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
Ten years ago, I got a call from a reporter at a big-city daily paper. "I’m writing a story on communication skills," she said.
Ten years ago, I got a call from a reporter at a big-city daily paper. "I’m writing a story on communication skills," she said.
admin
2015-02-09
23
问题
Ten years ago, I got a call from a reporter at a big-city daily paper. "I’m writing a story on communication skills," she said. "Are communication skills important in business?" I assumed I had misheard her question, and after she repeated it for me I still didn’t know how to respond. Are communication skills important? "Er, they are very important," I managed to squeak out. My brain said: Are breathing skills important? The reporter explained: "The people I’ve spoken with so far have been mixed on the subject."
Ten years ago, we were trapped even deeper in the Age of Left-Brain Business. We were way into Six Sigma and ISO 9000 and spreadsheets and regulations and policies. We thought we could line-item budget our way to greatness, create shareholder value by tracking our employees’ every keystroke, and employ a dress-code policy to win in the marketplace. And lots of us believed that order and uniformity could save the world—the business world, anyway. We had to go pretty far down that path before we caught onto the limits of process, technology, and linear thinking.
The right brain is coming back into style in the business world, and
not a moment too soon
. Smart salespeople say, "We’ve got compelling story that meshes with our customer’s values and history." Strong leaders say, "We’re creating a context for our team members that weaves their passions into ours." Consultants get big money for providing perspective on the "user experience." That’s not a linear, analytical process. These days, we’re talking about emotion again, and context and meaning. Thank goodness we are. I was about to choke on the death-by-spreadsheet diet, and I wasn’t the only one.
Job seekers get great jobs today by avoiding the Black Hole of Keyword-Searching Algorithms and going straight to a human decision-maker to share a story that links the job seeker’s powerful history with the decision-maker’s present pain. Leadership teams spend their off-site weekends talking about not the next 400 strategic initiatives on somebody’s list but rather a story-type road map to keep the troops philosophically on board while they take the next hill.
The right brain’s return is coming just at the right time, when employees are sick of not only their jobs but also the cynical, hypocritical, and obsessively left-brain behaviors they see all around them in corporate life. Smart employers will grab this opportunity to lose the three-inch-thick policy manuals and enforcement mentality. There’s no leverage in those, no spark, and no aha. We’ve seen where the left-brain mentality has gotten us: to the land of spreadsheets, with PowerPoints and burned-out shells where our workforce used to be.
The Age of Left-Brain Business valued
选项
A、budget and shareholder’s value.
B、order and diversity.
C、context and meaning.
D、analytical process.
答案
D
解析
第二段着重讲述了左脑思维时代的办公特点。其中最后一句讲到,人们在左脑思维这个条路上走了很远才发现程序、科技和线性思维的局限性。而第三段第5句在举例过程中也提到右脑思维不像左脑思维那样是一个“线性、分析的过程”,可见在左脑思维的时代,人们重视分析的过程,选D项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/TpK4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
EarthquakeinHaitiandTelecommunicationNetworkRebuildTheearthquakethatdevastatedHaitialsodestroyedthenation’sf
Theauthor’spurposeinwritingthispassageis______.Itseemsthatthewriterismostconcernedabout______.
Theauthor’spurposeinwritingthispassageis______.WhichofthefollowingisTRUEaccordingtothepassage?
ItisgenerallybelievedthatthedigitaldivideissomethingThepurposeoftheauthorinwritingthetextis
Whenwomendobecomemanagers,dotheybringadifferentstyleanddifferentskillstothejob?Aretheybetter,orworse,manag
随机试题
背景材料:某大桥施工过程中,其墩台基础位于地表水以下,桥位区地质条件为:水深3m,流速为2m/s,河床不透水,河边浅滩,地基土质为粘土。施工单位决定采用钢板桩围堰法施工。钢板桩用阴阳锁口连接。施工方法为:首先,使用围囹定位,在锁口内涂上
某分部工程双代号时标网络计划如下图所示,其中工作A的总时差和自由时差()天。
下列关于统计行政复议调解的说法,错误的是()。
家住在海沂市A区的甲(户籍在大明市B区,住所地在海沂市A区),因急需一笔资金进口服装,找到来海沂市C区做建材生意不到半年的同乡乙(户籍在大明市D区)向其借款人民币50万元。2012年10月1日,甲乙双方签订了借款合同,合同约定:甲向乙借款人民币50万元,从
某具有进出口经营权的外贸公司,2012年5月发生以下经营业务:(1)经有关部门批准从境外进口小轿车30辆,每辆小轿车货价15万元,运抵我国海关前发生的运输费用、保险费用无法确定,经海关查实其他运输公司相同业务的运输费用占货价的比例为2%,向海关
阅读下面的文章,回答问题。塔上的树易云武乘船而行,每
下列有关公共卫生的说法正确的是:
有权决定特别行政区的设立及其制度的机关是( )。
深入:浅尝辄止
A、Stricterdisciplineshouldbemaintainedinschoolsandfamilies.B、Moregoodexamplesshouldbesetforpeopletofollow.C、M
最新回复
(
0
)