Small experience, big wealth

Chapter 25 (1)
54. Two friends who made mistakes
A few months ago, my wife, and a friend went to the Sea Lion store to buy spirulina.While walking out, my wife was grabbed by a man, and when I looked back, it was a monk.These days, anyone who wears a monk's uniform dares to pretend to be a Buddhist disciple.

My wife asked in an impatient voice: "What are you going to do?" The monk smiled kindly, and asked in a voice that sounded familiar:
"Manager Zhao, don't you know me after you haven't seen me for a few years?" My wife looked at the vaguely familiar face in front of her with a puzzled face, and she didn't know the number for a while.

The monk said, "I am Lao Liu, who works on the glass curtain wall." My wife opened her mouth in surprise, "You are Manager Liu? Why are you here?
Why are you wearing this outfit? Manager Liu said with a serious face, "I have converted to Buddhism." "" Convert to Buddhism?You put tens of millions of wealth away and don't enjoy it well, so how did you escape into Buddhism? "" Anyway, I have experienced all the glory and wealth of life, that's all.It’s good like this now, with blue lights and yellow scrolls every day, morning bells and evening drums, eating fast and chanting Buddha, nothing on my mind, it’s a different world. "My wife said: "The singer Li Na is trapped by love, you are so old, you don't know how to follow this fashion, are you also trapped by love? "How can I? Something happened. My wife and I took refuge together. She is in Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, and I am in Penglai, Shandong."Today we have to go out for alms, and I will tell you in detail when I have a chance. "We broke up just like that. Later, I called a friend of Manager Liu in Nanjing, and only then did I know that Manager Liu was involved in a large real estate project. The project failed, and tens of millions of assets disappeared in an instant. Ten asses of debts were paid, nine asses of debts were paid off, and one ass of debt was left. So in order to avoid the entanglement of creditors, to keep the only fixed assets, and for the future life of their children, the husband and wife were forced to escape into the empty door .

Speaking of Manager Liu, I remembered another story my wife told me:
He is also a businessman, his name is Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun is a southerner. Since the day my wife started his business, Zhao Jun has been selling his various drill bits with a huge bag on his back.A few years later, Zhao Jun's big back was finally replaced by a van. It is said that he bought a two-bedroom apartment in Jinzhou.But a few years ago, an unprecedented fire broke out in the Jinzhou decoration materials market, and the millions of wealth in Zhao Jun's warehouse were burned to ashes overnight.Years of struggle were wiped out overnight.

Zhao Jun wanted to cry but had no tears.

But Zhao Jun did not fall down. He sold the house and the car at once, and exchanged all the money in his hands for drill bits of various specifications, so he carried the bag that he had left behind for many years, like Rabbit selling his drills from door to door...

After all, there is a source of accumulated customers. After two or three years, Zhao Jun's house came back, and the van was replaced by a car.Wherever he fell, he got up there, he was a man.

After listening to the story told by my wife, and thinking back to the old Liu who just said goodbye and escaped into Buddhism, I sighed for a while, lamenting the vagaries of life.

However, are these life changes of theirs only due to the impermanence of life encounters?It's not that simple.

Habits determine character, character determines behavior, and behavior determines results.Manager Liu's careless move caused him to lose everything.In other words, it was a small mistake of his own that caused the family business he had accumulated for half his life to be ruined in an instant.Regardless of whether he made a mistake in employing people or in decision-making, whether it was a mistake in trust or in management, in short, a small mistake caused Manager Liu's lifelong regret, and sent himself and his wife to the empty door.

Although Zhao Jun is a man who dares to fight and fight hard, he will get up wherever he falls.But can his bravery cover up his mistakes?If Zhao Jun insured all the commodities in the warehouse, it would not cost a few pennies.Isn't it careless to lose Jingzhou?Although it was not a big mistake, such a small mistake led to an unforgivable and terrifying disaster.

This reminds me of the profound life aphorism that Zhao Benshan said in the sketch:

"Do you know what the greatest tragedy in life is? The greatest tragedy in life is that the money is gone while the person is alive!"

All mistakes are accidental, but in all accidents there is necessity.Negligence, paralysis, laziness, fluke, they are the inevitable factors that lead to mistakes.

At no time can you compromise with your mistakes, even if you slide a little in the wrong direction, you may slide further and further.

