励志演讲 :艰难的抉择(7)

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But what I know about business in life is that there are many, many, many opportunities to lose your way, there are many opportunities to lose your way because you are overcame by greed. That's what the backdating stock option scandal's about. People have been overcome by greed and they have forgotten the fundamentals about what's right and what's wrong. People can be overcome by their ambition. "I'm going to do this because if I do this I get the next job or I save the job I have." People can be overcome by fear, I talk a lot about fear in this book because if you want to change what people are doing, you have to understand that people are afraid of change, change is always resisted, it's human nature. Why is the change resisted? Because people fear the unknown; and because the nature momentum of any institution is to preserve the status quo. Why? Because the status quo preserves the position of those who hold power. It is human nature that people who have power want to keep it. And so any institution is focused on the preservation of the power of those who already have it, human nature. If you want to transform something as we had to transform a great company called Hewlett Packard, you have to understand fear. You have to understand human motivation and you got understand the numbers. This book is about all those things, and I'm gonna stop talking here in about 2 minutes so we have plenty of time for your questions.

但是我知道在现实的生意场上,有太多太多的可能会迷失自己,丧失机会,因为你会被贪婪所击败。这就是股票期权回溯丑闻的实质:人们屈服于贪婪,忘记了是非原则。人们会屈服于野心:我这样做是为了下一份工作或是保住这一份工作。人们也会屈服于恐惧,书中我多次谈到恐惧。因为要改变人们的所作所为,就要明白人是害怕改变的。抗拒改变是人的天性。为什么会抗拒改变呢?这是因为人们害怕未知事物,因为任何组织的自然倾向是维持现状。为什么?因为维持现状可保证当权者的地位,当权者要维护权力是人的天性。所以,任何组织都专注于维护当权者的权力——这是人的天性。如果你想改变什么,正如我们必须改变一个伟大的企业——惠普。你必须明白恐惧,你必须明白人性激励,你必须明白数据。这就是本书的一切。我再有两分钟就结束,留给大家足够的时间提问。

重点讲解:

1. lose one's way

迷路;迷失方向;

eg. The men lost their way in a sandstorm.

这些士兵在沙暴中迷了路。

eg. If we cannot understand that there's an issue of principle here, then we have lost our way.

如果我们看不到这里的原则问题的话,那么我们已经迷失方向了。

2. be overcome by

(感情上)受到极大影响,承受不起;

eg. The night before the test I was overcome by fear and despair.

考试前的晚上,恐惧和绝望让我内心无比惊慌。

eg. He was overcome by their entreaties.

他屈从了他们的请求。

3. be afraid of

害怕的;恐惧的;

eg. I am not afraid of difficulty.

我不会被困难所吓倒。

eg. He was a little bit afraid of his father's reaction.

他有点害怕父亲的反应。

4. status quo

现状;原状;

eg. This is an improvement on the status quo.

这是对现状的一种改善。

eg. Life in competition, if you status quo stagnant, you will never be victorious.

在人生竞赛中,如果你安于现状停滞不前,你将永远不会成为胜利者。

5. be focused on

集中(注意力);关注;

eg. The children's attention was focused on the stage.

孩子们的注意力都集中在舞台上。

eg. That really reinforced this concept–that we're so focused on what to give up.

这真的强调了这个信念,我们太关注于要放弃的东西了。

6. plenty of

(尤指足够的或超出需要的)丰富,充足,大量;

eg. Most businesses face plenty of competition.

大多数企业面临着巨大的竞争压力。

eg. Taking plenty of exercise can be of great benefit.

多锻炼会非常有好处。

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问:这类决定对一般领导人来说都很困难,要砍掉组织、计划等,这对你来说不困难吗?为什么不?

答:我想改变与抉择总是困难的,但若是大家对这些改变与抉择的未来有明确的认知,就会比较容易。举例来说,惠普必须节省约十亿美元左右的成本,都是重复投资或者闲置设备、人员所造成的。

当你指出我们有十亿的投资是错误的,因为我们不该把这十亿花在这些对客户、股东甚至对员工利益都没有贡献的项目上时,大家一开始当然都很紧张害怕。但是你接着马上指出,应该把这十亿元花在对研发、服务客户等项目上的时候,虽然改变仍然不容易,但至少大家了解改变的必要,因为大家知道自己前进的方向将带领我们进入比以前更好的前景。

问:这听起来像要花很多时间说服、沟通,你怎样进行?

答:当然,推动改革、要求改变的时候,沟通的确具关键性的重要性,领导力(Leadership)更是关键。我觉得有趣的是,尽管今天科技这样发达、知识这样普及,这些简单的道理仍然适用。人就需要有人味的沟通:大家需要亲自见到他们的领导人,亲耳听到领导人说出什么是重要的、对他们有什么意义等。

问:你常亲自做这样的沟通吗?

答:我的确常做这类沟通,我常旅行到全球惠普去见我们的人、我常亲自写电子邮件给员工,我们刚才做过一次惠普全球员工电子沟通大会,这的确是我经常性的工作之一。

问:听起来是很艰巨的工作?

答:我觉得我在惠普的工作是全世界最棒的工作(笑)。惠普是个很棒的公司,我觉得曾担任它的领导人是个光荣。

问:你一再提到电子服务(e-services)这项新业务对改造惠普科技的重要性,但是到今天为止,惠普在一般人心目中的印象仍然是硬件销售商,就像你刚提到的业务成长中,大部份仍然来自硬件销售。你怎样将惠普这些比较工程导向的员工,转化成以客户为重的服务业人员?

答:对惠普来说,往e-services这个新业务的转向代表我们需要重新认识我们的客户(Re-acquainting people)。事实上,惠普十五年前就已经在科技上提出过类似的主张,当时惠普研发的负责人就已经提出运算公共设施(Computing Utility)的概念,更早以前就已经开始发展我们今年底会上市的聪明表(Intelligent Watch)。今天大家谈的全时服务基础设施(Always On Infrastructure)服务里面所要求的安全、可靠等概念、领域、流程,惠普也十几年来都很娴熟。所以从每个方面来说,惠普都需要重新去认识我们的客户、去提醒客户,惠普一直都在提供类似的科技服务。现在,只是市场比以前更成熟了,当然我们的科技也已经成熟到可以提供这类的服务了。


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