Once, our leader son was named by the teacher and did not hand in his Chinese homework on time, he was very unconvinced and said many reasons: 1This time there was a lot of language assignment; 2.It is required to submit before 6 o'clock in the evening, it is already 4:30 after school, and it is too late to rest for a while and eat something; 3.A lot of my classmates didn't finish it, and it's not my problem alone, blabla ......
The result? The more he explained, the more angry the teacher became, and he was severely criticized again. After my son complained to me, it reminded me of a project more than 10 years ago.
1.The partner received a self-funded publishing project, Party A is a subordinate department of CCTV, and it is very demanding, and after several rounds of negotiations, it was handed over to our company to do.
2.Originally, it was planned to be published in 3 months, but various problems in the middle (too many sick sentences, confidential issues, ** problems, etc.) were returned several times, resulting in a delay in publication.
3.We were very anxious with our partners, and we studied and wrote a long email with more than 5,000 words, explaining the cause and effect in detail, hoping to get Party A's understanding. Before sending it, the partner talked to her husband about it, and her husband is an executive with rich experience in the workplace, and after learning about the cause and effect, he told us not to send it. Why?
4.Party A is furious because it wants to solve the problem, and it doesn't care about the reason for the delay at all, and threatening to cancel the cooperation is not the goal, they just want to get the book on time, as long as they do this, nothing else matters. The 5,000 words we wrote, in the eyes of Party A's father, are all excuses, and solving problems is king.
5.These words made me suddenly enlightened, and I called Party A directly, why was he so anxious, it turned out that there was an event at the end of May, and I needed to use this book to support the façade, as long as 10 books were enough, not necessarily all of them were printed. It's simple, we have applied for the cover, text, and book number, and we first found a printing house to bind 10 sample books and send them over, and the next few thousand copies were slowly printed.
The problem was solved, and we worked happily together.