How to manage a startup well

It is difficult to manage a big company, but it is not easy to manage a startup. Because startups are often few people, the company boss is both a soldier and a general. The following is my related experience on how to manage a startup company, which I hope will help you. Friends who find it useful can share it with more people!

To manage an enterprise, we must let every employee perform their duties, do their duty and give full play to their strengths.

First of all, an enterprise is composed of many individuals and is a system. Therefore, management enterprises are also managers. Only when every employee is closely United and everyone works hard for the interests of the enterprise can the enterprise maximize its benefits.

The ancients said, "Combining kindness with kindness is also a cure." In other words, in addition to retaining people with benefits, we must also use strict systems to restrain people.

Everyone wants to be valued by others, which is the so-called sense of self-esteem. As long as you satisfy his self-esteem, he will do whatever you want him to do for you. Of course, it must be in the case that he thinks it is cost-effective! In fact, everyone's values are different, just as some people care more about honesty, so there are touching stories to break, blood to flow, and honesty not to be lost. But some people care more about their own practical interests, so there are people who are reviled by future generations? Thieves, traitors and so on.

So! If you want what you want, you must give what others want first. Otherwise it's robbery.

Management methods can be simply summarized as follows:

become enamoured

Be sensible and reasonable.

Forced electric shock

Give it benefits.

Bring them to justice.

This may not be complete, but it is also universal.

Enterprise management has three aspects: human resource management, business management and cultural management. Only when the three go hand in hand can enterprises flourish.

"People, money and things" are the three major elements. As a business manager, you can't do everything yourself, but it still depends on your employees, so employing people is the key.

There is an old saying: "Good martial arts are heavy, and soldiers are also; Those who make good use of soldiers will also; A good general is king. "

1, first of all, you should set an example, abide by the company's various systems, play an exemplary role, and your employees can convince you. Don't think that just because I'm a manager can be casual and undisciplined;

2. Secondly, you should care about your employees, pay more attention to discovering employees' problems and needs (within the scope of work) in your daily work, and try your best to help employees solve problems;

It is important to unite with most employees. Whether you really have a crush on a single employee or not, you should think that you are leading a group. The purpose of uniting employees is to make the company develop in a good direction. Treat employees, all work-oriented, less personal factors.

Only by doing a good job can the company run well and improve the income and treatment of all employees. Let every employee really understand this truth and work hard for it.

Of course, there are still many problems that need attention in practical work. As long as you are good at finding and solving problems, you can gradually improve your management level.

The bosses and managers of all companies need to face this topic. For entrepreneurial companies, I think that as long as we grasp two points, we will not let the start-up companies get into trouble: in the start-up period, enterprises mainly pay attention to two aspects: people and money. In personnel management, formulate attendance system, reward and punishment regulations, salary scheme and other systems. In finance, formulate reimbursement system, cash flow, budget, accounting and cost control system.

In the specific operation, there are the following suggestions:

A, clear enterprise goals, do * * * know people. Entrepreneurs should be clear about the goals of their enterprises. With a goal, there is a direction and a vision, which can greatly reduce the friction in management and operation;

Two, clear "who listens to who" and "who has the final say", and written into official documents. The most fundamental problem in organizational structure design is the distribution of decision-making authority. Therefore, it is very important to clarify the responsibilities of each core member for the smooth progress of management, otherwise the entrepreneurial brotherhood will throw the management into chaos; Third, because of the small scale of the start-up period, many problems can be directly communicated. Everyone should follow the honest and realistic behavior style, put things on the table, and don't fight belly lawsuits;

Fourth, set up a management team within the company. Exchange opinions regularly and discuss issues related to the company's business strategy, such as product development, competitors, internal efficiency and financial status. Generally, a three-level management structure is adopted, including decision-making layer, management layer and ordinary employees;

Five, formulate and strive to abide by the established management system. It must be emphasized that everyone must abide by it, without privilege or change. When the company develops to a certain extent and begins to have strength, it is necessary to realize the defects of its own ability and try its best to hire some management professionals, which will make great achievements.

Special reminder

First, pay attention to financial monitoring.

Research shows that the direct reasons for the failure of many start-ups within one year are poor financial management, too many' bad debts' in accounts receivable and frequent shortage of liquidity. The financial departments of start-ups are often accountants and cashiers, which are totally inadequate to meet so many challenges. Entrepreneurs should pay special attention to financial monitoring, instead of simply taking financial management as "bookkeeping", people with professional skills should be responsible, and there should be corresponding incentive mechanism and assessment system.

Second, avoid the interference of social relations on working relations.

