Wu Ming: The black spots on the horizon

Wu Ming

In the 1962 movie, Lawrence of Arabia, Arabia, has a scene that describes the protagonist Lawrence and his companions when they rest in the desert, and see a small black dot on the horizon, but it is far from them and cannot recognize what it is.Over time, the black dots became bigger and bigger, but they still couldn't recognize what it was. They could only take a look at the attitude.

The black dots are getting more and more clear. They are a person who is riding a camel, but they still cannot confirm the identity of the other party. Until Lawrence's partner found that the other party was not good, and suspected that the other party would be unfavorable to them, reached out to get the gun, butThe gun has not been taken out of the gun cover and has been hit by the opponent.Then the stranger walked to the corpse and said, "Is he dead?"Lawrence replied: Yes, hell; hellip; why?

The above description is the sixth sense of the Chinese translation version published in 2004: Using the SIXTH SENSE: Accelerating Organization With SCENARIOS), the movie scene section quoted by the introduction.

This scene tells us one thing, one person or organization, for what happened to the environment, if you can make accurate insights, cognition, and judgment, you can block it before the problem occurs, or the development of the situation is still back.It will be destroyed when it is not serious; or if things have erupted, at least they have the ability to mobilize all resources of the organization, implement sufficient response measures and crisis management, implement disaster control, and reduce the damage to the lowest point.Otherwise, once the situation is out of control, it will be like Lawrence's partner, and it is very sad.

It is superb performance to be able to detect problems in the first time.Can't discover and confirm the problem at the first time, but have the ability to solve it, the second.Delaying the problem or escape can only bring disaster to the organization.This is basically used to comment on a general indicator of an organization or its leadership and leadership quality.

Organization is so, and so is the country.The ability to deal with the crown disease epidemic is evident.

Strategic management has a concept called super competition: some industries, when the environmental uncertainty increases unprecedentedly, its competitive advantage is temporary.In other words, when the external environmental factors of the industry have changed, the complexity and change of change becomes rapid, which is not the control and control of general organizations, and the original competitive advantage of the organization may not be able to send it in.When the organization often understands the problem and starts to take countermeasures, the best time to save and control is over. The organization is like Laurent's companion.

At the beginning of the crown disease, there was a black spot like a desert.People must deal with it in seconds.The development of the epidemic has made some countries unable to fight, and even helpless.If some companies do not have the aid of the country and the government, layoffs and failure are inevitable.

In the past, some organizations know how to reflect in comprehensive reflection, thoroughly review the mistakes made during the disaster control, and write down the causes of mistakes, systematically regulate solutions, and compile the guidelines for disaster control and crisis treatment.As a reference indicator that organizes the crisis in the future; you can also practice accumulating maneuverability, crisis and strain ability.Once a new crisis appears, even if the new and old problems are completely different, at least it can allow the organization to respond more calmly.Do your best to ensure that the organization will not repeat the same mistakes, which is the outstanding characteristics of learning organizations.

Prime Minister Li Xianlong and several ministers have promised to make a comprehensive review after the epidemic.Enterprises, civil organizations and individuals should also have sufficient reflection and cognition of the epidemic, and learn from crisis or errors, and the whole people can face the black spots that may suffer Singapore in the future.

The author is a part -time lecturer of a local private college