星期四, 1月 06, 2011

關於廁所的記憶

幾週前逛書店,看到阿盛的散文集重新出版,"行過急水溪"收錄了他有名的作品"廁所的故事"(原刊1978.3.1 聯合報副刊),在書店站著重讀該篇,還是很有趣。會對這篇特別有印象,一者,那時候正值青春,囫圇吞棗什麼都看,彼時的好朋友還特意考據文中所描訴的情景,至今印象深刻;二者,自己生於鄉下,與作者的生活背景差異不大,故讀來倍感親切。

那個年代報紙、雜誌很少,電腦還是打卡的年代,網路沒人聽過,除了圖書館,只有兩大報(中時、聯合)會有文學獎,偶而登些有趣的文章。作者是1950年生的,文章發表當年正值青年,再見此書,一代風華已然過去,現在網路上可找到作者開設的"阿盛寫作私淑班"。回想起來,這樣的文章是與當年時代的主流風潮背道而馳的,如同黃春明的小說,他們像是孤獨的先行者。

小時候鄉下農家的廁所,通常與豬圈為鄰,豬的排泄物也流入廁所,因為農村物資缺乏,化肥也不普遍,這自然成為作物肥料的重要來源。印象中衛生紙尚未普及,廁所裡總會有個桶子擺了竹籤,作為善後的清潔工具,所謂竹籤就是把竹子削成約同筷子長度的薄片,竹子是相當普遍的資源,如今看來是相當環保的作法。

只是如廁的方式老實說有些危險,通常是在池子上以木棍縱橫交差構成,中間孔隙很大,如廁時除了耳聞奇香,眼目所見自是可觀,小時候個小常害怕木棍不穩或腐朽會發生什麼事,因此視為畏途。另外,還有印象的是大雨來時,肥水有時會溢流,老祖先不知怎想地把水井蓋在下方,似乎不太衛生。後來豬也不養了,我們也搬家了,921地震之後土角厝全被移平剷走,廁所就被泥土所封,於今只見荒草漫漫。

剛畢業服兵役,在訓練中心時廁所不通,臭水溢流,只好全隊動員去清廁所,搞到全隊每個人身上皆有異味,那時年輕好像也沒那麼在意,事後來個大清洗就是了,日子還是照常過下去。

星期日, 1月 02, 2011

2011 New Wishes

1. 願父母家人平安、喜樂
2. 運動、寫作,TRAVEL
3. TOEIC英語測驗,英文閱讀
4. BIKING
5. CAT
6. Passion, Extension
7. Trustiness, Friendship, Sensitivity


HAPPY MIND!

2011-01-01

星期六, 1月 01, 2011

【讀書筆記】 從A到A+


這是十年前的舊書了,出版當時蔚為流行、風潮,人手一冊,當年卻故意不看(心理討厭流行的壞習慣),想看看到底看了該書的人或公司是否會改變成good or great。直到最近偶然在網路上看到書摘,粗略看了書中的精華概念,有些還是不錯的。

作者說他自己其實對商業沒有熱情,有興趣的是研究公司如何成功、失敗,且又缺乏政治細胞故離開學校,創立LAB,投入研究、寫作、顧問、演講。

到底還是人的特質(對的人)、觀念在發揮影響,老生常談的是識人、用人的能力,新觀念是人先於願景與策略,另外需要的是時間,尤其是基礎建設。

有趣的觀念:(對於個人同樣適用。)
刺蝟原則(不要做聰明、什麼都會的狐狸),三個圓圈(熱情、頂尖、價值),有紀律的(accounting)執行,飛輪效應(正向循環、動量)。


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Greatness: Only financial terms!
Good is the Enemy of Great! Why to change! We are doing fine.










3 stage of transformation, breakthrough model
(not just a business problem, It's a human problem)




DISCIPLINED PEOPLE
  • 1. Level 5 Leadership Style
  • 2. First who… then what










DISCIPLINED THOUGHT

  • 3. Confront the brutal facts
  • 4. The Hedgehog Concept










DISCIPLINED ACTION
  • 5. Culture of Discipline
  • 6. Technology Acceleration
  • 7. Flywheel concept










1. Level 5 Leadership Style
  • Level 1: Highly Capable Individual
    • Makes productive contributions through talents, knowledge, skills and  good work habits.
  • Level 2: Contributing Team Member
    • Contributes individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives and works effectively with other in a group setting
  • Level 3: Competent Manager
    • Organizes people and resources toward the effective and efficient pursuit of predetermined objectives.
  • Level 4: Effective Leader
    • Catalyzes commitment to and vigorous pursuit of a clear and compelling vision, stimulating higher performance standard.
  • Level 5: Executive
    • Build enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will.  

【找英雄、名人救火,大都不會成功,接班人的選擇】


2. First who… then what
  • People are not the most important asset of the company, but the right people are.
  • One man show vs team work
  • Right People on the bus: 
    • Adaptation to change【BUS可能要轉向】
    • Motivation, self motivated by the inner drive
    • Implementation
  • Team building 1stly, before setting direction/strategy/vision/roadmap
  • Compensation system: not for getting right behavior from wrong people, but for right people
  • Character, Education, Skill, Experience
  • Argument in discussion and uniformity in actions.
  • Rigorous, but not ruthless.
  • Rigorousconsistently applying exacting standards at all times and at all levels, specially in upper management.
  • How to be rigorous:
    • When in doubt, don't hire, keep looking.
    • When you know you need to make a people change, act.(The moment you feel the need to tightly manage somebody, you've made a hiring mistake.)
    • Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems.
【識人、用人永遠是要務,(不處理)wrong people 可能排擠掉 right people】
【Team 需要較長時間去建立,很難出現於KPI上


