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Unit One 1.Every company has a handful of staff in a given area of expertise that you can count on to get the job done. “每家公司都有少数几个这样的员工，在某个专业领域，你可以指望他们把活儿干好。 2.We hold them up to the standards we see in our top people. If it looks like they have these same traits, well place a bet on them. Its just a bit riskier. “我们把他们和公司顶级员工表现出的特质进行对照。假如他们看起来有同样特征的话，我们就在他们身上赌一把。”只是这样有点儿冒险。 3.The business environment is less lone-wolf and competitive, so signs of being collaborative and selfless stand out. “企业的环境并不需要单打独斗，争强好胜，所以表现出合作和无私精神的员工就脱颖而出了。 4.Haut heads strategy and business development for a division of 3M with more than $2.4 billion in annual revenues. 他在3M公司一个部门负责策略和商业开发工作，这个部门每年上缴的税收高达24亿多美元。 5.Business happens 24/7/365 which means that competition happens 24/7/365, as well, says Haut. One way that companies win is by getting there faster, which means that you not only have to mobilize all of the functions that support a business to move quickly, but you have to know how to decide where there is! This creates a requirement not only for people who can act quickly, but for those who can think fast and have the courage to act on their convictions. This requirement needs to run throughout an organization and is not exclusive to management. “一年365天，一周7天，一天24小时，生意始终在进行，那意味着一年365天，一周7天，一天24小时，竞争也同样在进行，”豪特说，“公司取胜的方法之一就是要更快地到达‘目的地’。这就是说，你不仅要把所有能支持公司快速运转的功能都调动起来，而且还得知道如何决定‘目的地’是哪里。这样，不仅对那些行动快速的人们，也对那些思维敏捷，并有勇气按自己的想法行事的人们都提出了要求。这需要全公司各部门的运作，而不仅仅是管理部门的工作。” 6.He or she must be able to embrace ambiguity and stick his or her neck out to drive to a conclusion 他或她必须能接纳不确定因素并冒着风险做出结论 7.Business success is often defined by comfort with ambiguity and risk- personal, organizational, and financial. This creates a disconnect for many scientists because success in academia is really more about careful, studied research. 8.In a business, you need to understand the process, but you end up falling in love with the answer and then take a risk based on what you think that answer