Nine Essential Skills for Doing Things Right

Author: Xu Bangxue
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: It is a practical and effective way for career professionals to expand their influence, enhance power, and achieve promotion. In the workplace, the main thing is to get things done. In fact, not everyone can do things well or see them through. On the contrary, we often hear laments like "disappointing things happen nine out of ten times"; many people don’t even know how to do things or how to do them properly. Generally speaking, the working hours of employees don’t differ much, but even a small difference can accumulate to form gaps between departments, companies, and companies. People often complain about their low salaries, lament that Chinese companies cannot go global, and hope for stronger company strength, but few realize that a slight deviation can lead to vast errors. It is quite difficult to bridge the gap in work efficiency. You need to change your awareness and habits—the awareness and habits of doing things properly. This requires long-term cultivation and training. Starting a task requires determination and enthusiasm; completing a task, however, requires perseverance and resilience. Without enthusiasm, things cannot get off the ground; with enthusiasm alone but without perseverance and resilience, work cannot be finished. If you are not proactive, diligent, and responsible in your work, lack the motivation for innovation, or fail to continuously create results for the company, or if you are not sincere and dedicated to anything, then this state is very detrimental to both the company and your personal development. In this regard, Zhang Chaoyang, CEO of SOHU, believes: If a person doesn’t love their work, even if they can’t do their own job well, they will lose credibility, and neither finding other jobs nor doing other things will be trustworthy. On the contrary, if you can take every task seriously and do it well, then there will be even better and more important tasks waiting for you. This is a virtuous cycle. The Nine Essential Skills for Doing Things Right starts from nine points: clarifying goals and being resolute; being proactive and executing firmly; being diligent and responsible; being full of passion and invincible; planning time and valuing efficiency; focusing on details as the key to success; paying attention to interpersonal relationships; controlling behavior to improve quality; and striving for perfection. The book tells stories to convey principles and summarizes long theories into clear points. In short, it aims to be innovative.