Timely Display Of Weakness: The Protective Color Of Workplace Survival

Weakness is the way of human existence.

When we go to the forum, we will find that many of the keynote speakers, besides having many admirable experiences, are also very articulate, quick witted, knowledge-based and knowledge-based when they listen to them. They also find many famous entrepreneurs on the television screen, who are not nervous, and are very reasonable.

For example, Liu Chuanzhi, who is in the CCTV entrepreneurial column, and Zhang Ruimin at the lecture room at Harvard University, has made a deep impression on people's speeches, and is deeply impressed by them. Is it natural for them to do so? From the various records of their texts, if we read them carefully, we can find that, like normal people, their words today are all built on tortuous foundations. Today's words or phrases are all a summary of the past events, or an interpretation of a year or even longer. In order to create today's "Lenovo" business empire, Liu Chuanzhi has returned several times, for the international "Haier", in the initial stage of reform and opening up, we have smashed the fridge, and Zhang Ruimin has brought many spades.

In the sea of business,

Power is not enough, wisdom and wisdom are needed to produce skills. To a certain extent, skill can be said to be an insight, a technique, an art, and a plan. If we pursue the flat road blindly, we will be frustrated. If we do not have the skills to deal with it, we will also lose it because of rigid.

In nature, tigers are known as the king of animals. In the grasslands, tigers are frightened by other animals by their strong physique and amazing speed. They are not tiger opponents at all. Some animals see tigers, simply lie on the ground and remain motionless, waiting for tigers to eat. Animals can do this, but people can't do that.

Although human beings are similar to phenomena revealed in nature, there are strong and weak points, but human beings are intelligent, intelligent, knowledgeable, and decisive in knowledge. Through continuous learning and life experience, people can obtain opportunities for survival in shopping malls and workplace, thus making a great deal of difference.

Although people can not change their "strong" or "weak", they can show their strong or weak ways to make themselves in a favorable position.

Walking in the workplace should know the rule of walking, that is, to be strong and to be weak.

You may have to ask, "what is strong weakness?"

In my opinion, when you meet someone who is stronger than you, I believe that when you meet someone who is stronger than you, you should not just ignore your face and vanity. Though it is possible to knock the other side down, you will eventually get hurt. Why not try to show weakness? This can defuse the other's vigilance. From this point of departure, it is not hard to know that showing weakness in front of the strong is a way of survival. Fundamentally speaking, it is a way to retreat in order to make it difficult to be invisible.

In actual work or life, there are also some strong men who bully the weak, that is, bullying the weak. Therefore, showing weakness is enough to make the other party unable to find out your true and false situation and reduce the effectiveness of the other party's attack. Once the attack is invalid, the other party will be able to close the hand, so that the weak will also get the survival. As for the weak counterattack or not, we must be cautious, depending on the circumstances, because counterattack is not the purpose, but survival is the purpose.

Now that we show weakness, we can get it.

Therefore, in the workplace, showing weakness is a form of performance to retreat. Weakness is not compromise, but an effective way to solve the problem of survival. In the workplace, some weak performance is indeed worth learning.

To show weakness is to add color to the workplace.

The following weak performance can be just for the weak side not only bonus points but also a lot of color, because knowing mistakes is not everyone can do, for example, for the sake of face but not for example, the following three aspects are highly concentrated and refined from the actual work process.

First, when we do not know the truth, we need to show weakness.

There is no omnipotence. The wider the knowledge, the more unknowns.

In the workplace, every day you are faced with colleagues, not sending mail or meeting. At this time, you need to be more energetic because if you make a strong excuse for your "ignorance", you will lose badly and you will not be able to save face.

For example, during the meeting, the engineering department, the production department, the material department, the human resources department, the mold department and other departments, just discussed whether the number of employees can meet the current production and engineering needs of the human resources department. What should you do as a HR Manager? If you do not understand the whole process of the product and do not understand the working position of the mold department, you will hardly give your opinion. When you tell a figure for the sake of face, other participants will ask why is such a figure?

In fact, it is also very simple. In this case, I would like to introduce the current situation of human resources in various departments, and then turn the conversation around, but because I do not understand the technological process, production arrangements and the specific situation of the order, I will not comment. I hope to hear your opinions and support the departments.

Don't pretend to understand when you don't know. Otherwise, you can only pay for face or vanity.

Two, when you encounter a wrong thing, you need to be weak

In daily work and life, people often can not find their mistakes in time, but in the workplace, if we can admit mistakes, we will win a lot of applause.

