Enterprises should be good at raising idle people.

Enterprises should be good at "nurturing idle people"

Sun Dawu, the supervisor of Hebei Dawu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group Co., Ltd., who was once the richest man in Hebei, said this, which was unexpected:

"It's good for an employee to put one-third of his energy into his work, and it's good for all employees to have one-third of skilled workers ... entrepreneurs should have the attitude of' keeping idle people' when doing business!"

It's really surprising that a mercenary businessman should say such a thing. However, it is very philosophical. "Raising idle people" is not an easy task, and it needs "tolerance".

An enterprise can't be all talented people. In this case, it is neither realistic nor scientific. A person can't be a talent in every period of his life, otherwise it doesn't conform to the law of talent growth. Some talents are not used every day. As the saying goes, it takes a thousand days to raise an army, but it takes a while to fight. Raising children for old age and saving grain for hunger.

After billions of years of evolution, the earth's biosphere has formed a closed environment with meticulous structure, mutual restriction, mutual promotion and interdependence. During this period, many species have become extinct and human beings are still alive. In the past 300 years, manatees, fear birds, great auk, Antarctic wolves and American Maine mink have become extinct. The extinction of these regional animals has not affected human life. However, some species with huge groups and closely embedded in people's lives cannot be extinct even if human beings hate them again. Once extinct, mankind will be in danger. For example: mice, flies, mosquitoes. An enterprise, a team and a small society all need all kinds of people. Once the structure is too simple, they will get sick and even die.

Japanese biologists discovered the lazy ant effect. They observed the activities of three black ant colonies composed of 30 ants. Most ants are diligent in finding and carrying food, but a few ants are idle and look around all day. People call these ants "lazy ants". When biologists mark these "lazy ants" and cut off the ant colony's food source, those ants who usually work very hard are at a loss, while "lazy ants" step forward and lead the ants to the new food source they have detected. It turns out that lazy ants spend most of their time on reconnaissance and research. They can observe the weakness of the organization and constantly explore new foods, thus ensuring that the group can continuously obtain new food sources. Biologists put all the lazy ants together. As a result, 80% of the "lazy ants" have become hardworking ants, and 20% of the ants are still "lazy". All the ants in their original ant colony stopped working and were in a mess. Until those "lazy ants" were put back, the whole ant colony resumed its busy and orderly work. 80% of ants are diligent, busy and hard-working, but they cannot do without 20% of "lazy ants". 20: 80 coincides with Pareto 80/20 efficiency rule. In ant colony and enterprise, "lazy ant" is very important, which is called "lazy ant effect".

As an enterprise, if it wants to flourish, it must learn to "raise idle people" and be good at "raising idle people". Idle people in the enterprise are a minority, and they get twice the result with half the effort; If you can't raise it well, you will struggle, or even overthrow it once.

What kind of "idle people" do you need to raise? Because there are too few examples of enterprises, I will talk about this issue from a broader perspective. The enterprises mentioned in this paper can be understood in a broader sense, including any form of employment)

First, short-term leisure, clear objectives and tasks, and accurate talent reserve.

Wu's son wants to kill and start his own business. Wu Wangliao was heavily guarded, so it was difficult to assassinate him. Wu Zixu recommended Zhuan Xu, a skilled assassin, to Gongziguang, who kept Zhuan Xu as a distinguished guest in the palace for several years. Zhuan Xu successfully assassinated Wu Wangliao, and his son made himself king, assisting He Lv, the king of Wu. Zhuan has been in Gongziguang's house for several years, which is useless. If Zhuan died suddenly at this time, it would be meaningless.

Hu Linyi, a well-known minister of Zhongxing in Guangtong, was bohemian when he was young. His father-in-law, Tao Shu, is the governor of the two rivers and indulges him extremely. He paid his son-in-law to eat, drink, gamble and smoke. Mrs. Tao asked Tao Shu to take care of Hu Linyi, but Tao Shu comforted his wife that the child was the pillar of the future country, and he was relieved when he understood it. He is still young and playful, so he won't have a chance to play when he contributes to the country in the future. Hu Linyi later became the governor of Hubei and became famous all over the world. Zuo, Li Hongzhang, et al. It was recommended many times and praised by people at that time. Together with Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zuo, they are called "four famous ministers of ZTE".

