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你会变身成职场"超人"吗?

2010-05-31来源:和谐英语
  Some superheroes seem to survive this way indefinitely. An ad-agency founder profiled in the latest issue of Inc., Jordan Zimmerman, rises at 3:30 a.m., works out before work, takes three of his four kids to school, works flat-out all day, gets home for dinner and bedtime with the family and then works until midnight. During speeches to college students, he sometimes asks them why they like to sleep late on weekends. 'Why would you sleep when that's your time to live?' he asks. 'Sleeping isn't living. You sleep when you die.'

  一些超级英雄似乎可以日复一日地过着这样的生活。广告公司联席创始人乔丹?齐莫尔曼(Jordan Zimmerman)每天早上3点半起床,先健身,再工作,然后送四个孩子中的三个去上学,接下来再高效完成全天的工作,回家吃晚饭并等家人就寝后再独自工作到子夜时分。他有时候会在向大学生发表演讲时问他们为什么要在周末赖床不起。他问道:你们为什么要把本可以好好活着的时光睡过去?他说,睡觉不是活着,你死了自然会睡了。

  In other cases, entire companies assume a no-sleep culture. In James B. Stewart's 2005 book 'DisneyWar,' Disney studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg was said to sleep only a few hours every night, reporting to his office by 5 a.m. He sometimes scheduled major meetings for 7 a.m. on Sunday, Mr. Stewart reported. Not surprisingly, Mr. Katzenberg insisted that all the meeting rooms be stocked with Diet Coke.

  在其他案例中,整个公司界都在鼓吹不睡觉文化。作家詹姆斯?B?斯图尔特(James B. Stewart)在2005年出版的《迪斯尼战争》(DisneyWar)中写道,迪士尼制片公司掌门人杰弗瑞?卡森伯格(Jeffrey Katzenberg)每天就睡两三个小时,早上5点就现身办公室了。斯图尔特说卡森伯格有时候会在周日早7点安排开大会。卡森伯格坚持将所有的会议室都放上健怡可乐,这一点也就不足为奇了。