原文朗读+词汇复习【优势领导力 Strengths Leadership: 06B】

原文朗读+词汇复习【优势领导力 Strengths Leadership: 06B】

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LEADERSHIP THAT LASTS BEYOND LIFETIME

 

When we invest our financial resources, we understand that it's best to bet on winning funds, stocks, and companies. Most of us know better than to sink all of our money into a business that has consistently struggled. Yet when we think about how to invest our personal resources, we continue to put more time and energy into perennial losers. Instead of honing our natural strengths, we strive to fill in what nature left out.

 

Leaders stay true to who they are--and then make sure they have the right people around them. Those who surround themselves with similar personalities will always be at a disadvantage in the long run to those who are secure enough in themselves to enlist partners with complementary strengths. As you could hear from the leaders we interviewed, they were always looking for people who could do specific things much better than they ever could.

 

    The most effective leaders also get people to follow. Reaching the level where your life's work and mission continue in perpetuity requires not only being a leader yourself, but developing the people who follow you to be effective leaders as well. As Standard Chartered Chairman Mervyn Davies put it, unless you can, on command, write down a list of the people you have developed, you may just be in a leadership position by accident. This is why Davies challenges all of his direct reports to list the people they have developed, and he expects them to ask the same of the people they lead. He understands that the only way to have a broad impact is to create a network of strong leaders that begins to grow on its own.


Key words and phrases

1.     bet   v./n. 打赌,下注,赌博

2.     stock   n. 股票;库存

3.     know better than to    不至于

4.     sink   v. 淹没,下沉

5.     consistent   adj. 一致的,连续的

6.     perennial   adj. 多年生的,长久的

7.     hone   v. 用磨刀石磨

8.     surround   v.包围,围绕

9.     enlist   v. 征募,招募

10.  complementary   adj. 补充的,互补的

11.  perpetuity   n. 永恒,永久

12.  extraordinary   adj. 卓越的

13.  preach   v. 宣扬,布道,讲说

14.  assassinate   v. 刺杀

15.  ultimate   adj. 终极的


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