“赶超世界先进水平”作为一种口号在中国已流行了很长一段时间。然而到底如何赶超,很少有人具体探讨。我很高兴地看到我在香港中文大学执教时的两位高徒孙黎和曹声容写了这本以标杆战略为主题的书填补了中国管理界的一个重要的空白。《长大的鞋子》站得高,看得远,立意新颖,资料丰富,文笔生动。从人穿鞋子需要不断更新合脚的鞋子这一简单的观察入手,点出了公司成长,其战略管理系统也需不断吐故纳新的深奥的道理。通读全书,我感受最深的有两点。第一,导言部分的德隆和三九等企业惨败的案例令人深思。GE是世界级企业中的楷模。以GE为标杆不可谓目标不远大,然而殊不知很多欧美企业都已放弃了对GE多元化经营的学习,而埋头专心在某些领域做强做好。羽翼未丰的中国企业崇拜GE是可以理解的。改动一句古诗,“不知庐山真面目,只因身在此山外”,可点出这种问题的焦点。只盲目模仿GE多元化经营的表面现象而不理解GE背后支撑其多元...
Heroes of the Telegraphby J. MunroPREFACE.The present work is in some respects a sequel to the PIONEERS OFELECTRICITY, and it deals with the lives and principal achievements ofthose distinguished men to whom we are indebted for the introduction ofthe electric telegraph and telephone, as well as other marvels ofelectric science.CONTENTS.CHAPTERI. THE ORIGIN OF THE TELEGRAPHII. CHARLES WHEATSTONEIII. SAMUEL MORSEIV. SIR WILLIAM THOMSON...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE GARRIDEBSby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIt may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It costone man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yetanother man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly anelement of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.I remember the date very well, for it was in the same month that...
Part 8My poor afflicted governess was now as much concerned asI, and a great deal more truly penitent, though she had noprospect of being brought to trial and sentence. Not but thatshe deserved it as much as I, and so she said herself; but shehad not done anything herself for many years, other thanreceiving what I and others stole, and encouraging us to stealit. But she cried, and took on like a distracted body, wringingher hands, and crying out that she was undone, that she...
音乐是情人。一旦开始调请,弄得你五迷三倒,不知如何是好。本来挺聪明的人,让它一纠缠, 也乱了阵营。人生本来并没有那么暗淡或光辉。本来就是那么些平常小事:吃饭、睡觉、聊天、工作、晒太阳、买东西等等。但让情人一挑唆,突然你开始对什么都发电:太阳本来就是那么一团光, 但在爱情的感召下,你愣觉得太阳也能思想。本来睡觉是平静的,闭上眼,睡得能跟死猪比,才是睡;但有情人在身边,睡觉成了动荡的事,死猪般的贪睡欲突然消失,只是想多醒着多感觉对方,什么都不明确,对方的每一举动都有特殊含义。它就躺在你身边,不知道下一句它要说什么,干什么,你只有期待。它发出信号,你接受,陶醉,不知道前景,每一分一秒钟都是享受,它让你整个浸泡在它里面,包容你,替你思索。你的身体随着它的操纵而蜷缩或伸展,无休无止。即使白天的事务性工作使你变得婆婆妈妈、骂骂咧咧,但一见到情人,你张嘴说什么它作出的反映都是鼓励...
中国现行教育的弊端有目共睹,事实上已成为民众受害最烈、怨声最大的领域之一,这也引起了越来越多有识之士的忧思。根本的症结当然是在体制上,举其大者,一是教育资源分配不公和市场化名义下的高收费、乱收费,导致大量贫困家庭子女实际上被剥夺了受教育的权利,二是应试教育变本加厉,三是教育目标和过程的急功近利。在这三种因素交互作用下,滋生了种种教育腐败现象。体制问题的解决,一方面要靠民意充分表达,另一方面要靠政府痛下决心。自今年两会召开以来,我们在这两个方面都看到了一些积极的迹象。但是,体制的改革非一日之功,我们不能坐等其完成。我们应看到,即使在现行体制下,老师和家长仍拥有相对的自由,可以为自己的学生和孩子创造一个尽可能好的小环境,把大环境对他们的危害缩小到最低程度。当然,这就要求老师和家长站得足够高,对于现行体制的弊端有清醒的认识,对于教育的理念有正确的理解。可以想像,这样的...
THE BLUE MOUNTAINSThere were once a Scotsman and an Englishman and an Irishmanserving in the army together, who took it into their heads to runaway on the first opportunity they could get. The chance cameand they took it. They went on travelling for two days through agreat forest, without food or drink, and without coming across asingle house, and every night they had to climb up into the treesthrough fear of the wild beasts that were in the wood. On the...
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROYBY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETTICedric himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never beeneven mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had been anEnglishman, because his mamma had told him so; but then his papahad died when he was so little a boy that he could not remembervery much about him, except that he was big, and had blue eyesand a long mustache, and that it was a splendid thing to be...
第一部分2、关于内衣(1)电话铃响得很不是时候。 为什么他总是在大白天、我忙得几乎喘不过气来的时候打电话? “你今天穿什么衣服?”他问,好像生活里没有其他更重要的事情似的!然而,当我从自己身上的黑长裙、灰短靴开始描述时,我发觉自己已经无可救药地软化了。当说到丝袜时,我发现自己比以往更深地陷于爱恋之中了。最后,他问起了我的内衣。我知道,我已经绝不可能按原先计划的那样,加班到晚上十点了。 有些男人相当精通这类技巧。他们可都是有教养的人呢!包括我亲爱的老公,也是个中高手!否则他现在也许还只是我的男朋友也未可知。 直到今天,我也没弄清楚,究竟是谁发明了这种技巧。不过我倒是知道,这类小诡计对女人一向管用,而且会一直管用下去,直到地老天荒。 聊到内衣,便会挑起欲望,甚至是男女双方的。谁想借此来引诱他人,也会被自己诱惑。谁穿了或描述了自己稍微性感或煽情的打扮,谁就会先掉进欲望...
第3章 使用MASM3.1 Win32汇编源程序的结构(1)经过第2章的准备工作,相信大家都已经建好了Win32汇编的工作环境,并已经可以编译程序了,现在让我们来编译所带光盘的Chapter03HelloWorld目录下的Hello World程序。这是一个相当小的程序,就和DOS时代下经典的Hello World程序一样,并没有涉及系统中很多的东西,甚至连Windows系统中基本的消息驱动机制也没有看到,它只是简单地弹出一个消息框,在上面显示了一句“Hello,World!”,并在文字的下面显示了一个“确定”按钮,就停在那里了,当用户按下“确定”按钮,程序就退出了,同时消息框消失。这个程序运行的结果如图3.1所示。...