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How Resilience Works 2

The Buzz About Resilience 1

Resilience is a hot topic in business these days. Not long ago, I was talking to a senior partner at a respected consulting firm about how to land the very best MBAs—the name of the game in that particular industry. The partner, Daniel Savageau (not his real name), ticked off a long list of qualities his firm sought in its hires: intelligence, ambition, integrity, analytic ability, and so on. “What about resilience?” I asked. “Well, that’s very popular right now,” he said. “It’s the new buzzword. Candidates even tell us they’re resilient; they volunteer the information. But frankly, they’re just too young to know that about themselves. Resilience is something you realize you have after the fact.”

“But if you could, would you test for it?” I asked. “Does it matter in business?”

Savageau paused. He’s a man in his late forties and a success personally and professionally. Yet it hadn’t been a smooth ride to the top. He’d started his life as a poor French Canadian in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and had lost his father at six. He lucked into a football scholarship but was kicked out of Boston University twice for drinking. He turned his life around in his twenties, married, divorced, remarried, and raised five children. Along the way, he made and lost two fortunes before helping to found the consulting firm he now runs. “Yes, it does matter,” he said at last. “In fact, it probably matters more than any of the usual things we look for.” In the course of reporting this article, I heard the same assertion time and again. As Dean Becker, the president and CEO of Adaptiv Learning Systems, a four-year-old company in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, that develops and delivers programs about resilience training, puts it: “More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. That’s true in the cancer ward, it’s true in the Olympics, and it’s true in the boardroom.”

上面这部分主要讲了：复原力这个概念在当今的商业环境中越来越热，作者曾与一家备受尊敬的咨询公司的高级合伙人谈过这个话题，这家咨询公司列出了在招聘员工时希望面试者拥有的品质:聪明、有抱负、正直、有分析能力等等。当作者问及“那复原力呢？”，这位合伙人说：“最近这个词很流行，候选人有时甚至告诉我们他们有很强的复原力，但坦率的说，他们还太年起，不了解自己，复原力是在事情发生后才能意识到的东西。”

这位公司的高级合伙人已年近40，在个人和事业上都很成功，然而，通往顶峰的道路并不平坦。他出生贫寒，六岁时便失去了父亲。他幸运地获得了一个足球奖学金去上大学，但因为酗酒两次被波士顿大学开除。他在二十多岁的时候改变了自己的生活，结婚、离婚、再婚，养育了五个孩子。在建立他现在经营的咨询公司之前，他曾经赚了两笔钱，后来又赔了两笔。作者问他复原力在商界中重不重要，他答道：“它确实很重要，事实上，它可能比我们通常寻找的任何东西都重要。”，作者还采访了另一家公司的CEO，他表示：

“一个人的复原力（resilience）水平将决定其成功与否，这比教育、经验和培训更重要。在癌症病房里是这样，在奥运会上是这样，在会议室里也是这样。”

“More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. That’s true in the cancer ward, it’s true in the Olympics, and it’s true in the boardroom.”

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