Second, seemingly idle, secretly accumulating strength will be a blockbuster.

Li He wrote a poem praising bamboo: "When a long pole falls and a piece of jade is cut open, you can see that the mother bamboo shoot is made of dragon material. I would rather smoke in thousands of feet overnight than a few inches in the pool. " It means: after the shell of bamboo shoots falls off, Hsinchu grows rapidly, like cutting jasper with a knife; You see, those big thick bamboo shoots are extraordinary materials. They will suddenly grow into a thousand feet, standing in the sky, away from the mud in the bamboo garden.

This explains a "bamboo law": bamboo can only grow three centimeters in the first four years, and it is still buried deep in the soil. When it comes out of the ground in the fourth year, it can grow at a speed of 30 cm a day, with a circumference of 15 meters.

The opening wedge of A Dream of Red Mansions reads: "Cao Xueqin mourned the Red Mansion for ten years, adding and deleting it five times." During the ten years of writing A Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin was poor and had a hard life, with "Chrysanthemum morifolium" and "porridge and wine for the whole family were often on credit". If Cao Xueqin had worked in today's university and passed the annual examination, he would have been dismissed. During this decade, if Cao Xueqin dies and the manuscript disappears, history will never remember Cao Xueqin.

In the history of science, there are countless such "bamboos".

1903, the curies won the nobel prize in physics. 19 1 1 year, Madame Curie won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for separating pure metal radium. Madame Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in history. She won Nobel Prizes in two different fields. In order to separate radium, the Curies bought several tons of waste residue and refined it in an abandoned wooden shed that leaked everywhere, often producing pungent and choking toxic gases. They worked hard in such bad conditions that Madame Curie stirred the boiling asphalt with her weight and a big iron bar. Sometimes the experiment can't be interrupted, so they just fill their hunger in the wooden shed. Four years later, they separated a trace (one gram) of radium chloride from several tons of residue and accurately determined its atomic weight. Madame Curie said afterwards that if I had known in advance that there was so little content, maybe I wouldn't have dared to start.

Einstein said, "I can't stand such scientists. He took out a piece of wood, found the thinnest place, and then drilled many holes there. " Einstein boldly put forward the light quantum hypothesis in 1905, which was laughed at by the scientific community. Robert millikan, an American experimental physicist, spent ten years to verify this equation. Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 192 1 for his contribution to photoelectric effect. It took Einstein ten years to put forward the general theory of relativity, and it is meaningless to evaluate it at any time in these years. Einstein wrote in my world view: "I am a real loner." Yang Zhenning said in Einstein: Opportunity and Vision: "Obviously, in this paragraph,' independent scientific work' refers to his long-term struggle to establish general relativity from 1908 to 19 15. The long struggle changed him. Is it getting better? The rabbi said, "No, his eyes turned into futile obsession." We said,' His new vision has rewritten the future development process of basic physics.' "

Ren is a well-known iron-fisted enterprise, preferring to spend 10 billion rather than let 7000 people go. Ren is a master of management and has a unique vision in employing people. He once raised a "idle man". In an interview, Ren said: "There is a young scientist in Russia. He can't fall in love and can only do math. He has been at Huawei for more than ten years. He plays computer every day and doesn't know what to do. The person in charge of research went to see him and said hello. I gave him an academician (internal) card, and he said,' Hmm, hmm, hmm'. He is not good at dealing with people and doesn't know what to do for more than ten years. " Ren finally said: "After that, he suddenly said that 2G had broken through to 3G, and he immediately conducted experiments. Our radio is ahead of Ericsson, occupying the European market on a large scale, using 4G and 5G, and now it is very powerful, which is related to the breakthrough of this young man. "

Ren once said: "Science and technology is not a matter of quick success and instant benefit. It takes twenty or thirty years for a theoretical breakthrough to make a contribution to social value. If we calm down today and do one thing in a down-to-earth manner, there may be hope in forty or fifty years. " Therefore, "to stand loneliness, you have to sit on the bench for ten years, especially in basic research."

