The catfish effect, also known as the pike effect, refers to the competitive role of the group through the intervention of individuals.
The catfish effect is usually related to the story of two fishermen, whose content is roughly the same and whose essence is identical.
Story 1:
Norwegians love to eat sardines, especially live fish, and norwegians who catch sardines at sea will sell for several times more than dead fish if they can get him to port alive. However, because sardines are lazy, do not like sports, and the way back to the sea is very long, the sardines caught often die as soon as they return to the dock, even if some are alive, they are dying.
Only one fisherman's sardine is always alive and fierce, so he makes more money than others. The fisherman kept the secret of success until after his death when people opened his fishing trough and found that it was just one more catfish.
It turns out that catfish take fish as their main food, and after loading into the fish trough, they will swim around due to the unfamiliar environment, and after the sardines find this alien molecule, they will also tense up and accelerate their swimming, so that the sardines will return to the port alive. This is known as the "catfish effect".
Story 2:
Japan's Hokkaido is rich in eels with a rare taste, and many fishermen in seaside fishing villages make a living from fishing. The life of eels is very fragile, as long as they leave the deep sea, they will all die in half a day.
There was an old fisherman who went out to sea every day to catch eels, and strangely eels were always bouncing around after returning to the shore. Other eel fishermen, no matter how they treat the eels they catch, are dead when they return to hong kong.
Since live eels are twice as expensive as frozen eels, within a few years, the old fishermen's family became famous rich people. The surrounding fishermen do the same thing, but they can only maintain simple food and clothing.
It turned out that the secret of the eel's immortality was to put a few pikes in the whole warehouse of eels.
Eels and pikes are not only not the same kind, but also notoriously sworn enemies. A few weak pikes encountered opponents in a warehouse, and they panicked and scurried around in the eel pile, so that a dead eel was fully activated.
The catfish effect is not only used in fisheries, but also in other places.
In enterprise management, some old employees, after working long hours, are easy to get bored, lack of vitality and freshness, resulting in inertia, so it is necessary to find some foreign "catfish" to join the team, create some tension, and bring competitive pressure to those lazy employees and bureaucrats who are stuck in their own ways and conformist, in order to arouse the survival consciousness and competitive spirit of "sardines".
In addition to employee management, enterprises must also continuously introduce new technologies, new processes, new equipment, and new management concepts, so that enterprises can fight the wind and waves in the tide of the market and enhance their viability and adaptability.