The business and business
As to the business leader to receive valuable experience
Earlier was considered, that the present leaders, especially business leaders, never make errors. But now this infallibility is cancelled, after all heads too people, and they can be mistaken, as well as all. Each big company can brag of the collection of errors. Here to you one of examples. In 1986 General Electric led by Jack Uelshem has bought 80 % of company Kidder Peabody for the sum of 600 million dollars. This error has managed it in 1,2 billion dollars.
As in this occasion Jack Uelsh spoke: «I remunerated people for errors if they suffered failure in attempts something to undertake. The main thing – not to stay idle and not to be afraid of errors. I always speak to people: if your chief could buy Kidder Peabody and ruin all enterprise also you can make something similar. This statement appeared on cover The Wall Street Journal nineteen times. So, if the head can arrive thus and go through it also you receive freedom of actions. Hardly you can make something the worst, than I».
Itself Уэлш declares, that he has created culture in which the failure is accepted as the positive phenomenon. «Punishment for failures conducts to that nobody dares to undertake something», – he considers. It is necessary to pay special attention on possibility to run risks and study on errors and failures.
The Japanese companies have acquired for a long time already it for themselves, therefore they also encourage workers both for ideas, and that they try to realise them. The failure for them is not the basic occasion to dismissal. This occasion inactivity on a workplace will be faster. These workers had an opportunity to make mistakes and not to be afraid of failures. In such a way they have found freedom of actions, after all over them the fear of a failure, fear to lose work, fear of condemnation by others now is not imperious, they simply well do the work.
This postulate has found application and in the industry. The chief manager of one of leading corporations of the USA has handed over to the top-managers of the award for the Best Failure. At one thought on it at many the jaw droops. The similar phenomenon speaks about the important cultural turn in the relation to the failures, which else recently should be faster are hidden, than are rewarded.
In general, it turns out, that we receive the most valuable experience not when we succeed, and when we make mistakes and we worry failures. «I have learnt the majority of the most important things not during training. I received knowledge through failures and losses. I tried to study on small errors», – Charles Hendi speaks. And it is not lonely. The majority of us studied on failures, errors and failures. If awards for the Most grandiose Failures were awarded, to each of us would be what to offer on competition.
One of newspapers of Britain has created a week column under the name «My greatest error». Also there were many people, wishing to tell about the failures. They one behind another admitted the awful errors.
It is necessary to notice also, that many people, especially good heads as though specially collect the failures as the perfect error is a lesson which is postponed in memory for all life.
However, though failures shake us to depth of soul, we frequently do not aspire to depart from habitual style of behaviour. We do not wish to be allocated, doing something not so. We try to mix up with crowd. The fear of a failure is a basic instinct which in business can expand to a phobia.
In the organisations the fear of a failure becomes a survival instinct. We come for work, we study to work, us learn. But we also know, that if affairs go absolutely incorrectly, us will simply dismiss. Therefore to us often comes to mind thought that is better slightly, but it is exact, than it is a lot of, but it is inexact. Here for this reason we do not show all all abilities and we do not use all possibilities. After all, as is known, there is only one way to avoid errors is in general nothing to do or not to be beyond a task in view, showing an activity minimum.
The scientists studying strategy of management, constructed on risk, have come to conclusion, that people with большей probability run risks, if they perceive it as the voluntary decision which, on their own sensation, they are capable to supervise and responsibility for which is distributed fifty-fifty between all participants of the enterprise. And on the contrary, people less willingly run risks, if they do not have confidence that it is necessary and if it is distributed unfairly. Differently, group or collective we will run risks more likely, because, if that will get to all or anybody than when all responsibility lays only on you one. Confirming to it recollect, how you shirked all class a lesson at school or all group at university – to steam. What you then thought?
For this reason for the head so it is important not to be afraid of failures and philosophically to worry the errors. After all, as Jack Uelsh spoke: «I hope, you understand, that business is a chain of failures and errors. It not a great science. All do errors. It is unpredictable, as blow on a ball. The main thing – to study on the errors, not to go in cycles in them, wasting only time and possibilities and to go forward».
Therefore, useful, but not big to you of errors!!!