Huawei can tolerate a young man who "plays computer all day and doesn't know what he is doing" for ten years, and finally "loyal wife" has its own core technology. Few managers can achieve such persistence, tolerance and trust.

There is another version of this story: a very good Russian mathematician was hired by a Russian company at a price five times higher. Mathematicians don't want to leave their hometown, so Huawei built a research and development center in front of his home. Mathematicians worked in Huawei in obscurity for several years, spent a lot of money, achieved nothing, didn't understand the world, and didn't communicate much with people. When everyone thought it was incredible, mathematicians suddenly came up with a set of their own algorithms and used them in the emerging 3G communication. Huawei immediately took it to test and it was a great success. In 3G communication, Huawei's algorithm has reached the highest level in the world and become the leading equipment supplier in the world.

Zhang Xiaolong, the current senior vice president of Tencent, is a very common name, but full of honor. These honors all come from one thing he did. He created WeChat and is a well-deserved "father of WeChat". The latest valuation of WeChat is $654.38+000 billion. Zhang Xiaolong is the most playful person in the eyes of his classmates. He has a wide range of hobbies. No matter what he plays, he can always reach the level of an amateur with a little practice. In addition to playing ball, his professional achievements are also excellent. The graduate tutor commented on Zhang Xiaolong: "Young people who like to play computer games and sleep late." At the end of 20 10, Zhang Xiaolong, who has always been taciturn, sent an email to Ma, suggesting Tencent to do mobile social software. 20 14 in may, Tencent announced the establishment of wechat business group, with Zhang Xiaolong as the president. He is a natural perfectionist, his products are constantly updated and iterated, and his user experience is close to the extreme again and again. He made an Internet product suitable for all ages. Wechat has achieved such great success because of Zhang Xiaolong's persistence and Ma Hua Teng's full support. In the three lonely years before the appearance of WeChat, Ma Hua Teng gave Zhang Xiaolong enough research and development space and resource platform to complete WeChat!

It pays off immediately. It's an hourly job.

Third, temporary leisure, professional talents, useful at critical times.

In the mythical novels such as The Romance of the Gods, The Journey to the West, we can see that the immortals strive for treasure, everything has its vanquisher, and the brine points tofu. When Tang Priest and his disciples came to Xiliang's daughter country, a female monster scorpion essence took Tang Priest away and trapped him in the Pipa Cave in the Poisonous Mountain. The Monkey King, Pig and Friar Sand were helpless. Only the Pleiadian official in the East Gate of Light Palace can surrender the scorpion essence. Here comes the Pleiadian Star Officer, and the scorpion essence falls with the wind. The Pleiadian Star Officer's position in the Heavenly Palace is far less than that of the imprisoned general Friar Sand, but he is still useful at this time.

Zhou Enlai, who has been in charge of China's intelligence work for a long time, is good at planning ahead. He played a lot of "idle chess" around the top core figures of the Kuomintang, allowing them to lurk for a long time and be activated at critical moments. These "idle chess players" are also called strategic intelligence personnel. Leng Shaonong, a former secretary of He, Zuo, a former secretary of Zhang Fakui, Qian Zhuangfei, a former secretary of Hu Zongnan, Xiong Xianghui, Wang Shuru, a former secretary of Feng Yuxiang, Yan Youwen, a former secretary of Fu, and Xie Hezhen, a former secretary of Ji Hongchang and Bai, all arranged underground party member. These people played an irreplaceable role at the critical moment.

Fourth, leisure seems to play an irreplaceable role in nourishing wisdom.

