Chapter 40 4. Turn crisis into opportunity

An excellent person and an outstanding employee will not be afraid and avoid problems. On the contrary, he can not only solve problems, but also turn crises into opportunities.There are always more methods than problems. The highest level of methods is not only a method to solve problems, but also a method to turn problems and crises into opportunities! (1) Bad things can be turned into good things According to the principle of dialectics, anything can be transformed to the opposite under certain conditions.Good things can turn bad.Likewise, bad things can sometimes turn into good things too.

A few years ago, a friend of mine who was the general manager of a real estate company was beaten up on the street for no reason.The company my friend works for is a branch of a Hong Kong real estate company in a city in Anhui.They had just arrived there and were not familiar with the local conditions.As a result, an overbearing local boss took my friend to beat him up on the grounds that my friend had robbed him of his business.After the incident, everyone has different opinions on how to deal with it. A local employee said: This man has always been savage, often causing trouble, and also has some connections with some local bureaucrats, and everyone around him is afraid of him.Therefore, someone suggested: the strong dragon will not suppress the local snake, and endure the calm for a while, forget it.

But more people tend to settle accounts with him. The general manager was beaten, so it's okay?Some said: What are you afraid of?There are quite a few people in the company, so beat up that kid first.Their reason is: since the people here are so barbaric, in order to avoid being bullied by good people, the company can only gain a foothold here if it shows its prestige.After speaking, the crowd became furious, and some employees even tried to get him to settle accounts. I happened to be traveling there at the time and witnessed this scene.I said to my friend: If such a problem occurs, it must be resolved, but not recklessly.At the same time, I analyzed: As a foreign businessman who came here to invest, he encountered such a bad thing. If it is publicized, it will definitely have a bad impact on the local investment environment. I believe that the city leaders will not sit idly by. of.Therefore, we should take this opportunity to report the situation to the city leaders, not only to vent our anger, but also to carry out work better in the future.

My friend listened to my opinion and immediately wrote a long letter to the city leaders.I wrote another supporting document and expressed the hope that the city would improve the investment environment. Sure enough, a few days later, my friend told me that the city leaders took this matter very seriously and immediately ordered the leaders of the Public Security Bureau to investigate and deal with it.After investigation and verification, the public security department imposed a detention penalty on the beating boss according to relevant regulations!Not only that, the city leaders took this as an excuse to pay close attention to the construction of the investment environment, and discussed it in the local newspapers in order to comprehensively improve the local investment environment.

What's even more intriguing is that after the beating boss was released, for some reason, he even bought a bunch of nutritional supplements to visit my friend.Courteous and reasonable, before and after are different. Analyzing the emergence and handling of this problem, we can get some enlightenment: (1) No matter how beautifully you design your life, problems will still arise. (2) Although you can't predict when the problem will appear, you can solve it through effective methods. (3) There are different attitudes to deal with the same problem, and the most constructive one should be adopted.

(4) Bad things can sometimes turn into good things. (2) Crisis is your best chance to stand out. For a person in the workplace, a crisis is terrible.However, if done well, you will find that this may be your best chance to stand out. Let’s take a look at the story of our gold medal student Ayun: After graduating from university, Ayun joined a company as a clerk.Unexpectedly, shortly after working, the company faced bankruptcy due to investment mistakes.The company began to lay off employees continuously, and people's hearts became more and more unstable. Those with connections sought connections and left one after another, and no one felt at ease working.Even the boss' secretary left him.

At this time, only Ayun worked hard as before, and after the boss's secretary left, she took the initiative to help the boss deal with various aftermath tasks.In the end, the company closed down and she had to leave the company. The boss is always an old gentleman in his sixties, who belongs to the literati and has no experience, which led to this failure.The boss was very sad, but he was very grateful for Ayun's performance. Not only did he give her an extra half a year's salary after the company was liquidated, but he also kept trying to find ways to help her arrange a good position.Soon, one of the boss's students came back from studying in the United States and planned to open a large company in Beijing, so he was asked to recommend talents.He recommended Ayun without hesitation.

