Workplace: A Lazy Boss Is A Good Boss.

"Lazy ant" is more intelligent than busy spiders. "20% lazy ant" guides 80%'s industrious ants. Is the animal kingdom following the law of efficiency?

In the fierce competition in the workplace, if you have been on the "lazy ant" position, you might as well settle down and "lazy".

Why do you want to work hard?

Many people have read this famous inspirational Fable: Prince Bruce of Scotland, who led the army against foreign invaders, failed 7 times in a row. He almost lost his confidence.

Later, he saw a spider in the net, and failed 7 times, but still stuck to it eighth times and finally succeeded.

He was moved by this spirit, once again organized resistance, and finally won the victory.

Another "model worker" in fables is ants. They often represent hard work and hard work, but this is not the case.

The evolutionary biology research team of the Graduate School of Agronomy, Hokkaido University, Japan, observed the activities of three groups of Japanese ant ants composed of 30 ants.

As a result, they found that about 80% of the ants worked in certain jobs, such as cleaning up nest waste or collecting food, and rarely stopping to rest, but other workers kept doing nothing all day and hardly attended any work.

People call them lazy ants.

In general, we should praise the spirit of persistence and perseverance, and criticize lazy ants who do nothing for nothing and idle.

Interesting things happen, biologists mark these lazy ants, and cut off the food sources of ants. Those who work very diligently are helpless at all, while lazy ants come forward and lead their partners to the new food sources that they have already detected.

The biologists also took all the lazy ants together. As a result, 80% of the lazy ants became industrious ants, and 20% of the ants remained lazy. All the ants in their original colony stopped working and were in a mess. Until the lazy ants were put back, the whole ant colony recovered their busy and orderly work.

20:80, isn't that the rule of efficiency of Pareto 80/20?

80% of the ants are very industrious, busy and willing to work hard, but they can not do without 20% lazy ants.

"Lazy ants" can always see the weakness of the organization, and have the ability to keep ants alive in difficult times. They can avoid putting all the formic force into the work of pporting food, and always keep the exploring state of new food, so that they can get the new food continuously.

Diligence and laziness complement each other, diligent principle, lazy sense of laziness, laziness is not necessarily a kind of survival wisdom.

In turn, think about the diligent spider. Why does it often break?

Perhaps it simply picked the wrong place, such as finding a draught to weave the net, and the net was easy to break.

Why can't it change places and have to repair the net again and again?

It can only show that it can not jump out of narrow vision and find the key to the problem.

There is a saying that "the members of the meeting are busy, but the busy ones will not".

Like a Busy Spider, a boss who is so busy in a business must be a boss who doesn't know how to manage.

If a manager does not know how to manage, he will never find the key to the problem. He may continue the wrong way again and again.

When the boss learns to "lazy", he thinks of another fable.

A little bird stood at the highest branch of the tree and sang very leisurely.

A rabbit was very envious and asked him, "how can I do nothing like you?"

The bird said, "then come up."

The little rabbit could not climb the tree. It took great pains to jump on a low branch and stand there singing.

A fox passed by, so it was easy to find the rabbit and took it away.

The bird sighed: "if you want to do nothing, you have to climb to the top."

Although this is a joke, compared with the story of lazy ant, it can be seen that sometimes, the boss should do less work and move his mind.

In any organization, diligent and lazy people are indispensable.

Diligent work and hard work are important conditions for an organization to survive. But the survival and development of an organization need to think, judge, make decisions and create, which requires "laziness".

Only by extrication from busy chores and specific affairs can he have time to think and have the energy to explore.

This kind of "laziness" is a necessary state of work for thoughtful people. It is a necessary survival wisdom and an inevitable leading behavior.

Without such "laziness", any "diligent" will lose their way and lose their mind. Even the more they work, the more dangerous and diligent they become.

Entrepreneurs should be lazy ants. They should be diligent in thinking and lazy.

A lazy ant entrepreneur must never hand in hand to all the management matters of the enterprise. No matter how big or small he or she is, he must know how to put 80% of his energy on 20% key matters to succeed. He should devote more time and energy to thinking, and use it to find out the way of development for the enterprise.

The second trait of a lazy ant entrepreneur is intelligence and thought-provoking.

"Lazy ant" entrepreneurs are intelligent and enterprisers. They have new ideas, that is, to guide enterprises to develop in constant innovation. Their ideological activities are to challenge the market with flexible ideas and win the market.

The third trait of "lazy ant" entrepreneurs is to grasp the big and small, and focus on the future.

This is another distinctive feature of "lazy ant" entrepreneurs who are different from ordinary entrepreneurs.

Their basic duty is to grasp the great events and to think about the future. What he solves is the fundamental issue that concerns the life and death of enterprises. What he does is to lead the enterprises to work together with one heart and one mind to achieve the grand goal of the future.

The fourth trait of a lazy ant entrepreneur is constant learning and constant new thinking.

New ideas come from new knowledge. "Lazy ant" entrepreneurs are always good at learning, constantly learning their ideas, constantly updating their ideas.

By learning all kinds of new knowledge, new ideas and new concepts, the lazy ant entrepreneurs keep their thinking broadened and their minds constantly updated.

Entrepreneurs in general sense emphasize the practice of real knowledge and highlight the summary of work experience, which is obviously different from that of "lazy ant" enterprise furniture.

To help hardworking ants become lazy ants, it seems that "diligence" and "laziness" are relative.

Senior management of enterprises is to be "lazy ants", and the relatively ordinary employees - hardworking ants?

Is there no need to worry about the brain and do not need to be a lazy ant?

The ants do not need to feel frustrated for their position, because as an enterprise, "lazy ants" can not be too much, after all, enterprises are supported by 80% of ordinary employees.

For a diligent ant who can not be a manager, a successful "lazy ant" entrepreneur will know how to respect their work value, and allocate their work according to their abilities and characteristics so that they can maximize their strengths and avoid weaknesses and give full play to their abilities.

If you look at it, you will find that there are also employees like "lazy ants" in enterprises and teams.

They usually seem very relaxed, and seem to be very busy at work every week, but the boss is willing to give them a high salary and praise them.

These lazy ants have some common characteristics: they are good at learning to recharge, use intelligence to observe, analyze, and find new opportunities for development in the market; they are good at finding problems in enterprises, finding out the drawbacks of enterprise management, putting forward constructive suggestions, following rules and adhering to principles. They are committed to studying business in the departments under their jurisdiction, and keep their thinking broadened and constantly updated by learning new knowledge, new ideas and new concepts.

According to the theory of "not being in the right place and not doing their best" in the past, these people can be said to be a bit officious, surpassing their terms of reference and threatening the authority of their leaders.

But in the eyes of "lazy ants" managers, these people shoulder the responsibility of "industrious ants", while moving the "lazy ants" brains. With such employees, the boss will certainly be very satisfied.

Remember, no matter ant or lazy ant, solving a problem is a good ant. It can make more people become good ants. This is the responsibility of lazy ants.

(Wen / Li Peng Peng)