Thursday, March 3, 2011

Change the leader's mental model

Leader potential mental model, is the correct decision and innovative enterprises. And ordinary people, the leader of the mental model is often affected by its personality, education, family background, work experience and social culture, organizational culture, information, and many other factors in the side. These factors may lead to many leaders in the daily work of the decision, relying on experience and subjective judgment, General behavior patterns and rational analysis of salvation. Such overly mechanical obstruction of the mental model is an organizational change, personal, management revolution and grasp market opportunity.

The people usually think training leader of Chinese famous universities and renowned graduate school of business, because in recent years China's market economy development and material effects of capital accumulation, coupled with the Chinese education system too stressed intelligence, skills, and book knowledge and rote, many excellent students almost lost before graduation according to their own personal interests and hobbies to choose their future career. College students and graduates of herd behavior in many University evident, a large number of graduates in the absence of clear goals and on their hobbies are very ambiguous cases have given rise to a very similar mental model: good outlet only abroad, PubMed, into investment banks.

In a world becoming increasingly flat, pluralistic, and complex, product competition, talent competition increasingly heated and international today, whether it is the leader in China's enterprises, or to prepare graduates, graduate students, with a new way of thinking in place of the traditional mental model is very important.

So how should we change?

● Development of ultimate values and beliefs. No pursuit, no target, no desire, not beliefs, it is not possible to develop and maintain their own independent personality, less likely to change their life, work on the conformity with the stream of traditional mental model. Selfless to fearless, life's ultimate value targets can bring strength and courage and bring unique mental model and behavior. United States, former President Jimmy Carter in 1980 after leaving, there is no published memoir, in the absence of a Presidential Library, do not have to earn extra money, but speech is and his wife, 20 years for 65 poor countries of agricultural technology, education, poverty, and so forth. He was able to make this choice, because of his faith and ultimate values give him huge intrinsic motivation for action. In 2002, Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. Recently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Bangladesh banker Muhammad · Dr. Yunus, he won the 1969 United States Vanderbilt University Ph.d. in economics, but decided to give up University teaching posts, back to the poverty of the motherland, founder of the Grameen Bank, to change the Bangladesh Rural Economic and social development, to a most economists are not willing to take a road of no return. He said: "there is hunger, I could do nothing about it. As an economist, my tool box did not allow me to address this situation. "Finally he decided to" forget about the tool box, do one of the conscience, go out and help others. " It is reported that the Grameen Bank, 639 000 borrowers in 58% of the people and their families have successfully detached from the poverty line. Yunus also its rural Bank model to the world, including China.

● Trust your intuition and imagination. 1912 Nobel Prize for Physiology and medicine of Alec Sith · CAREL doctor said: "intuition is very similar to insight, it is like the feeling of hyper-reality. All the great people are born with intuition, they need to understand things without reasoning or analysis will be able to understand. "Intuitive entrepreneur and leader has a sensitive sense of smell, they are not a slave to book knowledge, nor will it be social or market trend" appear ". They are a group of special talents, can we all not optimistic about the situation with your own business to capture opportunities, sense of smell is not so simple to use our well-known theory knowledge, logic reasoning or strategic planning. Especially in the current Chinese social complex business environment, effective leaders are not possible from books to find the cure for a recipe, you have depending on their imagination, experience, intuition, to predict the future on the market and organization suddenly changes to make timely decisions and judgments.

• Interest, dreams, persistence and dedication. To change the traditional mental model of an important factor in asking someone in work and life will always maintain a heart of curiosity, on fresh transaction maintain interest, keep dreaming. This curiosity and dreams that maintain their own independent personality and quality, the maintenance of strong internal control capabilities, and developing an unconventional mental model. In the 1970s, Microsoft founder Bill Gates · computer software industry has a powerful dream. His dedication and intuition that he took away from Harvard University and to concentrate on developing their own careers, into today's technology giant and the world's richest man. Founder Michael Dell Inc · Dell also in 15-year-old when desktop computers displayed great interest. This interest into Dell computer industry vision and perseverance, the final withdrawal from the University of Texas and focus on the development of Dell Computer Corporation, in the entire PC industry by storm, sitting on the first turn in the country. Apple's Steve jobs on the innovation focus and dedication, also enables him to in 20 years to develop its own unique personality characteristics and mental models, individual career ups and downs and ups and downs of experience, focus on innovation, the Apple in the development process in every crisis turned into business opportunities, profits and reputation.

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