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So often in the workplace, women assume that they have to be just like everybody else and minimize whatever is unique about them

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问题     So often in the workplace, women assume that they have to be just like everybody else and minimize whatever is unique about them. I think it’s just the opposite. Whatever I’ve accomplished in my life, I’ve done it precisely because I have been different. I have expressed different opinions, and I have been outspoken. I don’t have any regrets about what remained unsaid. The regrets I have are about decisions that I didn’t take because I thought somebody else knew better.

    I think women always have a little twinge of thinking that maybe somebody else is smarter, somebody else has the secret formula for reaching the right decision. I have to fight against that sometimes. If you come to a leadership role on the basis of your experience, knowledge and ability, you have to assume ownership of that, which means you endorse the notion that you deserve to be where you are, because your leadership has almost unquestionably been recognized. You are entitled to make decisions.
    But you’re also required to withstand the criticism when those decisions turn out to be unpopular. Managing leadership is managing cynicism; sometimes you look like a fool or don’t express yourself as well. Sometimes people criticize or say that you’re too assertive. You have to accept that, not because you like it but because you know it comes with being a leader.
    When I first got to Brown, I came up with a package of ideas centering on my plan for academic enrichment. It appeared to some people to be overreaching, too grandiose, and impractical. It took marshaling lots of groups to accomplish it. Brown had not been need-blind for admissions, so much of the community wanted it to be need-blind because that’s the kind of place we are. We believe in fairness of opportunity. We wanted to be able to offer a spot to any student who is deserving. And the first thing that I did, which I always advocate that leaders do, was to understand and appeal to the culture and the most ardent desires of the place. Although people were very skeptical about whether we could afford to be need-blind, it was so emotional and so important that the community agreed we should try to do it. And, of course, it wasn’t very difficult to accomplish in the end.
    Now everybody looks back and they think, why didn’t we do that before? Leadership is all about enabling people to see what they would really like to see, but they’re afraid to undertake because it’s a frightening world out there, and they don’t want to have to test it.
It can be inferred from the passage that when a leader is facing a decision, he or she should______.
选项 A、follow his or her own heart and stick to what he or she thinks is correct
B、be careful with the decision so as not to invite critics
C、find somebody else who has the secret formula for reaching the right decision
D、be outspoken and express different opinions that are innovative
答案A
解析 推理判断题。原文第一段末句指出作者惟一后悔的地方就是“因为觉得他人对某问题比我懂的更多而自己没能做主的决策”，下段中作者又指出她自己也必须克服女性们普遍持有的观点，即：别人可能会更强，别人做出正确的决策是因为有秘诀。由此可知，作者认为在面临决策时，应该相信自己，坚持自己的观点，故选项[A]正确。
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