Simple and clear and super important for him to know
簡單明了 而且非常重要 需要讓馬克知道
People rarely speak this clearly
在工作或者生活中
in the workforce or in life
人們很少會把話說那么明了
And as you get more senior
尤其是當你的級別上升后
not only will people speak less clearly to you
人們不僅不會和你把話說清楚
but they will overreact to the small things you say
還會對你所說的小事反應過激
When I joined Facebook
當我加入Facebook的時候
one of the things I had to do
我的職責之一
was build the business side of the company
就是把公司商業那塊給建立起來
and put some systems into place
將其系統化
But I wanted to do it without destroying the culture
但是我不想破壞Facebook原有的文化
that made Facebook great
就是這些文化促成了Facebook的偉大
So one of the things I tried to do was encourage people
我嘗試的一件事就是
not to do formal PowerPoint presentations for meetings with me
鼓勵人們和我開會時不要做正式的PPT
I would say things like
我會說
Don't do PowerPoint presentations for meetings with me
和我開會不用做PPT
Why don't you come in with a list of what you want to discuss
把你想討論的事列出來就行
But everyone ignored me and they kept doing their presentations
但是所有人都無視我的要求 仍然在做PPT
meeting after meeting
就這樣一個又一個會議
month after month
一個月又一個月 沒有改變
So about two years in, I said
大概兩年后 我說
OK, I hate rules but I have a rule OK
我不喜歡條條框框 但我要定個規矩
no more PowerPoint in my meetings
和我開會不用做PPT
And I mean it, No more
我是認真的 別再做了
About a month later
大約一個月之后
I was about to speak to our global sales team on a big stage
我在一個大型場合正要和全球銷售團隊講話
and someone came up to me and said
一個同事上來對我說
Before you get on that stage
在你上臺之前
you really should know everyone's pretty upset
你應該知道大家對你制定的
about the no PowerPoint with clients thing
和客戶會面不做PPT的規定很有意見
I said, What no PowerPoint with clients thing?
我說 什么和客戶會面不做PPT?
They said, You made rule no: PowerPoint
他們說 你制定了一個規定:不做PPT
So I got on the stage and said
之后我上了臺就說
one, I meant no PowerPoint with me
首先 我說的是和我開會不用PPT
But two, more importantly
其次 更重要的是
next time you hear something that's really stupid
下次你們聽到一些你們認為很傻的話
don't adhere to it
不要去遵循它
Fight it or ignore it
而要去提意見或者無視它
even if it's coming from me or Mark
哪怕你知道那話是我或者馬克說的
A good leader recognizes that
一個好的領導者
most people won't feel comfortable challenging authority
知道大部分人不愿意去挑戰權威
so it falls upon authority to encourage them to question
所以領導者有義務去鼓勵大家來質疑