A letter to Chinese students
Talking from integrity
Li Kai Fu April 2000
On May 23 this year, Mr. Bill Gates wrote in the Wall Street Journal, supported and urged the US government to give China's permanent normal trade state treatment. In the text, he specially talked about the pleasant experience of Tsinghua University and China's student's dialogue and therefore left a deep impression. This article makes me can't help but think that in China's two years, the biggest enjoyment in my work is also an exchange of universities in China. These access and exchanges make I have the opportunity to communicate with thousands of young students face-to-face on their concerns. Chinese students have a very deep impression on me. In the process of communication with these youth students, I found that there are some problems that everyone is very concerned. Those students who have already obtained foreign university scholarships, mostly I hope that I will talk about how to spend my own career in the United States; those who decide to stay in China, very concerned about how to identify a correct direction, and at the fastest speed Successful in scientific research and academics; there are also students who have just stepped into university schools, I hope that I can tell some of my experience and being a person's experience. Recently, there are more students to care about the development of the network information industry, I hope to understand how the US college students are entrepreneurship and getting rich. Seeing so many twirling knowledge, full of hope, I suddenly produced a impulse, that is, I wrote a letter to China, and some ideas I have generated in the communication process and I want to Some of the advice of Chinese students write out to help them get more perfect in the future, work or entrepreneurship, and life is more smooth, and the career is more successful. Stick to integrity, the principle of integrity, when Apple worked, there was a manager who was promoted by me. Due to the criticism of the subordinates, I was very frustrated to find someone to replace him. I asked him: "Do you think your strengths?" He said, "I am confident that I am a very upright person." I told him: "I first promoted you to do managers, because you are a just selfless person. Management experience and communication skills can be learned in the future, but a ridicone heart is invalvous. "I support him to continue to do it and give him a lot of guidance and help in management and communication skills. In the end, he is not expected to be a good management. Now, he is already a proclaimed company's chief technology officer. On the contrary, I have interviewed a job seeker. He is quite excellent in technology and management. However, in the discussion, he said that if I admit him, he can even bring one inventions when the company is working. Then he seems to be a bit improper, special as a statement: those work is done after get off work, his boss does not know. After this conversation, for me, no matter what his ability and work level, I will definitely not hire him. The reason is that he lacks the most basic criteria and the minimum professional ethics "honest" and "speaking credit". If you hire such a person, who can guarantee that he will not work here for a while, which will also become "tribute" to other companies as the so-called "amateur"? This shows that people who are imperfect in a character cannot be a truly active person. In the United States, Chinese students' diligence and excellence are famous, once the most popular international students in all Americans. Recently, some schools and professors claim that they never want to recruit Chinese students. The reason is very simple. Some Chinese students took a doctor's scholarship to the United States, but once they found a job, they immediately applied for leaving the school and threw their own degree and research that he promised to complete. This kind of words and deeds have made a considerable part of the United States to have doubts about Chinese students' honesty. It should be pointed out that Chinese students with this behavior are a few, but this is such a "small number", which has caused great damage to the reputation of Chinese students.
In addition, there are many professors in the United States ignore the recommendation of most Chinese students, because they know that these recommendations come from the students themselves, have no reference. This is also an inevitable result after honesty is damaged. I have encountered similar problems in Microsoft Research Institute. A student who came here, an unexpectedly reported a very good study result. However, the results of his research have not been repeated. Later, his boss found that this student was selected for the experimental data, leaving only the best results, and abandoned the "not very good" data. I think this student will never achieve true academic breakthroughs, and it is impossible to be a truly qualified researcher. Finally, I want to mention some people who like to be greedy. They use the school or company phone to call private long distances and reimburse the taxi ticket. Perhaps some people think that students are focusing on grades, career, and other details are just some small things, they have done it as much as they want, and there is no big deal. However, it is the so-called "little things" around you, often becoming a key to shaping personalities and accumulating integrity. Some of the greed is cheap, and the small and smart behavior will only qualitatively be a smaller, and there is no image of the person who has no interest. For these behaviors, a word, it is "Do not evil". Living in groups is compared with most American students, Chinese students' ability to express their ability, communication skills, and team spirit are relatively lacking. This may be due to the cultural background and the different education system. Today, when we face a society that is going to highly globalized, living in groups, making better performance, get more and gain, is especially important. The ability to express and communicate is very important. No matter how excellent work, you will not express it, you can't let more people understand and share, then it is almost equal to white. Therefore, in the learning stage, you can't live in a world, and you should try to learn from all walks of life and communicate, actively express your opinions and opinions on various things, and even speaking at the public gatherings. Exercise your own expression skills. Expression ability is never just your "eloquence". Professor Harvard University has recently been very interesting experiments, and he lets two groups of students evaluate several professors' teaching quality. He took the lecture record of these professors to two seconds to give a group of students to give a set of assessment results. Then compare the results of students who have already heard of these professors for several months, the two groups of conclusions are amazing. This shows that in the process of expressing their own ideas, non-language expression and language are equally important, sometimes even more obvious. The non-language expression herein refers to people's instruments, manners, tone, tones, and emotions. Because of these aspects, people can more intuitive and more imperfect that you are people, the ability to do things, see your confidence and enthusiasm, and give a very important "first impression". For a group, a company, or even a country, team spirit is very critical. Microsoft said in the United States with a special team. The R & D of the product of Windows 2000, Microsoft has more than 3,000 development engineers and testers, and has written 50 million lines of code. There is no highly unified team spirit, there is no tacit understanding and division of labor of all participants, which is not possible at all. Relatively speaking, I have seen such a phenomenon when I was in other companies. A project is arranged, and everyone knows that it cannot be completed, but they all don't know, do not tell the boss. Because anyway, it is not finished, everyone does not work hard, but spend more time to calculate how to blame the failure of this project to others. It is these people and such a work style to drag this company. In order to cultivate the team spirit, I suggest that the students actively participate in the work of various social groups. In the process of working with others, sharing results, mutual help, you can experience the importance of team spirit.
