公众人物毕业演讲 第182期:桑德伯格2012哈佛商学院(7)

 　　As adults, we are never this honest

　　作为成年人 我们从不如此直接

　　And that's not a bad thing

　　这未必是件坏事

　　I have borne two children

　　我也是两个孩子的妈妈

　　and the last thing I needed were those comments

　　我最不想听到的恐怕就是这些评论

　　which obviously could be made

　　当然这些评论用在我身上也确实没错

　　But it's not always a good thing either

　　但是那也不总是件好事

　　Because all of us, and especially leaders

　　因为我们所有人 尤其是领导者

　　need to speak and hear the truth

　　需要说真话 听真话

　　The workplace is an especially difficult place

　　在工作环境中

　　for anyone to tell the truth

　　说真话尤其得难

　　because no matter how flat we want our organizations to be

　　因为无论我们多希望将组织架构扁平化

　　all organizations have some form of hierarchy

　　所有的组织都会有某种层级

　　And what that means is that one person's performance

　　这就意味着一个员工的表现

　　is assessed by someone else's perception

　　会由别人对其印象来评估

　　This is not a setup for honesty

　　这是不鼓励真诚的设计

　　Think about how people speak in a typical workforce

　　想象一下人们在典型的工作环境中是如何沟通的

　　Rather than say

　　人们不说

　　I disagree with our expansion strategy

　　我不同意我们的扩张策略

　　or better yet,this seems truly stupid

　　或者更好 这看起来真傻

　　They say, I think there are many good reasons

　　人们会说 我知道进入这个新领域

　　why we're entering this new line of business

　　有众多好处

　　and I'm certain the management team

　　而且我相信管理团队

　　has done a thorough ROI analysis

　　一定做过细致的投资回报分析

　　but I'm not sure we have fully considered

　　不过 我不确定我们是否完整地考虑了

　　the downstream effects of taking this step forward at this time

　　在这个时刻采取这个方案会产生的所有后果

　　As we would say at Facebook or on the Internet

　　对此就该用我们在Facebook或者互联网上

　　three letters: WTF

　　常说的三个字 WTF

　　Truth is better served by using simple language

　　事实最好用简短的语言来表达

　　Last year, Mark decided to learn Chinese

　　去年 马克·扎克伯格决定开始学中文

　　and as part of studying

　　作为学习的一部分

　　he would spend an hour or so each week

　　他每周会花大约一个小时的时间

　　with some of our employees who were native Chinese speakers

　　和一些来自中国的员工交谈

　　One day

　　有一天

　　one of them was trying to tell him something about her manager

　　有一个员工谈到了她的老板

　　She said this long sentence

　　她说了一通之后

　　and he said simpler please

　　马克说 请说简单点

　　And then she said it again

　　她再说了一遍之后

　　and he said no, I still don't understand

　　他说 不行 我还是没明白

　　simpler please…and so on and so on

　　请再简单点 就这样来回了几次

　　Finally, in sheer exasperation, she burst out

　　终于 她愤怒地说道

　　my manager is bad

　　我老板坏