洛克菲勒是美国19世纪的石油大亨,与他同时代的石油巨头很多,但最后只有他独领风骚。洛克菲勒每天早晨上班后的第一件事就是看各部门送上来的报表。他要求极其严格,提炼每加仑原油的成本都要精确到小数点后第三位。一天早晨,他像往常一样翻阅报表。当看到下属西部炼油厂的报表时,他发现了问题。他叫来该厂厂长,质问道:“为什么你们厂提炼 Rockefeller, a 19th-century oil tycoon in the United States, has a lot of oil giants of his generation, but in the end only he dominated. The first thing Rockefeller came to work every morning was to look at the reports sent by each department. He claims extreme rigor, refining the cost per gallon of crude oil to the third place after the decimal point. One morning, he read the report as usual. When he saw the report of a subsidiary’s western refinery, he found the problem. He called the factory director, asked: ”Why do you plant refining