Yamada is a famous marathon runner in Japan and has won two world championships. He said that he would carefully survey the route before each competition, and then set a bank, a big tree, a tall building and other multi-stage goals. After the game started, he went all out to rush to the first goal, and then rushed to the second after reaching it. The whole race is broken down into several small goals, which makes it much easier to run.
Yamada is to break down a complex thing into many small simple things and finally achieve the goal. This is the ability to break down tasks. This ability is especially needed at work. You need to turn a big goal into a small task that can be executed immediately.
For example:
Tesla's boss, elon musk, is a famous Silicon Valley Iron Man. One of his life goals is to send one million people to Mars, because he wants to make human beings a multi-planet species. "One million people immigrate to Mars" is a fantastic vision, which usually only appears in science fiction, but Musk showed his super ability to turn his vision into a task. Musk estimated that the cost of landing on Mars by traditional methods reached $65.438+00 billion per person, and he hoped to reduce the cost to $200,000 per person, which is about equivalent to the price of an ordinary house in the United States. From 65.438+0 billion to 200,000, the cost was reduced by 50,000 times. So how can we do it?
Musk then decomposed: 50000 = 20x 10x 500, so he then turned these numbers into tasks:
20- "I want to reduce the cost by 20 times": At present, a rocket can only transport about five or six people at a time. If the rocket is made big enough, it can send 100 people or more at a time, and the cost can be reduced by 20 times. This is the first number.
10- "Reduce costs tenfold": I am not NASA, but a private enterprise, so I can devote myself to greatly improving our work efficiency, thus reducing operating costs. So the efficiency is increased tenfold, and the cost can be reduced tenfold. This is the second number.
500-"500 times lower": The biggest problem is the last 500. What should I do? Musk gave this idea:
Today's rockets are disposable and will disintegrate as soon as they arrive in the sky, just like taking a taxi. As soon as you get home, your car will be scrapped, and the cost will naturally be scary. If the rocket can be recycled in the future, the cost will naturally drop sharply. So since 20 15, Elon Musk has been trying to recycle rockets. Up to now, rockets have been successfully recovered more than 20 times.
If the spacecraft is directly loaded with the fuel needed for the whole space flight and then launched, the rocket will be very heavy and costly. What shall we do? elon musk said, in space orbit, we should supply the spacecraft. Is to put the spacecraft into space orbit by rocket propulsion first. At this time, there is no need to load so much fuel, as long as it is enough to send the rocket into space. Then the propeller quickly returned to the launch pad, loaded the fuel tank and flew into orbit to refuel the spacecraft. After completing this process, the propeller will return to Earth and the spacecraft will go to Mars.
In this way, Musk believes that reducing the cost by 500 times is no longer out of reach.
Regardless of whether Musk's goal can be achieved in the end, his idea of disassembling the goal into a task is still very bullish. It's a cow who, through task disassembly, makes a fantasy no longer out of reach and makes all mankind see the dawn of realization. Therefore, the ability to decompose tasks is very important, which means that complex things should be decomposed. In fact, it's not just Musk. All companies need to disassemble their goals into tasks that employees can complete. You should be familiar with KPI (Key Performance Indicator). How did KPI come from?
First of all, you should probably know how to succeed. This is the so-called strategy.
Then the strategy is decomposed into the responsibilities of different functional departments;
Then, for the responsibility, find the dimension to measure whether it is achieved;
Then give the dimension and make corresponding figures as indicators;
Then link the indicators to everyone's salary.
This is the basic logic of KPI. So KPI is one of the most common applications of task decomposition.
Speaking of you, how to use task disassembly in daily work? For example, if you develop new markets this year and want to achieve sales of 6.5438+0 million, what should you do?
You can decompose the task as follows:
The sales of the company mainly correspond to individual customers. According to past experience, the sales of 1 10,000 corresponds to the customers of 100.
One year 100 customers, that is, 9 customers are completed every month, 12x9= 108 customers, and 8 extra customers are just in case.
Customers come from telemarketing. Every 200 telephones can have 10 potential customers, and every 20 potential customers can have 1 transaction.
So if there are 9 customers clinching a deal every month, there must be 180 potential customers, that is, 3600 calls are made every month.
2 1 working days a month, so: make 172 calls every day and follow up with 9 potential customers at the same time.
This is the ability to split tasks, that is, to break down complex things.
All right, that's it this time. Let's keep talking about the simple things and do them next time!