the long-term goals? Where will it go? Can you discern its values? Do you want the best trained people to do the work, or do you want to do it quickly and cheaply? Is it an attempt to make those competitors disappear, or is it to try to stand out from the crowd? What is your attitude towards people doing things outside of work? Are we not doing the company's business, or are we a whole who cares about each other? Although the most basic purpose of every company is to improve overall productivity, how to achieve this goal is closely related to the company's values. For you, it's all you need to know about the big picture of the company as a whole.

Here, we talk about understanding the situation of the whole company, because new managers are often not able to separate themselves from the workers and still see the problem through the eyes of the workers. However, this is no longer the case, and now is the time for you to see things through the eyes of a manager, who is now part of the management class. However, despite this, you may feel that the support for you comes more from your employees than from your peers or superiors. So, be careful not to fall into that pleasing spiral, you need to get to know your new colleagues and act like them, not with your employees.

It is important to have a good understanding of what the company's goals are and how to achieve them. This will help you figure out who in the company is going to execute the plan to accomplish these tasks. Undoubtedly, nature is the one who holds power. For example, if you are mainly leading with new products, then it is necessary to make some improvements and innovations. Therefore, it is conceivable that those who take risks and innovate will do a better job than conservatives who stick to the old ways. If it's the older people who run the company, then those who are cautious and follow the rules will definitely be more popular than those who are flexible, not very self-contained, and always thinking about improvement and innovation.

The expected goals are also influenced by the different stages of development of the company. Therefore, you have to consider whether the company is in a period of continuous development and expansion, or a period of relative stability, or if the company is laying off employees and cutting expenses to tide over difficult times.

In general, power always goes to those who need it most. Let's look at some examples: Procter & Gamble (PC) is primarily pegged to the market; Intel (I

TEL) computer companies are focusing on research and development in order to beat many competitors; And Chrysler (Chrysler

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Auto companies, which used to focus on the production of products, now rely heavily on their own financial decision-makers. If resources are scarce, the purchasing department is even more important to the company, just as a school has to fight for more funding and joint ventures to generate income if it is in financial difficulty.

In any system, there will always be some tension to a greater or lesser extent, so in order to survive, you also need to understand politics. The balance of power is dynamic, so you have to keep an eye out for movements from time to time to see what is going on or what is happening.

In the beginning, try to stick to the plan if you want people to agree with it. Only after a long time, and you have earned trust and established a good reputation, can you innovate and try to change the existing rigid working state.

As a leader, you should think about the safety of your soldiers, and you must make strategic decisions after careful consideration; only by training your "soldiers" well in peacetime, preparing for war, and waiting for work at ease, can you achieve victory in one fell swoop in actual combat.