Woman: What's the end result, the outcome of the project?
女:項目的最終結果是什么?
Man: Yes,well,good question - that's what it's all about,isn't it?
男:是的,好吧,好問題。這就是問題的關鍵所在,不是嗎?
The problem that many people complain about is that they are left with this huge, long report which takes days to read through.
許多人抱怨的問題是,給他們留下的這份巨大而冗長的報告,需要花數天時間來閱讀。
And at the end of it there's lots of supers relevant advice, but the issue is how do you actually put that into practice, how do you make that theory work?
在結尾部分有很多有價值的建議,但問題是你如何將其付諸實踐,如何使理論起用?
Woman:How do we know when we need a consultant?
女:怎么才能知道什么時候需要顧問?
Man: Most companies get consultants in at the wrong time. What you should really do is think ahead a bit.
男:大多數公司在錯誤的時間聘請顧問。真正應該做的是事先考慮。
But most people are looking at their tax figures or their falling profits and so on.
但大多數人都是看到他們的稅收數字或利潤下降等情況后才做。
In other words they wait for trouble and then start calling consultants, when they ought to get them before.
換言之,他們等著麻煩出現后,才開始打電話給咨詢顧問,而他們應該在此之前就做。
Woman: Mr Beeston.
女:比斯頓先生。
Man: Maurice.
男:叫我莫里斯吧。
Woman: Maurice, it's been extremely interesting talking to you.
女:莫里斯,和你談話真有趣。
Can I just ask finally about your own plans for the future?
最后,我能問問你自己未來的計劃嗎?
Man: I think I want to start getting things down on paper, especially after all these years of talking!
男:我想我要開始把事情記錄下來,特別是在談了這么多年之后!
I'm not thinking about stopping work, that's for sure.
我不想停止工作,這是肯定的。
People say why not set up your own business - but I'm too old for all that now.
人們說為什么你不成立自己的公司,但我現在年紀已經太大了,做不了了。
I want now to take some time to reflect, to record the ideas and some of the things that have happened to me during my years of working in this field.
我現在想花些時間來思考,記錄我在這個領域工作的幾年中發生的一些事情和想法。