Talk about the team spirit of ants. On the vast and thirsty African grasslands, antelopes are running - the lions are coming!
The lion is ducking - the elephant is angry!
Groups of lions and elephants are running for their lives collectively - that's the ant army coming!
The reason why the ant army is strong is because of the power of the team! Although lions and elephants are strong, they are only as strong as individuals!
We may all be lions and elephants, but we may not be able to defeat an efficient army composed of weak ants!
The concept of "ant army" pioneered by Philip Hoss has become synonymous with "team spirit" and "cooperation consciousness". The book "Ant Army" has become the best training material for modern enterprises on how to strengthen team building, how to enhance team cohesion, and how to ensure the team's long-term competitive advantage.
What is team spirit?
Team spirit is a value orientation and psychological state shared by a group of people. Emphasis is placed on team fighting rather than individual fighting or individual heroism. All individual behaviors must give way or obey and serve the interests of the team as a whole.
Six elements of team spirit:
(1) Awareness of collaboration among team members. Team members must have the awareness and mentality of mutual cooperation, recognize the value and significance of cooperation, and make it clear that only cooperation can achieve a win-win situation. Without cooperation, everyone will suffer losses. Unity and collaboration are the source of team spirit. Without a good sense of unity and collaboration, it will be difficult for a team to create core competitiveness and long-term competitive advantages.
(2) Realize the value of each member. It is necessary to give full play to the strengths of each member, and mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of each member's work through different rewards and punishments. Every member is willing to give up himself, devote himself wholeheartedly and devote his talents to the collective and the team's common goals and vision.
(3) Barrier-free communication within the team. A successful team not only needs to strengthen internal unity and collaboration, but also strengthen communication within the team. Through effective communication and communication, we can strengthen mutual trust and understanding and clarify our respective responsibilities.
(4) Team members have the courage to take responsibility. Hold team members accountable through communication. Whether a team can agree on empowering employees will largely determine the success or failure of the team's career.
(5) Trust and sharing among team members. Mutual trust is the premise and foundation of unity.
(6) The team needs innovation from every member. Continuously encourage team members to innovate and improve their risk tolerance, so that they can have the courage to try and work boldly in the face of challenging tasks, and create a team with core competitiveness.
"There is no perfect individual, only a perfect team."
Some scientists have done experiments. In groups and companies with team spirit, if the IQ of employees is only 100, then the overall IQ of the team will exceed 120, or even higher. If there is no team spirit, then even if the IQ of the employees in this company and this team exceeds 100, when these people are put together, the overall IQ will be only 60-70, which shows that team spirit is very important.
As the division of labor in enterprises in today's society becomes more and more detailed, in the actual competitive environment of enterprises, it is impossible for anyone to complete all the work independently, nor can it be significantly improved solely by one's own strength. The competitiveness of an enterprise, what each person can achieve is only a small part of the overall goal of the enterprise. Therefore, team work and the development of team strength have become necessary conditions for winning corporate competition. Team spirit has increasingly become an important factor in corporate culture. An excellent team can enable a company to achieve its business goals faster and achieve greater success. High customer satisfaction.
The example of "Ant Army" vividly reflects the value of a team.
We can learn a lot of management knowledge from ants.
Ants can organize themselves when they gather, and they can form a good team without the supervision of any leader. More importantly, they can quickly adjust to changes in the environment and find answers to solve problems. Ants can always find the shortest path to carry food home. When food is found, two ants leave the nest at the same time and take two routes to the food. Those that come back faster will release more pheromones as markers along their route. Therefore, when other companions smell a stronger smell, they will naturally take a shorter route. This division of labor model in ants relies on two simple principles: leaving behind pheromone, and following the footsteps. By applying this simple principle, complex problems can be solved. Another division of labor model of ants is flexible division of labor. When an ant walks back carrying food, when it encounters the next ant, it will give the food to it, and then turn back. When it encounters the ant upstream, it will take the food and pass it to the next ant. It is not certain where the ant will change hands. The only fixed points are the starting point and the destination.
Ants also have the spirit of "sacrifice the small self for the sake of the greater self", which allows them to overcome many severe natural disasters.
British scientists put a plate of lit mosquito coils into an ant nest. At first, the ants in the nest were terrified. About 20 seconds later, many ants saw the difficulty and rushed toward the fire, spraying formic acid. But the amount of formic acid sprayed by an ant is limited after all. As a result, some "warriors" perished in the flames. But they fought one after another, and in less than a minute, they finally put out the fire. The survivors immediately moved the body of their "comrade" to a nearby "cemetery" and covered it with a thin layer of soil for burial. A month later, the zoologist placed a lit candle in the original ant nest for observation. Although the "fire" was bigger this time, Ant had experience this time, dispatched troops quickly, and coordinated operations in an orderly manner. In less than a minute, the candle flame was extinguished and no ants were killed. Scientists believe ants perform miracles in extinguishing fires. The extraordinary behavior of ants facing extinction is particularly shocking. When a wildfire breaks out, in order to escape, many ants quickly gather into a ball, and then roll quickly like a snowball to escape the sea of ????fire. The crackling sound of burning is the cry of the ants in the outermost layer as they use their bodies to carve out a path of survival. It is the cry of working hard without any regrets.
When the flood was raging, people gathered on the embankment and stared at the ferocious waves. Suddenly someone exclaimed: "Look, what is that?" A black dot that resembled a human head floated along the waves, and everyone was preparing to rescue it when they got closer. "That's an ant ball." An old man said, "Ants are very spiritual. One year there was a flood, and I saw an ant ball as big as a basketball. When the flood came, the ants quickly formed a ball. Drifting with the waves. Some of the ants on the outer layer of the ant ball will be knocked into the water by the waves, but as long as the ant ball can land or hit a large drifting object, the ants will be saved soon. , the ants were like soldiers on a landing craft docked at the beach, opening up layer by layer, quickly and orderly rushing up the embankment row by row. A large ant ball was left in the water on the shore. Those are the heroic sacrifices from the inner layer of the ant ball. They could no longer climb ashore, but their bodies were still hugging each other tightly, so calm and tragic. This is the spirit of the ant team.