Now there is a fashionable term, which is competition. As the saying goes, it is a mule or a horse that comes out for a walk. This is probably the meaning of competition. Competition is a good thing. Since the introduction of competition mechanism after the reform and opening up, China's economy has changed in one fell swoop. Competition is everywhere now. The selection of cadres should be based on competition, and the term goal should be set, not only speaking well, but also doing well. To develop products, we must compete in the market and put the products in the market for competition, so as to distinguish between winning and losing. In the 1980s, the competition in the color TV market was fierce. In order to reduce redundant construction, the state implements fixed-point production of color TV sets. However, after several years of competition, many designated enterprises were eliminated, while some non-designated enterprises stood out and created famous brands. Obviously, market competition and survival of the fittest is a basic rule of market economy, and it is also the vitality of market economy. But some monks often mispronounce good scriptures. For example, some people exaggerate the role of competition infinitely, simply introduce competition into the unit and repeatedly set up posts. A product is produced by several departments, which is euphemistically called: competition makes efficiency. As we all know, there are two kinds of competitions, and the most vivid example is sports competition. One is antagonistic competition, which finds out the weaknesses of opponents and beats them, such as boxing, judo and ball games. The other is competitive competition, where you learn from your opponent's advantages to improve yourself, improve your sports level, and make yourself faster, higher and stronger, so as to win, such as track and field, gymnastics and swimming. The former competition is mainly applicable to different units, and the latter competition is mainly applicable to one unit. I only know that there is competition, but I don't know what it is. Everything requires competition everywhere. Every unit should create a life-and-death competitive environment. Although it will cause everyone to compete for the first place, it will also distract the attention of the whole team, make interpersonal relationships tense, make good experiences unavailable, and reduce the overall work efficiency of the unit and the quality of life of everyone. Therefore, almost all large multinational companies implement strict planning management and internal competition is strictly prohibited. Through this strict planning management, we can reduce costs, improve the external competitiveness of enterprises and improve the overall efficiency of enterprises.
In fact, competition is not the only way to promote enterprises to strengthen management and improve efficiency. In many cases, the alliance between enterprises is more conducive to strengthening management and improving efficiency. Fingers apart are not as strong as fists. Americans lead the world in this respect. We can see that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, the second largest aircraft manufacturers in the world, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, the giants in IT industry, and time warner Inc., the mobile phone company in the media industry, have all joined hands with AOL, which embodies an entrepreneurial spirit, that is, to pursue bigger and stronger. On the other hand, we put too much emphasis on competition, and many enterprises will split up if they are slightly bigger. Everyone wants to be the boss, preferring to be the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a phoenix. Take wine production as an example. In a province with a small population, there are hundreds of local brands of wine. How can such a small scale bring economic benefits? How can these wineries survive without the protection of local governments and the blockade of foreign wine?
In recent years, knowledge economy has become a hot topic. "It is better to sell tea eggs than missiles" has fundamentally changed, and intellectuals have become lighthouses. However, due to the improper concept of competition, many knowledge-based industrial units can not give full play to their knowledge-based economic advantages. Compared with material economy, what are the advantages of knowledge economy? Lies in the characteristics of knowledge. Feature 1: the marginal production cost of material products is high, while the marginal production cost of knowledge products is very low, some of which are almost zero, such as patented technology, drawings, software, audio-visual products, publications, etc. And the replication cost is very low. Feature 2: Material products can only be used in one place at the same time, while knowledge products can be used in infinite places at the same time. For example, a screw used here can't be used elsewhere, but an idea, a method and a theory can be used by anyone at the same time. Feature 3: the use value of material products is established, while the use value of knowledge products has strong expansibility. The more it is used, the stronger its expansibility. For example, the role of screws is to fix objects, and an idea will have different associations in different people's minds and produce many new ideas. Feature 4: the ownership of knowledge products is not easy to protect, and it is necessary to maximize the use value of knowledge products in the shortest time. These four characteristics of knowledge products determine the characteristics of knowledge industry, namely, emphasizing team spirit, knowledge enjoyment and economies of scale. The more prominent the characteristics of a unit's knowledge industry, the more obvious the advantages of knowledge economy. However, if there is unfair competition in this unit, it will lead to interpersonal tension, mutual prevention, inability to exchange ideas and enjoy knowledge, so that the advantages of knowledge economy will be lost in this unit, resulting in a serious waste of knowledge and talents, which will seriously restrict the development of this unit. If this phenomenon exists in most units, it will seriously restrict the development of the whole national economy. Therefore, in the knowledge industry, the improvement of enterprise internal management and the reversal of bad competition concept will greatly promote the development of knowledge industry and the overall economic development of our country.
