What is the bowling effect?
The target object of bowling is 10 bottles. If you hit 9 bottles, you can score 90 points. If you hit all 10 bottles, you will get 90 points. bottle, you can finally get 240 points.
Just by hitting one more bottle, you can achieve a leap from 90 points to 240 points.
The bowling effect also has profound implications in the workplace:
Enlightenment 1: As long as you are a little better than others, if you continue to accumulate, you can form a huge gap.
Enlightenment 2: Focusing on an overall goal is more important than focusing on a single goal.
Enlightenment 3: Stay online to have a chance to win the next chance.
Bowling Effect
The winner is to win a little more every time
There are very few things in this world where you can get rich overnight. Even if there is, it is only after packaging. Content with a different thought.
A friend of a friend is a futures trader. He first started buying and selling stocks. Later, he felt that stocks were slow to make money, so he went into futures. He wanted to win big a few times and retire early when his wealth became free. Then I lost all the money I made in the stock market.
Even when a company goes public, the company's controllers have invested too much in the early stage to cultivate the company slowly, rather than turning it into an excellent company overnight.
The real winner is to win a little more in each challenge and be faster than others. After several or dozens of times of growth, an exponential jump finally occurs.
Even a software giant like Microsoft, founded in 1975, only went public in 1986 after 11 years of growth.
Microsoft has made basically the right choices at every key node in the information wave. Each time, it is more strategically forward-looking than its opponents. For example, its transformation in cloud computing has been very successful.
Win a little more every time, maintain continuous growth, build a critical moat, and always stay ahead, and you will always be a major player in the field.
Continuously accumulate advantages
Why do winners win more every time?
There may be many answers: professionalism, rationality, concentration, diligence, etc., but the core answer is only one: passion.
The famous insurance salesman Frank Parker was once a professional baseball player, but he was fired soon after joining the baseball team because the coach felt that he was just hanging around like an old man who was about to retire. , without passion.
In the precarious days, Parker reflected on his behavior and felt that this was already the case anyway, so he might as well change his life.
He later joined the Atlanta team. Every time before playing, he would hint in front of the locker room mirror that he would burst out with all his passion, and then enter the court with this passion.
On the court, he used 200% of his power every time he threw a ball, so that the opponent's receiver's arm was numbed.
Because every time he threw a powerful ball, many opponents were afraid of him, and even got caught up in his violent momentum and forgot to catch the ball.
As soon as Parker comes on the court, the atmosphere of the entire stadium is instantly ignited, and his enthusiasm is like an erupting volcano that shines brightly on the entire audience.
It is precisely because he goes all out to hit the most powerful ball every time that his results are always ahead of others.
Whether they are calm and rational professionals or persistent entrepreneurs, the same emotional core is hidden behind their achievements: passion.
If you are not enthusiastic, it is not interesting; if you are not enthusiastic, you will not win.
How to focus on the overall goal
The overall goal of bowling is to hit 10 pins, so what is the overall goal of a certain task in the workplace? If you list a few goals in an instant, then your overall goals are misaligned.
The overall goals in the workplace are not the items you have listed, but your supervisor's expectations and requirements for this task. This is the most important thing.
"Those who have the same desire at the top and bottom will win, and those who can make a difference will win." These two sentences express the essence of sustained and rapid rise in the workplace. The essence is to manage the expectations of leaders, and with leaders, especially direct leaders. Maintain a high degree of synchronization and consistency to achieve a win-win situation for everyone.
Once, I arranged for team member Xiao Z to do a review of a certain issue. He agreed and gave a reply that afternoon, using a 17-page document to conduct a detailed analysis. I was not very satisfied. .
"Do you know why I want you to do this backtrace?"
"It's just to find the cause of the problem and don't make this mistake again next time."
"It's not about not repeating the mistake internally, but it's about giving customers an explanation and expectation management to pave the way for next year's new project contract."
"Oh, I know, let me do it again."
Only by truly understanding the leader’s ideas and requirements can we achieve the goal of this task. Otherwise, we will be doing useless work, and the harder we work, the less efficient we will be.
An amplifier that is better than others: external reputation
Since the right way to quickly improve in the workplace is to accumulate advantages and continuously improve one's influence, then just working within the department, There is definitely an effect, but there is an upper limit to this effect.
Why do foreign monks recite sutras? It is because these monks have external reputation that they are invited to recite sutras.
Establishing external reputation in the workplace is equally important, and sometimes it even plays a decisive role:
An internal review of the promotion qualifications of three technical experts, these three applicants Their technical capabilities, project experience, and annual performance are all very close, but there is only one promotion slot. Who will be promoted? Reviewers also have a headache.
Later, the reviewers found in the supplementary materials that one of the technical experts had given a speech at an industry summit and had a good reputation in the industry. Based on this, everyone unanimously agreed to promote this technical expert.
Many colleagues in science and engineering positions are proficient in technical research and may have explored deeply in their own fields, but they rarely have key summaries and sharing, let alone in the industry. Communicated.
Being an unknown technical sweeping monk sounds good, but if no one knows that you have the strength of a Shaolin Temple sweeping monk, people may really regard you as a cleaner in the workplace, which is definitely not the case. You wish.
Establish external reputation
There are many ways to establish external reputation, such as attending industry conferences and hosting some topics or speeches, answering questions in forums to become a master, and becoming a master in friends circles or communities. Play a role, organize offline communication, publish books, write blogs, etc.
As long as you keep investing in it, you will slowly build up your external reputation. Once you have an external reputation, many resources will be tilted towards you.
Summary
The core of the bowling effect is to accumulate advantages, focus on the overall goal, and ultimately gain results that far exceed expectations.
The phrase "the workplace is like a battlefield" is inappropriate. A more appropriate metaphor is "the workplace is like a love field":
How can we win more every time?
Workplace: Devote yourself to tasks with 200% enthusiasm.
Love: Your enthusiasm is the key to impressing the other person.
How can we correctly focus on the overall goal?
In the workplace: everyone above and below has the same desire, works hard, and creates a win-win situation with the supervisor.
Love: Your goal is to win the other person's heart, not to buy chocolates or have candlelight dinners.
How can you maximize your advantages?
Workplace: Establish external reputation and expand influence.
Love situation: If everyone around the other person says good about you, you will have a moat.