Last week, I participated in a panel discussion about entrepreneurship with executives from Royal Mail, Eon and Procter & Gamble. Each explained how their company keenly promotes such behaviour, how they encourage their management to think entrepreneurially, and how they embrace risk. Except that I didn't believe a word of it. Their pitches reminded me of the elderly vicar trying to get on down with the kids on the dance floor - somehow embarrassing and deeply ineffective.
5月底,我参加了一个小组讨论,与来自英国皇家邮政(Royal Mail)、德国能源公司Eon以及宝洁(Procter & Gamble)的高管就创业精神进行了一番探讨。每个人都讲到自己的公司如何积极倡导这种精神,如何鼓励管理层像创业家一样思考,如何不避风险等等。只是我对此一个字都不信。他们的论调让我联想到,年迈的牧师在舞池中试图俯身与孩子们一起跳舞——有些令人尴尬而又极其无效。