Definition
A goldfish bowl is made of glass, which is so transparent that the inside of the bowl is clear from any angle. The "goldfish bowl effect" can also be described as the "transparency effect". It is a metaphor for a democratic model of governance with a high degree of transparency.
Originality
The "goldfish bowl effect" was originated by Mr. Mitsuo Kitada, president of Japan's Best Electric Co. Mr. Kitada emphasized the importance of transparency by focusing on the financial income of managers at all levels, requiring leaders at all levels to disclose their financial income and expense reimbursements to stakeholders, accepting criticism and suggestions from stakeholders, and making improvements to management based on the opinions of employees.
Examples
At present, the business community often adopts the "open and honest management method", whose philosophical basis is the same as the "goldfish bowl law", that is, "open and honest". The philosophical basis is the same as the "goldfish bowl rule", which is "openness and honesty". Starks was one of the pioneers of the Open and Honest Management Method, and was honored with the Corporate Credibility Award for his outstanding ethical performance and exemplary performance. When Stark took over the reins of Springfield Reorganization Corporation (SRC), SRC had just separated from its parent company, International Harvest Corporation, and the company was in a precarious state of affairs. Stark believed that the only way to keep the company on track for the long term was to base it on the truth. Stark believed that the only way to keep the company in business for a long time was to base it on the truth. He decided to let every employee in the company to understand the company's overall business situation. He taught his employees to read and understand the company's financial statements, and he published the company's books and financial information on a regular basis, so that everyone in the company knew where the company stood and what it wanted to do in the future.
Anyone who has ever kept an ornamental fish knows that a large tank is better than a small one. This may come as a surprise, but it's actually true. If you have a small tank of fish, if something goes wrong, it can quickly deteriorate and become unmanageable. With a large tank of fish, there is a buffer period after a problem occurs so that it does not deteriorate quickly. During this period, the fish keeper may be able to detect the problem and deal with it in time. This is called the "goldfish bowl effect". The "goldfish bowl effect" certainly applies to the field of channel management, and the following is a typical case.
In the 1980s, Apple was the absolute leader in the K-12 education market, with virtually no competitors. Apple was able to be so strong because of the countless number of solution providers distributing their products. A large number of local VARs sell Apple machines to individual school districts, leaving little opportunity for other providers to capitalize. By the time these elementary and middle school students grew up and started working, they may have gotten used to Macs, which triggered further demand for them. At that time, Macs already accounted for 14% of the PC market. If things had gone on like that, Apple would have done even better.
But by the early 1990s, some at Apple had become enamored of the 80/20 rule. They believed that the leading 20 percent of its partners brought in the vast majority of Apple's business. As a result, Apple felt it was important to focus on these 20% of solution providers, and licensed only a handful of them to sell Macs in the K-12 education market. Local VARs that didn't have a license fell back on other providers, prompting customers to adopt the WinTel platform. In a few short years, Apple lost its dominant position.
The case proves that downsizing the channel is self-defeating for vendors. Similar to a goldfish bowl, large-scale channels are easier to maintain and easier to adjust.
Application
The "goldfish bowl effect" is applied to business management, which requires business leaders to increase the transparency of the work of the enterprise. With the transparency of the work of the enterprise, the behavior of the enterprise leaders will be placed under the supervision of all subordinates, will effectively prevent the enterprise leaders to enjoy the privileges, abuse of power, so as to strengthen the self-restraint mechanism of the enterprise leaders. Be sure to remember: transparency and openness is one of the magic weapons to prevent corruption and unethical practices.
Here's an analogy to explain the goldfish bowl effect. A goldfish bowl is transparent, and no matter from which angle you look at it, you can observe the activities of the goldfish in the bowl at a glance.
The goldfish bowl effect as a basic principle of modern management system is well used in various fields.
Open government is the application of the goldfish bowl effect in the field of government management. The main requirement of open government is to make the government's work open, for the government planning or is preparing to carry out the work, such as urban construction, road planning, health care measures, affairs, etc., and the classification of public, and the content and process of the work to be made public, and any citizen can through a specific way, such as open government, open government network, etc., for querying, supervision. Government affairs information itself is a part of government information, open government affairs, conducive to the further transparency of government information disclosure. The implementation of the open government affairs of our government has played a great role in promoting anti-corruption and improving the ruling ability of political parties.
