We’ve heard of the catfish effect and the broken window effect.

Catfish effect

Catfish effect refers to the sardines in the way of transport, in order to prevent sardines from dying, put a catfish next to it, to improve the survival rate of sardines.

Broken window

Broken Windows effect refers to that in a building with a few broken Windows, if these broken Windows are not repaired in time, there will be more and more broken Windows

Application in enterprise

So in our daily business management these two effects are reflected in what aspects

Catfish effect application

Employees are like sardines, they lose their passion for work after long hours and it’s time to find a catfish among employees to boost the team’s vitality. The reason sardines improve survival in the catfish effect is because the catfish nearby puts pressure on the sardines to move up and down. The same is true for selecting catfish among employees. This employee can bring pressure to other employees, whether it is technical ability or management ability, and finally can bring a reasonable and legitimate competitive atmosphere to the team

Application of broken window effect

Some small problems in daily work will eventually become a big problem if they can’t be solved in time and let them develop. Let’s take an example from our daily requirements review meetings. There are often questions about requirements. So we would ask questions and the product would answer them patiently and then after all the questions were answered the whole review meeting went on for an afternoon, which was a waste of people’s time because everybody was sitting around and reviewing, It’s not your question it’s someone else’s question and when the product answers your question it takes up someone else’s time. If this problem is not addressed, it will lead to a lack of productivity for the entire team. The solution is that if the topic only needs two people then the two people can discuss it in private afterwards rather than in the meeting.

conclusion

To sum it up:

  1. Be sure to identify the catfish in your group to boost your energy

  2. When a problem arises, it must be resolved in a timely manner otherwise it will lead to other problems or escalate into bigger problems.