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演员，企业中的癌细胞

Actors, cancer cells in the enterprise

被毒蛇咬了一口相比，一个人得癌症死亡是一个缓慢的过程。癌细胞增长迅速，发育成肿瘤，若不及时治疗，边要扩散的全身，人就要死了。以此比喻，一个企业里要是癌细胞开始迅速发育，若不及时治疗，企业也离破产倒闭不远了。

In comparison with the poisonous snake bite, A personal cancer death is a slow process. Cancer cells growth, growth in a tumor, if not treated in time, spread to the whole body, who is going to die. As an analogy, a business to the cancer cells began a rapid growth, if not treated in time, the business bankruptcy is not far away.

演员，是企业里的一种癌细胞。

An actor, is a kind of cancer in the organization.

一个雇员在企业里工作，出卖时间、体力、技术或技能来换取工资报酬。从人的经济学本性来讲，在报酬不变的情况下付出的越少，相对回报就越多。而演员是这样一种雇员，他们通过表演来掩盖其相对较少、很少、乃至为零的付出，来达到报酬最大化的目的。之所以称其为演员，是因为其行为是伪装的、虚假的。他们不懂装懂、装做很重要、装做很忙、装做很高深、装做很团队合作、装做很。。。。。。总之，他上班就是在表演，故称之为演员，而公司里的大小会议乃至下班小聚就是其表演的舞台，或只有一个观众如有必要也会表演。演员可以是公司里任何一个人，可以是CEO，也可以是工程师、销售人员、行政人员，等等。

An employee in an organization sells his/her time, physical, technical or skills in exchange for wage payment. From an economics perspective, under fixed payment, the less the effort one contribute, the more relative returns will be. The actor is one of the employees, through their show, they cover for their relatively small, very little, and even to zero effort, to maximize their pay. It is said that it is an actor/actress, and is due to the fact that its behavior is false or fake. They pretend to know what they know nothing about, pretend to be very important, very busy, very deep, and very much a team player, pretend to be … … In short, he/she is at work in the show, therefore called actress/actor. In the company, all meetings, big or small and even social activity after work, are all the performance stage, or even if there is only one audience the show will continue. An actor can be any person in a company, can be the CEO, can also be an engineer, sales personnel, administrative staff, and so on.

在family business家庭事业里如果老板除非想自欺欺人一般是不会当为说的这种演员的，这种演员不是指痛哭流涕或大笑等表演。他们的表演手段如下：

In a family business, unless you want to deceive oneself as well as others, the employer in general is not as such an actor, this actor is not burst into tears or laughing, Their performances means are as follows:

1. 彰显夸大自己的工作成功。即使他的工作成果和其他人一样多，他要让大家或他的老板知道他干了很多。这种人一般都很健谈很幽默。

1. Exaggerate the success of his/her work. Even if the results of the work the same as the others, he/she would like to let people or the boss know that he has done a lot. Such people are generally very talkative and very humorous.

    

1. 巧妙的将其他人的工作成果算成自己的。最低级的做法是直接撒谎，高级的做法是通过复杂的汇报、评估、考核等等手段，让上级认为他干了很多或工作主要是他干的，而实际上默默工作的人干了大部分工作。

1. Cleverly harvest the results of the work of other people their own. The minimum level of practice is a direct lie, and the advanced practice is the complexity of the reporting, assessment, evaluation, and so on, report to the higher level managers that he has done a lot or work or mainly did the work. The fact is: the silence people did of the majority of the work.

1. 巧妙地贬低或损毁别人的工作成果。最低级的做法还是直接撒谎，较高明的做法是让上级知道其他人出了多少错误，或者把过程中的错误都按到别人头上。把别人贬低了自己自然就突出了。

1. Cleverly belittle or damage someone else's work. The minimum level of practice is again a direct lie. The more sophisticated approach is to let his superiors know that other people have the wrong number, or the process of the error is by others. By belittling others, their own are naturally highlighted.

以上三条还是算是危害比较小的。因为路遥知马力，大家相处时间长了自然看得出谁干的多谁干的少。危害更大的是如下的高级演员（往往是地位较高的经理总监等等）手段：

The above article 3, the hazard/harm is relatively small. Because of the distance will know the horses. We know people well after a long time naturally, we know at work who did many who did less. The greater risks are the following advanced performers (often higher-status Manager Director, etc. ) means:

1）把简单的事情复杂化，搞很多流程、安排很多人参与、申请很大的预算和时间。这就像用膨大剂把一个苹果弄到西瓜那么大。这种事情在许多大公司里天天发生。比如要建一条生产线，工程师真正干活的只有几个人，但项目管理呀、助理呀、协调呀、评估呀、考核呀、检查呀倒是弄了十几个人，然后一周里只有两天在干活，其余都在写报告呀、PPT呀、评审呀、汇报呀、填表呀、开会呀、修改报告再评审呀、相关部门踢皮球呀、跑领导签字呀、领导出差大家都等着呀。。。。。。本来只需三周时间五百万搞定的事花了三个月两千万才搞定。事情看上去轰轰烈烈，负责人当然就显得很了不起。

1) Make simple things more complicated, make many more processes, arrangements a lot more people involved in, and apply for a lot of budget and time. This is like to apply swelling agent to an Apple to make it lake a watermelon. That kind of thing occurs in many large companies daily. For example, to build a production line, only a few engineers are really needed, but the project management, assistant, coordination, assessment, evaluation, inspection… you got more than a dozen of individuals, for a week, only two days are at work, and the rest of it are in writing the report, PPT, review it, report on it, and fill in a forms, meetings, and then modify the report and review it again, and related departments kicked ball, running for manager signatures, waiting because of manager’s unavailability etc… It would have only needed just 3 weeks and 5 million dollars to complete, now took 3 months and over 20 million dollars. It looks Spectacular, the Officer-in-Charge of course looked very remarkable.

