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论领导 ——美国任国务卿、曾任参谋长联席会议主席 科林·鲍威尔 （Colin Powell） Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. 　　Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group, which means that some people will get angry at your actions and decisions. Its inevitable, if youre honorable. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity: youll avoid the tough decisions, youll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted, and youll avoid offering differential rewards based on differential performance because some people might get upset. Ironically, by procrastinating on the difficult choices, by trying not to get anyone mad, and by treating everyone equally nicely regardless of their contributions, youll simply ensure that the only people youll wind up angering are the most creative and productive people in the organization. “负责任有时候意味着得罪人。” 　　出色的领导就是对一个群体的利益担负责任，它意味着你的决策和行为将开罪一些人。如果你是令人尊重的，这样的事就是不可避免的。企图使每一个人都喜欢自己是平庸的表现：你将避免做出严厉的决定，你将避免得罪那些需要得罪的人，你将避免根据不同的表现而颁发不同的奖励因为有些人会因此而心怀不满。具有讽刺意味的是，由于难以做出取舍而犹豫不决，由于不想使任何人感到愤怒，由于一视同仁地“善待”每一个人而无视他们的业绩，你无疑将会看到，你只会引发本组织中那些最富有创新精神和创造力的人的勃然大怒。 The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. 　　If this were a litmus test, the majority of CEOs would fail. One, they build so many barriers to upward communication that the very idea of someone lower in the hierarchy looking up to the leader for help is ludicrous. Two, the corporate culture they foster often defines asking for help as weakness or failure, so people cover up their gaps, and the organization suffers accordingly. Real leaders make themselves accessible and available. They show concern for the efforts and challenges faced by underlings, even as they demand high standards. Accordingly, they are more likely to create an environment where problem analysis replaces blame. “如果有一天战士们不再向你反应他们的问题，