I remember have got the story about fresh fish. Despite the thrutness of the story, I like the idea behind it. This is the story about how to keep the fish fresh to eat. As you know, the japannese people has a strong culture in consuming fish. They can taste which fish coming from refrigerator or even pool with fish coming from the sea. Just storing fish in the water tank within the ship during fishery will not keep the fish fresh. Why? Because fish will swim slower inside the tank than in the see. What the fishery did was quite simple, they put a little shark inside the tank. Of course there will be some fish eaten by shark, but the other will swim as fast as they can to keep their alive and fresh as well.
One of the question I ask to the worker on the floor is who is the person you report to? And you will get surprise with the answer. Some said they don’t know, some said they report to Mr. A and sometimes to Mr. B. Furthermore, the person to whom they reported to was never realize that they were their superior. This is not funny, but it is real case I got. When I was looking at the organization structure, quite often I got the situation where people report to the person not defined in the organization structure, some due to expire and some due to the business process change.
What is this all about? I am quite sure that you think this is a funny question, but not for me, it still a question that need to be answer correctly. How to eat an elephant? One bite a time. This is a logical question need to be answered logically. What does it mean? It means when we can not get a thing done, then break it down at the size possible for you to achieve it. Most of the program fail or success due to this reason.
In my 15 years experiences, I have found out the reasons why the leader get fail or success in their role within his/her organization for every level and position. You all know what needed mostly from the leader, yes you right, the effective leader must influence his/her organization to cooperatively reach the goals of their organization. And you will agree, in achieving the success, there would be some failures, but the effective leader will pass it successfully if she/he has one value within him/herself. What the value is it?
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AuthorMaskal Novessro is a certified productivity specialist from APS. Eager to practice and share productivity improvement of both business and life. Categories
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