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Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called "The Top 100."
每年，喬布斯都會帶著他最有價值的員工進行一次百杰外出集思會。
They were picked based on a simple guideline:
這100名員工是這樣被選出來的：
the people you would bring if you could take only a hundred people with you on a lifeboat to your next company.
如果你只能帶上100人跳上救生船去開創下一家公司，你會帶上誰？
At the end of each retreat, Jobs would stand in front of a whiteboard
在每一次秘密會議結束時，喬布斯會站在一塊白板前
(he loved whiteboards because they gave him complete control of a situation and they engendered focus)
（他非常喜歡白板，因為白板能讓他完全掌控現場，而且方便討論要點），
and ask, "What are the ten things we should be doing next?"
問大家：“我們下一步應該做的十件事情是什么？”
People would fight to get their suggestions on the list.
人們會互相爭論，讓自己的建議能被采納。
Jobs would write them down, and then cross off the ones he decreed dumb.
喬布斯會把這些建議寫下來，然后再刪掉那些他認為愚蠢的。
After much jockeying, the group would come up with a list of ten.
幾輪辯論下來，整個小組將最終確定前十大“最應該做的事”。
Then Jobs would slash the bottom seven and announce, "We can only do three."
喬布斯會把最后七件全部畫掉，然后宣布：“我們只能做前三件。”
