Such cadres can be considered competent

Author: Yamada Yoshihide
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book further elaborates on the increasingly complex environment faced by officials in times of change, as well as the growing challenges and difficulties they encounter. Officials must master the skills and methods of cultivating and evaluating subordinates, rapidly enhancing their own value, and demonstrating leadership by example to solve various practical problems in their work. The book analyzes the urgent issues existing in the work styles and thinking patterns of officials and their subordinates from different perspectives, providing solutions and successful examples for today's officials: how to cultivate and guide subordinates, how to properly evaluate subordinate performance, and how to enhance self-value. It serves as a practical guide for officials at all levels to address management challenges such as planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Today, the issue of officials' capability development is widely discussed. The publication of this book offers a vivid, easy-to-understand, and highly effective teaching material for officials across various fields to improve their capabilities.
There is a type of person who talks excessively but fails to convey their actual message. In short, their speech lacks focus, making the listener impatient and eager to prompt them: "So what happened?" "What's the conclusion?" Meetings feel exhausting because someone always goes off-topic, delivering endless long-winded speeches. Sometimes, you are forced to listen to lengthy and irrelevant ramblings. In one-on-one conversations, if you don't understand the other person's main point, you can still find ways to communicate. However, at a meeting table, if you cannot come to a conclusion directly, the listeners will inevitably grow increasingly bored. People who beat around the bush and don't know what they want to say are essentially wasting others' time. They completely disregard whether others have time and keep talking endlessly, making it impossible to handle. When communicating with others at work, you must always stay focused, express conclusions and reasons concisely and clearly, or else you are considered an unqualified employee. Whenever you encounter such difficulty in expressing your thoughts, it is because the speaker has not prepared properly before the conversation and can only ramble aimlessly once they meet. Without a clear mind, of course, you won't know what you want to say. Therefore, if you feel you have this tendency, it is best to jot down the key points you want to convey when reporting to your leader, organize them in order, and help others understand them quickly. In the process, you will naturally find ways to be concise and to the point.
People who dislike taking action There is a type of person who is not only slow in communication and reporting but also, more alarmingly, remains in a "thinking state" after receiving instructions and fails to transition to the action phase. Such people are also unqualified employees. No matter how much pressure officials apply to them, no matter how harshly they scold them, or even if they deliberately say things to provoke them, they show no reaction. Sometimes, officials wonder if there is a special reason for this, so they specifically ask, but the person cannot explain it clearly. In short, such people are vague-minded and lack motivation. Some might ask, how did such a person end up in a company with such intense competition—a "small society"? Did you get it wrong? They should be working in a small tobacco shop. However, recently, due to labor shortages, companies often relax hiring standards, and such unqualified individuals may a large group of new employees and end up in the company.
There is another type of person who is smooth-talking. If you only listen to them, people might think they are "remarkable," but when you see them at the work site, it turns out to be completely different: they only talk and never engage in actual work.
Then there are perfectionists, whose perfectionism has completely eroded their ability to take action. They often overthink before making decisions but never seem to take the plunge, even when they have thought things through and the time is ripe. In the business world, it is hard to predict what tomorrow will bring. Many things may seem reasonable in theory but fail to work in practice.