高级未解密真题6 P1
A review of a book about leadership
0 Gobillot backs up his argument with sound evidence.
1 Leaders need to work at making employees feel involved in the organization.
2 Activities which used to harm a person’s chances of employment no longer do so.
3 Companies are less likely than in the past to rely entirely on their employees for particular knowledge and skills.
4 Interpersonal interaction that might have seemed unnecessary in the past may be beneficial for the organization.
5 The significance of the perceived change in the nature of leadership is as yet至今仍 uncertain.
6 The new style of leadership promoted by Gobillot is already evident in one sector.
7 The people working at any given level in a hierarchy are unlikely to be of a similar age.
8 One company requires older staff to take the attitudes of younger employees seriously.
A
In his book Leadrshift, Emmanuel Gobillot argues that [our underlying trends-demographics, expertise, attention and democracy-are transforming both the way we live and the nature of business leadership. The first means we have ‘older and younger generations working alongside each other’; the second that expertise is now as often found and accessed outside the organization as in it. The third means that companies cannot take for granted the ‘attention of their employees, who work for different reasons and have very different attitudes to the workplace. The fourth, that leaders have little direct control over their resources.’
B
These factors mean that organizations are communities, ‘held together by an intricate ['ɪntrɪkət] 复杂的；错综的，缠结的 and fluid流动的；流畅的；不固定的 process of relationships’, where the leader’s role has to change if he or she is to continue to be able to create ‘engagement, alignment, accountability and commitment to the cause. Leaders in this brave new world must shift their emphasis to the fostering of social engagement by valuing conversations that they might otherwise have deemed wasteful’. And they must be able to ‘see mass participation as an opportunity to create value rather than a threat to their existence’. It’s a point of view, and one that few would now disagree with.
C
The idea that millennials/mi'leniəl/千禧世代；千禧之子；千禧一代（millennial的复数）是一个来自西方的概念，即大约出生在上世纪80年代与90年代的青年人，与中国本土的80后、90后在代际概念上很相似。 ‘(people who have come of age this century) have different expectations of work, the organization they work for and the older people who think of themselves as their bosses’ has been developing for a long time-witness the fact that time off to travel, learn or parent is no longer seen as a blot污点，污渍；墨水渍 on the CV. The notion of work/life balance is now regarded as sad and old-fashioned; there is, after all, only life.
D
Gobillot’s central hypothesis is well supported, in the sense就…意义而言 that the examples drawn on are often unexpected but nearly always illuminating.照亮的，照明的；启蒙的，有启发性的 But is the change he describes a real phenomenon, or a brief and unimportant footnote脚注；补充说明 to the vaster changes being wrought by the internet? All I can say is that it’s real in my company (an advertising agency) and considered significant enough at our holding-company level to be covered in senior management training programmes-which aim to teach 40- and 50- something managers of creative business how to deal with the hopes, fears and expectations of millennials.
E
Is the response that Gobillot advocates compelling? It really is. I fount that analysis both convincing and helpful-and the new role of leaders closely aligned with与……结盟 the thinking that has been developing in advertising over the past ten years. The leader’s role in this new world is not to foresee the future, but to enable it’. That’s a pretty noble calling, however much it might differ from old notions of command-and-control.
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