What is the difference between colleagues and friends?

Everyone has his or her own circle of friends. The relationships between people are as complex as roads. So today we are going to talk about what friends and colleagues are like and what is the difference between the two?

Create value for the company

Every day when we go to work, we are surrounded by colleagues. Our colleagues include our superiors, our peers, and our subordinates. We are in the same company, working for the same goal - to make the company profitable, to create value for society; to get higher rewards for personal labor, and to live a good life. We all come to the company from different places and different paths, and it is also fate to be able to work together. We must cherish this fate. And friends are confidants, people who are compatible with us. Friends understand us, help us, accompany us, and are even willing to stick their necks out for us. Friends are very demanding and rare. A celebrity said: It is enough to have a confidant in life. Colleagues can become friends, and friends can also become colleagues. Colleagues who can become friends are better, but if they cannot become friends, they have to work together. Friends pay attention to friendship, and colleagues pay attention to principles.

Since we are colleagues and work together in an organization, we must abide by the organization's discipline and work together for the organization's goals. The biggest goal of an enterprise is efficiency, which includes company efficiency and personal benefits. To achieve efficiency, we must improve efficiency, including work efficiency and production efficiency. How can efficiency be improved? How can efficiency be achieved? It is nothing more than sticking to the goal, doing everything possible, overcoming difficulties, and moving forward. In this process, systems and execution are particularly critical.

Institutional management is conducive to company growth

General Secretary Xi Jinping promotes "rule of law". For enterprises, the system is the "law" of the enterprise. Managing people and affairs according to the system is the basis for enterprises to maintain good operation. Especially for old enterprises, due to the complex relationships, outdated concepts and heavy inertial thinking, the system is the guarantee for good internal management. The management system of the enterprise must be fully improved and revised to make the system as "reasonable" and "scientific" as possible. The fairness and effectiveness of the system are very important. Whoever violates the system must be punished. Everyone is equal before the system. Leaders must first take the lead in abiding by the system and maintain the authority and dignity of the system. Otherwise, the system will become a decoration, a scarecrow, and a toothless tiger. A good system is always more important than a good leader. If the system is imperfect and has loopholes, so that some behaviors are lucky enough to escape, the system can be revised and improved, and the system will not blame the past. The revision of the system must follow a certain procedure and cannot be arbitrary. If there is a system, it must be followed and the process specified by the system must be followed. Short circuits in the process or reversals of the process are not allowed. In accordance with the requirements of the "four management", namely proceduralization, standardization, institutionalization, and scientificization, we must strengthen system construction, promote refined management, and strive to improve the management level.

Relationships need to be sorted out

As an employee, you must clearly distinguish between the relationship between "friends" and "colleagues". Outside the office, you can be friends, based on friendship and affection, and you can come and go as you please; but inside the office, you are colleagues, and you must abide by principles and rules. Colleagues represent the interests of the company, represent hierarchical relationships, and represent responsibilities and authority. They cannot be used for exchange or as favors. If you violate the system, I, as a manager, must punish you. Don't say that I don't give you face, it's you who didn't give me face first; don't say that I'm sorry for you, it's you who's sorry for me first. This is the difference between friends and colleagues, and it is also the concept we should actively advocate.

Maybe we can't be good friends, but we can be good colleagues, working together for the prosperity of the company and for our personal happiness.