Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called "The Top 100." 每年，乔布斯都会带着他最有价值的员工进行一次百杰外出集思会。

They were picked based on a simple guideline: 这100名员工是这样被选出来的：

the people you would bring if you could take only a hundred people with you on a lifeboat to your next company. 如果你只能带上100人跳上救生船去开创下一家公司，你会带上谁？

At the end of each retreat, Jobs would stand in front of a whiteboard 在每一次秘密会议结束时，乔布斯会站在一块白板前

(he loved whiteboards because they gave him complete control of a situation and they engendered focus) （他非常喜欢白板，因为白板能让他完全掌控现场，而且方便讨论要点），

and ask, "What are the ten things we should be doing next?" 问大家：“我们下一步应该做的十件事情是什么？”

People would fight to get their suggestions on the list. 人们会互相争论，让自己的建议能被采纳。

Jobs would write them down, and then cross off the ones he decreed dumb. 乔布斯会把这些建议写下来，然后再删掉那些他认为愚蠢的。

After much jockeying, the group would come up with a list of ten. 几轮辩论下来，整个小组将最终确定前十大“最应该做的事”。

Then Jobs would slash the bottom seven and announce, "We can only do three." 乔布斯会把最后七件全部画掉，然后宣布：“我们只能做前三件。”