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It's hard to microwave your emotional intelligence.
把你的情商像微波加熱那樣快速提升是很難的。
There's ample evidence that gender- and ethnically diverse companies are more effective.
有充分的證據(jù)表明，性別和種族多樣化的公司效率要更高。
But what about age? This is a very important question,
那么年齡呢？這是一個非常重要的問題，
because for the first time ever, we have five generations in the workplace at the same time, unintentionally.
因?yàn)槲覀冊诓唤?jīng)意間，破天荒的同時有五代人在一個場所工作。
Maybe it's time we got a little more intentional about how we work collectively.
也許是時候讓我們更有目的性的對待我們的合作方式了。
There have been a number of European studies that have shown that age-diverse teams are more effective and successful.
歐洲有很多研究表明，年齡多樣化的團(tuán)隊(duì)要更高效更成功。
So why is that only eight percent of the companies that have a diversity and inclusion program
那么為什么只有8%擁有多元化和包容性項(xiàng)目的公司
have actually expanded that strategy to include age as just as important of a demographic as gender or race?
擴(kuò)展了這個策略，把年齡跟性別或種族等重要人口屬性一樣包括進(jìn)去了呢？
Maybe they didn't get the memo: the world is getting older!
也許他們沒能得到這份備忘錄：世界正在老齡化！
One of the paradoxes of our time is that baby boomers are more vibrant and healthy longer into life,
我們這個時代的一個悖論是，嬰兒潮時期出生的人更有活力，更健康，
we're actually working later into life, and yet we're feeling less and less relevant.
我們實(shí)際上會工作到更晚年的時候，卻感覺越來越不重要。
Some of us feel like a carton of milk -- an old carton of milk
我們有些人感覺自己就像一盒牛奶--一盒舊牛奶，
with an expiration date stamped on our wrinkled foreheads.
皺紋遍布的額頭上印著過期日期。
For many of us in midlife, this isn't just a feeling,
對于很多人到中年的人來說，這不僅僅是一種感受，
it is a harsh reality, when we suddenly lose our job and the phone stops ringing.
這是一個殘酷的現(xiàn)實(shí)，當(dāng)我們突然失去工作，電話不再響了。
For many of us, justifiably, we worry that people see our experience as a liability, not an asset.
對我們當(dāng)中的許多人來說，我們擔(dān)心人們把我們的經(jīng)歷看作是一種負(fù)債，而不是一種資產(chǎn)。
You've heard of the old phrase -- or maybe the relatively new phrase -- "Sixty is the new forty, physically." Right?
你可能聽說過這個古老的短語--或者可能是一個相對新的短語--“60歲的人有新時代40歲人的體魄。”對嗎？
When it comes to power in the workplace today, 30 is the new 50.
當(dāng)談到今天的工作場所的權(quán)力時，30歲則是新的50歲。
All right, well, this is all pretty exciting, right?
好了，這很令人興奮，對吧？