Think tank talents are generally not too busy. As busy as a bee. A wise man seems to be doing nothing, but he is actually observing and thinking, summing up the regular things and coming up with solutions to problems. Chapter eighty-five of Romance of the Three Kingdoms has the saying that "Liu Tuo's widow and Zhuge Liang settled in Pingwu Road". After Liu Beixin's death, Cao Pi contacted the Fifth Route Army to attack Shu in order to achieve the great cause of reunification. Shu was anxious when he heard the news, and the danger of dumping the country was imminent. At this time, Zhuge Liang was unable to take his illness to court and stayed indoors for several days. All the princes and ministers were worried. Liu Chan personally went to the Prime Minister's House, only to find Zhuge Liang watching fish leisurely by the pool. It turns out that Zhuge Liang is considering the strategy of withdrawing troops behind closed doors these days. He said to his anxious deceased master, please rest assured. The invasion of the five armies was easily resolved by Zhuge Liang.

The peerless masters in martial arts novels should close their doors and improve their skills instead of punching sandbags desperately.

Meng Changjun, an aristocrat of Qi State, was famous for his superhuman wisdom and was one of the four sons of Warring States. Meng Changjun likes to make friends with heroes, and all kinds of talents in the society are devoted to his door, as many as 3,000 people, including of course idle people. There was a man named Feng Xuan. He was very poor and wanted to make a living at the gate of Meng Changjun. Meng Changjun asked him if he had any hobbies or skills, but he didn't say anything. Meng Changjun also took in a person who had neither hobbies nor skills. Diners in Meng Changjun are hierarchical and treated differently. Under Feng Xuan's persistent struggle, he got food, fish and a car. Meng Changjun also supported his old mother and relieved his worries. Feng Xuan enjoys generous treatment, doing nothing, doing nothing, and Meng Changjun doesn't care. Later, Feng Xuan volunteered to collect debts for Meng Changjun in the snow. It seems that it is out of date to act first and then act. In fact, he won the hearts of the people and gained a place when Meng Changjun was in trouble. Then, he dug a third cave for Meng Changjun, which made Meng Changjun reach two ends in the political struggle. Feng Xuan has superhuman wisdom and strategic vision. He held a highly responsible attitude towards Meng Changjun and actively made suggestions for Meng Changjun's political status. During the decades when he was in charge of Qi, the disaster of "no fiber interface" was inseparable from careful planning.

Meng Changjun went to the State of Qin and was detained by Zhao Haoqi of the State of Qin. One of his diners pretended to be a dog, sneaked into Qin Gong to steal the white skin of the fox, gave it to the concubine of the King of Qin to intercede, and let it go. When Meng Changjun fled to Hangu Pass, he couldn't get through. Another diner pretended to be a chicken, told all the chickens to sing together and tricked him into opening the door. Meng Changjun was able to flee to Qi. The skill of crowing and stealing dogs cannot be put on the table or used every day. However, at that moment, it was useful and irreplaceable.

Fifth, it is really idle, but it has social benefits. It should be just a public welfare undertaking.

It is the first priority for enterprises to obtain economic benefits reasonably and legally, but on this basis, they should also give consideration to social benefits. If an enterprise wants to be big, its boss cannot be a mercenary Grandet. Many top entrepreneurs are constantly doing charity on the road to greatness, which is to win moral advantages for enterprises. Raising idle people is also a way, on the other hand, it is also charity.

An entrepreneur on Forbes list owns many industries, one of which is sunset industry, which supports tens of thousands of people and loses millions every year. He wants to sell this part at a low price. I said, you are not bad by millions. You have raised tens of thousands of people, and it is a great merit not to default on taxes. Making money in other sectors has something to do with raising tens of thousands of people. This relationship is invisible. You have supported tens of thousands of people at a loss, bringing you honor, popularity, prestige and gratitude, and invisibly giving you motivation in other sectors. Employees thank you, and local government leaders thank you. If you lose this sector, it will have a negative impact on your money-making sector. After listening to this, he agreed with me very much and strengthened his confidence that he would not consider selling any more.

The municipal government introduced an entrepreneur to sell instant breakfast and hundreds of stalls in a certain city, which greatly facilitated the citizens. However, if you don't make money, you will be busy in vain. I also want to sell this business and revitalize the funds. I said, don't make money, don't lose money. These hundreds of booths are a great publicity for your enterprise, and you have become a representative of the Municipal People's Congress. Why sell it? He thought about it and stopped selling it.

