長達八個月的TIGER program 終於在本週二結束了。我或許贏到了最大的掌聲，贏到了老大們對我的驚豔，但我失去得也是同樣巨大。在這週的最後一晚，一個人在家裡，用螢光幕上的電影”型男飛行日誌”<Up in the air>幫這段時光，畫上了最後句點。
你如果喜歡<up in the air>，你一定會愛上George Clooney在劇中的角色。他幽默、自信、得體而且風采迷人，不是被工作牽著走，而是主動享受折一年飛320天以天空為家的生活。不是常人眼中看到的寂寞，而是發自內心享受的孤獨。然而，最後孑然一身回頭望時，卻不自覺得感觸著: (For more information, http://blog.yam.com/YenC/article/31188976)
他更自給自足得提出了空背包理論，把人際視為負荷多些，卻把負荷背後的溫暖隱而不見。電影中有種淡淡得把另外一種人際哲學”every man is an island”點出來，或許所有島嶼的根部終究是和地心相連接，但是在大多數浮出臺面時，我們仍然是一個人面對很多事物的。
How much does your life weigh?
Imagine for a second that you’re carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life… you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV… the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home… I want you to stuff it all into that backpack.
Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office… and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag.
Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living.
Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.
但故事的最後，在他勸妹夫勇敢走進禮堂時，他又情不自禁得說了。
Life’s better with company.
And everyone needs a place called home.
這個轉折和我這次TIGER體驗到的，產生了巨大的共鳴。
先來聊聊八個月的TIGER program讓我學到的東西吧，TIGER, T for talent, 後面我忘了，反正就是把一堆young talent 放在一起藉著上課，實作一個Business idea 的 bp 來培養leadership.
- General Management Skills.
The GM here doesn’t mean ppl. mgmt skill, instead, meaning your thinking toward the business architecture. Since “general”, you have to step back and try to view things in an overall perspective. Your challenge is always “balance”, rather than “purely get things done”.
- Change management.
Change management is a means that western ppl. systemized Chinese politics into science. It’s tough to lead the TIGER team, especially for teams composed of lots of young busy talents. You got 7 team members on day 1, however, months passed, 1 ppl. left the company, 2 ppl. r off the hook, 2 ppl. keep outputing minimal, 2 ppl. working hard for the project. The proportion may keep the same, but different names may jump between groups in the meantime.
The key question here is how to perfectly achieve goal without perfect people and perfect committed resource. Since this not only happens in TIGER program, this happens every momoent when you’d like to lead a change in a big organization.
Eventually, I got my teammates dedicated lot more as 3 ppl. devote themselves into this project and 3 ppl. keep the reactive support with decent quality. Not only the result but also the team chemistry is highly appreciated by executive members.
It’s very similar to what I’ve done in entreprenuer but way harder due to politics. Just give some bullet points here, and we could have further discussion on another day.
