Find an example of an argumentative essay "Details decide success or failure". .

This is the great man who pays attention to details. If Washington didn't pay attention to details, he wouldn't be the founding president of the United States, let alone make the United States prosperous. It can be seen that attention to detail is the cornerstone for Washington to become president.

Lu Ruihua once said: "In China, there are many people who want to do great things, but few people are willing to do details. We don't lack great strategists, what we lack is excellent executors; We don't lack all kinds of rules and regulations, what we lack is the out-and-out executor of the rules and regulations; We must change the impetuous and superficial habits, advocate paying attention to details and doing small things in details. "

The famous wooden bucket theory holds that the amount of water in a wooden bucket depends on the shortest board. And the detail, in a sense, is the shortest board. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zi Han was "not greedy for wealth"; In Qing Dynasty, Zhang Lianqing Boxing was inscribed with "Take a penny, I am not right"; Lin Zexu wrote a banner of "Controlling Anger" in class because he is easy to get angry. Mao Zedong, a heavy smoker, insisted on not smoking a cigarette during the Chongqing negotiations. ...

A drop of water can see the sun, and a glimpse can tell the whole leopard. Details are equivalent to test papers, which can measure a person's quality and realm. Everything you say and do may be a radical part of fate. Great men become great men, not by birth, but by nurture. Laozi said: "Everything is difficult and easy; The major events in the world must be detailed. " If Lin Zexu didn't pay attention to his weaknesses, he wouldn't be a great man. If Mao Zedong doesn't pay attention to small things, he will make a big difference.

There are no small things in the world, and there are no details in the world. There is a folk song in England: a nail is missing, and a horseshoe is missing. I lost a horseshoe and a horse. Lost a horse, lost a general. Lost a general and lost a battle. Lost one battle and lost another. Losing a battle ruined a dynasty. It can be seen that if you don't pay attention to details, you may not be able to achieve great things.

Details are the cornerstone of success. Harvey. Firestone once said, "Success is the son of details". Michelangelo said, "In the field of art, details are God." Reese also said: "Taishan does not allow soil, so it can become big;" Rivers and seas do not choose small streams, so they can be deep. "

1. The gap between Shanghai Metro Line 2 and 1

I once chatted with a "turtle" friend who came back from Germany. I naturally asked him how he felt in Germany and what impressed him most about the Germans. He said: It is the rigor of the Germans, who pay attention to any detail of the work. He said something that surprised me: Some German expressway were built in Hitler's time.

This reminds me of many engineering problems. The Beijing-Shenzhen Expressway has just been built for several years. Let's see how many parts are being repaired. Is our equipment not advanced enough? No, as far as I know, many of our construction units use first-class imported equipment, and our gap is actually in our minds. Those who have taken the Shanghai subway must know the story of Shanghai subway line 2.

A famous person once said: "The management of hardware projects is more reflected in the management of details, from details to every design, every change and every daily operation." Shanghai Metro 1 Line was designed by Germans, and it seems nothing special. It was not until Line 2 designed by China designer was put into operation that it was discovered that so many details were ignored in the original Line 2. As a result, the operating cost of Line 2 is much higher than that of Line 1, and it has not yet reached breakeven.

○ The role of three steps

Shanghai is located in East China, and the terrain is only a little higher than the sea level on average. In summer, rain often traps some buildings. German designers noticed this detail, so each outdoor exit of subway 1 line was designed with three steps. To enter the subway entrance, you must step on three steps and then get down to the subway station. It is these three steps that can prevent rainwater from flowing backwards in rainy days, thus reducing the flood control pressure of the subway. In fact, the flood control facilities of line 1 have almost never been used; Because of the lack of these steps, Metro Line 2 was flooded in rainy days, which caused huge economic losses.

○ Did not understand the function of exit turning.

German designers designed a turn at each subway exit according to the topography. Isn't this troublesome for the entrance and exit? Didn't it increase the construction cost? Only after the subway line 2 was put into use did people discover the mystery of this turn. In fact, the reason is very simple. If you leave the air conditioner on at home and the doors and windows open at the same time, you will be worried about paying more electricity bills every month. Think about it, how much electricity is saved every day and how much operating cost is saved by adding a turning exit to a subway.

Decorative lines make customers safer.

Anyone who has taken the subway knows that when you are too close to the track, the locomotive will feel dangerous when it comes. There have been dangerous incidents of passengers falling off the platform in Beijing and Guangzhou subways. German designers embody the concept of "people-oriented" in their designs. They spread metal decorations about 50 cm near the platform, and embedded an edge with black marble, so that when passengers approach the platform, they will be "vigilant" and realize the distance from the edge of the platform, which the designers of Line 2 did not expect. The ground is all the same color tiles, so it is dangerous for passengers not to pay attention to the track! The subway company had to arrange special personnel to remind passengers to pay attention to safety.

