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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 138
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
We are never satisfied with the way that everything is done in any part of the organization; we always think it ought to be done better and that eventually it will be done better. The spirit of crowding forces the man who has the qualities for a higher place eventually to get it. He perhaps would not get the place if at any time the organization--which is a word I do not like to use--became fixed, so that there would be routine steps and dead men's shoes. But we have so few titles that a man who ought to be doing something better than he is doing, very soon gets to doing it--he is not restrained by the fact that there is no position ahead of him "open"--for there are no "positions." We have no cut-and-dried places--our best men make their places. This is easy enough to do, for there is always work, and when you think of getting the work done instead of finding a title to fit a man who wants to be promoted, then there is no difficulty about promotion. The promotion itself is not formal; the man simply finds himself doing something other than what he was doing and getting more money.
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定位：Additional excerpt 138 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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福特说，他们对组织任何部分的工作方式从不满意，总认为能做得更好，最终也会更好。这种不断挤压的劲头，会让有更高能力的人最终得到那个位置。如果组织僵化，有固定晋升步骤和“死人的鞋子”（即要等别人腾位），他可能就上不去。但福特公司头衔少，该做更好工作的人很快就能去做，不会因为前面没有“空缺职位”而被挡住——因为根本没有固定“职位”。他们没有刻板岗位，最好的人自己创造位置。这容易做到，因为总有工作；当你想着把活干完，而不是找个头衔安在想晋升的人头上，晋升就不难。晋升也不正式，人只是发现自己干着别的事，拿更多钱。
上下文
福特描述公司如何让能者快速上位：没有固定职位，靠不断改进和主动补位。
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你是在等一个“空缺职位”，还是主动把该做的工作做得更好，让自己创造位置？
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