Sixth, although idle, the background is useful, and the general ledger does not suffer.

Enterprises have to deal with all aspects, people have connections, and enterprises also have their own connections. In order to establish a reliable relationship, it is a good way for enterprises to raise a group of idle people with great background. Don't think this is a chicken thief. Calculating economic accounts, as long as it is cost-effective, is responsible to shareholders; It is safe to calculate legal accounts as long as they are not illegal.

This practice is often criticized by "gentlemen" as a chicken thief. In practice, this is the four great wisdom.

Seven, it is really idle, but it needs to be raised to avoid disasters.

One is a bad person, and the other is a person who will become a bad person if he doesn't raise it.

The company can't be full of good people, and it's not unusual to mix a few bad people. Bad guys are generally capable people, showing different faces in different environments. Just like at the end of the dynasty, there were many bad guys in the imperial court. When the dynasty was founded, there were few bad people. The bad guys among the ministers of national subjugation came to the new dynasty and became good people again. Bad guys in enterprises are like bacteria and viruses in human bodies. When you don't stimulate it, it is dormant and calm. When you stimulate it intentionally or unintentionally, it will be activated and make waves. Enterprise is not an ancient imperial court, nor is it the highest authority. Without effective means, it is impossible to eliminate all evils. At this time, it is better to keep him still and his rank and salary will remain unchanged. However, we should not put him in an important position, nor should we be cynical. Changing ranks, wages and attitudes are all incentives to stimulate him to make trouble. After sitting in the cold dish for a long time, the ability to make trouble has declined. If he reaches the age, he can retire smoothly, and if there are new job-hopping opportunities, he will also find another way out.

Some people are not bad people themselves, but they will become bad if they don't raise them. For example, employees who often appear in newspapers are dismissed, retaliated against enterprises before leaving their jobs, formatted important information on computers and took away copies of important information. Fired a financial personnel, he took the USB flash drive to the tax bureau, and the enterprise lost tens of millions.

If you don't handle it well, you will learn a lot.

On June 8, 2006, Wang Yanfang, an engineer who had been dismissed for seven years, killed the former president and former party secretary of the Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture. After his arrest, Wang Yanfang said that "it was unfair for him to be dismissed by his former unit". However, the institute said that Wang Yanfang loved gambling and gradually gave up her job, so she was fired. No matter who makes sense, two leading cadres who retired smoothly and should have lived in peace fell in a pool of blood.

1978 in April, an earth-shattering event happened in China's military. South China Sea Fleet/guided missile destroyer KLOC-0/60 exploded and sank at Zhanjiang military dock. 160 is the first ship of the 05 1 guided missile destroyer in the South China Sea, which was the largest destroyer in China in 1970s. The investigation found that the explosion was caused by a platoon leader Yang, who was in charge of the keys to underwater arsenals such as mines and depth charges. He was dismissed and punished for personal problems. He will be sent back to his hometown. He asked to stay in the army and even raise pigs to cook, but he was refused. After Yang was dismissed as a cadre, no immediate measures were taken against him. After the punishment decision was issued, he cried for a day and bombed the warship's deep-water bomb warehouse before he wanted to die. The release behavior of Three Lai sheep caused 133 soldiers to die, and the country directly lost 1 1 billion yuan, which also caused extremely bad influence internationally. The South China Sea Fleet wrote an inspection to the Navy, and the Navy Party Committee wrote an inspection to the Central Committee. The captain and political commissar of the 160 ship were arrested, many leaders of the second destroyer detachment were dismissed, and a deputy commander of the navy was ordered to retire early.

These two kinds of people are very few. Not every enterprise has it. If they do this, they are like viruses in the enterprise. When you are healthy, the virus is at peace with you. When your resistance drops or you take the wrong medicine, you will get sick.

These extreme events are all small probability events, but they all have all the characteristics of "black swan". Once it happens, it will be beyond redemption.

This kind of idle people and the fifth kind of idle people mentioned above should not torture them with attendance. Their failure to come to work is a great contribution to the enterprise.