2）抓毛病。这里不符合规定、那里不符合标准、这里对兄弟部门影响很大、那里需要重新评估做方案。这样就显得他很了不起。

Looking for mistakes. Here is not in compliance with the rules, there does not comply with standards; here has major impact to brother departments, there needs to be re-evaluated for a different program. So he looked being quite remarkable.

3）掩盖问题。现在大公司往往都是很官僚的汇报和考核模式，就造成一些考核专家和汇报专家，纸面上业绩辉煌，而实际上问题多多。然后由于部门多、环节多、时间长，所有问题容易被搞得复杂化和扭曲，把问题推给其他部门或供应商，甚至把问题弄成大家都认可都“就这样了”。

3) Conceal problems. Now the company is often in very bureaucratic reporting and evaluation mode. As a result, some review experts and expert reports are brilliant performance on the paper, and the fact is that there are many problems. And then because there are many departments, number of links, the time is long, and all the problems can easily be in a complicated and distorted; and the problem is pushed to other departments or suppliers, or even the issues be into all recognized that the it is so.

4）搞似是而非的噱头。演员把这种工作吹得多么重要，然后花很多钱、很多人和很长时间来干这些无用的工作。比较有趣的例子是学习丰田精益生产方法。你看，谁敢说行业龙头的成功业绩是假的么？JIT，看板，持续改进，等等，在丰田都是很成功的实例呀。领导说好，我们干吧。于是请咨询公司来诊断做方案做培训、请大学教授来讲课，增加人手高薪聘请专家级经理和指导，雇佣咨询公司入厂常驻，改造车间，改造流程，等等，演员自己地位大幅上升工资大幅提高，几年搞下来工厂不但效率没提高质量反而不如从前了。演员有本事把惨败说成辉煌胜利跳槽到另一家公司继续当演员。

And it is not a gimmick. An actor boosts how important such work see, and then spend a lot of money, involve a lot of people and a long time to do the stuff that is really useless. A very interesting example is learning Toyota lean production methods. As you can see, who will dare to say that industry leaders in successful performance is FALSE? JIT, Kanban, continuous improvement, and so on and so forth, the Toyota is a very successful examples. The manager said: Good, we do it. Thus, the Advisory Company does diagnostic program to do training, university professors to give lectures, and an increase in staff and high salaries to recruit expert-level managers, and directors, and employ consulting company stay in the factory, the alteration of the shop, and transformation of processes, and so on and so forth, but the actors their own status has greatly increased, wage increased, and in a few years and the factory efficiency did not increase but the quality is not as good as in previous years. The actor has the ability to defeat a splendid victory switched to another company to be an actor

比如某国际知名汽车公司在破产前，各部门的考核都很是优秀优良，但最后公司破产了。他们搞生产质量，6西格玛、2毫米工程，理论高深到你读三个博士不一定弄得明白，公司里靠其吃饭的专家就好几百个。你随便请一个专家来讲讲，把你唬得一愣一愣的，结果做出来的产品品质是行业里数一数二烂的。这样的公司不破产真是没有天理了。

A world-renowned automobile company for example, before the bankruptcy, the performance evaluation of all departments are excellent or good, but in the end the company went bankrupt. They engaged in production quality, Six Sigma, 2 mm engineering, the theory is so advanced that even you got three doctoral degrees but still cannot understand; there are hundreds of experts collecting pay checks relying on the programs.   If you just ask an expert to give you some highlights, you are bluffed dazing like a stupidly children. The results came out of the program were that the product quality became one of the worst in the industry. That really would be no justice if such companies do not go bankrupt.

我们大家都讲究健康生活预防癌症，要保持健康生活的习惯，保持心情愉快，等等。企业也是如此，要抑制演员这种雇员在企业内部滋生繁衍，重要的是保持企业文化的健康、保持企业内部道德的纯洁性。让好细胞压制癌细胞，让好员工压制演员。讲求实事求是、踏实稳妥、鼓励实干苦干、压制花里胡哨和噱头。这一切都要从企业一把手做起。

We all pay attention to healthy living to prevent cancer, such as maintaining a healthy life habits, maintaining a good mood, and so on. For enterprises it should be so as well. To suppress the actors of the employees to start and multiply within the organization, it is important to maintain a healthy corporate culture and to maintain the purity of ethics. Let the good cells to suppress cancer cells, so that good people suppress actor. Emphasis on realistic, practical and secure, encouraging push hard, pressing the bells and whistles and gimmicks.