There is a well-known joke on the Internet about programmers: "...... Everything is ready, and now there is a programmer left. ”

At the time when Qinglan Consulting was just launched, Chen She often played such a role - the role of a programmer, specially used to deal with and solve all kinds of immature suggestions.

Every time Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen's needs appeared, they were weird and firm. But no matter how difficult it is, as long as it is the direction they set, they will definitely implement it resolutely in the end.

For the first time, he went to Vietnam alone to find a boat, and then asked all the crew to drive the boat to a specific place, then let all the crew leave, and finally came back in a small boat by himself......

At the beginning, in the face of these incredible needs, Chen She couldn't help but think about the possible reasons behind these strange needs.

Let's take the earliest boat for example - the reason given by the teacher at that time was disaster relief, but in hindsight, there was no disaster at all at that time. But after nearly a year of running-in, Chen She has begun to get used to execution rather than questioning - what Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen need is an excellent executor, and Chen She is now extremely clear about his career positioning.

Although he has fully accepted it ideologically, in the face of Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing's request, no matter how bizarre the request is, he will first fully accept it, and then confirm the feasibility - because the truth has been told to Chen She many times, sometimes what he feels is completely impossible to do, for Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen, it is a little too easy.

For example, Yevgeny, Chen She still remembers that when Shen Changwen first mentioned the needs related to it to himself, it was just a simple sentence: "China is more sensitive, go to Europe and the United States to find out if there are any experts in nuclear *." ”

Although he had fully accepted the bizarre needs of the company at that time, when he heard this, he couldn't help but ask the teacher to repeat: "Teacher, what are you talking about, Intercontinental*?" ”

After determining the needs, in the next implementation, Chen She also tried to mention such information vaguely with the agency of the US office at the beginning-strangely no one shy away from it, but after a simple understanding, the clerk answered that there was only one sentence - they didn't know.

Not knowing means that they don't know anything about these information channels – that is, they can't knock on any of the doors, even with money.

After a few attempts, Chen She understood: for such a sensitive project, it is unrealistic to knock on the door with money.

So when Chen She returned to Wu Xiaoqing, he could only say that his ability was limited.

If it is an ordinary company, in the face of a subordinate shaking his head resolutely and helplessly, the boss will either lose his temper and say strange things, or he will fire the squid directly. But neither Wu Xiaoqing nor Shen Changwen did. They didn't seem to remember it at all - it's just that when they decided to travel to get married and go to the company to ask for leave, Shen Changwen asked casually: "Hawaii...... Then let's do the business of the *experts by the way. ”

Chen She didn't know how the teacher promoted this matter, but now that he thinks about it, he is nothing more than using his connections in the field of scientific research. But from this matter, a message can be clearly seen - Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen have clear and firm needs for themselves. Their seemingly demanding execution standards may be an unreasonable reality for Chen She or other HR people, but for themselves - they obviously know how to implement them.

Now, if the content of a new project is to let people travel to Pluto, Chen She will not doubt the other party's aerospace knowledge at the first time, but will go back and confirm whether his aerospace knowledge is outdated.

In other words, if Wu Xiaoqing faced him and said, "Now, this project is short of a programmer." "That Chen She is completely convinced of this. Maybe this programmer is the kind of special talent he can't find, but as long as Wu Xiaoqing or the mentor comes out, it will definitely be solved in the end.

On the contrary, if Wu Xiaoqing hadn't told him about such a need now, and he had seen a programmer with an unfamiliar face sitting in front of him, using the company's office resources to seriously work on the project - just like the scene he saw now.

If it is an ordinary general manager of the company, he may scream at the first time - you can't trust me at all, chairman!

The reason why Chen She was in such a hurry to come over was largely because of this mentality. However, after he really saw this scene, he didn't immediately ask the question he wanted to ask the most in his heart, but immediately asked himself one more sentence: "Is it that Wu Xiaoqing already knows that he can't do this by himself." ”

If you look at Qinglan Consulting with a strict corporate standard, there is a big problem with the middle and upper levels of the company's power structure - the biggest problem is, of course, the lack of clarity of authority.

The chairman of the board of directors frequently meddles in the front-line business, and he, the general manager, is always hollowed out, and several middle-level veterans are not qualified and competent, but everyone seems to be in charge of a few big projects - but they are not responsible for these projects, and they will often make cameos with each other.

If the general company, personnel chaos to this part, the company's business ability can basically be paralyzed - the biggest problem faced by the company in this environment is often not that everyone is unwilling to work, but everyone desperately wants to work - because all the front-line business is directly responsible for the boss, and the boss is all involved, and if you succeed, you can still have a reward, of course, you have to do it!

In the end, there are often two extremes in this mode of operation - if it is not done well, the company will collapse at the fastest speed, and if it is done well, the company will develop at the fastest speed.

The key to good and bad is to look at the specific person who intervenes and the impact of his actions on the company's profits.

