TED演讲:婴儿潮时期的人和千禧一代如何在工作中相互学习(5)

Here's how the alchemy worked for me at Airbnb:

这是我在Airbnb工作时发现的有效方式：

I was assigned a young, smart partner, who helped me develop a hospitality department.

我被指派了一个年轻，聪明的搭档，她帮助我开发了一个住宿公寓。

Early on, Laura Hughes could see that I was a little lost in this habitat,

早些时候，劳拉·休斯可能看到我在这个“栖息地”有点迷失了，

so she often sat right next to me in meetings so she could be my tech translator,

于是她常常在会议时坐在我旁边，自愿做我的科技翻译，

and I could write her notes and she could tell me, "That's what that means."

我记下笔记给她看，她就能够告诉我：“就是那个意思。”

Laura was 27 years old, she'd worked for Google for four years and then for a year and a half at Airbnb when I met her.

我认识劳拉时，她27岁，她在谷歌工作了4年，然后在Airbnb工作了一年半。

Like many of her millennial¹ cohorts,

像很多千禧一代的同龄人一样，

she had actually grown into a managerial role before she'd gotten any formal leadership training.

在得到任何正式的领导力培训前，她实际上已经具备了管理者的能力。

I don't care if you're in the B-to-B world, the B-to-C world, the C-to-C world or the A-to-Z world,

我不关心你是在B2B的世界，B2C的世界，C2C的世界，还是A2Z的世界，

business is fundamentally H-to-H: human to human.

商业本质上是H2H的世界：人跟人的世界。

And yet, Laura's approach to leadership was really formed in the technocratic² world, and it was purely³ metric driven.

然而，劳拉的领导方式实际上是在技术官僚世界中形成的，基本上是纯指标驱动的。

One of the things she said to me in the first few months was,

在起初几个月中，她告诉我的一件事是，

"I love the fact that your approach to leadership is to create a compelling vision that becomes a North Star for us."

“我喜欢这个事实--你的领导方式是创造一种引人注目的愿景，为我们指引正确的方向。”

Now, my fact knowledge, as in, how many rooms a maid cleans in an eight-hour shift,

现在，我对现实的知识，比如，一个女佣在8小时的轮班中打扫了多少房间，

might not be all that important in a home-sharing world.

在民宿共享世界中可能没那么重要。

My process knowledge of "How do you get things done?" based upon understanding the underlying⁴ motivations of everybody in the room,

我的基于理解房间中每个人的潜在动机，关于“如何把事情完成”的过程性知识

was incredibly valuable, in a company where most people didn't have a lot of organizational experience.

才是有重要价值的，特别是在一家大部分人都欠缺组织经验的公司。

As I spent more time at Airbnb, I realized it's possible a new kind of elder was emerging in the workplace.

随着我在Airbnb工作的时间越来越久，我意识到可能有一种新形态的长者在工作中出现了。

Not the elder of the past, who actually was regarded with reverence⁵.

不是过去的长者，那种被尊重的人。

No, what is striking about the modern elder is their relevance⁶,

不，现代长者的惊人之处是他们的相关性，

their ability to use timeless wisdom and apply it to modern-day problems.

他们运用永恒智慧，并将其应用于解决现代问题的能力。

1 millennial   

一千年的，千福年的

参考例句：

• Both Russia and America looked to the future to fulfill their millennial expectations. 俄国和美国都把实现他们黄金时代的希望寄托于未来。
• The millennial generation is celebrating the global commons every day, apparently unmindful of Hardin's warning. 千禧一代显然对哈丁的警告不以为然，每天都在颂扬全球“公地”。

2 technocratic   

adj.由技术专家官员组成的；受技术官僚影响的

参考例句：

• But there is method in Europe's technocratic madness, the official went on. 但欧洲的专家政治论者的愤怒是有原因的，这个位官员接着说道。 来自互联网
• Mr Juppé was floored in part by his contemptuous, technocratic attitude towards union leaders. 朱佩对工会领导蛮横与不屑，是导致他一败涂地的部分原因。 来自互联网

3 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

4 underlying   

adj.在下面的，含蓄的，潜在的

参考例句：

• The underlying theme of the novel is very serious.小说隐含的主题是十分严肃的。
• This word has its underlying meaning.这个单词有它潜在的含义。

5 reverence   

n.敬畏，尊敬，尊严；Reverence:对某些基督教神职人员的尊称；v.尊敬，敬畏，崇敬

参考例句：

• He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
• We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.我们尊重传统，但不被传统所束缚。

6 relevance   

n.中肯，适当，关联，相关性

参考例句：

• Politicians' private lives have no relevance to their public roles.政治家的私生活与他们的公众角色不相关。
• Her ideas have lost all relevance to the modern world.她的想法与现代社会完全脱节。