An example of "details determine success or failure"

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.

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".

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.

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 Taiwan Province Province in 1930s, the rural areas were still operated by hand, and the rice harvesting and processing technology was backward. After rice is harvested, it is spread on the road to dry before threshing, and sand, pebbles and other sundries are easily mixed in it. Before cooking, users have to go through a rice washing procedure, which is inconvenient to use, but both buyers and sellers are used to it.

Wang Yongqing has found the breakthrough point from this universal phenomenon. He led his two younger brothers to work together, took pains to pick up the chaff, stones and other sundries mixed in the rice bit by bit, and then sold them. In this way, the quality of rice sold by Wang Yongqing Rice Shop will be higher, which will be welcomed by customers and the business of rice shop will be prosperous.

A famous big company recruits professional managers, and there are many applicants, including people with high education, multiple certificates and relevant work experience. After four rounds of elimination, such as preliminary examination and written examination, only six candidates were left, but the company finally chose only one person as the manager. So the fifth round will be interviewed by the boss himself. It seems that the next competition will be more intense.

But at the beginning of the interview, the examiner found that there was one more person in the examination room and seven candidates appeared, so he asked, "Is anyone coming for an interview?" At this time, a man sitting in the back stood up and said, "Sir, I was eliminated in the first round, but I want to attend the interview."

People laughed when he said this, even the old man who stood at the door and poured water for people couldn't help laughing. The examiner also disapprovingly asked, "You can't even pass the first grade. What's the need to attend this interview?" The man said, "Because I have mastered the wealth that others don't have, I am a great wealth myself." Everyone laughed again, thinking that the man was either crazy or arrogant.

The man said, "Although I only graduated with an intermediate title, I have 10 years of work experience and once worked in 12 company ..." At this moment, the examiner immediately interjected, "Although your education and title are not high, it would be good to have worked for 10 years, but you are in/kloc-0.

The man said, "Sir, I didn't jump ship, but 12 companies closed down one after another." The people present laughed for the third time. A candidate said, "You are really a loser!" The man also smiled: "No, it's not my failure, it's the failure of those companies." These failures accumulated into my own wealth. "

At this time, the old man standing at the door stepped forward and poured tea for the examiner. The man went on to say, "I know a lot about 12 companies. I tried to save them with my colleagues. Although I didn't succeed, I know every detail of mistakes and failures. I have learned a lot from them that others can't learn. " Many people just pursue success, and I am more experienced in avoiding mistakes and failures! "

The man paused for a moment and then said, "I know that successful experiences are generally similar and easy to imitate;" The reasons for failure are different. Instead of learning from the successful experience of 10, it is better to learn more and more lessons from mistakes and failures at the same time. The successful experience of others can hardly become our wealth, but the failure process of others is! "