○ Different platform widths bring different comfort.

Every time I go to Shanghai, I realize the great difference in comfort between the two subways. The platform of 1 line is designed to be wide and easy to get on and off. When you transfer to Line 2, you will feel uncomfortable, especially during the rush hour. In a metropolis like Shanghai, the platform of Line 2 is very crowded.

○ Why leave out the platform door?

When designing the 1 line, German designers designed the corresponding platform doors to prevent passengers from falling off the platform, in order to save the heat of the platform and allow cars to be opened and closed. In order to "save costs", the construction unit in China may not have installed platform doors. Of course, it is even more difficult to understand the intentions of German designers.

Designers in China are not as clever as Germans? I don't think so. The key is to treat the long-term development of the work carefully. Compared with the romance of Italy and France and the casualness of Americans, Germans are serious, earnest and even rigid, but it is with this meticulous and earnest work spirit that Germany quickly became the third largest country in the world after World War II.

China people never lack intelligence, what they lack is their persistence in "exquisiteness". Think about how many regrets we have left in urban planning and urban construction. Excuse me: How many roads have not been "cut" in our city? Who among our urban planners thought of accessibility for the disabled (it seems that there is still no accessibility)? How many overpasses in our city have just "successfully completed" and become new congestion points, which need to be rebuilt over and over again? Among the rows of tall buildings in our city, how many are really creative? Matchbox buildings and square towers are cloned piece by piece. ...

1. The harm of termites

There is such a story in ancient China:

There is a village on the bank of the Yellow River. In order to prevent floods, farmers built towering long dams. One day, an old farmer happened to find that the nest suddenly increased a lot. The old farmer thought: Will these ant nests affect the safety of the long embankment? He is going back to the village to report that he met his son on the way. Hearing this, the old farmer's son said disapprovingly, why are you afraid of a few small ants on such a strong long embankment? Then he took the old farmer with him to the fields. It was stormy that night, and the water of the Yellow River soared. The roaring river began to penetrate from the ant nest, then sprayed, and finally washed away the long embankment and flooded large areas of villages and fields along the coast. This is the origin of the idiom "A levee of a thousand miles, which collapses in an ant nest".

For a long time, I always thought this idiom was just a warning motto to prevent a slight mistake. There is no such case in real life, but now I know that "a thousand miles of embankment collapses in an ant nest" does exist.

Since 1970s, there have been 13 breakwaters and 9 dams in Qingyuan, Guangdong. It was verified that 9 dikes and 5 dams were the result of soil termites. 1In July, 986, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province suffered a severe flood since the founding of the People's Republic of China. There are 62 dikes in Meijiang, 55 of which are gaps caused by soil termites. 198 1 in September, 2008, there were 18 gaps in Yang Mo levee in Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province, among which 6 were found to be caused by soil termites.

In the summer of 2003, the Yangtze River was hit by a severe flood, and piping occurred in Nanping Town, Gongan County, Jingjiang levee, and the levee was in danger. Several old water conservancy experts were sharp-eyed, promptly judged that piping was caused by termites, and led the masses to take effective measures. After five hours of fighting, the danger was finally eliminated.

People will inevitably ask such a question: how can small termites do so much harm?

It turns out that the ants in the "ant nest" that caused the breach were not what we usually call ants, but termites. Termites and ants are very different in insect classification: the former belongs to Isoptera and the latter belongs to Hymenoptera; There are also obvious differences in morphology: the front wings of winged adults of ants are obviously larger than the rear wings, while the front and rear wings of termites are equal in length, so they belong to Isoptera in classification.

Soil termites are social insects, and their huge nests are built underground. There are at least millions of soil termites in adult ant nests, and there is a strict "social division of labor" in the ant nest population: the queen ant and the queen ant are the leaders of the group, specializing in breeding offspring; The task of soldier ants is to supervise the labor of worker ants and be responsible for safety; Worker ants, with the largest number, are laborers of this group, engaged in basic labor such as nesting and foraging. The queen ant and the place where the queen ant lives are called main nests, and the cavity area is 1 cubic meter to several cubic meters. The main nest and the auxiliary nest (also known as the fungus garden) are connected by an ant passage, and the inner diameter of the main ant passage is 6 cm to12 cm; Some termite paths extend in all directions, even through the inner and outer slopes of dams.

