11 July 2024

Don Hellriegel 等人(Organizational Behavior 2005)的组织行为学一书中介绍了 David McClelland 的成就激励模型,提到成就高的人通常不会选择极难的目标,也不会选择极易的目标,而是选择难度适合自己的目标。这就是孙子所说的知己知彼百战不殆。

High achievers avoid selecting extremely difficult goals. They prefer moderate goals that are neither so easy that attaining them provides no satisfaction nor so difficult that attaining them is more a matter of luck than ability. They gauge what is possible and then select as difficult a goal as they think they can attain.

这里用到 attain ,意思是实现、达到。它源自拉丁语 attingere ,ad-/at-前缀表示 at ,to; tangere 表示触及。触及到,就是达到了。

Don Hellriegel 还写道:

Employees should think about setting realistic goals and the ways that they can attain them.

员工应该考虑设置一个现实的目标和方式,这样他们就能实现这些目标。我们平时学习工作中,应该给自己设置一些能力所及的目标,一个一个地完成这些小目标,等到回头看,已经走了很远了。

比如,我从三年前就设定每年提交三个专利申请的小目标,这几年每年提交三到四个专利,累积下来已经有七八个国际专利提交专利局公示了。昨天,公司的专利创新评审部门已经邀请我去评审别人提交的专利。也就是说,我从一个创新者成为了一个创新评审者。这是我从来没有想到的。三年前面对全公司各个业务部门的技术老大介绍自己的专利紧张得很,没想到,现在我成了他们一员去评审别人的创新想法了。

References

Organizational Behavior. 2005. South-Western College Pub.