55.不超过5个人的距离北京飞往美国底特律的飞机于10时50分准时从北京机场起飞，飞机要在空中飞行13个小时，飞越10600公里。

America, familiar words, strange places.For many Chinese, it is a dream place and a mysterious place that few have the opportunity to visit.

It is a place full of violence, where the number of guns is close to that of the population; it is a place for gold mining, where riches are everywhere, and even a handful of air can produce oil.

It was unimaginably clean there, lying on the ground and rolling around, my body was spotless.

... These rumors, which seem to be true or false, have formed my rough impression of the land of the United States.

A young man sitting next to me was having a heated conversation with a pair of elderly people. It seemed that this young man was familiar with the United States, so I listened curiously to their conversation.It turned out that this young man had lived in the United States for 8 years. While chatting, the young man sitting next to him discovered that the old couple was his mother's colleagues.Later, our interpreter also joined their conversation, and after talking carefully, we found out that this young man we met by chance turned out to be a classmate of our interpreter's husband.The translator learned from the young man that more than 30 of her own classmates lived in the United States, and the young man knew them all.

The rapid development of transportation and communication makes the earth on which we live become smaller and smaller.

In the past, Jules Verne imagined traveling around the world in 80 days in science fiction novels. Now we can fly from Beijing in the Eastern Hemisphere to New York in the Western Hemisphere in a dozen hours. I felt a little bit abroad.

When we arrived at Raguali Airport in the United States, it was already 5 o'clock in the daylight saving time in New York, and it was already 7 o'clock in the daylight saving time when we arrived at the Palace Hotel. Due to the time difference between the eastern and western hemispheres, although we had already Flying more than 10000 kilometers, after more than 20 hours, because we always fly westward with the sun, so the more than 20 hours of our flight turned out to be daylight all the time.Although I didn't experience the night, the sleepiness became more and more serious.After arriving at the hotel, the four of us fell asleep after dinner.

The next morning, when I went to the restaurant for dinner, I was shocked. The passengers in the restaurant were all Chinese, from Shandong, Guangdong, Shanghai, Liaoning... The content of breakfast made me laugh out loud——rice Porridge, tea eggs, steamed buns, fried pork with mustard greens, tea, [-]% Chinese recipes.

Occasionally, one or two foreigners' faces can be seen in the restaurant, but those are the waiters.Although the tour guide once said when we got off the plane that we stayed in a hotel that caters for Chinese people, but this is too "specialized" and too Chinese, right?
There were two people from Shandong at the same table with us. We chatted in detail, and one of them actually knew a friend of mine from Qingdao Environmental Protection Instrument Factory, which was simply unbelievable.

This reminds me of such a story:
A few years ago, a German newspaper accepted a challenge to help a Frankfurt kebab owner find his connection to his favorite movie star, Marlon Brando.

After several months of hard work, the employees of the newspaper found that the two people could establish a personal relationship with no more than six people. The owner of the barbecue restaurant is an Iraqi immigrant, and a friend lives in California. , is the sworn sister's boyfriend of the daughter of the producer of the film "This Man Has a Color," in which Marlon Brando starred.

In fact, as early as 1967, the American psychologist Milgram launched his "Small World Theory", also known as the Six Degrees of Separation Theory. Its core content is:
There will be no more than 5 people between you and any stranger, that is to say, you can know any stranger in the world through at most 5 people.Furthermore, there are only 5 people between you and anyone in the world, no matter what country they are in, what race they belong to, or what skin color they are.

You will be surprised to hear this theory, is the world really so small?
Can I get to know Bill Gates and Obama within a distance of no more than 5 people?Although you don’t know where these 5 people are now, it’s enough for you to know this theory, and you can imagine it like this: I’m sitting on a chair in a movie theater, with 5 people in the middle, and Obama is sitting behind the 5 people… …isn’t that a little too amazing?

Yes, you can meet anyone in the world within a distance of no more than 5 people.This theory actually gives us a very important revelation:

The world is actually very small. Through various networks, no matter the person you want to meet is a popular star on the screen or a politician talking at the UN General Assembly, as long as you want, you can become friends with him. Become a business partner.

The distance between us and successful people, business tycoons, and high-level political officials is not as far as you imagine. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Asia, Warren Buffett...they have no reason to let us Looking up, making us afraid?
As long as we make full use of our contacts and relationships, cherish every opportunity to meet, communicate, and communicate, learn to discriminate, and pay attention to integrity, we can gallop freely in the business world and be invincible.