The harm of soil termites is hidden, and their whereabouts are hidden. Even though the earth-rock dam is seriously damaged, it is still intact from the outside. Some nests are big enough to accommodate four burly men. It's really a trap. It is not uncommon for people to get caught up in it. Even a cow can't get rid of it. There have even been cases where jeeps are caught inside. Because soil termites are constantly grouping, feeding and nesting on the dam, the ant nests on the dam are "dotted" and the dam has been hollowed out. When the flood season comes, the water level rises and water flows into ant passages and nests, causing piping and leakage and destroying dams. From this point of view, termites can indeed cause the consequences of long breakwaters, and scientific and meticulous observation and research is a necessary condition for nip in the bud. Any carelessness and neglect of details will bring unimaginable consequences.

3. A person who can't even keep his resume well.

A person who can't keep his resume well can't manage a department well. Details can show the perfection of the whole, and can also affect and destroy the perfection of the whole. I read a report in Wuhan Morning Post that Chen Mou, a fresh graduate of Jianghan University, stumbled over a resume when applying for a job.

What happened was this: On the morning of attending the job fair, Xiao Chen accidentally knocked over the cup and soaked the resume on the table. In order to get to the meeting as soon as possible, Xiao Chen simply dried his resume and stuffed it into his backpack with other things.

At the recruitment site, Xiao Chen took a fancy to the position of advertising planning supervisor of a real estate company in Shenzhen. According to the requirements of this enterprise, the recruiter will have a simple conversation with the applicant first, and then get the resume, and the person who gets the resume will get an interview.

When it was Chen Xiao's turn, the recruiter asked Chen Xiao three questions and asked him for his resume. When Xiao Chen was flattered to take out his resume, he found that there was not only a large piece of water stain on the resume, but also a scratch in the bag, which was deformed with scratches on keys and other things. Xiao Chen tried to smooth it out and handed it over. Looking at this scarred resume, the recruiter frowned and accepted it. The wrinkled resume is sandwiched between a bunch of neat resumes and looks very dazzling.

Three days later, Xiao Chen took part in the interview, and his performance was very active. Whether he is operating PHOTOSHOP on the spot or doing oral promotion for virtual products, he has done well. Xiao Chen was a key member of the school drama club when he was studying at school, and he also improvised a sketch, which won the praise of the interviewer. When he finished the interview and walked out of the office, a responsible lady said to him, "You are the best interviewer today."

However, one week after the interview, Xiao Chen still didn't get a reply. He was so anxious that he couldn't help calling the lady to ask about the situation. The young lady was silent for a while and told him, "In fact, the person in charge of recruitment is very satisfied with you, but you lost on your resume. The boss said that a person who can't even keep his resume well can't manage a department well. You should know that your resume actually represents your personal image. It is not rigorous to throw a messy resume. "

This incident taught Xiao Chen a profound lesson. Since then, he has become more careful. He deeply feels that sometimes it is only a small detail that determines the success or failure of things.

Resume is not only a tool for self-marketing, but also represents a person's image. Therefore, when applying for a job, you must write a resume and save it.

Perfect self is hard to show, it needs to be perfect in every detail; But it's easy to ruin yourself. As long as you don't pay attention to one detail, it will bring you irreparable influence.

Story 3: There is a foreign trade company in Tokyo, Japan, which has trade relations with a British company. Managers of British companies often need to buy train tickets from Tokyo to Kobe. Soon, the manager found that every time he went to Kobe, the seat was always at the right window, and when he came back, he was always at the left window. The manager asked the conductor of the Japanese company why, and she smiled and replied, "When the bus goes to Kobe, Mount Fuji is on your right;" When you return to Tokyo, Mount Fuji is on your left. Most foreigners like the beautiful scenery of Mount Fuji, so I specially arranged different seats for you. "The British manager was very moved. He immediately increased the trade volume of this Japanese company from 500,000 pounds to 2 million pounds.

In his view, as an ordinary employee of this company, he can be so attentive to such a trivial matter, so what is there to worry about doing business with such a company?

The devil is in the details

Termites will indeed cause the consequences of long dike breach, and scientific and meticulous observation and research are necessary to prevent problems before they happen. Any carelessness and neglect of details will bring unimaginable consequences.

-The essence of detail

People who can't see the details, or don't take them seriously, lack a serious attitude towards their work and can only perfunctory things. Such people can't regard work as a pleasure, but as hard work, so they lack enthusiasm for work. They can only do the work assigned to them by others forever, even if they can't do things well. People who consider details and pay attention to details not only take their work seriously and do small things carefully, but also pay attention to finding opportunities in the details of doing things, thus embarking on the road to success.

-Start small.

Mies van der Rohe is one of the four greatest architects in the world in the 20th century. When asked to describe the reason for his success in the most general sentence, he only said five words: "details determine success or failure." He repeatedly stressed that no matter how grand your architectural design scheme is, it can't be called a good work if the details are not in place. Accurate and vivid details can make a great work, and negligence of details will ruin a grand plan.