Chapter 42 Business Way 41 Never have the idea of ​​being content with the status quo

The essence of the way of business: Wenshang's belief in doing things is: if you are not satisfied with the status quo, you will always maintain the vitality and enthusiasm for innovation, and you can give full play to your potential, and your personal value will be best and most effectively displayed. There is a man named Li Gang who used to be the chief financial officer of a joint venture.Before becoming CFO, he worked very hard and achieved outstanding results.The boss appreciated him very much, and promoted him to be the manager of the finance department in the first year, and the chief financial officer in the second year.

After taking the position of chief financial officer, with a generous salary, he drives a special car equipped by the company and lives in a luxury house purchased by the company. His quality of life has been greatly improved.However, his enthusiasm for work has plummeted, and he puts more energy on having fun. When a friend asked him what he still wanted to pursue, he said: "I should be satisfied. In this company, I have reached the peak of what I can achieve." Li Gang believes that the CEO of the company is the nephew of the chairman, and he is the CEO It is impossible, and being able to be the chief financial officer has reached the apex.

He had been CFO for almost a year without doing anything worth mentioning.A friend kindly reminded him: "It's time to improve a little bit. It's dangerous to have no performance." Unexpectedly, Li Gang actually said: "I am the hero of the company, and this company cannot do without me, Li Gang, the boss will not do anything to me!" He even said to himself in his heart, the generous salary will always belong to me, the car will always belong to me, the house will always belong to me, and no one can take it away, because no one can replace me. Indeed, Li Gang is inseparable from many tasks in the company.However, his poor performance still made the boss think of a substitution.Finally, one morning, Li Gang drove the car and came to the company as usual. He walked into the office with a sense of superiority, and the first thing he saw was a dismissal notice.

I was fired, my generous salary was gone, and the car had to be returned to the company.Moreover, he moved out of his comfortable house and had to rent a small apartment that was so small that it was inconvenient to go to the toilet. Insatiability is a powerful motivator for career success, especially when combined with specific goals. To be content with easy success in youth is: an obstacle to ultimate success. "A 10-year-old prodigy, a 15-year-old wit, and after 20 years, he's just an ordinary person." This proverb speaks for itself. People in Wenzhou believe that poor people can often start a family from nothing; on the contrary, those who inherit their parents' property often have a poor family.From this point of view, a person without desires is like a clock that has not been wound. If the clock is to move, it must take some effort to wind it up.One mother wound up her son with the following words: "No one is better than you. But if you don't do something to prove it, you are no different from anyone else."

John Woody was quite successful in his sport.When he was young, he participated in the Olympic Games many times and won 10 gold medals in total.In his more than 20 years of coaching, he has trained 11 athletes who have won world championships. "What do you think is the most important thing for a person to be successful?" One day, during a training session, one of his students asked him. "Unsatisfied with the status quo, always seek new heights." John Woody said. John Woody believes that as an athlete, he will go through many stages in his growth process, and complacency at any stage may lead to the termination of his sports career.For example, if an athlete is satisfied with a regional championship, he will never win a national championship; if he is satisfied with a national championship, he will never be a world champion; Impossible to take the next world championship.

"Life is endless, struggle is endless, I often teach my players that way." John Woody said, "They did not let me down." In fact, the whole world is an arena, and everyone is involved in the competition from the day they are born.Compared with academic performance, work results, career achievements, and family happiness... successful people are always those who are not satisfied with the status quo. If you want to be a billionaire, you have to be restless. Konosuke Matsushita was born with a weak constitution. Although he didn't have a complete plan to make his life stable when he was working in the electric light company, he began to have the idea of ​​"making a plan" in his heart.

Although physically weak, his promotion and salary increase were quick.In the second year after marriage, that is, in the spring of the age of 22, Matsushita was promoted to be an inspector.It is a dream position for the average worker.Of course, among all inspectors, Matsushita is the youngest.Here's what an inspector does: Go to a customer's home and check the work done by a mechanic the day before.About 15 to 20 households need to be checked a day, because it is a job that Panasonic has been familiar with for a long time, and the workers are all old colleagues and subordinates.It's easy work, and you'll always be greeted with courtesy.

Unexpectedly, the work of this inspector would become one of the motivations for Panasonic to resign in the future. Before becoming an inspector, Matsushita began to study the improved design of the lamp socket by himself. After spending a lot of effort, he finally completed a test product, and he was very happy.He planned to show the director first, ask him to criticize and advise, and then ask the company to change all the sockets to this new design. The director's words were surprising: "Matsushita-san, this thing is not good, it is completely hopeless, and something of this level is not qualified to propose it at all."

Panasonic seems to have been hit in the head, and I don't know what to say.After a while, I asked, "Can't you?" "No. You have to work harder!" When leaving the director, Matsushita could not hold back the tears.I was convinced that my work was good, but my expectations were too high, so I was disappointed.Matsushita cried sadly, he has been crying since he was a child. It took a long time for Panasonic to understand that the socket had advantages and disadvantages, and it was a complete failure.So I made up my mind to study successfully no matter what.At this moment, he was promoted to be an inspector, so he temporarily put aside the matter of the socket and concentrated on being an inspector.

In the meantime, he couldn't help but remember the socket rack he had improved before. "I've done a good job. It's indeed an improvement over the original one. I want to finish it. The work of an inspector is indeed an enviable easy job in the eyes of others, but I'm not satisfied. Is it okay to go on like this?" With such an idea, I finally came to a conclusion: "I quit my job in the company, made light sockets, and sold them to the company. The director said no, it was his misreading." Panasonic therefore made up its mind to quit its job and then manufacture sockets and various electrical appliances.In case of failure, return to the electric light company and be a loyal practitioner for life.Such a choice changed Panasonic's entire life.If Matsushita is willing to stay in the position of inspector for a lifetime, then he himself will be completely mediocre.

"Suddenly, you get $100,000 unexpectedly, how do you use it?" A psychologist once asked this question to the intellectuals.However, because most of the people who were asked had fixed income, the answers were roughly the same: to use part of it as a pension, and spend the rest of their lives traveling or having fun.No one wants to use this unexpected wealth to accomplish some big goal in life.This is probably because there are too few people with big goals. Sometimes, the wealth obtained by accident often makes most of the beneficiaries break away from the ranks of producers and become people who live only for consumption, which virtually wears away people's fighting spirit.No matter how rich your situation is, you should not give up your aggressiveness towards your goal. Only by pursuing a higher goal bravely can we better stimulate our value and reach the pinnacle of life.