Business experience:
The earth is getting smaller and smaller, and the distance between people is getting smaller and smaller.In a business field with extremely complicated relationships, don't be afraid of anyone, as long as you are a caring person, you can establish a cooperative relationship with anyone.

Human connections are "silver veins". Use your rich interpersonal relationships to tap the potential of all your social relationships. Anyone can become our business partner.

56．Monite, a company without a system, is the destination of our trip to the United States.It is a high-tech company specializing in the production of automatic air monitoring systems in the United States, located in Denver, Colorado, in the western United States.Because it was developed relatively late, the land is sparsely populated, and the policies are favorable, many high-tech companies flock here.Monite Company is located on the side of a highway, and occupies a relatively large area. Because the land is relatively cheap, the buildings here are all flat-roofed, and there are no high-rise buildings.

Manit company has development department, technology department, support department, sales department, after-sales service department, assembly workshop, testing workshop and auxiliary workshop.As soon as we entered the company, Hao Gen, the sales manager who accompanied us, gave each of us a sign and hung it on our chest. At this time, the translator told us: "After we bring this sign, as long as the sign can be opened, We are all free to visit.” So, the translator and another person started a business conversation with Monite, and another person and I started to inspect the company.

American companies have no guards, no security guards, and no nosy people. We walk around the company wearing this small sign, which is really unimpeded.

Fortunately, we met a Chinese from Beijing named Liang Beiping.He was very happy when he heard that we were from China, so he showed us around the company while talking to us.

Manit’s management is extremely loose. Employees talk and laugh during work, and chatting can be seen everywhere. The level of casualness is unimaginable in some companies in our country.Every employee in the office has more than one computer on their desk. Everyone has everything on the computer, some read the news, some play games, and no one interferes.There is a vending machine at the entrance of the workshop, which contains cola, candy, cigarettes, and snacks. Just throw a few coins, and the things you want will automatically roll out.

Whether you're debugging an instrument or conducting a business conversation, you can eat while you work.Because there is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that people cannot be deprived of the right to eat.In the company's restaurant, there are refrigerators filled with ice cubes, coffee tables, and coffee, tea, and ice water on the coffee tables, which everyone can take as they please.

Coming out of the restaurant, we turned a corner and came to the second floor. Liang Beiping pointed to a door and said, "This is the president's office." As soon as we heard it, we immediately said, "Then let's go quickly, don't disturb the president." Liang Beiping said: "It's okay, let's go in and have a look." As he spoke, his hand had already knocked lightly on the door a few times.We are not ready yet, Liang Beiping has already introduced us to their president.The president showed great enthusiasm and walked towards us, chattering birdsong.

Liang Beiping took the initiative to act as our translator.So the president took the initiative to introduce some information about their company to us, without any "official airs" of superiority.

When I returned to the lobby of the office, I saw a big sign hanging on the wall, and I asked Liang Beiping: "What is written on it?" So Liang Beiping translated it to us: "This is our company's Purpose: We do not have any system, if there is any system, there may not be a company like ours.

"Liang Beiping looked at us with a blank face and explained: "This seems to be the nature of Americans. They are not used to coercive control of people. They just need to complete their own work. No one will monitor how to do it. Everything is free. It is carried out in a relaxed way, which unreservedly releases people's nature, imagination and creativity..." "Would it really not affect the work if everyone chats and jokes so casually during working hours? "Liang Beiping said: "They think this is also a kind of communication, and this kind of informal communication is often more efficient than formal communication, so the company encourages this kind of communication among employees. "How does the company explain those who browse the Internet, watch the news, and play games?" "Liang Beiping said: "Our company is a high-tech company. It is different from ordinary production-oriented companies. Often it will also bring effective stimulation to our design, and perhaps sparks will be sparked. "This is a Manit company that occupies half of the world's atmospheric environment automatic monitoring system, a company without a system, a company that is difficult for Chinese people to understand, but it is also a company with extraordinary innovation capabilities. Its business experience:

The system is a double-edged sword.It can regulate and restrict people's behavior, but it can also limit people's ability to innovate and imagine.

"You can do something by not doing something", this is the truth.The boss uses the system to restrict all the things of the employees, and the employees become puppets.

(End of this chapter)