木桶法则和盖子法则（木桶理论新解New）

木桶法则和盖子法则（木桶理论新解New）“我们从来不招完美的人，完美的人就是没有用的人。我一看这个人总是追求完美，就知道他没有希望。”华为招人就是这样，任正非说：现在流行的是“新木桶理论”，也就是长板原理：当你把桶倾斜，你会发现，能装多少水取决于你的长板，也就是你的核心竞争力。当你有了一块长板，你就能围绕这块长板展开布局，谋求更多的利益。

一直以来，我们接受的教育都是“木桶理论”：

一个水桶无论有多高，它盛水的高度都取决于其中最短的那块木板。

于是，我们都在忙着“取长补短”，花大量的时间和精力，去治愈自己的某些“顽疾”。

然而，事实上，在这个分工越来越细的年代，木桶理论早就过时了。

现在流行的是“新木桶理论”，也就是长板原理：

当你把桶倾斜，你会发现，能装多少水取决于你的长板，也就是你的核心竞争力。

当你有了一块长板，你就能围绕这块长板展开布局，谋求更多的利益。

华为招人就是这样，任正非说：

“我们从来不招完美的人，完美的人就是没有用的人。我一看这个人总是追求完美，就知道他没有希望。”

什么都想追求，往往意味着各项资质都很平庸。

而把一件事做到极致，胜过把千万件事做得平庸。

原来，我们都被“木桶理论”给骗了，真正能让你脱颖而出的，其实是“长板原理”。

决定你未来发展前景的，不是所谓的短板，而是你的长板。

All along our education has been "barrel theory":

No matter how high a bucket is the height it holds water depends on the shortest piece of wood.

Therefore we are all busy "learning from each other" and spend a lot of time and energy to cure some of our "stubborn diseases".

However in fact in this era of more and more detailed division of labor the barrel theory has long been out of date.

Now the "new barrel theory" is popular that is the long board principle:

When you tilt the bucket you will find that how much water you can hold depends on your long board that is your core competitiveness.

When you have a long board you can lay out the layout around this long board and seek more interests.

This is how Huawei recruits people. Ren Zhengfei said:

"We never recruit perfect people. Perfect people are useless people. When I saw this person always pursuing perfection I knew he had no hope."

Wanting to pursue everything often means that all qualifications are mediocre.

It is better to do one thing to the extreme than to do thousands of things to mediocrity.

It turned out that we were all cheated by the "barrel theory". What really makes you stand out is the "long board principle".

What determines your future development prospects is not the so-called short board but your long board.