Author |Su Qingtao.
"People who do sales are more likely to have a boss mentality. "One day at lunch, a young colleague came up with this sentence. At that time, I resonated and said: I haven't thought about writing a sentence for more than half a year, and you said it. The other side behind this sentence is that many people who do technology, even if they have deep qualifications and high positions, they are also screw thinking - just take care of their own one-acre and three-point land.
The reason for this conclusion was that on the previous working day, I had spent almost three hours teaching him how to present the company to the outside world (clients, candidates). When he returned that night, he began to think about how to introduce the company to the outside world, which he had never considered before. Without thinking about these issues, there will naturally be no boss thinking.
From my observations over the past few years, people who have worked as marketing, product managers, and project managers are also more likely to have a boss mentality. Interestingly, these people with boss thinking are usually mainly people who give questions to others, in contrast, people with heavy screw thinking are people who make questions and do them themselves.
If the company has the conditions, it should allow people who are purely technical to rotate to be product managers for a period of time, or to do sales for a period of time. With such an experience, the boss's thinking is trained, the sense of mission is not a problem, and the company's management costs are reduced. For individuals, such job rotation also helps to expand their ability structure and give them more choices in their future career choices or promotions.
In addition, I also have a deep experience that it is easier to train the thinking of bosses by writing business model and management articles than writing purely technical articles and doing related research. Because, when writing the former, you're interviewing mostly technologists, while in the latter, you're interviewing primarily CEOs, COOs, strategy or marketing leaders. With this discovery, I began to encourage all my colleagues who originally studied technology to study Xi do research on business models and management.