The goldfish bowl effect is applied to enterprise management, that is, managers must increase the transparency of rules and regulations and work. The rules and regulations and the work of transparency, the behavior of managers will be placed under the supervision of employees, will effectively prevent the abuse of power by managers, thus strengthening the self-restraint mechanism of managers. At the same time, employees in the fulfillment of the obligation to monitor at the same time, their own sense of ownership and sense of responsibility has been greatly enhanced, while the spirit of dedication, love and innovation will be sublimated.
Increasing the transparency of the rules and regulations and all the work is an important and far-reaching task of the enterprise, not overnight can do a good job. Fishbowl transparent premise is the fishbowl tank using transparent materials, in addition is to have clear, transparent water, so, business managers should continue to improve their overall quality and professional ethics, open and transparent management work to provide a "transparent fishbowl and clear water," and management work is fair and just transparent fishbowl and clear water. The fairness and impartiality of management is the transparent fishbowl and clear water. Therefore, we should always follow and implement the principle of "fairness, impartiality and openness" in the management of the enterprise to carry out various tasks. To do a fair, just, we are not afraid of open, and enterprise management of openness, transparency and will play a huge role in promoting the management of the enterprise itself, so that the enterprise has been sustained, benign development.
Finally, we have to remember: the management system and the transparency of all work, openness is to enhance the level of management, to prevent unethical practices one of the magic weapons.
Channel adjustment to prevent the "goldfish bowl effect"
People who have raised ornamental fish are clear that a large tank of fish rather than a small tank of fish to keep. This conclusion may come as a surprise, but in fact it is the truth.
If you want to evaluate a vendor's launch of a program provider cooperation program, or to assess the vendor's senior understanding of the channel and commitment, you need to follow a series of criteria and standards. One of the most important criteria is the consistency of the program.
Generally, a change in channel management at a vendor can lead to consistency in a solution provider's program. After the new channel management personnel to take office, in order to prove their own value, often in the channel operation of the idea to make changes. This is especially true when suppliers bring in channel managers from outside the organization.
If a vendor wants to make a real long-term commitment to the channel, it is best to establish a mechanism to develop channel management talent from within the company. In this case, it's easier for the people involved to understand the long-term needs of the channel, and newly promoted channel managers are rarely likely to make major changes to inherent channel policies.
This is not, of course, an argument against suppliers bringing in channel experts from outside. Often times, adding new blood is necessary. But be aware that channel managers brought in from the outside are more likely to make blind adjustments to existing channel partnership programs without regard to how well they are working.
Currently, there are many vendors that have changed channel managers and altered existing channel programs. Many of these companies have enabled new thinking and are ready to downsize their channels. These new channel managers believe that partners should strive to be smaller and more manageable. In fact, this thinking is completely wrong, ignoring the so-called "goldfish bowl effect.
Taxation to strengthen the "goldfish bowl effect"
Management has a law called "goldfish bowl effect", referring to the goldfish bowl is transparent, regardless of the angle from which to observe, inside the situation is clear. In recent years, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, downtown tax bureau will be "goldfish bowl effect" applied to administrative law enforcement, and constantly increase the strength of government affairs openness, to establish a "focus on three aspects of the focus, pay attention to the two norms to grasp the openness, and to strengthen a supervision to grasp the implementation of" the
The publicity of government affairs was applied to administrative law enforcement, and the publicity of government affairs was continuously increased, establishing the working idea of "highlighting three aspects, focusing on two norms to grasp publicity, and strengthening one supervision to grasp implementation".
Highlighting three aspects to focus on combing "transparent matters" as the focus of the integration system. The cadres and workers are generally concerned about the people, property, materials and other issues as the focus of "transparency in administration", the taxpayers and the community's concern about the enforcement of the law as the focus of "transparency in tax law enforcement", sorting out and integrating the 15 systems. In terms of administrative management, 10 systems have been integrated and perfected in terms of the systems and regulations related to daily administrative management. For example, the department has introduced measures for the management of section office staff, the assessment and management of civil servants, and the management of appraisal and merit assessment by seizing matters closely related to individuals, such as appointment, assessment and appraisal, etc.; and revised and improved measures for the management of finance, fixed assets, and office supplies in light of the issues of common concern to cadres and staff. In terms of tax enforcement, five systems have been integrated and revised in accordance with the principles of clear responsibilities, separation of powers, mutual supervision and collective decision-making.
