公众人物毕业演讲第178期:桑德伯格2012哈佛商学院(3)-英语课

时间：2019-01-25 作者：英语课 分类：公众人物毕业演讲

英语课

　　Not just those of us lucky enough to go to HBS

　　不仅是那些能到HBS读书的幸运儿
　　but anyone with access to Facebook, to Twitter, to a mobile phone
　　而是任何能上Facebook Twitter或者有手机的人
　　This is disrupting traditional power structures
　　这正在打破传统的权利结构
　　and leveling traditional hierarchy 1
　　让传统的阶层界限变得模糊
　　Voice and power are shifting from institutions to individuals
　　话语权正从机构转向个人
　　from the historically powerful to the historically powerless
　　从曾经有权有势的人转向普通人
　　And all of this is happening so much faster
　　而且这一切的变化速度远远超出了
　　than I could have ever imagined
　　当时坐在今天你们所坐的
　　when I was sitting where you are today
　　位置上的我的想像
　　and Mark Zuckerberg was 11 years old
　　那时候马克·扎克伯格才十一岁
　　As the world becomes more connected and less hierarchical
　　当世界变得更紧密界限更模糊时
　　traditional career paths are shifting as well
　　传统的职业生涯也在发生变化
　　In 2001, after working in the government
　　2001年在为政府工作了几年之后
　　I moved out to Silicon 2 Valley to try to find a job
　　我搬到硅谷找到一份工作
　　My timing 3 wasn't really that good
　　当时并不是个好时机
　　The bubble had crashed
　　泡沫破灭了
　　Small companies were closing
　　小公司都在倒闭
　　Big companies were laying people off
　　大公司都在裁员
　　One women CEO looked at me and said
　　一个女性CEO看着我说
　　we would never even think about hiring someone like you
　　我们根本不会考虑招你这样的人
　　After a while I had a few offers and I had to make a decision
　　过了一段时间我拿到几个offers 需要做决定了
　　so what did I do? I am MBA trained
　　那么我是怎么做的呢？由于我受过MBA的训练
　　so I made a spreadsheet
　　所以我做了一个Excel表
　　I listed my jobs in the columns
　　我把工作都列了出来
　　and the things for my criteria in the rows
　　并且一行行把我的评判标准也列了出来
　　and compared the companies, the missions, and the roles
　　比较公司的远景工作的职责等
　　One of the jobs on that sheet was
　　表格中有一个工作
　　to become Google's first Business Unit general manager
　　是去做Google的第一个业务部总经理
　　which sounds good now
　　这现在听起来很不错
　　but at the time no one thought
　　但是当时没人相信
　　consumer internet companies could ever make money
　　直接面对消费者的互联网公司可以赚钱
　　I was not sure there was actually a job there at all
　　我都不敢确定那儿是不是真有这样的职位