🚌 "Bus Theory" (The Bus Theory)

🚌 "The Bus Theory."

When seating is limited... why shouldn't you get "everyone" in the car?

(The lesson "selecting people, managing time, and organizing life energy" on the day when "the right person" is the most important strategic resource)

In a working world now full of volatility, speed and unkind competition, the classic ideas from Jim Collins' Good to Great return to even greater meaning, especially the most powerful sentences of that book.

Before asking, "Where are we going?" the leader must first answer, "Who are we going with?"

One bus is never designed to accept all kinds of people, as well as the time, energy, emotional capacity, and the ability to take care of the people of the leader. Every seat is costly, and every seat that chooses the "wrong person" slows the whole car down, "sometimes to the point of getting lost."

The choice of companion is not a matter of presumptuousness, but of "strategy" to determine how far this car will go and whether the leader will still have enough power for the important task?

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💺 1. Seat is limited = "opportunity cost that leaders must dare accept."

In fact, many leaders "know" that there are people who should not be in the car, but "do not dare" to make decisions because of a relationship trap, regret, or sloppy hope that they may be better someday.

But the iron rule of running a team is

"Every seat occupied by the wrong person = keeping the seat of the person out."

This is the most brutal reality in people management, and it is true that large organizations around the world learn from real experience over and over again.

When the "non-man" stays on the car too long, what happens?

* The team slows down because it has to solve the same problem.

* A good person lowers the fire because he has to carry a job that is not his own.

* Negative team atmosphere because negative energy always spreads fast

* Important work was pulled out because leaders had to solve Drama rather than Strategy.

In the real world, the people who hurt the team's speed the most are not the ones who can't work... but the ones who don't admit guilt, don't fix and don't develop.

Professional leaders must therefore be "intentionally recruited" and "modestly moved out" to protect the environment of both this car.

The car that goes a long way is not the most crowded car, but the car that the people on the car are "the most consistent."

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🔄 2 "Cars can be made... they can be made down" (Normalize the Exit as a culture, not a drama).

One of the misunderstandings of Thai corporate culture is "resignation = betrayal," when, in fact, getting off is the nature of the work cycle, as well as changing the course of the bus.

Why should someone get out of the car?

* He fits the smooth way but is not ready during the uphill.

* He fits the old path but no longer cares about the new path of the organization.

* He will go further in another car that answers his dream.

A good relationship is a relationship that respects each other's path.

The role of the leader is

"Our front sign will turn left. If you want to go right, go down this sign. Nobody's wrong."

The role of the passenger is

"Does this car still solve my life goals?"

So getting out of the car is not a betrayal, but a "return of energy, time and life space" to both sides so that each person continues on their own optimal path, and many times... people who get out of the car today may even get back in the next three years more appropriately.

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🧭 3. When the destination is unclear... measure the team from the "quality of the person next to you."

This era, the business route changed faster, the certainty disappeared, the map became obsolete faster than before, and many times the leaders only saw the route 50-100 meters ahead.

When "direction" changes all the time, the most important thing is not the plan, but the person who is ready to wade with you.

The pattern of passengers that determines the bus fate?

1. If full of people waiting for orders...

* You'll be tired because it has to be "everyone's GPS" all the time.

* Work slows down because everything has to be approved.

* Creativity disappears because no one dares to start first

2. But if full of Ownership...

* He'll think instead, not wait for you to think alone

* He will rise to solve problems even if the plan is not complete.

* They'll help each other "push the car" when the car gets stuck, not wait for the boss to decide.

* He will take the car through a challenging route, even without seeing a clear destination.

On an unpredictable path, someone who "acts first" always creates an advantage over someone who "waits for clarity first."

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✨ So, "Is your time too expensive to sit with someone who isn't?"

All Our Life Buses have limited seating, and the distance is never stretched to accommodate unnecessary passengers.

So it's time for us

* Stop towing people who don't want to walk

* Stop explaining repeatedly to those who don't listen carefully.

* Stop being in a car that runs in a direction that doesn't match our lives.

Our values are most prolific when we are among the "right people" at the "right time" on the path we choose.

And if your car is getting unusually heavy today... look at the back seat honestly, is it time to open the door for anyone?

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Reference

* The book "Good to Great" by Jim Collins studies the factors that make a "good" company into a "great" company. He and his research team found that success does not come from a strategy, but from a strong corporate culture that encourages people to think and act to be pushed. The book also introduces key ideas such as Level 5 Leadership, Confronting the Brutal Facts, and creating a culture that focuses on discipline.

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