In the start-up period, most employees in the enterprise have kinship, geographical relationship and academic relationship, and there are countless social relationships among them, which affects the normal working relationship in the enterprise to some extent. Enterprise management is often difficult to follow the norms, and the normative system lacks the necessary implementation environment.

Now many enterprises always feel that their own enterprises are difficult to manage. Sales performance can't go up, and employees are busy all day but can't figure out why. All costs can't come down. Enterprises have no image and can't lift their heads.

What does the management really care about?

I have the following views to discuss with you.

Enterprise management is the manager.

Second, enterprise management is concept management.

Third, enterprise management is the management system.

To manage good people, we should start from the following aspects.

1 Corporate culture inculcates employees' mentality and attitude in doing things.

2. Show employees how to do things, how to do things, how to do things.

3. Standardize the post behavior and employee behavior in the enterprise system.

Enterprises should ensure good communication vertically and horizontally from the business process system.

To manage your thoughts well, we should start from the following aspects.

The leadership thinking of 1 must be correct.

2 Enrich the mentality and attitude of doing things around leadership thoughts.

3. Do a good job in corporate culture construction

4. Develop a good employee training and communication system and implement it.

To manage the system well, we should do the following.

1 The design and formulation of the system should conform to the business process and ensure everything is relevant.

2. The design and formulation of the system should conform to the enterprise thought.

The design and formulation of the system should reflect the behavior of enterprises.

The design and formulation of the system should consider the comprehensive interests of enterprises and employees.

The implementation of the system must be faithful and resolute, but we must not forget our roots.

6 The system should be adjusted timely and accurately.

In fact, in the final analysis, whether an enterprise can do well is whether the boss can do well. Only horrible bosses has no bad employees. If the boss can design the above points well, he will not do it badly. I hope it will help your business!

How should start-up companies improve their management ability?

1, clear architecture

The most important thing to take over any department is to sort out or readjust the organizational structure. The key to the architecture is: who is in what position and who is responsible for what content must be clear.

The so-called "clear" means:

Two people are not allowed to cross responsibilities.

Collective leadership is also not allowed.

Fuzzy areas are not allowed.

If something goes wrong, everyone knows who should bear the responsibility. It is clear at a glance who has made achievements.

2, a clear goal

A leader is not the one who decides how to climb a ladder: he is the one who decides which wall to put the ladder on.

So he must clearly point out this direction and convey it to all employees. If this is not done well, even the best team will not produce good results.

3. Without power, there is no responsibility.

There is no such thing as letting horses run and eating grass.

You have clearly entrusted your request, then you should clearly authorize him and invest resources. Otherwise it's not his fault, it's your fault.

An important duty of the boss is to solve problems for subordinates that they cannot solve. What you can provide is actually power and resources. Take advantage of them.

Step 4 visualize

When the team is big, the biggest problem is that you can't see the problem.

Even if the team is small, it needs to form a visual combination of tools and processes. Only in this way can your team be flexible enough.

take for example

Github allows you to see every submission from every programmer.

Problems can let you see the process of solving problems.

Pivotaltracker's burn-out chart can let you see the efficiency of the whole team.

Wechat group lets you communicate in real time.

Wiki-based documents and reports can make everyone know the status of the project at a glance.

You don't really need to follow these, but you need to be able to see them. Only in this way can we master the first-hand materials when something goes wrong. And team members know that his things "may be seen", and the efficiency and quality of execution will be improved.

Visualization also means "symmetry of information". All the above tools and processes can ensure that team members can understand "new things in the project" at the lowest cost. Ensure fast and accurate response.

5, flattening

Don't set too many levels in doing things. Make sure that the person in charge of anything can directly find the person who can make the decision.

6, segmentation and appropriate intermediate results check

It can effectively manage risks by dividing a large project into multiple time points for inspection.

Make sure your test results are not false. The product must be visible, preferably touchable. Introduce some agile management methods to ensure this.

7. Ask for commitment in advance

What is often overlooked in management is that there is no commitment from team members in advance. "The tasks assigned above" are often not well completed. The "promised projects" are different. Although it's probably the same thing.

8. Don't try to change a person.

People are not immutable, but the cost is often not suitable for the company.

If a person can't do well in his post (not in the process of promotion), then the best way is to change him to a more suitable place.

The so-called "potential" and "gradual improvement" are often wishful thinking.

9, want results, don't make excuses.

There are only two results of work: get it or not.

If it's not settled, I want to hear about the loss. Is there any way to remedy it? How much more investment is needed?

As for why you screwed up, what blood was in it? Don't report to me. There is no point in reporting these things afterwards.

10, continuous improvement

"Improvement" is one of the core of management methods. The world is changing rapidly. What works today may fail tomorrow. Observe the team, find problems and make continuous improvement.