The "super" of the super soldier means the strong vitality of anti-fragility, that is, to live well and live long in the uncertainty of The Times and the environment.
We're gonna jump off a cliff sooner or later
He said: "The environment is not good, our department has been cut, you know many companies and HR (human resources), can you help me see if there is a good opportunity?"
He is my elder brother, a senior programmer. Not to mention how severe, in the past few years in the size of IT (information technology) companies, life is still reasonably smooth. One day a year ago, my senior went to work as usual and was suddenly informed that the whole department would leave without any time to do psychological construction.
By noon, his access to the office system had been restricted, and his employee card had been taken away and replaced with a temporary access card. But he didn't want to go home. He asked me for a drink after work. He took the bitter stout and gulped it down, staring out of the window without saying a word. Beijing's CBD (central business District) is still brightly lit after 10pm, but there is no room for an ordinary person who seems to have done nothing wrong and is taking life seriously.
"Daddy, when will you come back to tell stories?" Telephone that daughter puerile voice, finally let a big man stretch no longer. He avoided my eyes, coaxed the children, said goodbye to me hastily, and started to walk away. He is not only a programmer, but also the father of a five-year-old child.
I opened wechat to help him send his resume to some HR people, only to receive a reply: "Sorry, we are also laying off people, 2,000 people have already been laid off this year." In just one week, I heard about the massive "organisational optimisation" of three famous companies, which embarrassed middle-aged people like my senior brother.
I've been a management consultant for 10 years, and I've helped clients lay off a number of employees while running companies. Having always been "customer-focused," I never relented in downsizing and exit talks. But today, I seem to fall into the abyss with him, and see from his distant back the frustration and pressure of those who have or will leave the organization.
This isn't some story about him not trying to get laid off, or a midlife crisis.
At the age of 28, you are a respectable overseas returnee, but you are also confused about your future. 35 years old, others look very desperately you, actually very tired, want to escape but dare not escape; At 45, if you're doing well by others, sooner or later you'll have to make room for younger people. Everyone's working hard, but you really think you can be safe just by keeping your head down and working hard? Do you really think that because you have done great work for the company, your boss will always think highly of you? Do you really think a salary increase of less than 8 per cent a year is going to be a guarantee for the future?
Either passive or active; Now or in the future, you and I will face the challenge of leaving the organization and the pain of transformation. From brilliant to downhill helpless, who can not escape. If you are not ready to turn at the next intersection, nor have you prepared a solid chassis for the next crisis in advance, suddenly one day, you will find yourself abandoned by The Times, pushed to the cliff, there is no escape.
Life, sooner or later will jump off the cliff, then face bravely, learn the correct cliff jumping posture earlier.
The breakdown of employment relationships
For more than 100 years, all developed countries, and later we, have moved into employment-connected societies. Drucker, an American management scientist, once described in his book Management in the Age of Change: "In the 1950s, employees working in large organizations became the main landscape in every developed country..."
At that time, all organizations take the number of employees as one of the representative indicators of success. Everyone thinks that they should go to the organization as long as they work, and they also yearn for the big organization. But in a fast-changing, competitive and uncertain future, today's employers are wondering: why should I support a traditional big team when the future is changing all the time? When everything is depreciating fast, why hire people whose input-output ratio is inadequate? If the world is going to be super connected, why can't I get more people to become partners, to create value, to share benefits, to share risks, rather than just me doing the "hiring" that costs but doesn't necessarily produce?
And those with superpowers can't help but wonder: Why should I limit my life to just one occupation, rather than more challenges and experiences? Why do I have to use my value on one platform instead of going out into the wider world? Why do I get a limited death salary and not a true share of the wealth I helped create?
Do you see that? Whether viewed from the demand side of the enterprise or the supply side of the talent, the willingness base of the traditional employment mode is being broken.
The end of the era of traditional employment means that we are facing a shift from "organiser" to "independent".
You don't have to be a freelancer. The so-called independence means that you have the ability to be independent and independent. Even if you work within the organization, you won't be overly attached to the organization or subject to the control of the organization. The relationship between talent and organization is becoming increasingly "weak". The organization also only wants "for my use", not "long-term employment"; Only "create value" partners, not "drain resources" employees. It was like the old days -- love meant marriage, and marriage meant life; Nowadays, we are more independent and free. We can stay together if we love each other, but not necessarily get married. We can marry if we want to, but not always.
This will be the new normal in the workplace of the future. No, this is already a reality.
Organizational change, the rise of individuals, means unlimited opportunities for some, increased risk and accelerated obsolescence for others. That in the end, how can we deal with the possible minute by The Times, by the organization of the crisis?
Only evolution holds the future
A Brief History of Man: From Animals to God offers an answer. The reason humans have survived through the vicissitudes of time, from 70,000 years ago to the present, is that some people have evolved into a new species of human through a cognitive revolution.
Only evolution can have the future. So it is in history, so it is in the future.
As a trivial ordinary person, not everyone wants or has the ability to become the next Jack Ma, but we still need to evolve into a new species of workplace that can continue to survive and live comfortably in the new workplace environment, which I call "super single soldier".
In the new era and new workplace, everyone must live as a "super soldier".
Super solders are simply "powerful individuals". The "super" of the super soldier is not the highest and strongest in the traditional sense, but the "strong vitality", which means to survive, live well and live for a long time in the uncertainty of The Times and the environment.
Super soldier means a new way of life in the workplace. In the past, I was just climbing the ladder as an employee in the organization. If I can't get promoted and become a leader, I have no future. In the future, an individual may have a lot of room to grow, not only within the organization, but also through connections to external platforms.
Super soldier, on behalf of a new generation of work. In the past, a stable job was happiness, and being a leader and rich was success. In the future, more people will pursue self-defined values of independence, freedom and happiness rather than living within boundaries, standards and expectations set by society or others.
Super soldier, with the career endurance for the future. It used to be that you had a trade or a steady job and everything was fine. In the future, you will need to have digital-based integration capabilities that will enable you to navigate across different business platforms, online and offline, virtual and physical Spaces, and find your place and value anywhere.
Super soldier, can design multidimensional wealth creation way. In the past, you might have thought only about getting a promotion or a raise. Earning a salary was the only way to create wealth. In the future, you can build your own new business model to create multiple portfolios of wealth and protect against risk.
If you become a super soldier, you will not be afraid to leave any organization, but to create value for the society together with the organization. You will not be afraid of being eliminated by The Times, but to create a new era bravely.
Victor Frankel, author of Living For The Meaning of Life, said, "Everything can be taken away from a person except the last of human freedom -- the freedom to choose one's attitude and way of life in any situation."
The freedom to live your life with your own attitude and style is supported by powerful systems, which is the value of the super soldier growth methodology.
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