我应该留下,还是离开?
Who does better on the long run?
长远来看谁做得更好?
I want to revisit one more time this topic that I wrote about a few years back in the newspaper that talked about young professionals moving and jumping from job to job, from company to company, from brand to brand with the short term incentive to do better or if you just want to be more specific is just to make more money.
我想重温几年前在报纸上写过的话题,关于年轻职业者的流动和跳槽,他们从一份工作到另一份工作,从一家公司到另一家公司,从一个品牌到另一个品牌,为了短期的更好的诱因,或者更具体说只是想赚更多钱。
I want to talk about it again because this problem exists everywhere and happens quite often to most organizations. It happens mostly with the age group known as millennials also known as Generation Y. Researchers and demographers typically use the 1980’s as their birth dates up to the early 2000’s as ending birth years. So it is a group of people that today in 2018 will range in age from 18 up to 38 years old. This group characteristic could vary a little by region depending on country, social and economic conditions but this generation has been generally marked by an increased use and familiarity with communications, media and digital technology.
我旧话重提,因为这个问题无处不在,对大多数组织来说是很常见的。这主要发生在被称为千禧一代的年龄层,也称为Y世代。研究人员和人口学家通常将他们的出生年份划分在从1980年代开始到2000年初为止。到了2018年,这个群体的年龄从18岁到38岁不等。这个群体的特点可能会因为国家、社会和经济条件而有所不同,但总的来说他们的标签是更多的、更熟悉的运用通信、媒体和数字技术。
Through all these years I have been in business as a professional and having working for the same company all this time has helped see and assess this problem more closely. I have clearly noticed that these younger professionals want things to happen faster for them. They are not willing to wait longer times to climb the organizational ladder and keep making progress and at the same time more money like it usually is under normal circumstances. It gives me the impression that they think they know everything or learn everything fast and they want to become quickly supervisors, managers or executives otherwise they leave the companies in search of what they think they deserve.
这些年来,我作为职业人在同一家公司工作了这么长时间,有助于我更密切地观察和评价这个问题。我清楚地注意到这些年轻职业者,希望更快的达成目标。他们不愿意花更长时间等待组织架构上的晋升和不断取得进步,以及正常情况下能获得更多金钱的过程。这给我的印象是,他们认为自己什么都懂,或者学东西很快,他们想很快地成为主管、经理或更高的管理者,否则他们就会离开公司去寻找他们认为应该得到的东西。
There is no question that this group is far more knowledgeable due to the immense increase and improvement of the technology: social media, software, and internet to name a few but also the incredible simplicity to be able to travel more and see more of the world.
毫无疑问,得益于巨大的技术进步和提高,这些世代的知识更加丰富,像使用社交媒体、软件以及互联网等等,除此以外,还有就是他们能够非常轻易的去到更多的地方旅行,看到更大的世界。
What it is also highly noticeable is their lack in comparison with older generations of social skills due to the fact that these group is more leaned to work more by themselves as they rely on the internet, their phones and social media to solve problems.
同样值得注意的是,与老一辈相比,这个世代的群体缺乏社交技能,他们依赖互联网、手机和社交媒体解决问题,更倾向于自己工作。
What happens all the time in the big organizations is that when millennials start working after college in the different companies after a few months 12-18 if they don’t see clearly that this company they work for have anything to offer them quickly to improve their skills or to learn or help them in the future then the sooner they move to another place. But even if you do offer them an interesting place to work for, a place where they can grow, learn, improve then what happens is that the moment the think they feel ready they leave the company and open their own businesses like hundreds of sales people domestic or export have done in these past years opening new brands and trading companies or they simply jump for one company to another to fulfill their ego or mostly their economic needs.
大公司里经常发生的事情是,千禧一代大学毕业在不同的公司工作一些日子,像12-18个月后,如果他们不能清楚地看到在这家公司工作有什么能迅速提高自己的技能、值得学习或者得到帮助的话,他们将会很快辞职到其他地方。即使你确实为他们提供了一个有趣的工作场所,一个可以让他们成长、学习、提升的地方,当他们觉得准备好了便会离开,有的去创办自己的公司,就像数以百计国内和出口销售人员所做的那样,在过去几年开了新的品牌和贸易公司,有的只是为了跳槽到另一个公司实现自我或者大部分是因为经济需求。
Both of these happen quite often, I have seen it and lived it many years, people come and people go. Unfortunately, my personal feedback and observations might differ from the opinion of these millennials. The millennials want to be managers fast and make the money they think they deserve fast. Now days they want to get these things in 3-4 years to what most of us took 7-10 to get.
