他之前是一名科学家。许多年前他转向了企业，并一直做到高级管理的职位。 Haut

heads

strategy

and

business

development for a division of 3M with more than $2.4 billion in annual revenues. 他在3M公司一个部门负责策略和商业开发工作，这个部门每年上缴的税收高达24亿多美元。 He is among those who value a sense of urgency.

他就是一个重视紧迫感的人。 “Business happens 24/7/365，

“一年365天，一周7天，一天24小时，生意始终在进行，

which means that competition happens 24/7/365, as well,” says Haut.

那意味着一年365天，一周7天，一天24小时，竞争也同样在进行，”豪特说，

“One way that companies win is by getting ‘there’ faster,

“公司取胜的方法之一就是要更快地到达‘目的地’。

which means that you not only have to

mobilize all of the functions that support a business to move quickly,

这就是说，你不仅要把所有能支持公司快速运转的功能都调动起来，

but you have to know how to decide where ‘there’ is!

而且还得知道如何决定‘目的地’是哪里。 This creates a requirement not only for people who can act quickly, 这样，不仅对那些行动快速的人们，

but for those who can think fast and have the courage to act on their convictions. 也对那些思维敏捷，并有勇气按自己的想法行事的人们都提出了要求。

This requirement needs to run throughout an organization and is not exclusive to management.”

这需要全公司各部门的运作，而不仅仅是管理部门的工作。”

Trait 3: Risk tolerance 特征3：风险容忍度

Being OK with risk is something that

industry demands. 企业要求员工能承受风险。

“A candidate needs to have demonstrated the ability to make decisions with imperfect or incomplete information.

“一名求职者需要表现出仅凭不准确、不完整的信息就做出决策的能力。

He or she must be able to embrace ambiguity and stick his or her neck out to drive to a conclusion,”

他或她必须能接纳不确定因素并冒着风险做出结论，”

wrote one of my clients in a job description. 一位客户在职业描述中写道。 Haut agrees. 豪特赞同这一说法。

“Business success is often defined by comfort with ambiguity and risk — personal, organizational, and financial.

“商业成功通常有这样一个特质：那就是能接受不确定因素和风险——个人的，组织上的和财务上的。

This creates a disconnect for many scientists because success in academia is really more about careful, studied research.

这就让许多科学家感到不适应，因为学术上的成功其实是依靠认真而严谨的研究。

Further, great science is often defined by how one gets to the answer as much as by the answer itself,

更进一步说，伟大的科学常常是由找寻答案的过程和答案本身两者同时来定义的。

so scientists often fall in love with the process.

因此科学家们往往沉迷于过程。

In a business, you need to understand the process,

在企业里，你需要了解过程，

but you end up falling in love with the answer and then take a risk based on what you think that answer means to your business. 但最终你会迷上答案，然后根据你认为该答案对你的企业所具有的意义来冒风险。