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I don’t usually read forwarded email, but I received one today that caught my attention. It was written by someone who works at Volvo in Sweden, and he mentions how any project in the company “takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It’s a rule.”
我并不常常去看那些轉發的郵件，但是今天收到的一封卻引起了我的注意。這封信是一位瑞典沃爾沃工作人員寫的，他提到公司里的任何項目，“即使想法簡單、高明，但是也至少要花兩年的時間才確定下來。”
Apparently the fast-paced global corporate world, focused on immediate results, “contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results.”
顯然，快節奏的全球合作注重立竿見影的成果。“這與瑞典緩慢模式迥然不同。從另一方面來說，他們不斷的討論，討論，再討論，召開n場會議并且放慢議題過程。最終，這種模式常常帶來更豐厚的回報”
He relates the following story:
The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn’t say anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, “Do you have a fixed parking space? I’ve noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot.” To which he replied, “Since we’re here early we’ll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don’t you think? Imagine my face.
他講述了下面這個故事：
起初，我在瑞典，每天早上我的同事到我的小旅館來，順道帶我去公司。時至九月，飛雪嚴寒，我們到達公司比較早，他把車停在了離入口處很遠的地方（2000個員工都是開車來上班）。第一天，我沒說什么，第二天，第三天同樣是這樣。一天早上，我問道：“你有固定的停車地點嗎？我發現我們總是停在離入口處很遠的地方，哪怕停車場沒有其他的車子。”他回答說：“正是因為我們到的比較早，我們有時間走過去，遲到的人更需要一個靠近大門的空車位。不是嗎？”可以想象我的臉紅成什么樣了吧。
He goes on to talk about a movement in Europe named Slow Food, which “establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle.”
他繼續談論著在歐洲的一場慢食運動，它鼓勵人們應該細嚼慢咽的吃喝，擁有足夠的時間品嘗食物，花些時間和家人朋友在一起，而不是一味的奔忙。慢食運動反對它的對立面：快餐精神和擁護它作為一種生活方式的任何事物。