Zhang Ying is the production supervisor of motor department. He has strong principles and strong personality.

On one occasion, the Department has to do 67R product fixture, has written the "work assistance list", handed it to the engineering department for 10 days, and has not yet seen a good fixture. Then it rushed to find the engineering supervisor. He was furious in the office building, and publicly criticized the director of the engineering department for not doing it. My department asked for 7 days to do it well, and you agreed, there was no difficulty in saying anything, because the consequences of the failure of the fixture were responsible for you.

The engineering supervisor did not make any excuses. Just say, go back and get to know the actual situation.

In anger, Zhang Ying returned to his office and found out that his 67R fixture had been delivered to the engineering department 3 days ago. At the meeting today, the problem raised by Wang Gong was that he hoped that Zhang Ying would coordinate with the engineering department. The 98RL fixture needed the engineering department to speed up the progress.

When Zhang Ying understood clearly, he did not know clearly. It was wrong to be angry at the head of the engineering department in the office building, and it also affected other colleagues' work.

He immediately went to the office of the head of the engineering department to apologize to him and found the Ministry of human resources to accept the punishment.

Although Zhang Ying's work style is commendable, I believe that Zhang Ying can make changes when he knows his faults. This is not something anyone can do. He is not making a phone call, but he has apologized to the office building and apologized for taking the initiative to accept the company's punishment.

Zhang Ying will surely benefit a lot from this matter, and many colleagues will appreciate his practice.

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Three, when the strength is stronger than your opponent, you need to show weakness.

In order to achieve their goals, there are usually different posts. There are high and low levels. There are layers of dialogue. In reality, though the posts are at one level, because of the different abilities of the incumbent, there will be problems in the level of dialogue, that is, although the positions are the same, those who are not able to work at a level are strong enough to disagree with them.

In the workplace, when confronted with an opponent who is stronger than himself, he must remain vigilant and not express his views easily. Otherwise, he will strongly refute his opponent.

Of course, we should not express our opinions because we are weak, but we should do enough work before we express our opinions, such as the collection of information, what exactly you want to say, the refining of views, etc.

When confronted with a strong opponent, when the other party is finished, if he thinks that the other side's views are not enough, he can say: "the point of view of * * * is very good before it is mentioned." (1).

(2).

(3).

I agree with you.

But I want to talk about my personal views. If there is anything wrong, I hope you can criticize it.

Believe this, the other party has nothing to say.

The weak side with skill is the true color.

Retreat is a gesture when using retreat to advance, retreat is a kind of exchange, retreat is a kind of knowledge.

When we use this tool to show weakness, we need skills in practical work. What are some skills? I try to make the following analysis.

First, seek advice for better work.

They all hope that their proposals or proposals will be adopted, but the reality is not so. For example, if you have a proposal, you think it's a very good time to submit it, but you have not received a positive response. Why is it that the proposal has already consulted or advices to your people? You have different opinions on your proposal. Therefore, not only will your work ability be questioned, and your proposal may be aborted, but it will be very difficult to submit it again. But if this is done, you will not submit the proposal formally, but seek advice or suggestions from your colleagues around you, then adopt reasonable proposals or opinions and integrate them into the proposal, so the effect will be different. In the process of work, everyone

Two, admit mistakes, aim for better progress.

The monthly salary of a company was 15 days ago, but the salary in March 2011 has not yet been released in April 18th. The employees have begun to talk about it. What voice is there?

"Do I have to buy milk powder for my daughter?"

At first, the company didn't pay much attention to it. In the morning of April 19th, 300 employees assembled in a workshop and did nothing in the workshop. They asked the company to give a statement that the staff's request was reasonable, and what reason had not been paid yet?

The author believes that one of the key points of this case is how to understand the salary of the staff before 15 days per month. The monthly salary of 15 days before the employee is written into the labor contract. It has legal effect and is an appointment with all the employees. It is not paid for the employees for more than 15 days. This is due to the employees' income. Should we not apologize? If it is found that the Ministry of human resources or the finance department will not be able to pay wages on 15 days, it is necessary to write a notice of late wages, write clearly the reasons for the delay, and ask the staff to understand and explain the specific date of the issuance, and notify the department heads to ask them to do the work well.

As long as we can understand clearly, employees will understand the company. The most important thing in this case is to deprive employees of the right to know. Therefore, I believe that the recognition of mistakes is for better progress.