这两种情况都是经常发生的,我在这么多年看到也遇到,人们来来去去。可惜,我个人的反馈和观察可能与这些千禧一代的观点不同。千禧一代希望迅速成为管理者,并迅速赚到他们认为自己应得的工资。今天他们希望在3-4年内得我们大多数人花7-10年才能得到的东西。
I can’t deny that these people that move at times it seem they did the right thing, but unfortunately only on a short time. These millennials really care only about the present and getting things fast and don’t mind about the future and what they could have done if they stayed. Don’t care much about who can gives them more in the long run, more knowledge, training, experience, a better platform. They are fast sprint runners like the ones than run only 100-200-400 meter runs not marathon people like us that can run the 40 kms.
我不否认,这些经常流动的人似乎做了正确的事情,但可惜只是在短期内。这些千禧一代真正关心的是眼前以及快速地达到目标,他们不在意未来以及如果留下来会实现什么。不那么在乎长远来看,谁能给予他们更多的知识、培训、经验以及更好的平台。他们像冲刺的短跑运动员,只跑100米、200米、400米,而不是像我们一样的马拉松选手能跑40公里。
The big difference economically speaking is clear these millennials move and make more money sooner, they raise fast but then move slow and the other people is the contrary they move slow at the beginning but then raise much more than the people that is constantly moving.
从经济角度看最大的不同,显然这些千禧一代更快流动,更快赚更多钱,更快提升,但会渐渐慢下来。而其他人恰恰相反,他们一开始慢慢发展,但后来却比那些不断流动的人获得更大的提升。
A perfect example happened to me when I was in the USA last week. I went to a friend’s meeting in the house of one of the guys I went to college with. Even though we were all from Mexico they were all living in the USA. It was a group of about 10-12 people. Most of the guy’s present went to the same college I went. We all had similar age, maybe the younger guys were 3 or 4 four years younger than me and the older 3 or 4 older than me.
我上周在美国的时候遇到一个最佳的例子。我到大学同学的家里参加了一个朋友聚会。虽然我们都是墨西哥人,但都生活在美国。聚会大概有10到12人,大多数的伙伴和我都是上同一所大学,年龄相仿,有的比我小3、4岁,有的比我大3、4岁。
The owner of the house was an engineer that studied the same thing I did: Industrial Engineering with specialty in Systems and after he graduated worked for two different companies for a short time until he found the one he liked and he has worked for that same company for almost 25 years. His house was nice and you could tell he was doing very well. Then I heard somebody from the group of friends say the following: Well it does definitely matter and it is extremely important to have worked for the same company for so long. He is a good example, they said. Most of the other people present were not in as good of an economic position as him and recognized that loyalty and longevity on a same company in the long run pays off but people now days simply just don’t want to wait too long and want things fast. They may get them fast once but then they remain static for a longer time.
这所房子的主人是个工程师,和我学一样的专业:工业工程系统学。他毕业后在两家不同公司工作了一段时间,直到他找到自己喜欢的公司,并在这家公司工作了将近25年。他的房子很好,你可以看出他过得很好。然后我听到一群朋友中有人说:嗯,这确实很重要,在同一家公司工作这么长时间是非常必要的。他们说,他就是一个很好的榜样。大多数在场的人没他那么有经济地位,他们觉得长远来看忠诚和就职于同一家公司是有回报的,但现在的人们只是不想等待太久,想要快点得到自己想要的。他们可能会快速的实现一次,然后却长时间保持停滞。
Like I said last time in the article I wrote years ago: Every single person that more or less started with me 32 years ago they are still working for our company did well. They all are the current supervisors, managers and directors. The more people that stayed or the larger this group is the better the company it is. I have been seating in meetings with the same 12-16 executives for the past 25+ years, none of them has less that 15-20 years with the company, even some of them have been 35 up to 40 years with the company. How could you possibly not be a great company if you have this core, solid group of people?
就像我上次在几年前的文章中所说的那样:32年前和我一起工作的每个人,他们仍然在我们公司工作得很好。他们全部是现任的主管、经理和总监。留下的人越多,或者说这个团队越大,公司就会越好。在过去25年多的时间里,我一直在和12-16位相同的高管开会,他们当中没有一个人在公司工作少于15-20年,甚至有些人工作了35-40年。如果你有这群核心、可靠的人,怎么可能不成就一个优秀的公司?
But unfortunately people prefer to be the head of a mouse, instead of the tail of a dragon!
可惜人们更喜欢宁做鸡头,不做凤尾!
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