公众人物毕业演讲 第183期:桑德伯格2012哈佛商学院(8)

 　　Simple and clear and super important for him to know

　　简单明了 而且非常重要 需要让马克知道

　　People rarely speak this clearly

　　在工作或者生活中

　　in the workforce¹ or in life

　　人们很少会把话说那么明了

　　And as you get more senior

　　尤其是当你的级别上升后

　　not only will people speak less clearly to you

　　人们不仅不会和你把话说清楚

　　but they will overreact to the small things you say

　　还会对你所说的小事反应过激

　　When I joined Facebook

　　当我加入Facebook的时候

　　one of the things I had to do

　　我的职责之一

　　was build the business side of the company

　　就是把公司商业那块给建立起来

　　and put some systems into place

　　将其系统化

　　But I wanted to do it without destroying the culture

　　但是我不想破坏Facebook原有的文化

　　that made Facebook great

　　就是这些文化促成了Facebook的伟大

　　So one of the things I tried to do was encourage people

　　我尝试的一件事就是

　　not to do formal PowerPoint presentations for meetings with me

　　鼓励人们和我开会时不要做正式的PPT

　　I would say things like

　　我会说

　　Don't do PowerPoint presentations for meetings with me

　　和我开会不用做PPT

　　Why don't you come in with a list of what you want to discuss

　　把你想讨论的事列出来就行

　　But everyone ignored me and they kept doing their presentations

　　但是所有人都无视我的要求 仍然在做PPT

　　meeting after meeting

　　就这样一个又一个会议

　　month after month

　　一个月又一个月 没有改变

　　So about two years in, I said

　　大概两年后 我说

　　OK, I hate rules but I have a rule OK

　　我不喜欢条条框框 但我要定个规矩

　　no more PowerPoint in my meetings

　　和我开会不用做PPT

　　And I mean it, No more

　　我是认真的 别再做了

　　About a month later

　　大约一个月之后

　　I was about to speak to our global sales team on a big stage

　　我在一个大型场合正要和全球销售团队讲话

　　and someone came up to me and said

　　一个同事上来对我说

　　Before you get on that stage

　　在你上台之前

　　you really should know everyone's pretty upset

　　你应该知道大家对你制定的

　　about the no PowerPoint with clients² thing

　　和客户会面不做PPT的规定很有意见

　　I said, What no PowerPoint with clients thing?

　　我说 什么和客户会面不做PPT？

　　They said, You made rule no: PowerPoint

　　他们说 你制定了一个规定:不做PPT

　　So I got on the stage and said

　　之后我上了台就说

　　one, I meant no PowerPoint with me

　　首先 我说的是和我开会不用PPT

　　But two, more importantly

　　其次 更重要的是

　　next time you hear something that's really stupid

　　下次你们听到一些你们认为很傻的话

　　don't adhere to it

　　不要去遵循它

　　Fight it or ignore it

　　而要去提意见或者无视它

　　even if it's coming from me or Mark

　　哪怕你知道那话是我或者马克说的

　　A good leader recognizes that

　　一个好的领导者

　　most people won't feel comfortable challenging authority

　　知道大部分人不愿意去挑战权威

　　so it falls upon authority to encourage them to question

　　所以领导者有义务去鼓励大家来质疑

1 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

2 clients   

n.顾客( client的名词复数 )；当事人；诉讼委托人；[计算机]客户端

参考例句：

• a lawyer with many famous clients 拥有许多著名委托人的律师
• She understood the importance of establishing a close rapport with clients. 她懂得与客户建立密切和谐的关系的重要性。