成功的創新 (Innovation toward Business Success)

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文：Albert Weng 翁溓松

真正會成功的「創新」，不是天外飛來一筆的絕妙奇想
而是根基在札實的研究、實驗與規劃後，一個篤定的出手，並且無止盡地持續精進

Data -> Info -> Knowledge -> Insight
-> Discipline for the Breakthrough (Struggle & Experiment)
-> Insight  -> Intelligence -> Innovation

呈現十分鐘的精采
來自十年功的精實

Associated Dictionary:

• Data = the smallest set of readable record occurred by an event
• Information = statement from a set of data that makes meaningful sense to people
• Knowledge = system or architecture built by a mix of data/Info that people can use
• Insight = meaningful recommendation/advice to specific group of people/party to act
• Discipline = expertise and dedication that drive quality result against assignments
• Breakthrough = attempt and ability to convert status into significant progress/result
• Struggle = state of conflict in dealing with multiple purposes in search of the breakthrough
• Experiment = attempt to evaluate and testify the possible path and mix for the breakthrough
• Consolidated Insight = supportive foundation gathered from the discipline for the breakthrough
• Intelligence = rationale for decision/action
• Innovation = turn the business case into business success

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管理需要「專業」、領導需要「格局」，那「格局」是什麼？

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文：Albert Weng 翁溓松

「專業」是什麼？應該很多人可以說明清楚，也多半可以有計畫地養成，但「格局」呢？
從個人的經驗與體會中，對「格局」有個務實與易懂的定義。

格局，是指能關照到多少人的本事。

細化其概念，「格局」是指在意願上與能力上對周圍人足以主動關照的「寬度 (多少人的數量)」與「深度 (多少層的需求/顧慮)」的一種領導思維與領袖氣度。

進一步說，關照 = 關注 + 照顧

關注，特別是個別的情感與實質上的取捨，針對其優先順序與可談的空間著手構思協商與談判佈局。

照顧，則是依「關注」的層次，盡可能對其必要與需要的重點階層 (例：Maslow's hierarchy of needs, etc.) 提供可能的照顧。

「關照」在實做上，是指 「周到」與「 細緻」

周到，是指以主人待客的心情，包容與盡心接待所有來訪的客人，當然，亦包括遇上不請自來或突時變卦的特殊客人，主人家也應該主動出面協調處理，以確保全程宴會氣氛與節目進行得以順利。

細緻，則特別是強調執行時對細節的留心與處理，務求精心巧緻，可收令人心悅誠服之效，必定大幅強化其領導手腕的有效度與支持度。

格局的養成

培養「格局」，須從豐富多元的歷練著手，不知人間疾苦的人，顯少有格局及格者。再者，需不斷養成新技術與充實新知識，因為，在競爭意識之下，唯有能力強、且仍在不斷加強的人，才能不因心生可能會被取代的危機感而能容他人，同時得以較高的全景視野與較佳的發展藍圖，提供關係人該有的周到與細緻的關照。

Career Advancement 4P: Figure Out Why You Haven't Get it and How to Get It Right

Struggling in your career with years of work experience and still don't get a clear clue for a brighter next? Here's a universal advice.

Keep in mind the Career Advancement 4P I summarized from my own experience, they're:
1. Personal
2. Professional
3. Politics
4. Performance

Why these 4P can help your career advancement, here's why and how you can adopt in no time.

1. Personal

Everything starts from a personal level, because things are done through a cooperation, collaboration by a group of people who work toward the same objective. Here're the Do's and Don'ts.

1) Dos:

- Personal Care
Pay attention to the background, condition, situation, concern and expectation on each individual, and try to take proper care of it at your best. You're investing in those invisible gains from such effort when your personal brand starts to be created by people about caring others like no others.

- Personal Touch
Try to build your own personal touch with every style, level, group of people, and truly make it a personal touch, instead of a tone or process which makes people feel like dealing with a machine, robot, the latter one does hurt.

