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
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)
(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.
- Rigorous: consistently 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.
【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.
4. The Hedgehog Concept 刺蝟原則
Hedgehog:
- knows one big thing.
- a single organizing idea
- a basic principle or concept
- 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.
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?
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】
【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
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。
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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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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。
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。
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