首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
There is a never-ending supply of business leaders telling us how we can, and must, do more. John Bernard offers breathless advi
There is a never-ending supply of business leaders telling us how we can, and must, do more. John Bernard offers breathless advi
admin
2015-03-25
68
问题
There is a never-ending supply of business leaders telling us how we can, and must, do more. John Bernard offers breathless advice on conducting " Business at the Speed of Now". Michael Port tells salesmen how to "Book Yourself Solid". And in case you thought you might be able to grab a few moments to yourself, Keith Ferrazzi warns that you must "Never Eat Alone".
【F1】
Yet when it comes to the biggest problem in the business world, the key is not too little but too much—too many distractions and interruptions, too many things done for the sake of form, and altogether too much busyness.
The Dutch seem to believe that an excess of meetings is the biggest devourer of time. However, a study last year by the McKinsey Global Institute suggests that it is e-mails: it found that highly skilled office workers spend more than a quarter of each working day writing and responding to them.
【F2】
Which of these thorns of modern business life is worse remains open to debate, but what is clear is that office workers are on a treadmill of pointless activity.
Managers allow meetings to drag on for hours. Workers generate e-mails because it requires little effort and no thought. An entire management industry exists to spin the treadmill ever faster.
All this "doing more" is making it harder to focus on real work.【F3】
In 2012 Gloria Mark of the University of California deprived 13 people in the IT business of e-mail for five days and studied them intensively to find that people without it concentrated on tasks for longer and experienced less stress.
It is high time that we tried a different strategy—"doing less and thinking more". The most obvious beneficiaries of thinking more would be creative workers—the very people who are supposed to be at the heart of the modern economy. In the early 1990s Mihaly Csikszentmi-halyi, a psychologist, asked 275 creative types if he could interview them for a book he was writing. A third did not bother to reply at all and another third refused to take part.【F4】
Creative people’s most important resource is their time—particularly big chunks of uninterrupted time— and their biggest enemies are those who try to nibble away at it with e-mails or meetings.
Managers themselves could benefit.【F5】
Those at the top are best employed thinking about strategy rather than operations—about whether the company is doing the right thing rather than whether it is sticking to its plans.
Bill Gates, when he was in charge of Microsoft, used to take two "think weeks" a year when he would lock himself in an isolated cottage.
Doing more has been producing negative returns for some time now. It is time to try the far more radical strategy of doing less and thinking more.
【F3】
选项
答案
2012年,加州大学的格洛丽亚·马克曾要求13名从事计算机行业的人士在五天内不得使用电子邮件并密切地观察他们的一举一动,结果发现,这些人在不使用电子邮件时,专注于工作的时间更长、感受到的压力更小。
解析
该句是一个复合句,翻译的难点在于把握不定式结构to find that people without it concentrated…在句子中的成分。根据语法知识,该不定式在句中作状语,表结果,可翻译为“结果发现……”。对于13 people in the IT business中的介词in,可使用词性转换法,译成动词“从事”。而studied them intensively中的them一词可根据汉语的表达习惯使用增词法,译为“他们的一举一动”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/8h74777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
BillGates,thebillionaireMicrosoftchairmanwithoutasingleearneduniversitydegree,isbyhissuccessraisingnewdoubtsa
ThepopulationoftheUnitedStatesisonly6%theworld’spopulation,butAmericans(1)_____onethirdofalltheenergy(2)___
Untilrecently,mostpopulationgrowthhasoccurredinrelativelydenseurbanenvironments.In【C1】______words,evenifwewerew
Withtherapidspreadoftheinterneteyewhereintheworld,andthe(1)_____numberofusers,oneofthemostexcitingdevelop
Ms.Byron’scommentonherownsummerexperimentis______.Itcanbeinferredfromthesecondparagraphthattheparticipants
Thosewhowelcomedtherailwaysawitasmorethanarapidandcomfortablemeansofpassing.Theyactuallysawitasafactorin
Thestandardizededucationalorpsychologicaltests,thatarewidelyusedtoaidinselecting,assigning,orpromotingstudents,
SupposeyouhavealreadyhadadatewithyourMendbutsuddenlyhaveanotherthingtodoandyouhavetotellyourfriendthaty
Aschildhood-obesityratesskyrocket,doctorsareseeinganalarmingriseinacostlydiseaseonceunheardofinchildren;type
It’seasytothinkofthehighlyself-disciplinedasbeingmiserablemisersoruptightPuritans,butitturnsoutthatexerting
随机试题
依据教育行政信息处理的程序,教育行政信息管理的基础是()
最早提出全面质量管理概念的是()
由过去经验和习惯的影响而产生的心理活动的准备状态是【】
健康教育学属于()
某养犬场饲养犬出现发病,病初主要表现精神沉郁,举动反常,不听呼唤,喜藏暗处,出现异嗜,好食碎石、木块、泥土等物,病犬常以舌舔咬伤处。不久,即狂暴不安,攻击人、畜,常无目的地奔走。外观病犬逐渐消瘦,下颌下垂,尾下垂并夹于两后肢之间。声音嘶哑,流涎增多,吞咽困
用于鉴定挥发油组成成分的有效方法是
《物业管理委托合同》应坚持“宜细不宜粗”的原则,具体地说是包括如下()约定。
召开班会是班主任工作的一项重要内容,班主任在召开主题班会时要注意哪些事项?
简述共有的特征。
TheEarthhasbeenstrippedofupto90%ofitsspeciesfivetimesbeforeinthepast450millionyears.Nowit’sabouttohappe
最新回复
(
0
)