This is that great people pay attention to details. If Washington doesn't pay attention to details, he won't become 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 them in detail. We don't lack great strategists, what we lack is the executors of Excellence; We don't lack all kinds of rules and regulations, what we lack is the uncompromising executor of the rules and regulations; We must change our impetuous and superficial habits, advocate paying attention to details and doing small things in detail. "

The famous wooden barrel theory holds that the amount of water contained in a wooden barrel depends on the shortest wooden board. And the detail, in a sense, is the shortest board. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Zi Han was "not greedy for treasure"; in the Qing Dynasty, Lian Qing's Zhang Boxing took "taking a penny, I am not straight" as the inscription; Lin Zexu wrote a book "Curing Anger" in class; Mao Zedong, a heavy smoker, insisted on not smoking a cigarette during the negotiations in Chongqing ...

A drop of water can show the sun and tell the whole leopard. Details are equivalent to test paper, which can measure a person's quality and realm. Everything you say and do can be the radical part of fate. Great men become great men, not by birth, but by their cultivation. Lao Tzu said, "Everything is difficult, and it must be easy; World events must be detailed. " If Lin Zexu doesn't pay attention to his weaknesses, he won't be a great man. If Mao Zedong doesn't pay attention to small things, he will cover up the big jade because of the small shelter.

there are no small things in the world, and there are no details in the world. There is a folk song in Britain: a nail is missing and a horseshoe is missing. Lost a horseshoe, lost a horse. Lost a war horse, lost a general. Lost a general and lost a battle. Lost a battle and lost a battle. Lost a battle and 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 realm of art, details are God." Li Si also said: "Mount Tai won't let the 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 Line 1

Once, when chatting with a "turtle" friend who came back from Germany, I naturally asked him about his feelings of staying in Germany and asked him what impressed him most about Germans. He said: it is the rigor of the Germans, and the Germans pay attention to any details 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. Beijing-Shenzhen-expressway has just been repaired for several years. Let's see how many sections are being repaired. Is it because our equipment is 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. Anyone who has taken the Shanghai subway must know the story of Shanghai Metro Line 2.

A famous person once said, "The management of hardware projects is more reflected in the management of details, which covers every design, every change and every operation." Shanghai Metro Line 1 was designed by Germans, and it seems that there is 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 by Line 2. As a result, the operating cost of Line 2 is much higher than that of Line 1, and it has yet to break even.

the role of the three steps

Shanghai is located in East China, and its topography is only a little higher than the sea level on average. In summer, rain often traps some buildings. German designers have noticed this detail, so every outdoor exit of Metro Line 1 is designed with three steps. To enter the subway entrance, you must set foot on three steps and then go 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 in Line 1 have almost never been used; Because of the lack of these steps, Metro No.2 was flooded in rainy days, causing huge economic losses.

○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○967 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 have air conditioning on at home and open doors and windows at the same time, you will be distressed by the extra electricity bill you pay every month. Think about it, how much electricity is saved and how much operating costs are saved every day by adding a turn exit to a subway.

A decorative line makes customers safer

Everyone who has taken the subway knows that when you are too close to the track, you will feel a sense of danger when the locomotive comes. There have been dangerous incidents of passengers falling off the platform in Beijing and Guangzhou subways. German designers embody the idea of "people-oriented" in their design. They spread metal decorations within about 51 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 platform edge, which the designers of Line 2 did not expect. The ground is all made of tiles of the same color, so it is dangerous for passengers to get close to the track if they don't pay attention! The subway company had to arrange a special person to remind passengers of safety.

○ Different platform widths give people different comfort

Every time I go to Shanghai, I realize the great difference in comfort between the two subways. The platform of Line 1 is designed to be wide, and it is convenient 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 is the platform door omitted?

When designing Line 1, German designers designed corresponding platform doors in order to prevent passengers from falling off the platform and to save the heat of the platform, so that cars could open and close. The Chinese construction unit may have failed to install the platform door in order to "save costs". Of course, it is even more impossible to understand the intentions of German designers.

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

China people are never short of intelligence, what they lack is their persistence in "delicacy". Think about how many regrets we have left in urban planning and urban construction. Excuse me: How many roads in our city have not been "cut open"? Who among our urban planners thought of barrier-free access for the disabled (it seems that there is still no barrier-free access)? How many overpasses in our city have just become new congestion points after "successful completion", so they have 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 one by one ...