It is undeniable that there are always such business geniuses in this world, such as the famous Jobs Joe gang leader, who leads the whole team to move upwards by his own will......

In Chen She's eyes, Wu Xiaoqing is now his Jobs. When he saw hundreds of strange foreigners in the company, one of his thoughts was not that Wu Xiaoqing believed in himself, but to review himself - whether it was because of his lack of ability that Wu Xiaoqing no longer had higher expectations for himself.

Under normal circumstances, you should always talk to yourself, the general manager, and discuss it - at least after you have worked hard and said that you are indeed incompetent, and then promote it from other channels.

But now, the whole thing seems to be completely bypassing itself and doing it alone - which is obviously a very negative sign for Chen She.

……

"Joey," Wu Xiaoqing opened the door of the conference room and called out a person's name, "Come out." ”

"Hi, BOSS-no.1," the person who was called, called Joey, had an obvious Eurasian mixed face, and at first glance Chen She thought that the other party was a movie star. Joey greeted Wu Xiaoqing with a grin, and then said hello to Chen She, "BOSS-no.2." ”

"Speaking Chinese," Wu Xiaoqing nodded, and introduced Chen She again, "This is Chen She, the general manager here." ”

"Oh, hello, Mr. Chen." Joey's Chinese is so-so, and it doesn't look like a native language. But if you use the standards of foreigners, it is actually not bad.

"Hello."

"You can give Mr. Chen a brief introduction to the project, which is easy to understand."

"But I'm here for fun......" Joey frowned, as if he was a little resistant to the task.

"Then you'd better introduce this kind of fun to Chen She," Wu Xiaoqing said, "if you want to live better and eat better in the next work." ”

"Okay," Joey nodded, and said to Chen She, "There are too many people here, let's go to the stairwell, by the way, do you happen to have a pack of cigarettes with you?" ”

Chen She shook his head.

"Then will you have a subordinate who happens to need to go down, so by the way to buy me a pack of cigarettes," Joey said embarrassedly, "I came in a hurry, I don't have any RMB on me." ”

Chen She smiled: "You can redeem it in the company." ”

"I won't be able to stay for a few days, forget it," said Joey, "and Mr. Wu said it would be better not to leave too many traces here." ”

Twenty minutes later, Chen She, who had not been able to "take a few subordinates with him", came back, along with a dozen cigarettes and dozens of cases of beer.

The beer was moved, and the cigarettes were simply placed on the public table near the stairwell, just like the company's snack bar, and people could take it casually.

Anyway, it's the Chinese New Year, and in the entire building, except for Qinglan Consulting, there are no other companies working. Joey could see that he was an old smoker, and after getting the cigarette, the first puff was almost the same as what Guo Degang performed in cross talk, and a small half of it disappeared at once, and then he spit out a long string of smoke.

After the smoke gradually cleared, Joey began to say: "Okay, let's talk about the project briefly, the part I am responsible for, Mr. Chen, you should have heard of binary, we call it machine language." ”

"Yes."

"But binary itself is not a language," Joy said, "and it's a machine language just to make it easier for us to understand, but binary is just a machine executor." ”

"I know," Chen said, "that it's the same with programming languages, and it's not so much that people are getting computers to understand and execute human language, but rather that humans are relying on these tools to give commands more precisely." ”

"Yes, Command, that's a more accurate description. Language is a two-way tool, in the process of communication, the two parties of the language will continue to move closer to each other in the process of use......" Joey stretched out his hands and made a gesture of leaning closer, "and what we now call computer language is actually just one-way commands - you can keep giving commands to the computer, but the result is always can or cannot be ......"

"No, you'll have to find out for yourself the reason - strictly speaking, a program is just a logic circuit based on a microelectronic structure, and it is not scalable in itself - I'm talking a little fast, can you understand?"

"It's okay." Chen She nodded.

"Well, now, that's where the most interesting part of our project goes," Joy said, "and we've discovered a binary language. ”

After finishing speaking, Joey stopped even smoking and looked at Chen She's expression.

Chen She was stared at for more than ten seconds before he reacted, and the other party was expecting him to be excited. He smiled stiffly, "That...... It's kind of funny...... Can you speak the language? How do you decide? ”

"The best way to determine a language is to look at the complexity of the vocabulary," says Joy, "and in a strict machine language, there are actually only two words, 0 and 1, and all the information is a combination of these two words." ”

But two words are certainly not enough to convey a complex enough concept, and imagine that in English, if there were only two letters, A and B, the result would be quite interesting. The total vocabulary of the English language is now close to a million people, which means that the words themselves require more than a million permutations – in binary, this arrangement would require up to 20 phrases. ”

"Of course, this length is nothing for a machine. Generally speaking, the more complex the vocabulary itself, the more precise the language, but the less versatile it is – judging by this perspective, the strictly binary language, which is the machine language we use today, has reached the highest level of precision. ”