Examples of small decisions having a big impact

The small decision had a huge impact: a company recruited a business executive, and after several rounds of cruel examinations and elimination, the number of applicants changed from the initial dozens to three. In the previous rounds of tests, the three candidates performed very well in terms of knowledge, experience, eloquence and image.

Finally, the company manager personally selected the final candidate. His test method is simple: put a few pieces of white paper and a gold pen full of ink on the table, and let the three candidates write their resumes on the paper.

Applicant A sat down at her desk, unscrewed the golden pen and was about to write. Just like a drop of ink leaked from a golden pen, it landed on a white paper impartially. Candidate A hurriedly crumpled the paper with ink drops into a ball and took a new piece of paper to write his resume, but the fountain pen was still leaking, and four pieces of paper had been used after writing.

After discovering that the golden pen was leaking, candidate B calmly took out his pen from his suit pocket and successfully completed his resume.

It's candidate c's turn to play. He didn't rush to write his resume after he found that the fountain pen was leaking. Instead, he unhurriedly unscrewed the fountain pen, carefully pinched the ink storage bag of the fountain pen, and discharged the excess ink from the ink storage bag. The fountain pen no longer leaks, so he naturally writes very calmly.

Finally, the manager announced that the company decided to keep candidate C as the business director. When the other two applicants asked why they didn't succeed, the manager told them: you can hardly see the difference between education and qualifications, but candidate C is willing to find the root of the problem and find a solution to it. From this point of view, he is better than you.

In the arena of life, sometimes paying attention to details can get you the favor of fate. The so-called attention to detail, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than having a heart that is always thinking and always curious. Remember, attention to detail is also an ability.

1. Ford's application

A big company recruits new people and has eliminated several candidates for interviews. At this time, both the interviewer and the interviewee feel a little nervous: if we can't choose qualified candidates today, many jobs in the company will be affected; For the interviewer, if he can work in this well-known national enterprise, his future career development will be immeasurable.

Then a young man walked into the interview office. He saw a small note at the door. Out of habit, the young man bent down to pick it up and threw it into the trash can. After the interview, the president of the company who presided over the interview asked the young man to stay. He told the young man that he could go to the company for training immediately and formally go to work after passing the training. The young man couldn't believe it himself, because he knew that all the people who entered the interview in this recruitment process were elites, and according to his observation, many of them were above his ability level. Hearing the young man's questions, the president smiled and replied, "That's why I want to talk to you. Your ability level is really not the best among all the candidates, but only you passed the most critical test in the interview-the little piece of paper at the door was put there on purpose. " It's not that people who go to apply with young people don't know the small but obvious paper at the door. For them, it was as simple as bending down to pick up a small piece of paper on the ground, but they felt that such a trivial thing was not worth doing, so they missed the opportunity to enter that big company. In fact, this is not the only important opportunity they missed.

That young man is Henry Ford, the father of American automobile industry. He proved the president's original idea with his own practical actions. Henry. Ford is lucky. His luck lies not only in the fact that he met a president of insight, but also in his earnest spirit of not ignoring every little thing.

David packard said, "Little things make great things, and details make perfect things." Success is accumulated by one little thing and one detail. If we can grasp these details, people can succeed; If you don't pay attention to the accumulation of details and just want to succeed in one fell swoop, it's really daydreaming.