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A historical story in which details determine success or failure.
1, the story of horseshoe nail

/kloc-In the 5th century, King Richard of England faced an important war, which was related to the life and death of the country. Before the battle began, the king told the groom to get his horse ready. The groom immediately found the blacksmith and told him to nail the horseshoe to the horseshoe. The blacksmith nailed three horseshoes first, but when he nailed the fourth, he found that there was still a nail missing. Of course, horseshoes are not strong.

The groom reported the situation to the king, but the king didn't care about the fourth horseshoe and hurried back to the battlefield. On the battlefield, the king rode his horse and led his soldiers to the front. Suddenly, a horseshoe fell, the horse fell back to the ground, and the king was badly hurt.

When the king fell, the soldiers fled for their lives, and the whole army fell apart in an instant. The enemy took the opportunity to fight back and captured the king in the battle. The king realized the importance of that nail, and in this way, Richard III's country was defeated by a small horseshoe nail.

2, a house is not swept, why sweep the world?

During the Han Dynasty, Chen Fan was fifteen years old and ambitious, and wanted to take the world as his responsibility. So I buried myself in reading every day, so that the room was messy and I turned a blind eye. One day, a friend of his father saw that his room was so "messy" and asked him why he didn't tidy it up. Chen Fan's clear voice replied, "A gentleman living in this world should take it as his duty to govern the world. How can he only care about his family? "

The visitors were impressed by his ambitious ambition, but they didn't even want to clean his own room. At this rate, he will certainly not make a difference in the future. So he taught him: "If one room is not cured, how can the country be in the world?"

It means: doll, don't be arrogant. Governing the country is also about doing concrete things. You don't even want to do anything like cleaning the room today. Those things may be more trivial in the future, and you can't do it. Chen Fan was awakened by this inspiration. Since then, strict self-discipline has finally achieved a career.

3, Zhang Ruimin-take small things as big things to do.

Haier, led by Zhang Ruimin, is famous now, but its management was a mess. After Zhang Ruimin entered Haier, the first rule was "No defecation anywhere", which shows Haier's past situation.

1985, Haier started its internal management, and compiled a 654.38+million-word quality assurance manual for this purpose, and formulated 12 1 management standard, 49 work standards and 1008 technical standard. Zhang Ruimin set out to sort out the interior of the enterprise. He was willing to make great efforts and spend a lot of money to make small things into big things, which led to today's achievements.

4, Lv Yuan false-honest to see big.

According to Yuquanzi, when Lv Yuan was appointed as the capital of Du Dong, a Chu Shi often played chess with him. Once, two people were fighting, and suddenly the official document came. Lv Yuanying had to leave the chessboard and go to the case-solving to read the official documents. The chess player took the opportunity to secretly move a chess piece and finally defeated Lu Yuanying. In fact, Lu Yuanying has seen that he moved the chess pieces, but he doesn't make any sense.

The next day, Lv Yuan asked the players to make a living elsewhere. Others don't know why he was fired, and he himself doesn't know why he was fired. When he left, Lv Yuan also presented money and things. Lv Yuanying dismissed the chess player because he found his dishonesty in the way a chess player moves and a deceptive little gesture.

5. archibald-four dollars a barrel

Once upon a time, in the American Standard Oil Company, there was a clerk named Akibot. When he stays in a hotel on a long trip, he always writes down the words "four dollars a barrel of standard oil" under his signature, and signs his name on letters and receipts. You must write these words down. So he was called "four dollars a barrel" by his colleagues, but his real name was not called out.

Rockefeller, the chairman of the company, said after learning about the incident, "I want to meet the employees who have worked so hard to promote the company's reputation." So I invited archibald to dinner.

Later, Rockefeller stepped down and archibald became the second chairman. This is something anyone can do, but only archibald has done it, and he is determined to enjoy it. There must be many people who laughed at him who were more talented and capable than him, but in the end, only he became the chairman.