In an internal distribution list, one of my ex-colleagues in ATC is inquiring whether there is any project inside ATC using .NET primarily since a friend of him, who wants to join ATC, is proficient in C# but weak in C++.
One replies: "Microsoft shouldn't (and doesn't) hire people that have specific skills; instead we hire based on that person's growth potential". Personally, I don't agree with him. Hiring by growth potential is only applicable to campus hire. Not applies to industry hire.
In "Monday Morning Leadership" (Chinese version), the book I just finished yesterday, it emphasized that we should only hire right people. After being employed for 3+ years, I realized that it's very true.
In this case, if C# is the working language and C++ is rarely used, why we hire a C++ expert and let him study C#? It doesn't make sense to shareholders. We should hire a right people (who is a C# expert and has a little C++ basis though).
In another book, titled "Now, Discover Your Strength" (Chinese version), it also emphasized that company should have employees do what they are good at and it's waste of money and ridiculous to hire an expert on Stuff A and training him/her to be an expert on Stuff B.
need to well balance short-term and long-term
I don't mean to offend , but I guess you want to say "stockholders"...
And the problem u mentioned in the article , as u said, should be dealt differently in different situation...
At the first sight of the title, my immediate answer is: No. They need a person to finish the task well.
BTW, I want to see more articles on your life besides work in this blog, especially besides the professional programming language.
@jane,
sorry, just a typo. just changed to "shareholder"
朋友还是谦虚点吧..王建硕的英文就更欠火候了
@楼上，
很多中国人之所以学不好英语，就是因为你这种人太多。
相当多的学习英语的中国人，本来有那么一点点信心的，被你这种人一泼冷水，没信心了。说也不敢开口说了，一开口就有你这种人指指点点说什么发音差什么的；写也不敢写了，写上几段就有你这种人指指点点说语法说用次。语言这东西，本来就是要多说、多听、多看、多用才能不断进步。像你这种人，不鼓励也就罢了，还说些风凉话，真不知道出于什么心态，是为了显摆你自己英语好呢，还是看不得别人取得进步的心态在作怪？
你这种人的，说穿了还是中国人，母语还是中文，最多最多是十几岁或者二十几岁的时候出了国，回过头来看不起自己的同胞兄弟们了。也不想想，当年你自己是怎么过来的。不信，拿出你当年写的英文信件来看看，看看是个什么水平。
忘了本了你。
看来mvm有火气了
何必
blog本来就记录和交流的地方，不值得生气。
sorry, 因为其实和前两天王建硕的blog上的那些争论有关联。
English is just a language, like Chinese is a language, Japanese is a language, French is a language and Swahili is a language. I don't think anyone has the right to boast just because he or she knows a language well, grew up with a certain language, or picked it up quickly. Languages exist because people need to express themeselves and communicate. Let's not confuse the means with the end.
Sometimes I fear that I'm slowly turning into a "languageless person," meaning there's not a single language I feel completely comfortable with. I'm increasingly running into things I can't express quite well enough either in English or Chinese. I remember, when I was younger, for a few years I didn't allow myself to read, speak, or think in Chinese at all, except when I talked on the phone with my parents. I was the only Chinese person at my school and eager to fit in. Over the years, however, I've come to appreciate Chinese more and more. Now I read Chinese news, watch Chinese TV, and check out Chinese books from Chinatown. It really is a very beautiful language, so is English, and so I'm sure of any other language in this world.
It's unfortunate that, at least when people of my generation were taught English, they really didn't try to make it fun. I know I learned English by cramming for TOEFL and GRE :), but I didn't *really* learn it until I allowed myself to feel comfortable with whatever English I knew and just used it (well, it was more like I was forced to).
so, guess my two cents on learning a language, if any, is the following--throw all your worries outta the window and just have fun with it. The hell with pronunciation and grammar!
我英语水平始终无法进一步提高的原因就是没有好好的背过单词，这是一个基础，是享受语言乐趣的基础。
另外，我同意weiyi的观点，要从语言的阅读中找到乐趣（Have fun）。我喜欢阅读那些机警的句子，不管是英文的还是中文的，若能读懂作者的机智，则因智慧上的共鸣而欢喜不已。
什么人写BLOG？抒怀的，再有呢？还有不少就是不得志的。
思想多那就去开学校啊，改变大家的哑巴状况才是上策。
楼上的Sally，以后砸场子最好学会换换IP地址——至少重新拨一拨号吧。你看，218.79.119.225，和另一个帖子里面的三个拍砖的一模一样，也都是半夜里两点钟上来的（http://home.wangjianshuo.com/mvm/000874.htm#comments）。
留着你做个教材。