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體會與成長: crucial conversation 心得分享

polo — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:50:00 GMT

很久以前我看過一本書書名似乎是叫做 "心靈寫作"; 這是本好書, 否則我壓根也不會記得這本書.

這本書有個很棒的說法, 他說原來知識與靈感的噸預就像是種樹一般當拼命的在心靈之中倒入素材, 總有一天他會開花的... 而對我來說: 這好像事終於有人告訴我.. 原來笨只要根性好一些也是有機會的.

後來我又看了不少書... 然後又有一陣子完全不看書; 然後又看了一點書; 然後又不看書...

為什麼這樣寫這樣說呢 ? 其實我也完全搞不清楚為什麼..

這一兩年來, 或者說結婚以來, 就進入很長的一段不讀書日子; 只有在前一陣子因緣際會下, 在微軟內訊的一門課 "Crucial Conversion" 中; 又讓我的一個種子發芽..

雖然是內訓的課程實際上這是一本原文書的教材; 亞洲有個 DOORs 顧問公司負責傳遞. 而所謂的因緣際會, 實際上是因為我一開始看錯英文單字把 Crucial 看做 Critical ; 想說這是一門重要對話的課程; 對我這種不擅交際的人應該有幫助... ha

我想到原來我自己哪個元素又被一些大師級人物給分析出來了.... 而最大的收穫是l 一個頓悟就又跑出來了...

TEN Attributes of a good employee - bill gates

polo — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:58:33 GMT

I'm often asked how to be a good manager, a topic I've taken on in this column more than once. Less often does anybody ask an equally important question: What makes a good employee?

Here are 10 of the qualities I find in the "best and brightest" employees, the people companies should attract and retain.

If you have all of these attributes, you're probably a terrific employee.

First, it's important to have a fundamental curiosity about the product or products of your company or group. You have to use the products yourself.

This can't be stressed enough in the computer world. It also carries special weight in other knowledge-based fields where technology and practices are advancing so fast that's it's very hard to keep up. If you don't have a fascination with the products, you can get out of date--and become ineffective--pretty quickly.

Second, you need a genuine interest in engaging customers in discussions about how they use products--what they like, what they don't like. You have to be a bit of an evangelist with customers, and yet be realistic about where your company's products are falling short and could be better.

Third, once you understand your customer's needs, you have to enjoy thinking through how a product can help. If you work in the software industry, for example, you might ask: "How can this product make work more interesting? How can it make learning more interesting? How can it be used in the home in more interesting ways?"

These first three points are related. Success comes from understanding and caring deeply about your products, your technology and your customers' needs.

Fourth, you as an individual employee should maintain the same type of long-term approach that a good company does. Employees need to focus on lifelong goals such as developing their own skills and those of the people they work with. This kind of self-motivation requires discipline, but it can be quite rewarding.

Management can also encourage motivation, of course. If you're in sales, quotas are important tools for measuring performance, and it's great when employees beat a quota. But if beating your sales quota or maximizing your next bonus or salary increase is all that motivates you, you're likely to miss out on the kind of teamwork and development that create success in the long term.

Fifth, you need to have specialized knowledge or skills while maintaining a broad perspective. Big companies, in particular, need employees who can learn specialties quickly. No one should assume that the expertise they have today will suffice tomorrow, so a willingness to learn is critical.

Sixth, you have to be flexible enough to take advantage of opportunities that can give you perspective. At Microsoft we try to offer a person lots of different jobs through the course of a career. Anyone interested in joining management is encouraged to work in different customer units, even if it means moving laterally within the organization or relocating to a different part of the world.

We try to move people from our product groups out into the field and move field people into the product groups. We have many people in our U.S. subsidiary from other countries, and we have many U.S. employees who work for subsidiaries in other nations. This helps us better understand world markets, and while we do a pretty good job of cross-pollination, there's still not quite as much of it as I would like.

Seventh, a good employee will want to learn the economics of the business. Why does a company do what it does? What are its business models? How does it make money?

I'm always surprised to learn of a company that doesn't educate its employees in the fundamental financial realities of its industry. Employees need to understand the "make or break" aspects of their industry so that they know what it is about their own job that really counts. Of course, employees have to be willing students who direct attention to the areas where it makes the biggest difference.

Eighth, you must focus on competitors. I like employees who think about what's going on in the marketplace. What are our competitors doing that's smart? What can we learn from them? How can we avoid their mistakes?

Ninth, you've got to use your head. Analyze problems but don't fall prey to "analysis paralysis." Understand the implications of potential tradeoffs of all kinds, including the tradeoff between acting sooner with less information and later with more.

Use your head in practical ways, too. Prioritize your time effectively. Think about how to give advice crisply to other groups.

Finally, don't overlook the obvious essentials such as being honest, ethical and hard working. These attributes are critical and go without saying.

無際大師心藥方

polo — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:15:35 GMT

大師諭世曰：

「凡欲齊家、治國、學道、修身，先須服我十味妙藥，方可成就。」

這十味藥方為：

好肚腸一條、慈悲心一片、溫柔半兩、
道理三分、信行要緊、
中直一塊、孝順十分、老實一個、
陰騭全用、方便不拘多少。

此藥用寬心鍋回炒，不要焦，不要躁，去火性三分，平等盆內研碎。三思為末，六波羅蜜為丸，如菩提子大。每日進三服，不拘時候，用和氣湯送下。果能依此服之，無病不瘥。
切忌言清行濁，利己損人，暗中箭；肚中毒，笑裏刀，兩頭蛇，平地起風波。以上七件須速戒之。
前十味若能全用，可以致上褔上壽，成佛作祖。若用其四五味者，亦可滅罪延年，消災免患。各方俱不用，後悔無所補。雖有扁鵲盧醫，所謂：病在膏肓，亦難療矣。縱祈天地、祝神明，悉徙然哉！況此方不悞主顧，不費藥金，不勞煎煮，何不服之？
偈曰：
此方絕妙合天機，不用盧師扁鵲醫。普勸善男並信女，急須對治莫狐疑。
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無際大師即唐朝希遷和尚，拜在六祖之徒青原行思門下，時人尊曰

「石頭和尚」，與馬祖道一並稱二師。

101 聽到的一句話

polo — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:26:00 GMT

Embrace & Entented

擁抱與延伸...

對我來說代表了一種觀念的變化, 絕對沒有絕對.. 只是觀點的互相延伸, 別堅持而對立而讓自己腦袋僵化.

相對的, 柔軟代表了擁抱然後延伸... 老子說, 上善若水..

Bill Gates 夢想語錄

polo — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:02:00 GMT

夢想價值 0 元, 每個人都可以擁有,

但卻是每個無價的開始..