To strengthen the "transparent process" as the focus, standardize work procedures. In administrative management, against the 10 systems, **** standardized 17 work procedures, 28 transparent links. For example, in the implementation of level management, focusing on the process of disclosure, will be able to manage the post division, level of categories, individual reporting, collective research, level of determination of the five links, through the internal website or publicity and other forms of publicity. In terms of tax enforcement, 34 workflows have been revised and rationalized in conjunction with the reorganization of tax operations, sorting out matters initiated by taxpayers' applications and matters initiated by tax authority. For example, in the approval of individual tax amounts, eight links have been identified as "transparent links", including the transmission of information, information collection, information review, formulation of tax liabilities, industry tax assessment, tax assessment, determination of tax liabilities and tax liability disclosure, and the implementation of the two-checking and two-fixing procedures. Adoption of human and human, organization and human, computer and human supervision measures to avoid the management personnel free to set the tax, individual positions, "secret operation".
To clarify the "responsibility for transparency" as the focus, the development of operational standards. In order to ensure the transparency of each link and each content in place, the development of the "administrative law enforcement transparency" operating standards and assessment methods, further clarifying the responsibility for the various systems and methods, work procedures, transparency links, one by one, clear transparent content, transparent form, transparent time frame, transparent responsible person, assessment standards and supervision methods.
Focusing on two norms to grasp the public standardized public content. In order to ensure that the content of the public comprehensive, standardized, Rizhao City, downtown IRS to do all the superiors require public content, must be all public; all public content, must be consistent with the laws, regulations and policies, and in accordance with the requirements of transparency and format. Rizhao City, downtown IRS compared to the "Administrative Licensing Law" relevant provisions, item by item to regulate the content of transparency, the operation process, the use of instruments, to ensure that the transparent content is accurate, the procedures in place, the instruments are legal, so that taxpayers can see at a glance, convenient and practical.
Specifying the form of disclosure. For cadres and workers and taxpayers at two levels, standardized internal website, touch screen, bulletin boards, "understand the paper" and 12366 tax service hotline and other five specific forms of transparency. Cadres and workers and taxpayers make inquiries through various transparent carriers according to different needs.
Strengthening a supervision to grasp the implementation of the Rizhao City, downtown IRS formulated and introduced the "administrative law enforcement transparency supervision and assessment measures", item by item refinement of the assessment criteria and assessment methods, strengthened the assessment of the responsibility for the workflow of each system and transparent links involved in the transparency of the project, transparent form, transparent time limit for the process of monitoring the content of the monitoring, so that supervision and control penetrate into the administrative law enforcement of each specific link to ensure that transparent content is put into place. Ensure that the transparent content in place.
Administrative openness, transparent law enforcement, so that the work of the state tax everywhere full of sunshine, not only to overcome the disadvantages of the "backroom operation", but also close the relationship between the cadres and masses, the relationship between the levy and the payment of taxes, and establish a good image of the state tax.
One is that the ideological concept of cadres and workers have made a big change. "Administrative law enforcement transparency" of the implementation of the standardization of the work process, a clear transparent links, specific operational standards, so that cadres and workers how to do, to what extent there are chapters to follow, to ensure that the standardization of law enforcement, the work in place; to avoid the law enforcement behavior of the "backdoor operations
The second is to further establish a good image of law enforcement. The implementation of "administrative law enforcement transparency" in prompting tax officials to standardize law enforcement, serious law enforcement at the same time, but also to facilitate the taxpayers and the community to understand the tax laws and regulations, tax procedures, tax-related matters, etc., and respect for the taxpayers' right to know, the right to supervise, and further improve the relationship between the tax enterprises.
Thirdly, it has broadened the channel of "supervision of two rights". The implementation of "administrative law enforcement transparency" has broadened the supervision channels. Administrative management into the supervision of cadres and workers, to protect the "right of administration" of the correct implementation, is conducive to close relations between the cadres and the community; tax law enforcement to taxpayers and the community "transparent", increasing the supervision of taxpayers and the community, prompting tax law enforcement powers Continuously tend to standardization, legalization.
Simply put: the goldfish bowl effect is proposed by Wilson, Wilson believes that the centralization of power should be appropriate, at the same time, Wilson put forward the goldfish bowl effect in order to prevent the centralization of power generated by corruption. The goldfish bowl effect refers to the fact that the behavior of officials should be put under the public gaze, so that the public and the media can play the role of a judge to monitor.
The goldfish bowl effect is conducive to increasing the transparency of officials' behavior and reducing bureaucratic corruption. Our country is now practicing the openness of the village affairs is similar to this, regular village decision-making and related documents are open, which is conducive to the villagers to play a supervisory role. Of course, to prevent corruption rely on the goldfish bowl effect is far from enough, to completely eliminate corruption also need to start from the source of corruption.