Shopping malls resumed dine-in dining, and people flocked in and had to wait in line to eat. While queuing up, I went to a mobile phone store. Student L lamented that the mobile phones from Xiaomi, Honor, Lenovo, and other merchants had various models, unlike Apple and Apple, which only had one or two models. because their survival strategies are different.
1. The definition of K strategy and R strategy.
Survival strategy was first proposed by biologists MacArthur and Wilson. There are two main types:
①K strategy, such as elephants, lions, and humans, giving birth to one child at a time and reproducing with high quality.
②R strategy, such as mice, fish, ants , they have one nest in their lifetime and win by quantity.
Apple in the Steve Jobs era adopted the K strategy, releasing one model at a time with no more than 3 configurations. Xiaomi and Honor adopt the R strategy, including X series, Note series, and Redmi series, cost-effective series, thin and light series, hardcore e-sports series, and flagship series. Each series has different models, and different models have different Configuration, there is always one suitable for you. Cook In the era, Apple is actually gradually changing from the K strategy to the R strategy, so it has plus, pro, mini, and colorful. The existence of
is reasonable. , K strategy and R strategy, no one is better or worse.
K strategy pursues quality, and R strategy pursues quantity.
2. Extension of K strategy and R strategy.
Some people adopt the K strategy in their lives. They pursue a profession, continuously accumulate experience in a field, and become senior experts. But at a certain stage, we will be confused. The reason for confusion is that we question the K strategy. The success of K strategy must rely on two prerequisites:
① can obtain resources stably.
② There is no threat to itself or the population.
The lion is on the grassland, and no one can challenge its status, so it can adopt the K strategy with peace of mind. The dinosaurs also used the K strategy, but due to the meteorite impact or climate change, the premise ② was destroyed, so they became extinct. Reflecting on human society, the past system was popular because of its two prerequisites of stability and freedom from threats.
But now, no matter which company you are in, the premise ② has been shaken. House prices and prices are soaring, but wage growth may not keep up. Because of the epidemic, the premise ① of some people has also begun to waver. And some people do this today and do that tomorrow. If they accidentally step on the trend, they can soar into the sky. As individuals, should we adopt the K strategy and go all the way to the dark side, or should we adopt the R strategy and become a slash youth?
In a stable environment, K strategy has more advantages.
In an unstable environment, the R strategy has greater advantages.
Currently, the R strategy is better. In addition to your own job, you should be exposed to more different fields and try different development paths, because the enterprises we rely on for survival may be subverted and destroyed at any time. The most typical representatives are entrepreneurs and venture capital institutions .
Entrepreneurs use the K strategy to invest time and resources into one project; venture capital investors invest in a bunch of projects, and even if one of the projects in the bunch comes to fruition, they can get their money back. When the external environment changes drastically, choosing to start a business may not be the best strategy.
From this perspective,
Biology and finance are actually connected.
The essence of "underestimation + diversification" in investment is also an R strategy.
We don't know who can win, but as an investment portfolio,
has a greatly increased probability of survival as a whole.
The expected rate of return of an investment portfolio ∑E=P1×E1+P2×E2+……+Pi×Ei.To increase the overall rate of return, either increase P to increase the certainty of a single project; or increase E to increase the income of an individual project. What we have to do is actually to make a balance between P and E. If the project is expected to have high certainty, then a slightly lower E is acceptable; if the project is not certain to be high, then we will inevitably require higher returns. In addition, there is another premise, that is, the number of investment targets i cannot exceed the upper limit of our management energy. As individuals, adopting the R strategy requires us to achieve "just the right amount of diversification". How to separate
? How to spread
just right?
requires us to understand slowly.
I wish you all a happy life.
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