TED | 为什么好的领导能给你安全感

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“领导力”一直是近年来的热门关键词，尤其是在职场中。而本期TED演讲的嘉宾，一位管理理论学家，就会告诉我们在他的眼中好的领导是什么样的。一起来看看吧。

 

 

 

 

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Bob Chapman, who runs a large manufacturing company in the Midwest called Barry-Wehmiller, in 2008 was hit very hard by the recession, and they lost 30 percent of their orders overnight. Now in a large manufacturing company, this is a big deal, and they could no longer afford their labor pool. They needed to save 10 million dollars.

鲍勃·查普曼，在中东经营 一家大型生产工厂，叫Barry-Wehmiller，2008年受经济萧条严重的打击，他们一夜间丧失30% 的订单。对于一个大的生产公司来说，这是非常严重的，他们不再有能力支付人员工资，他们需要省出 1000 万美元。

 

So, like so many companies today, the board got together and discussed layoffs. And Bob refused. You see, Bob doesn't believe in head counts. Bob believes in heart counts, and it's much more difficult to simply reduce the heart count. And so they came up with a furlough program.

因此，像许多现在的公司一样，董事会集中并开始商讨裁员。但是鲍勃拒绝了。你们看，鲍勃不相信人头数，鲍勃相信人心数，简单地去减少人心数更困难的。所以他们想出了度假项目。

 

Every employee, from secretary to CEO, was required to take four weeks of unpaid vacation. They could take it any time they wanted, and they did not have to take it consecutively. But it was how Bob announced the program that mattered so much.

所有的雇员，无论是秘书还是CEO，被要求接受一个4周的无薪假期。他们可以选择任意时间，而且他们不需要一次性用完假期。鲍勃是这样宣布这个重要的项目的。

 

He said, it's better that we should all suffer a little than any of us should have to suffer a lot, and morale went up.They saved 20 million dollars, and most importantly, as would be expected, when the people feel safe and protected by the leadership in the organization, the natural reaction is to trust and cooperate.

他说，我们大家都牺牲一点，比完全牺牲我们其中的任何人，要好得多。员工的斗志上来了。他们省下了 2 千万美元，最重要的，也在预料之中的是，当人们感到安全，感到被领导力保护的时候，人们自然的反应就是信任与合作。

 

And quite spontaneously, nobody expected,people started trading with each other. Those who could afford it more would trade with those who could afford it less. People would take five weeks so that somebody else only had to take three.

超出大家预想的，人们开始自发地互相帮助。那些能够承担多一些无薪假期的人，向无力承担的人购买假期。有些人愿意休五周的假，这样一来别人就只需要休三周的假。

 

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank. I know many people at the senior most levels of organizations who are absolutely not leaders. They are authorities, and we do what they say because they have authority over us, but we would not follow them. And I know many people who are at the bottoms of organizations who have no authority and they are absolutely leaders, and this is because they have chosen to look after the person to the left of them, and they have chosen to look after the person to the right of them. This is what a leader is.

领导力力是一种选择，不是等级。我认识很多组织的最高领导层，但他们绝对不算领袖。他们是权威，而我们按他们所说的做，是因为他们有高于我们的权限，但是我们不愿追随他们。我认识许多人在企业底层没有任何权威，但他们是真正的领袖，因为他们关照他们左边的人，也关照他们右边的人，这才是真正的领袖。

 

I heard a story of some Marines who were out in theater, and as is the Marine custom, the officer ate last,and he let his men eat first, and when they were done, there was no food left for him. And when they went back out in the field, his men brought him some of their food so that he may eat, because that's what happens. We call them leaders because they go first.

我听说过一个故事，一些海军陆战队员外出在一家影院里，他们穿着军服，那个军官让队员们先吃，他最后一个吃，当队员们吃完后，已没有食物留给他。当他们回到营地，他的士兵们拿出一些自己的食物，让他们的军官吃，因为这样的事常发生。

 

We call them leaders because they take the risk before anybody else does. We call them leaders because they will choose to sacrifice so that their people may be safe and protected and so their people may gain, and when we do, the natural response is that our people will sacrifice for us.

我们称他们为领袖，因为他们总是身先士卒。我们称他们为领袖，因为他们总是第一个承担风险。我们称他们为领袖，因为他们会选择奉献自己来保护他的人民的安全，让他的人民获益。而当我们这样做时，很自然的结果是，我们的人民会为我们做出牺牲。

 

They will give us their blood and sweat and tears to see that their leader's vision comes to life, and when we ask them,"Why would you do that? Why would you give your blood and sweat and tears for that person?" they all say the same thing: "Because they would have done it for me." And isn't that the organization we would all like to work in?

他们会献出他们的血汗和欢笑、泪水，为了看到他们领袖的愿景变为现实，当我问他们，“你们为什么会那样做？为什么你们会献出你们的血汗和欢笑、泪水给那个人？”他们都给出了同样的回答：“因为他们也会这样为我做的。”难道这不是我们都想在其中工作的组织么？