佳句書摘 - The Snowball (2)
Posted in Thought on Jan 3rd, 2009
Buffett在公開場合時常強調的”Inner Scorecard”的重要性。你是用心中的那把尺衡量自己，還是用別人的標準還衡量自己呢？
“The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard. I always pose it this way. I say: “Lookit. Would you rather be the world’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the world’s worst lover? Or would you rather be the world’s worst lover but have everyone think you’re the world’s greatest lover? Now, that’s an interesting question.”
“Here’s another one. If the world couldn’t see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world’s greatest investor but in reality have the world’s worst record? Or be thought of as the worst when you were actually the best?”
In teaching your kids, I think the lesson they’re learning at very, very early age is what their parents put the emphasis on. If all the emphasis is on all the world’s going to think about you, forgetting about how you really behave, you’ll wind up with an Outer Scorecard. Now my dad: He was a hundred percent Inner Scorecard guy.
- The Snowball, P. 33
Inner Scorecard的特質讓Buffet成為一個能獨立思考、獨立判斷的投資人。然而一般需要團隊合作的工作，如果成員中有100% Inner Scorecard的角色，這個人恐怕難逃排擠的命運…
這就是為什麼true talent在big corporation中總被扼殺的原因…
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