三个关键 让你变成A级人才

你是老板用过即丢,没事“非你不可”的B级员工?还是取代性低,不断成长的A级员工?三个关键,让你升级为“职场A咖”。

台湾失业率去年底破五%,今年一月上升到五.三一%,创历年同月新高。美国二月失业率八.一%,创二十五年来新高,估计年底还将上探九.四%。中国去年第四季城镇登记失业比例达四.二,%,创三年来新高。

一连串令人怵目惊心的数字,让目前还保有工作的人担忧,这饭碗还能捧多久?因为担忧,因此都为保住饭碗加倍努力。但是,努力方向对了吗?

日本管理杂志《The 21》指出,一流努力术,能让你不断加值,成为A级人才。若采取的是二流努力术,虽然很拚命,却只能成为随时可被取代的B级人才。A级抑或B级,取决于三项关键。

关键一 拉大与他人的差异化,提高自己在职场的能见度,避免成为“Me Too”型员工。

许多人以为,自己只要够努力,上司一定看得见,而且也会受到同事肯定。然而,如果你做的只是跟别人差不多的“Me Too”式工作,无论多努力,也只是众多蚂蚁的其中一只,不容易被上司看见,被取代的可能性也高。

差异化,在职场开创蓝海

解决方案是,要懂得提高自己的独特性,在职场开创蓝海,创造自己“Only One”的价值。以自己的兴趣为基础,培养工作以外的知识与know-how,当机会到来时,将会帮助你发挥意想不到的价值。

日本第二大便利超商Lawson社长新浪刚史建议,不让自己成为企业“用了就丢”的员工,大量吸收资讯,是最简单而有效的方法。预算够的,把薪水固定拨一部份买书与杂志,预算较紧的,常跑图书馆。
“每天花三十分钟阅读,将决定你十年后的自己,”他说。

关键二 分阶段、设时程,每周列出待办事项。

有的人充满干劲,认为不被裁员的方法,就是不管什么事都揽过来做,比别人晚下班,表现出一副很积极认真的样子就行;事实上,员工没成长,无法提供老板新的刺激,即便能留下来,也永无晋升之日。

追求成长,管道很多。美国行销专家法拉利(Keith Ferrazzi)在《别自个儿用餐》(Never Eat Alone)一书中指出,每一餐经营一份关系,对于个人的成长和人脉网的建立,成效惊人。而公司的资深前辈,便是最好的吃饭对象。他们对企业的了解、人生的历练、应对的圆融,是一个再怎么聪明、反应快的年轻人也比不上的。列出你的挖宝对象,有系统地透过一起吃饭及其他机会,向他们请益。

勤挖宝,让自己迅速成长

曾在二○○四年入选《Fortune》杂志〈全球最有影响力的五十位女性〉,前宝碱副总裁和田浩子便是向资深同事挖宝最好的例子。

和田刚进日本宝碱之初,担任行销部助理品牌经理。原以为上司会教她经营品牌的种种战略,但上司经常忙得不见人影。她深感不能等人来教,必须自己积极学习,于是,她设定每周待办事项(To Do List),规划在公司的中长期目标,努力于被交办的工作,积极请教资深前辈,即使上司没教,她也能交出令人满意的工作成果。三年半后,她便获得擢升。

关键三 训练多元思考力,找出同一问题的不同答案。

今年初,《日经商业周刊》到东京的趋势科技总部采访董事长张明正,问他对日本人才的看法。张明正说,日本社员的优点是阅读、书写、计算等基础能力佳,缺点则是意志决定力偏弱、不愿说真话、过度害怕失败、不敢冒险、对女性有偏见。更糟的是,往往认为每个问题都只有一个答案。

趋势科技的用人思维是,人的能力分正向与负向,正负向能力会将人的某些优势抵消,剩下的才是企业真正可用的才能。

大阪艺术大学教授冈田斗司夫对此深表同感。他建议,为了增加自己的优势,要常练习多元式思考能力,从正向、反向、旁向来做不同角度的思考,往往可以得到不同的面向的答案,增加对同一件事不同层次的理解。

例如,与其思考“我投入这样的努力,就可以得到怎样的成果”,不如反推回去“要达到那样的成果,我应该投入哪些努力”。这两种思维是不一样的。前者是单向的、受限的、不清楚的,后者是开放思考,能厘清更清楚的定义,并寻求可行且有用的答案。常训练这样的多元思考,成果会显示在你的职场表现上,比别人更多一分不同的可能性。

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Exchange 2010 (codenamed Exchange 14) is available for download today

Ho ho, just three days after we migrated to Exchange 2007, there comes Exchange 2010.
 
The first public beta of the next Exchange generation is made available for download today.

Exchange 2010 (codenamed Exchange 14) can be downloaded here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7

 
Exchange 2010 official website unveiled:
 

Never ever install this kind of software! There is no free lunch!

近来, 文学城没有了跳出式广告, 却引进了如下的恶意软件链接.

Recently, a website I access everyday started popping up this kind of message.  Be careful, the ‘antivirus’ software it introduces is Trojan malware, which could affect your system very badly.

Here is how it looks, gets your attention, and eventually lets you install the software.

You will see this pop-up first.  What?  My PC is affected.  I don’t believe you, close this pop-up.

Clicking the ‘X’ or ‘Cancel’ or whatever will bring you to the next window.  Is this your system?  See it again?  I don’t think so.  Close the window.

Again, it won’t close, just gives you another pop-up message.  You know, at this stage you cannot get rid of it, just click ‘Cancel’ or ‘X’.

Another pop-up, actually this is not a pop-up, just another web page from securedvirusscanner.com.  See, it can scan your system so quickly.  Too good to be true.  Don’t believe it, just try to close the window.

It will give your warning again,

and again.

Finally, it will show you what it wanted you to do.  DO NOT CLICK RUN!!!  If you download and run the exe, your PC will become a zombie.

Just click ‘Cancel’, this time you can close it.  Don’t forget to run a legitimate virus scan after all, and also tell your friends to be careful.  There is no free lunch, just buy one from a decent software vendor.

There are two websites talk about this malware site, it seems there is solution if your PC got affected.  You need to know how to modify Windows registry and there is no prove of the solution, also I do NOT encourage you download the “automatic remover” from these websites.  You either do it manually by yourself or give it to someone you can trust.

Here are the websites:

http://remove-malware.net/how-to-remove-securedvirusscannercom-hijacker/

http://windowsprotection.net/how-to-remove-securedvirusscannercom-hijacker-securedvirusscannercom-removal-guide/

This is my daily job, part of.

"Unlike other products, ISA and TMG firewalls can be configured to work in an almost unlimited number of deployment scenarios. For each scenario, the ISA or TMG firewall brings in a number of options and settings that you have to understand and think about, so that you have the optimal configuration to meet the deployment’s design goals."
 
— Dr. Shinder