To encourage and support competition and introduce competition mechanism, we must understand what our purpose is. It is to improve product quality and economic benefits, thus improving people's quality of life. The quality of life includes both material and spiritual aspects. If only the material living standard is improved, but the spiritual living standard is decreased, it is hard to say that the quality of life has improved. Spiritual life is embodied in two aspects, one is family life, the other is work. Family life is generally warm, there is no harsh competition, and competition is never introduced into the family. Most families can be happy as long as the whole family loves each other and makes their own contribution to the family as much as possible. The ideal work unit should be like a big family, so that all employees can be happy. But in reality, every employee in a unit is an independent individual with his own personal interests, and it is impossible to pay completely selflessly like his family. So there is a distribution system, according to everyone's contribution to distribution, more work and more. This creates competition, but this competition is not a life-and-death competition. As long as you don't compare with others too much, people with poor ability and low income can work happier. However, some units think this is not good, and require strengthening internal competition and mobilizing the enthusiasm of each employee to the maximum extent. There are many ways to strengthen internal competition, and the last elimination system is the most typical and cruel. As you can imagine, in the last elimination unit, everyone will strive for the first place, but everyone is in a state of high tension every day, and may gain efficiency, but everyone loses happiness. Is this kind of competition worth promoting? What's more, the research results of some experts prove that this kind of competition may not improve efficiency, but may reduce efficiency.
In addition, competition is staged. At present, the social labor productivity and people's moral level are still not high, so it is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of most people to contribute to social development through the mechanism of competition. But competition is not everything. Some experts have done a lot of research on human performance and come to the conclusion that the best performance not only needs no competition, but also needs no competition. When the social material is extremely rich and people's moral level is greatly improved, people's study, labor and invention will become the internal needs of their own development and the source of happiness, thus becoming people's conscious action, and no longer need the stimulation of competition. When social material is not extremely rich, can't efficiency be improved without competition? Not necessarily. The examples of children's learning cited by experts are very convincing. Children learn to walk and talk without competition. Except for disabled children, everything else can be done smoothly, and there is no difference. Once entering the school education stage, due to the introduction of competition mechanism, the self-esteem of children with late intellectual development or who are not interested in learning a certain subject is hurt, which in turn leads to their learning disabilities, and some even affect their lives. It shows that the introduction of competition in school education will stimulate competitive students, but will inhibit most students' interest in learning. Generally speaking, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Judging from the growth process of many scientists, it seems that they are not successful for competition. On the contrary, the research of most successful scientists is out of interest, and the research environment of most successful scientists has no competitive pressure, which deserves our serious reflection.
It can be seen that competition needs to be analyzed in detail, the scope and conditions of competition adaptation and the side effects of competition should be studied, and necessary measures should be taken to reduce the adverse effects brought by competition. When we encourage competition, we must look at the scope of competition. You can't encourage it just because it is competition, so you will fall into the misunderstanding of competition. As leaders, we should distinguish different kinds of competition and formulate different competition rules. In order to distinguish internal competition from external competition, internal competition can be called competition. Encourage the whole society to compete and promote the competition within the unit. While encouraging competition, we should also advocate alliances, but alliances are more complicated than competition and have higher requirements for entrepreneurs. We also need to update the concept of entrepreneurs, and our entrepreneurs need to constantly learn the knowledge and skills in enterprise alliances, so as to promote our enterprise alliances. Government departments can't adopt the method of matching talents just because enterprise alliance is conducive to improving competitiveness, which is tantamount to pulling out seedlings to encourage them, but will hinder the development and growth of enterprises.