1. The harm of termites

There is a story in ancient China:

There is a village near the bank of the Yellow River. In order to prevent floods, farmers built towering long dikes. One day, an old farmer occasionally found that the ant nest suddenly increased a lot. The old farmer thought: will these ant nests affect the safety of the long embankment? He was going back to the village to report that he met his son on the way. After listening to this, the old farmer's son said disapprovingly, are you still afraid of a few little ants on such a strong long embankment? Then he took the old farmer to the fields together. 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 burst the long embankment, flooding large 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 that this idiom was just a cautionary tale. There is no such case in real life, but now I know that "a thousand miles long dike falls into an ant nest" does exist.

Since 1971s, there have been 13 breakwaters and 9 dams in Qingyuan, Guangdong Province. It has been verified that 9 dikes and 5 dams are the result of soil termites. In July, 1986, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, suffered a serious flood since the founding of the People's Republic of China. There were 62 levee breaches in Meijiang River, including 55 gaps caused by soil termites. In September, 1981, there were 18 gaps in Moyang dike in Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province, among which 6 were found to be caused by soil termites.

In the summer of p>2113, the Yangtze River suffered a serious flood, and piping appeared in the levee section of Nanping Town, Gongan County, Jingjiang levee, and the levee was in danger. Several old water conservancy experts were observant and timely 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 the question: How can small termites do so much harm?

It turns out that the ants in the "ant nest" that caused the dike breach are 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. Huge nests are built under the ground. There are at least millions of soil termites in adult ant nests, and there is a strict "social division of labor" in the nest group: the queen and queen are the first in the group, specializing in breeding offspring; The task of soldier ants is to supervise the labor of worker ants and be responsible for security; Worker ants have the largest number, and they are the laborers of this group, engaged in basic labor such as nesting and foraging. The place where the queen ant and queen ant live is called the main nest, and the cavity area is 1 cubic meters to several cubic meters. The main nest is connected with the auxiliary nest (also known as the fungus garden) through an ant passage, and the inner diameter of the main ant passage is 6 cm to 12 cm; Some termite paths extend in all directions and even run through the inner and outer slopes of dams.

The harm of soil termites is hidden, and their whereabouts are secret. Even though the damage to the embankment dam is very serious, it is still intact from the outside. Some ant nests are so big that they can accommodate four burly men. It is really a "trap". It is not uncommon for people to get caught in them. Even a cow can't get rid of it. There have even been cases where jeeps are all caught in it. Because soil termites are constantly grouping, eating and nesting on the embankment dam, the ant nests in the embankment dam are "dotted" and the levee has been hollowed out. When the flood season comes, the water level rises, and the water flows into the ant passages and nests, causing piping and leakage and destroying dams. From this point of view, termites can indeed cause the consequences of long breakwater, and scientific and meticulous observation and research are necessary to prevent problems before they happen. Any paralysis and neglect of details will bring unimaginable consequences.

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

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

The story goes like 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 talk with the applicant first, and then receive the resume, and the person who receives the resume will get an interview.

When it was Xiao Chen's turn, the recruiter asked Xiao Chen three questions and asked him for his resume. When Xiao Chen was flattered to take out his resume, it was discovered that there was not only a large piece of water stains on the resume, but also a rub in the bag, plus scratches on keys and other things, which was out of shape. 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 was sandwiched in a neat pile of resumes, which looked very dazzling.

three days later, Xiao Chen took part in the interview, and his performance was very active. He did a good job in operating PHOTOSHOP on the spot and making oral promotion for virtual products. Xiao Chen, who was a backbone member of the school drama club when he was studying at school, also improvised a short sketch and 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 out a messy resume. "

This incident taught Xiao Chen a profound lesson. From then on, he became 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, it is necessary to write a good resume when applying for a job, and to keep it well.

It is difficult to show the perfect self, and it needs to be perfected in every detail; But it is easy to destroy yourself. As long as one detail is not noticed, 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 always at the left window when he returned. The manager asked the ticket lady 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 so moved that he immediately increased the trade volume of this Japanese company from 511,111 pounds to 2 million pounds.

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

details determine success or failure

termites can indeed cause the consequences of long breakwaters, and scientific and meticulous observation and research are necessary to prevent problems before they happen. Any paralysis and neglect of details will bring unimaginable consequences.

-the essence of details

People who can't see details or don't take details seriously lack a serious attitude towards their work and can only perfunctory things. This kind of person can't regard work as a pleasure, but only as a kind of hard labor, so he lacks enthusiasm in his work. They can only do the work assigned to them by others forever, and even then they can't do things well. And people who consider details and pay attention to details are not only