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异类之不一样的成功启示录 第76期:玛丽的一刻钟
Chapter Five. The Three Lessons of Joe Flom 第五章 弗洛姆的三节 MARY GOT A QUARTER 玛丽的一刻钟 Joe Flom is the last living named partner of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. 乔弗洛姆(JoeFlom)是世达律师事务所
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第77期:一身肥肉的男孩
I was ungainly, awkward, a fat kid. I didn't feel comfortable, Flom remembers. 我还是一个难看、笨拙、一身肥肉的男孩。我觉得非常郁闷,弗洛姆回忆说, I was one of two kids in my class at the end of hiring season who di
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第78期:没人说他是一个天才
I hope by now that you are skeptical of this kind of story. 我相信你现在对我讲的这个故事将信将疑。 Brilliant immigrant kid overcomes poverty in the Depression, can't get a job at the stuffy downtown law firm, makes it all on his ow
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第79期:成为犹太人的意义
Joe Flom is an outlier. But he's not an outlier for the reasons you might think. 乔弗洛姆是一个卓尔不群的人,但他也许不是你想象当中的那种卓越者。 By the end of the chapter, in fact, we'll see that it is possible to tak
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第80期:纽约律师所的出身歧视
I certainly had come far. But I ought to understand how limited the possibilities of a firm like his 我之所以到这,当然是无事不登三宝殿。但是,我明白,像他这样的公司, were to hire a boy of my antecedents. And while h
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第81期:法学院毕业生的面试难题
To get a job, the students should be long enough on family connections, 为了获得一份工作,学生们应该有广泛的家族关系, long enough on ability or long enough on personality, or a combination of these. 具备各种能力及完善的
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第82期:别人所不齿的也许能成就你
Among my classmates at Harvard, the thing that bright young guys did was securities law or tax, another white-shoe partner remembers. Those were the distinguished fields. Litigation was for hams, not for serious people. Corporations just didn't sue e
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第83期:做自己擅长的
The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit. (Officially, it was called the counting room.) 理权竞争人的赢家一般在龙潭虎穴中(正式的称呼是财务室)投票决定。 Lawyers for each side met with inspectors o
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第84期:时间会证明你的选择
Then came the 1970s. The old aversion to lawsuits fell by the wayside. 接着20世纪70年代来临了。原来人们对诉讼案件的鄙视态度被弃置一旁。 It became easier to borrow money. Federal regulations were relaxed. Markets became i
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第85期:逆境的结束只是源于机遇
Flom had the same experience. For twenty years, he perfected his craft at Skadden, Arps. 弗洛姆有着同样的经历,他用了20年的时间在世达律师事务所磨练着自己。 Then the world changed and he was ready. He didn't triumphed o
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第86期:年代差异造就不一样的结局
Maurice Janklow's career did not take off the way he'd hoped. 里斯詹克洛的职业生涯从来没有如他希望的那样飞速发展。 In his mind, he never really made it beyond Court Street in Brooklyn. He struggled and floundered. 在他的记
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第87期:一个行业的发展与年代息息相关
If you divide the Termites into two groups, with those born between 1903 and 1911 on one side, and those born between 1912 and 1917 on the other,将特曼人分为两组,把1903年至1911年出生的特曼人归为一组,然后再把1912年至191
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第88期:经济大萧条扼杀致富梦
Maurice Janklow was born in 1902. 莫里斯詹克洛出生于1902年, When the Depression started, he was newly married and had just bough his big car, 经济大萧条开始时,他刚结婚不久,刚买了一辆新车, moved to Queens, and ma
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第89期:出生时期对人一生的影响
Here is what the economist H. ScotT Gordon once wrote about the particular benefits of being one of those children born in a small generation: 经济学家H斯科特戈登(H.ScottGordon)曾经这样描述出生在那一时期的人的专有待遇:
异类之不一样的成功启示录 第90期:受益于年代的人们
There was this generation of educators in the thirties and forties who would have been in another time and place college professors. 这些三四十年代的教育工作者,在另外的时代另外的地方可能就能成为大学教授。 They wer