I have led a team for many years and have met a variety of teams. There are some teams that have not achieved results, and their shortcomings are often strange, but the team appearance is often similar, either lacking fighting spirit, or the military spirit is weak, or the military spirit is unstable, and the team's combat effectiveness is greatly reduced.
If you can't get good results for a long time, it will only make team members less confident, and the team will become more and more disorganized, and over time, it will eventually become a rabble.
For discerning managers, it's easy to tell if the team is good or not.
So, how can managing such a team be considered effective?What are the signs of getting on track?
Actually, a very important sign is:"Entropy reduction".
If you have studied physics, you may have heard of the law of entropy increase, which refers to a phenomenon from order to disorder. Entropy was proposed by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius in 1854 to measure the "degree of internal chaos" of a system.
The law of entropy increase is reflected in all aspects of social life. For example, if cities are not governed, they will become more and more dirtyIf the house is not cleaned up for a long time, it will become more and more messy;As the size of the company grows, if the management is not in place, the organization will become more and more bloated, it will become overstaffed, and the company's operational efficiency will become less and less.
It is not difficult to understand that many things are evolving towards entropy increase, because those that conform to entropy increase are often easier to achieve. For example, laziness is in line with the principle of labor-saving. Self-discipline is always more painful than laziness, and it is always easier to give up than to persevere.
Isolated systems always tend to increase entropy, and eventually reach the maximum state of entropy, that is, the most chaotic and disordered state of the system. However, while entropy increase is universal, it is not "irreversible" for open systems. The process of countering entropy increase can be called entropy reduction. The essence of anti-entropy increase is to make the system orderly.
In order to turn entropy increase into entropy decrease, the most important thing is to have an external force to work on this matter that is increasing entropy. The open system can transfer the entropy increase generated by internal energy exchange to the surrounding environment by releasing heat to the surrounding environment, and it is possible to tend to reduce entropy and reach an orderly state.
In the same way, when the scale of the enterprise or team grows larger, it is easy to have disorder and management chaos. In a closed system, if there is no external force, things will continue to tend to chaos and disorder, which is the embodiment of the entropy increase principle in the development process of an enterprise or team.
Therefore, in this process, to a large extent, management plays a role in countering the entropy increase of the enterprise or team, and management is this external force. Of course, in the process of management, an enterprise or team will invest in management costs, which is negative entropy investment, which can help the organization develop from disorder to order.
It's not complicated to say, once the atmosphere of the team is brought up, and all aspects are slowly ordered, it is easy to bring. With a certain amount of experience and some results, you can slowly get on the right track.