乔布斯传 第468期:高领衫和团队合作(3)

 This approach also applied¹ to key hires. 这一政策也应用到了重要职位的招聘上。

He would have candidates² meet the top leaders -- Cook, Tevanian, Schiller, Rubinstein, Ive 他会安排候选人直接面见公司的主要负责人--库克、泰瓦尼安、席勒、鲁宾斯坦，还有艾弗，

rather than just the managers of the department where they wanted to work. 而不是只见一下部门经理。

"Then we all get together without the person and talk about whether they'll fit in," Jobs said. “然后我们就会一起讨论他们能不能入选。”乔布斯说。

His goal was to be vigilant³ against "the bozo explosion⁴" that leads to a company's being larded with second-rate talent. 他这样做的目的是避免“笨蛋大爆炸”，免得公司上下充斥着二流人才。

For most things in life, the range between best and average is 30% or so. 在生活中，大多数情况下，“最佳”和“一般”之间大约相差30%。

The best airplane flight, the best meal, they may be 30% better than your average one. 无论是品质一流的飞机还是最棒的美食，它们也只是比平均水准高30%。

What I saw with Woz was somebody who was fifty times better than the average engineer. 但是当我见到沃兹尼亚克时，我认为他比普通工程师要优秀50倍。

He could have meetings in his head. 很多要开会解决的事在他的脑子里就能完成了。

The Mac team was an attempt to build a whole team like that, A players. 麦金塔团队就致力于成为一个全部是他这样的一流选手的团队。

People said they wouldn't get along, they'd hate working with each other. 人们总是说他们和别人合不来，他们不喜欢团队合作。

But I realized that A players like to work with A players, they just didn't like working with C players. 但是我发现，一流选手喜欢和一流选手共事，他们只是不喜欢和三流选手在一起罢了。

At Pixar, it was a whole company of A players. 在皮克斯公司，整个公司的人都是一波选手。

When I got back to Apple, that' s what I decided⁵ to try to do. 当我回到苹果，我决定也这么试一下。

You need to have a collaborative hiring process. 首先就需要一个协作式的招聘过程。

When we hire someone, even if they're going to be in marketing⁶, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers. 当我们招聘时，即使那个人是要去营销部门的，我也会让他和设计部的人以及工程师们聊聊。

My role model was J. Robert Oppenheimer. 我一直把罗伯特·奥本海默视为榜样。

I read about the type of people he sought for the atom bomb project. 我知道他在建立原子弹项目小组时的招聘要求。

I wasn't nearly as good as he was, but that's what I aspired⁷ to do. 我没有他那么优秀，但这是我渴望达到的目标。

1 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

2 candidates   

n.报考者( candidate的名词复数 )；申请求职者；攻读学位者；最后命运或结局如何已显然可见者

参考例句：

• Employers must consider all candidates impartially and without bias. 雇主必须公平而毫无成见地考虑所有求职者。
• one of the leading candidates for the presidency 总统职位的主要候选人之一

3 vigilant   

adj.警觉的，警戒的，警惕的

参考例句：

• He has to learn how to remain vigilant through these long nights.他得学会如何在这漫长的黑夜里保持警觉。
• The dog kept a vigilant guard over the house.这只狗警醒地守护着这所房屋。

4 explosion   

n.爆发，发出，爆炸

参考例句：

• The police arrived right at the moment of the explosion.警察就在爆炸的那个时候赶到了。
• The shock of the explosion was felt far away.爆炸引起的震动很远都可感觉到。

5 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

6 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

7 aspired   

v.渴望，追求( aspire的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She aspired to a scientific career. 她有志于科学事业。
• Britain,France,the United States and Japan all aspired to hegemony after the end of World War I. 第一次世界大战后，英、法、美、日都想争夺霸权。 来自《简明英汉词典》