2) Don'ts

- Personal Approach
People tend to work by their own experience, habit, or even by simply their inertia without putting into consideration about the most of the tasks at work, frankly speaking, this is risky.

Even the similar, same task, when it's on different assignments, either by instruction or just at a different time, they're "different". Rely on personal approach will always vary with the mood and condition by the person in charge, then the procedure and thus the accuracy will both be varied without a good manner of control.

Personal = Being a person and treating others as persons, too.

So, how to deal with this intuitive response by personal approach, here comes the advancement onto Professional.

2. Professional

After a few years of work, you shall start building the basic set of expertise against your area of professional function, in which, there shall be some specific set of techniques you can handle like a professional.

For example, 
1) Arranging a cross-functional meeting with the well-informed notice and its attachment, where every participant could easily meet and discuss for effective meetings.

2) Taking the meeting minutes with a proper writing format which could help people to check and follow up quickly.

3) Preparing a proposal in a compelling logic that could convince a targeted group of stakeholders to consider, discuss and take necessary action as proposed.

Professional = Universal Practice by Systematic Approach

At the professional level, the key is to adopt a universal practice that could easily communicate, demonstrate, and then empower through the workplace via cooperation and collaboration.

Try to think like this, what makes a perfect professional performance?
A typical answer is, the machine.

A machine, even though, can handle only those pre-designed, pre-programmed processes, however, a machine can, almost, process a stuff with much higher accuracy, the reliability we also called, in every time of its job. The surprise hides nowhere, thus less exception caused.

This is, at most of the cases at work, the key to drive a stuff across people who have different agendas and expectation. Minimize the risk through a controllable process which is open and transparent to all those stakeholders.

3. Politics

How much do you like politics, at work or on public issue? If you don't, give it a chance, because I'm gonna change your mind to turn it into a positive power that you can easily take advantage of it, at no cost.

Politics = Keep People in Harmony (via cooperation and collaboration)

Remember, not everyone who wants the same thing, and pretty much, all are different.

So, when thinking about politics, the priority is to figure out what's the mutual goal, and each one's personal goal/agenda/interest. Next, on how to achieve it throughout a carefully prepared processes and most importantly, its associated communications.

Take out the mindset of competition, even among the stakeholders who seems to compete with each other. If all can work through a NEW proposal to extend the landscape of what all can join together, instead of just eying on the original pie and fight with each other.

This is always a better way to work within a group of people where everyone enjoy a better gain and would be more than happy to contribute, rather than compete with.

For me, this is the definition of politics at work.
Trust me, it's difficult at the beginning, especially the very beginning, almost every single time. However, it's the best way, to my experience, to truly work with a group of people that their afterwards, the performance, can ultimately drive and shine.

4. Performance

Did you ever consider that you're underestimated where no one truly understand and recognize your performance and also your potential?

I did, and always did.

Let's make a quick cut here.
1) If you didn't create a unique personal level of skill set, your performance will be capped at 20%.
2) If you didn't build a sound professional level of skill set, your performance will be capped at 40%.
3) If you didn't manage a reliable political level of skill set, your performance will be capped at 60%.
4) Those who didn't perform well above 60% (qualified) are who didn't master the fundamental three Ps.

And the last, and most important piece of the whole practice, the 4th P of Perofrmance.

So, how to drive all the work effort into a sound performance that could shine and sustain?
1) Learn to master the above three Ps at the major facets of work.
2) On top of the mastery of the three P at work, try to set a clear personal goal that associates with the organizational goal.
3) Review and advance of the lessons learned throughout the processes of practicing the first three Ps.
4) Keep these 4P as your day to day routine, you'll eventually advance your career in some day.

If you feel these 4Ps for your career advancement not simple enough, you don't know how complicated the career advancement is to everyone's life at work.
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Any comment or further suggestion? I'm keen to learn from your input to advance