3. Confront the brutal facts
  • Refined their path based on the brutal facts. Climate for Truth to be heard.
  • How to:
    • Lead with questions, not answers.
    • Engage in dialogue and debate, not coercion.(loud debate, heated discussions, healthy conflict)
    • Conduct autopsies, without blame.( search for understanding and learning)
    • Build red flag mechanism.
  • Strong competition viewed as an opportunity for better performance rather than threat.
  • Leadership does not begin just with vision. It begins with getting people to confront the brutal facts and to act on the implications.
  • Spending time to motivate people is a waste of time if you have the right people in the bus. The key issue is NOT to de-motivate them. One of the primary ways to de-motivate people is to ignore the brutal facts of reality.
【老中:老闆說了算,老闆不說,沒人敢說


4. The Hedgehog Concept 刺蝟原則


Hedgehog:
  • knows one big thing. 
  • a single organizing idea
  • a basic principle or concept
Fox:
  • knows many things
  • scattered, diffused, and inconsistent
  • pursue many ends at the same time
  • see the world in all its complexity.
  • The key is to understand what your organization can be the best in the world at, and equally important what it cannot be the best at – not what it “wants” to be the best at. The hedgehog concept is not a goal, strategy, or intention; its an understanding.
【刺蝟原則】:專注於三個圓圈交集,並把圓圈的範圍擴大;哪三個圓圈呢?
1‧充滿熱情的領域。(What you are deeply passionate about?)
2‧可以做到頂尖的領域。(what you can be the best in the world at?) >>  core competence
3‧可以創造市場價值的領域。(What drives your economic engine?) understanding <> bravado
這是每個想要追求卓越的人,都該不斷問自己的問題,自己的三個圓圈在哪裡?

Iterative process guided by 3 circles:
Ask the question; Dialogue and debate; Executive decision; Autopsies and analysis; Ask the question.......

【專家的熱情,專注領域,指標

5. Culture Of Discipline

  • Growth, Process, Flow, Bureaucracy
  • accounting, self-disciplined people 
  • A culture of discipline is not just about action. It is about getting disciplined people who engage in disciplined thought and who then take discipline action.
  • discipline to stay within its three circles
  • decide which arenas best fit with the hedgehog concept and should be fully funded and which should not be funded at all.

6. Technology acceleration

7. 飛輪效應:不斷的朝自己的夢想灌注能量,一開始或許\非常困難而緩慢,但只要堅持,一步步往前,推動夢想的巨輪,累積的動能愈來愈大,終將有所突破,一飛沖天。

星期五, 12月 24, 2010

感冒,讀小說

自上週日台北看展回來後,身體微恙,初不以為意,最後演變成發燒、畏寒,基本上食慾與嗅覺盡失,只得勉強自己多喝水,吃些水果、冰奶酪。終日昏沉,無所事事,見書架上有阿嘉莎的推理小說,雖是重讀亦頗有趣味(不知道什麼道理,對於這類書總抱著反正看完就算了的心態,所以下次看還是跟第一次沒兩樣),總之,她還真是說故事的高手。

剛好有人寄來有趣的投影片,主題是陽光心態,裡邊提到健康,節錄三小段於後。

那是說疾病可能是一種壓抑的反動嗎?一個來自身體意識(SETH語)的信號?
思考中!


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陽光心態是....健康。健康不僅是沒有疾病.對健康需要有一個全面理解,它包括:軀體健康/心理健康/社會適應/道德健康。擁有一個完整的健康,需要: 足夠的自我安全感,生活理想符合實際,保持人際關係良好。


陽光心態是....說出你的感受[Speak Out, Express, sth like Seth's book]
內心的感受如果長時間的隱藏或壓抑,會導致多種疾病,如:胃炎,潰瘍,疼痛等等,甚至會導致更嚴重的後果:如癌症。因此,向自己的知己、朋友表達、傾訴內心的秘密甚至是自己的過錯,與他們分享感受就十分必要。用對話、交流、語言去表達自己的真實感受,是一種對付身體疾病或心理疾病最有效的藥物和治療方法


陽光心態是....找到解决辦法[make it happen, more creative than judicial]

陽光心態是....信任。可以說:沒有信任,就沒有友誼。不信任也是缺乏自信的表現。你在信任方面如何對待他人,他們就很可能向你設計的方向發展。[Trust and Commitment]
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星期一, 12月 20, 2010

【電影】三個傻瓜

印度電影:3 IDIOTS。
可以讓人開懷大笑,欣賞印度式的幽默。
電影反應了多少現實?No Idea. 對印度瞭解不多,據說印度電影工業很發達。

故事在主角們畢業10年後展開一段尋找之旅,並倒敘地穿插3個主角的大學生活,很多有趣的情節發生在校園裡。謎題是主角為何在畢業後即失蹤,從此沒有人知道他。

電影裡:
Engineer 是個崇高的職業,父母望子成龍,考試競爭激烈,填鴨式的大學教育,夢想到米國工作,大概只有中產階級以上才有機會進大學,還是貴族專屬?文盲很多,雙語(HINDI、ENGLISH),不知道當地人是否都能欣賞這電影,據說印度方言很多。

山區風景漂亮,典型印度式歌舞段落,好聽的歌曲,尤其是車子在彎延的山區繞行,鏡頭時而空拍、時而沿著山飛行或貼著道路前進的那一段。