How Do Entrepreneurs "Drain" Pressure?

Donald Tsang, chief executive of the Hongkong Special Administrative Region, told friends that the most pressing time in his life was the Asian financial turmoil in 1998. The Hongkong SAR government took the lead in deciding to intervene in the stock market for more than a month.

Many people in Hongkong know that Donald Tsang will pray in church every morning.

By prayer and decompression, I believe you will not be surprised.

But his other decompression method, I believe you can not guess, actually is "shoeshine"! When he is unhappy, he will take out more than 10 pairs of leather shoes in the cupboard and wipe them again.

This is not very strange. When you are unhappy or stressed, sitting alone is easy to imagine.

The simple and mechanical movements of shoeshine can be more attentive.

2008, 2009 is a disaster year. Under the continuous impact of the economic crisis, a large number of enterprises have fallen down. Many business owners can not accept the failure of failure, and can not accept the psychological gap from heaven to hell overnight.

From Chen Jinshui playing missing to Niu Gensheng's old tears, asking for help everywhere, and then Wong Kwong Yu going to jail, entrepreneurs, who are known as the backbone of China, have gone through a very hard time.

But the market does not believe in tears, and enterprises can not do without health. Today, we will briefly discuss this sensitive topic.

The modern people's ability to resist pressure seems to be less than that of the ancients. For example, a few days ago when I was training for an electric car company, I talked about a story that quickly became a success under the "high pressure": Song Huizong was a very fond of calligraphy and painting, and had an advanced emperor. He asked the followers one day: "who is the best person to paint a donkey?" the followers could not answer it. After retiring, they eagerly sought out the name of the famous donkey, who was known as Zhu Ziming.

When Zhu Ziming learned that he was summoned into the palace to paint a donkey for the emperor, he was scared out of a cold sweat. He could not paint an ass at all. He was originally a painter of landscape painting, because he was a nickname of "donkey painter" because of his teasing with his peers. He was not a "donkey painter" who was good at painting donkeys.

But the emperor's life can not be violated. Zhu Ziming, who was in a desperate situation, worked hard to paint the donkey technique. He drew hundreds of paintings about donkeys, and finally got the emperor's appreciation in a wrong way. He really became the first man to paint a donkey in the world.

From the small story of Zhu Ziming's pressure to paint the donkey, we see the essence of stress management: changing pressure into motivation.

Let's look at another example: The Legend of Jaguar is an endangered species. There are only a dozen or so animals in the world, including one in the Peru zoo.

In order to protect the Jaguar, the Peru people built a tiger garden for them. There are mountains and water, and a group of cattle and sheep rabbits for their enjoyment.

Strangely enough, it only eats meat from the administrator, often lying in the tiger's room, eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating.

Some people say, "how can a tiger who has lost love have spirit?" for this reason, the zoo rents the female tiger regularly from abroad to accompany it.

But the Jaguar went out for a walk with his girlfriend at most, and soon returned to the tiger's room.

A zoologist recommends: "tiger is the king of the forest. Only a group of small animals grazing in the garden can arouse their interest."

The zoo manager took the advice of experts and put in three jackals. Since then, the Jaguars no longer lie in.

It sometimes stands on the top of the mountain and howls its neck, sometimes rushing down the mountain, patrolling the manly garden, sometimes pursuing the Jackal's provocation.

Tan Xiaofang commented that the Jaguar had an attacking opponent, and there was pressure. The pressure doubled the spirit of the Jaguar, which was quite different from before.

For enterprises, moderate pressure can make people concentrate their attention, improve their endurance, enhance their vitality and reduce the occurrence of errors.

Pressure can be said to be a need for the body to regulate the outside world, while regulation often means growth.

Managers' effective ways to learn to cope in a stressful situation can improve their coping ability and work efficiency, so stress is a powerful tool to improve people's motivation level.

There are many reasons for the pressure, and we should pay attention to the five principles when we carry out stress management in light of the characteristics of the pressure of domestic entrepreneurs and employees.

First, the principle of moderation.

Stress management is not a matter of ignoring the economic benefits of the organization, but simply reducing employee pressure and maximizing employee satisfaction.

Second, the specific principles.

To a large extent, pressure is a subjective feeling. Therefore, when carrying out stress management, we should distinguish different objects and adopt different strategies, and make specific analysis of specific problems according to the different characteristics of the objects.

Third, the post principle.

Employees in different departments and positions have different working pressures.

The higher the general post level, the stronger the innovation, the higher the independence, the greater the pressure.

For example, the pressure of marketing department is relatively large, because sales performance depends not only on the degree of effort, but also on the customers, market environment and competitors.

Of course, we often hear front-line service workers complain about the increasing pressure of service, the increasingly demanding of customers, the increasingly high standards of service, the increasing pressure inside and outside the service, the increasingly fierce competition in services, and some people even feel overwhelmed.

Fourth, the guiding principle.

Since stress is inevitable, it is important to guide the development of stress on the positive side.

For entrepreneurs, some external factors are uncontrollable. For example, facing strong competitors, they can flexibly turn pressure into motivation and stimulate more enthusiasm for work.

Fifth, the difference principle.

Before eliminating the pressure, we should first identify the sources of stress and treat them differently.

Some pressures can be avoided, such as the pressure caused by the disunity among employees, the complicated interpersonal relationship, and some pressures, such as the pressure from work itself, are unavoidable.

We say that sparkling diamonds are quite different from ordinary graphite. However, the conclusion of chemists is amazing: diamond and graphite are composed of carbon atoms, and graphite can turn into diamond.

Graphite at 5-6 atmospheric pressure and 1000 to 2000 degrees Celsius under high temperature, and then using metal iron, cobalt, nickel and other catalysts, can make graphite into diamond.

Then, how did entrepreneurs turn "graphite" into "diamond"? -- motivation.

But there are certain ways to encourage.

For example, you can tell your supervisor and manager how you grow up to tell new people and subordinates to encourage and motivate their subordinates to grow as well.

Recently, KFC has launched a new breakfast product "Fa Feng baked cake", nicknamed "crazy baked cake", but also pushed the "decompression madness" to the extreme.

In order to effectively popularize the "French wind baked cake", KFC jointly organized a number of media, "let's go crazy together - Crazy throwing sand bags war", attracting many white-collar workers crazy participation.

Young white-collar workers stripped off their professional suits, dressed in the 70s and 80s popular navy outfit, set aside the plagued jobs, promotions, unemployment, and so on, and reduced them through sandbag wars.

In the game, white-collar workers put their pressure on paper slips into the homemade sandbags, meaning "throw the pressure out like sandbags". Someone wrote "let overtime work go to hell." someone wrote, "let the boss get off the job quickly", and someone wrote, "let my acne be ready as soon as possible."

Some friends in the industry have also asked me, how do you face pressure? How do I say? Once I was faced with all kinds of pressure, I also wanted to give up.

But then I adjusted my mindset in time and changed my mind: the greater the pressure, the more I can improve my ability.

If you encounter the same people and things later, you will not be overwhelmed.

Of course, there are many ways to decompress, which are different from others to suit themselves.