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Jobs did not cede any real power to his board,
喬布斯并沒(méi)有給予董事會(huì)任何實(shí)質(zhì)性權(quán)力，
but he did use its meetings to kick around ideas and think through strategies in confidence,
但他還是秘密同董事會(huì)成員一起從各個(gè)角度討論想法，并仔細(xì)思考戰(zhàn)略，
while he stood at a whiteboard and led freewheeling discussions.
會(huì)議中，他會(huì)站在白板前，主導(dǎo)自由討論。
For eighteen months the directors discussed whether to move to an Intel architecture.
就是否應(yīng)該轉(zhuǎn)移至英特爾架構(gòu)，董事們討論了18個(gè)月。
"We debated it, we asked a lot of questions, and finally we all decided it needed to be done," board member Art Levinson recalled.
“我們就這個(gè)事情進(jìn)行辯論，提出了很多問(wèn)題，最終一致決定有必要這么做。”董事會(huì)成員亞瑟·萊文森回憶道。
Paul Otellini, who was then president and later became CEO of Intel, began huddling with Jobs.
保羅·歐德寧時(shí)任英特爾公司總裁，后來(lái)成為該公司CEO;他開(kāi)始與喬布斯私下碰頭。
They had gotten to know each other when Jobs was struggling to keep NeXT alive and,
兩人相識(shí)于喬布斯努力保全NeXT公司的時(shí)候，
as Otellini later put it, "his arrogance had been temporarily tempered."
歐德寧后來(lái)回憶，“他的傲慢態(tài)度那時(shí)還算有所收斂。”
Otellini has a calm and wry take on people,
歐德寧待人冷靜幽默，
and he was amused rather than put off when he discovered, upon dealing with Jobs at Apple in the early 2000s,
2000年過(guò)后的最初幾年他同喬布斯談生意的時(shí)候，他并不生氣，反而覺(jué)得很有趣，當(dāng)他發(fā)現(xiàn)喬布斯
"that his juices were going again, and he wasn't nearly as humble anymore."
“暴躁脾氣又回來(lái)了，不像當(dāng)初那樣謙恭”的時(shí)候。
Intel had deals with other computer makers, and Jobs wanted a better price than they had.
英特爾公司與其他電腦制造商也有合作，喬布斯希望拿到比那些公司更好的價(jià)格。
"We had to find creative ways to bridge the numbers," said Otellini.
“我們必須用有創(chuàng)造性的方式來(lái)談攏數(shù)字。”歐德寧說(shuō)。
Most of the negotiating was done, as Jobs preferred, on long walks,
兩人的大多數(shù)談判都在散步時(shí)完成，這是喬布斯喜歡的方式，
sometimes on the trails up to the radio telescope known as the Dish above the Stanford campus.
有時(shí)他們會(huì)沿著斯坦福校園內(nèi)的小徑，一路漫步到山丘上。
Jobs would start the walk by telling a story and explaining how he saw the history of computers evolving.
散步開(kāi)始時(shí)，喬布斯會(huì)以一個(gè)故事開(kāi)頭，闡述自己如何看待計(jì)算機(jī)演進(jìn)的歷史。
By the end he would be haggling over price.
而散步結(jié)束時(shí)，已經(jīng)在就具體數(shù)字討價(jià)還價(jià)了。