Ayun has been highly valued since the establishment of the new company, and she also worked harder, starting from the deputy director of the office, and became the vice president in charge of personnel and administration of that company in less than two years. Once, the company recruited a marketing director, and Ayun was the examiner. One of the applicants was actually the deputy general manager of Ayun's original company.Since the company closed down and left, the deputy general manager has not been able to find a good position.When he found out that the examiner who finally decided his fate of applying for the job was actually an inconspicuous clerk in the original unit, he was shocked and couldn't help saying loudly that he had learned a very important lesson in his life, and concluded: Crisis is a disaster for the stupid, but an opportunity for the wise!

(3) Common crises can be turned into unique opportunities For successful people, opportunities are everywhere.This is not only because they have a comprehensive sense of opportunities in their normal state, but also because they are good at exploring opportunities in crises, including turning common crises involving everyone (including themselves) into their own unique opportunities. The company is closing down and it is a crisis for all employees.But the young Ayun, with his character and wisdom, turned the crisis into a unique personal opportunity.In fact, such a miracle does not only happen to ordinary employees. As long as they have the awareness of turning crises into opportunities, managers will also benefit deeply.

Carnegie was the boss of a steel company in the United States.He has always wanted to have a big development and merge some big steel companies, but he has not been able to do so.Later, there were more and more nationwide strikes in the United States, and all steel companies, including Carnegie, were strongly impacted.For ordinary people, this is the problem.But the smart Carnegie felt: the opportunity has come.Therefore, effective measures are actively taken to free the company from the strike problem as soon as possible. He has accumulated experience in dealing with strike issues, while also actively stockpiling funds.On this basis, he paid close attention to the situation of various competitors, seized the opportunity, and merged these companies that were in the predicament of strikes one by one.Carnegie Corporation achieved super-era development, and its steel market share in the national market jumped from one-seventh to one-third.Soon, he changed the company's name to US Steel Company, which became the largest steel company in the world at that time.

Carnegie's success has confirmed a famous saying in the Wall Street stock market: Bulls (rising) can make money, bears (falling) can make money, and pigs can only go to the slaughterhouse. Carnegie's success tells us a truth: When everyone encounters the same difficulties and problems, as long as you can overcome them and resolve them before others, then the common difficulties and problems will become your extraordinary uniqueness. opportunity. (4) Partial negation can become fundamental affirmation Originally, you were working hard in this direction, but there was another result, which can even be said to be the opposite of the original goal.Encountering this kind of result, many people must think it is a failure.However, a creative mind can analyze and make use of this seemingly failed result.Thus, a miracle happened: the original negation became affirmation, and the problem became an opportunity, and even a greater opportunity. Swahl is a researcher at 3M Company.Once, he participated in the company's research and development of a super-viscosity viscose. Unexpectedly, not only did he fail to develop a super-strength viscose, but instead developed a viscose with an ultra-weak viscosity.The company considers the glue useless and should be disposed of as waste.But Shi Huaer didn't give up. Although he couldn't say what it was useful for yet, he felt that this glue would definitely help people in some way. It happened that he had a friend who joined the choir. He often put small slips of paper in his songbook so that he could quickly find the poem he wanted to sing, but he suffered from the small slips of paper falling out all the time.So, with an idea, Shi Huaer made a self-adhesive bookmark with the ultra-weak adhesive he developed, and stuck it on a small paper strip. Not only can it be used as a bookmark that will not fall off, but it is also very convenient to tear off and will not be damaged. song book. Swahl went a step further and turned the glue into self-adhesive note paper.As a result, as soon as this product went on the market, it swept the entire United States and went to the world.Many people are ditching thumbtacks and paper clips in favor of this quick and easy thing. What was supposed to be a study of super strong glue turned out to be super weak glue.According to ordinary people's understanding, it must have failed.However, jumping out of the original research purpose and only thinking about how the existing results can be used, the result is a larger market.Isn't this the transformation of partial negation into fundamental affirmation?