What is the most important thing to achieve your career?

Whether you have your own unique philosophy of employing people is very important to your career.

Politicians and successful businessmen who influence the world are clear-headed and quick-thinking, and each has an independent and complete concept of employing people. They can face changes and make judgments and choices quickly.

Harvard people believe that your concept of employing people is the soul of your career. If you use people indiscriminately without your own system, then you can't have your own business backbone, and there will be no super group to resist all kinds of unfavorable situations in your career.

There is a key point in Harvard's concept of employing people: teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. Harvard said: A smart leader should learn how to put the right talents in the right position. It is a management concept that every leader must adhere to, otherwise, the enthusiasm and creativity of those useful talents will be diluted. Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is the premise and foundation of guiding students according to circumstances. Therefore, whether people decide things or things, we must emphasize teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, because the principle of employing people is to give full play to the strengths of talents.

To use subordinates, an enterprise leader must first understand his characteristics. Every subordinate has his specialty and personality habits, and some of them do things neatly and quickly; Everyone else is cautious; Some are good at dealing with interpersonal relationships; On the other hand, some people like to do statistics silently alone.

Only after you have a clear understanding of your subordinates can you allocate your work reasonably. A job that needs to be handled quickly can be handed over to the staff who act quickly and then audited by the cautious person; On the contrary, if you have enough working hours, you can give them to prudent employees to finish.

Every leader should start the learning process immediately after getting the person he likes. Based on your understanding of his work, you must know which part of him needs help most, which job is the easiest area to show leadership, the necessary skills that the candidate needs to develop, and where he needs to work hard and help from others most.

The current president of the United States, George W. Bush, is also from Harvard. His MBA is excellent, and the art of employing people has reached the point of perfection.

We might as well look at the new cabinet list of Bush's second term. Among the 15 key members of the first cabinet, except for six who will continue to serve in the new cabinet, including Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Finance Minister Si Nuo, the other nine positions have been replaced by new faces. American media believe that there are several "many" in Bush's new cabinet, that is, there are many ethnic minorities, many "bitter children" and many "hawks". What kind of employment concept does Bush's choice highlight?

Gonzalez, the incoming new Attorney General, was born in a very poor family. His father was a poor Mexican immigrant who never graduated from middle school. Gonzalez entered the university campus by serving in the army and receiving government funding.

Jim Nicholson, who was nominated as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, once served as the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. 1938 was born in a farmer's family in Iowa. He himself recalled that when he was a child, he lived in a rented house, not to mention no toilet. Sometimes he can't even eat, so he goes to bed hungry.

The Minister of Commerce is Gutierrez, who is now the executive director of Kellogg Company in the United States. At that time, as a Cuban immigrant, he fled to Mexico and then transferred to the United States. It is said that he began to learn English from a waiter in a Miami hotel. His first job was as a truck driver and delivered breakfast in Kellogg Food Company.

Nebraska Governor Mark Johns, nominated by Bush as Secretary of Agriculture, grew up on a dairy farm in Iowa. He himself once said that after the test of that hard life, no matter what he faced in the future, he could face it easily.

Condoleezza rice, assistant to the President of the United States for national security affairs, is also a "bitter child". She has been nominated as the new Secretary of State and the first black female Secretary of State in American history. This black girl grew up in remote Birmingham, Alabama.

Bernard Crick, the former police chief of new york City, was nominated by Bush as the Secretary of Homeland Security, but he refused. Crick dropped out of high school before graduating. It is reported that his mother was a prostitute and was later murdered by her client.

A White House spokesman said: "Bush appreciates those who appreciate the hardships of life, honesty and sense of responsibility, and these values are usually instilled in people when they are young." In fact, in a more concise language, Bush's employment concept embodies what people often say is the "American spirit"-the pursuit of freedom and unremitting struggle.

There is another key point in Harvard's employment concept: talent training. Harvard people believe that excellent talents are cultivated, and you can't find all the excellent people to use for you. When employing people, leaders should not be eager for immediate interests, but should take a long-term view and focus on the final achievements and long-term gains of the trained assistants. Be patient with subordinates who are temporarily incompetent or immature. Subordinates need to know that you won't blame them when they make mistakes, so if they do make mistakes, they will prove that they can't do well with better performance. They need another chance to prove themselves!

Cultivate subordinates to become real backbones, and then help them choose their own subordinates. In this way, your talent pool will never be exhausted, and you can always find the talents you need.

—— Quoted from Yanbian People's Publishing House "Understanding Harvard for a Hundred Years"