Why is this happening?
Zhang Ruimin said: "The middle layer of the enterprise is a group of roasted geese. They have no nerves and will not reflect the market situation! " In 20 13 years, Zhang Ruimin killed16,000 employees, accounting for 18% of the total number of employees. In 20 14, when he said "roast goose", he planned to kill 10000 people.
Why do excellent employees who perform well in all aspects become roast geese?
The queen of hearts in Alice in Wonderland said, "In this country, you have to keep running to keep you in place. If you want to move forward, please work harder! " Times change so fast that people who run slowly gradually become roast geese!
This is an era of information explosion!
Take books as an example: The China Reading Index released by China Press and Publication Research Institute on April 20 17 18 shows that the per capita reading volume of paper books in China is 4.66. In sharp contrast, on July 27th, 20 18, the General Administration of Press and Publication issued the Analysis Report of Press and Publication Industry in 20 17. The report shows that in 20 17 years, 25438+00000 new books were published nationwide. Suppose you are a master of reading one book a day, and it will take you 700 years to finish reading 255 1000 books.
This is just a book. If you count the internet, including the news, audio, video and short video that everyone is addicted to recently, the information generated by the internet in one day can't be accepted by ordinary people for a lifetime.
This is an era when the half-life of information is getting shorter and shorter!
All knowledge has a process of failure, which is called the half-life of knowledge. The shorter the half-life of knowledge, the faster the iterative speed of knowledge. An American scholar has studied medical papers and found that after about 45 years, half of them will be proved wrong, so the half-life of medical knowledge is about 45 years. The half-life of physics papers is shorter. Someone has studied the top physics magazines and found that after 10 years, half of the papers published in this magazine are wrong, so the half-life of physical knowledge is about 10 years. The half-life of knowledge in the internet field is shorter, less than one year.
With the advent of information explosion, the half-life of information is getting shorter and shorter. What should we do?
The world is so fast, we have to move forward and move forward gracefully. Introduce you to two elegant running postures.
Posture 1: learn to fish by swallowing whales.
The blue whale is the largest animal on the earth, weighing up to 180 tons, equivalent to 2,500 adults weighing 70kg. In order to maintain a huge body, blue whales need to eat a lot every day. When eating, the blue whale opens its huge mouth and swallows a huge amount of seawater, then closes its mouth, squeezes out the seawater and leaves the fish and shrimp in its mouth.
Learn from the blue whale in this way, and gain information and knowledge by eating a lot.
Posture 2: Feynman-style learning and digestion
Richard, Nobel Prize winner in physics? Richard feynman said, "Learn from me and use my learning method. It takes only four steps to quickly and deeply understand the knowledge that needs to be learned, and the memory is profound and unforgettable. "
1. Define a concept: select a concept.
2. Simulated teaching: teaching to another person who doesn't understand at all.
3. Review: If it gets stuck, go back to the original material.
4. Simplify: Simplify language expression after review.
Using Feynman learning to digest the high-value knowledge gained in whale swallowing learning.
Fourth, the postscript
In order to avoid becoming a roasted goose, the Queen of Hearts said, "In this country, you have to keep running to keep you in place." Whale learning and Feynman learning, these two elegant ways of progress, have you learned?
What do you do? What is the knowledge half-life of your industry? How do you run forward? Do you have a roast goose around you?
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