This is an old story. The boss of
company is going to New York to discuss a cooperation. Before leaving, he gave his assistant a task: to sort out the quotation for negotiation and send it via fax to the hotel where he was about to stay. The
assistant quickly compiled the quotation. But when I called the phone number reserved by the boss, I found that the hotel had no booking information from the boss at all - the phone number was wrong.
What’s even worse is that it was the 1980s. There was no email or mobile phone, so there was no way to contact the boss! What to do with
? Of course the assistant can wait for the boss to call back. It was his own mistake! However, if it disrupts the boss's plan, will it affect the negotiation and delay the business?
However, it is not easy to find the hotel where the boss stays. There are thousands of hotels in New York, who knows which one the boss booked? The
assistant came up with an idea based on the information he had at hand: When the boss is on a business trip, what is the accommodation standard? What kind of hotel does the boss usually stay in when traveling on business? Which district in New York is the boss's destination for this trip? ...
After applying several standards, the assistant found that there were only a dozen hotels that met the requirements. He called each one one by one, and sure enough, he found the boss's reservation information at the eighth store.
This assistant’s surname is Gao, and he currently serves as a senior executive of a Fortune 500 company.
A true master can show proactive and clear logic even in trivial matters. This is probably what the saying goes that you must have something to win.
