Unit 15
Manager vs. Leader
職場攻略/辦公日常
Workplace English/Workplace Communication
BRAIN STORM
Share your ideas with your teacher and try to make sentences.
Do you think that the manager is automatically the leader? Why or why not?
VOCABULARY
Repeat these sentences after your teacher.
1. culled (v.) 選
She was culled amongst a hundred of people.
她被選為一百個人中的一員。
2. credentials (n.) 資歷
Your credentials are amazing!
您的資歷是驚人的！
3. eke (v.) 增加
She has been able to eke out small advantages.
她已經能夠爭取到一些小優勢。
4. brought her on board (phr.) 邀請共事
Mr. Glenn brought her on board yesterday.
格倫先生昨天邀請她共事。
5. akin to (phr.) 接近
Hiring her is akin to having an asset.
僱用她就像擁有資產。
6. drove those numbers (phr.) 提高營業額
She drove those numbers well.
她很好地推動了這些數字。
7. refined (adj.) 精煉
She has a refined way of speaking.
她的說話方式很幹練。
Dialogue
Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.
What do you think about this candidate for our new CFO? She was culled from a list of hundreds of applicants.
你對這個新首席財政官的候選人怎麼看？她是從幾百人的名單中選出來的。
Let me take a look. Hmmm, she obviously has great credentials, but she seems more like a manager type than a true leader.
我看看。嗯，她的資歷看起來不錯，不過她更像個經理人而不是領導者。
Let me take a look. Hmmm, she obviously has great credentials, but she seems more like a manager type than a true leader.
你在說什麼！看看她給那個請她共事的起步公司擴大的利潤。這就是我們這要的商業思維！
She’s impressive, there’s no doubt, but the sort of analytical and rational thinking needed to get those sorts of results isn’t what a leader needs. We need a dreamer.
這點是很了不起。但是這種分析力和理性思維不是領導需要的。我們需要夢想家。
I don’t follow.
我不明白。
A CFO is a leader. A leader is someone that needs to be able to dream big, to inspire others with their vision.
首席財政官是領袖。領袖需要敢於想像，並以此激勵員工。
I’d say those profits she pulled in were pretty big!
但是我覺得她為上間公司創造的利潤非常大！
Yes, but the way she went about it was more akin to someone with a skillset better suited to managers. Managers are more about practical thinking and controlling systems and structures, not re-inventing them.
對，不過這更像是一個職業經理人擅長的事。職業經理人需要有務實的思考能力和掌控系統和架構的能力，而不是發明創新。
That doesn’t necessarily mean that she’s not capable of doing all that.
但這不代表她沒有那樣的能力。
Of course not. But look at the details of how she drove those numbers: she refined and optimized existing structures and processes. A leader is someone who in that situation should eschew that in favor of trying to re-invent the wheel.
當然不。不過看看她增漲運營額的細節：她精煉和優化了現存的結構和進程。而領導者在那種情況下應該摒棄老的架構，重新開拓一片天地。
Re-invent the wheel? So now you’re saying we need a modern-day Da Vinci?
重新開拓一片天地？你是說我們需要一個現代的達芬奇嗎？
Hah, I meant it as a metaphor. What I mean to say is that we need someone that looks towards the horizon instead of the bottom line and is able to translate their Imagination into a vision that can energize a company’s workforce. People more suited to managerial positions are often not predisposed to that sort of extroverted, abstract thinking.
哈，我只是打個比方而已。我想說的是我們需要一個有遠見的人而不是只看眼下利潤的人。他需要把這種遠見轉化成願景來激勵員工。職業經理人一般不具備這種跳脫框架、抽象的思維。
Hmmm, I see what you’re getting at. You know, my friends have often told me that I’m quite the dreamer and can lead groups wonderfully…
Hah! I had to beat you over the head with the differences between managers and leaders for you to understand, and now you’re saying that you’re the ideal charismatic abstract thinker for the position? Keep dreaming.
嗯，我知道你的意思了。其實，我的朋友經常跟我說我是個夢想家，也可以很好地帶領團隊。
哎，我跟你說明白職業經理人和領導者的區別都廢了那麼多力氣。你居然還覺得自己是個擅於抽象思維的有魅力的領導者？這不是做白日夢嗎？
Grammar
quite the
The word “quite” is often synonymous with the word “really”. Both words can be used to add emphasis to your expression. So, in this case, when we are saying something is “quite the [noun]”, we are emphasizing that it really is [noun].
1. She told me you had quite the party last night.
2. My daughter is quite the little reader: she’s already finished those 3 books we bought her for Christmas.
3. When your father was in university, he was quite the ladies’ man.
4. _______________________________________________________________.
DISCUSSION
Make a conversation with your teacher.
1.What do you think are the characteristics that a manager should have in order to be a better leader?
