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Chapter 2960 Employment Positions for Women

Wen Zhixia said: "These categories of choices are not difficult. What is more complicated is the choice between the two educational directions."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What are the two educational directions?"

Wen Zhixia said: "There are mainly two educational directions in the education sector now, which have been proven to be effective countless times, namely general education and specialist education."

Ning Yaxian was no stranger to this and said, "Well, it's Newman-style education and Humboldt-style education."

"Yes, that's the two types." Wen Zhixia smiled. "General education means learning knowledge in various fields. You don't have to be proficient in it, but you have to understand it all. Specialized education means giving up all irrelevant subjects and digging deep into professional fields to cultivate more industry experts. The top two universities in the world have these two different directions. Harvard University is a general education, and MIT is a specialized education."

Speaking of this, Zhou Buqi knows it very well.

Because this is the same idea as running a business!

In a large company, even the top scientists cannot become senior executives; in a sales department, the salesperson with the highest sales often finds it difficult to be promoted to sales manager.

This is the difference between a generalist and a specialist.

If you want to be a senior manager, you need to be a generalist.

You may not be very proficient in technology, marketing, personnel, finance, product design, interpersonal relationships, etc., but you must understand them all and be able to integrate all aspects.

If you are a scientist, you can only be promoted step by step in technical positions and continue to explore and dig in your professional field.

The more specialized it is, the less versatile it is.

Because to the social elites, the gap between people is not that big. Everyone is a smart person in society and everyone is a talent.

The difference is that different people choose different "talent points".

For example, a character has 100 talent points.

Some people put all 100 talent points in science. In this case, they are super geniuses in the field of science, but very bad in other fields. They may not even be able to take care of themselves or have basic social skills.

Some people distribute their 100 talent points evenly among social, foreign languages, design, art, aesthetics, science, emotional intelligence, etc. He does not have any extraordinary professional skills and cannot be called a top expert in any industry.

But only this kind of people can lead a large team and lead those capable industry experts to achieve something.

Just like Edison and Tesla.

Edison is a typical jack of all trades and master of none, yet he became the world's top inventor and richest entrepreneur. The company he founded, General Electric, is still a world-class giant more than a hundred years later.

Tesla was the greatest technical engineer of that era, and made indelible contributions to mankind, especially in the promotion and popularization of alternating current. Musk's electric car company "Tesla" was named in his memory.

Edison is a generalist, he coordinates the overall situation; Tesla is a specialist, he can only be a small role beside Edison.

Zhou Buqi said: "Just look at Silicon Valley and you will know. Students who graduated from MIT constitute the most core group of scientists in Silicon Valley. Students who graduated from Harvard constitute the most core group of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley."

Wen Zhixia said: "Harvard University provides the most political and business people with leadership talents, and MIT provides the most scientific professionals."

Zhou Buqi said without hesitation, "Of course, our children must choose the generalist route! Being an industry expert is too hard. For example, if you study mathematics or physics all your life, you may not be able to achieve anything."

Wen Zhixia smiled and said, "In American society, children from the top families are all generalists. Children from middle-class families tend to be specialists. The social competitiveness of generalists has a lot to do with their social background. If there is no such relationship, it is easier to succeed by becoming a specialist."

"It's not just the United States, which country isn't like this? It's the same in China too. The lower the middle class of the family, the more they care about their children's majors. Many families with connections and backgrounds don't care what their children study at all. Majors are not important at all. The social skills developed by eating, drinking, playing and playing games with classmates every day in college are more meaningful than working hard on your major."

Zhou Buqi had actually seen through this point a long time ago.

When he was forming the "Ten Schools Entrepreneurship Alliance", none of the partners he looked for were specialists, and none of them were the type who would study hard.

Even a girl like Xu Baihui, who graduated from an art school, can become a big boss as long as she has strong generalist attributes and lead those professionals who have worked in their professional fields for a lifetime. A casual word from her can make the best professionals work hard for several months. It is generalists, not specialists, who dominate this world.

Families like the Zhou family, who are either rich or noble, must be advising young people to work hard, aim at the stars and the sea, and have deeper attainments and higher pursuits in their professions.

Then, let your children receive a more relaxed general education, and after graduation they will lead those experts who have extraordinary abilities in their professional fields.

As Shen Xiangyang said, we should look for a generalist with leadership for the general generative AI model, rather than a specialist, even if he is the world's top AI scientist.

Zhou Buqi must have hoped that his children could hold higher positions in the future.

Instead of becoming an expert in a certain field, assisting others and becoming a tool for others to realize their ideals and ambitions.

Zhou Buqi said, "The knowledge should be rich, the wider the better. Our children must be trained to be generalists. Apart from other things, our family has so many businesses. If you want to inherit the family business, a specialist in any one field is not enough. In the public's perception, being a jack of all trades and master of none is a derogatory term. But the public's perception is often very limited. I have never heard that the president of the United States is a professional in any field. He has never had any military training, but he can command the most powerful military in the world."

Wen Zhixia laughed and said, "Your goal is really big."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said, "It's settled!"

Wen Zhixia nodded slightly, "Then we should cultivate it from a young age, learn more subjects, and participate in more extracurricular activities."

……

Shi Jinglin guessed right.

During the family meeting just now, Zhou Buqi was indeed distracted several times and his thoughts drifted to work.

There's a feminist movement sweeping Silicon Valley right now.

Ziweixing International should also be cautious. The best thing would be to provide more jobs for women to alleviate the situation of "more men than women" within the company.

But where can we create more jobs for women?

This is a bit troublesome.

  Teacher Wen’s words at the family meeting immediately helped Zhou Buqi find the direction - education!

There is also extracurricular tutoring in the United States.

And the market size is not small!

  The market share of after-school tutoring is one-third of that in China, but the U.S. population is only one-quarter of that in China. It can be seen that from a proportional point of view, American families spend more on after-school tutoring than domestic families!

The reason why it doesn't seem as vigorous as in China is that extracurricular tutoring in the United States is too damn expensive, at least very few families can afford it.

Even many middle-class families in the United States cannot afford to hire a tutor. Many families do not neglect their children’s education or do not want their children to have more educational resources, but they really cannot afford to pay for a one-on-one private tutor.

This creates a gap in market demand.

Where there is demand, there is opportunity!

There is an even more important point.

Because the extracurricular education model in the United States is that all tutors come to the students' homes for training. If a teacher has to come to the students' homes for tutoring, male teachers will have a certain "unsafe" attribute, so the extracurricular tutors in the United States are basically women.

If Zhou Buqi leads Ziweixing International to enter the after-school tutoring education industry, this will not only be a new and promising large market, but can also create a better, higher and more structured corporate image for Ziweixing International in the United States, and can also create numerous jobs for women.

That's it!

The solution to the problem has been found!