Seventeen.

17：

Sometimes when I was on the receiving end，I'd come out of feedback sessions with my boss wondering what on earth he'd been talking about. As a result'I always open sessions with my employee by saying something like I wanted to talk to you about the report you wrote yesterday. I do this even when I'm responding on the spot to something that has just happened. It means we're both starting from the same point.

有時當(dāng)我在接收端，在與老板的反饋會議結(jié)束后，我想知道他到底在說些什么。因此，在和員工開會時，我總是會說一些類似于“我想跟你談?wù)勀阕蛱鞂懙膱蟾妗敝惖脑?。甚至?dāng)我當(dāng)場對剛剛發(fā)生的事情做出反應(yīng)時，我也會這樣做，這意味著我們都從同一個點(diǎn)出發(fā)。

Eighteen.

18：

I had really enjoyed working for my last company -I felt that I was really being given lots of different challenges especially in developing new products. But in the end, I felt they asked too much of me -I never seemed to have any time at home, and I felt I had to look around for another post. It was clear that this job would be much more manageable.

我真的很喜歡在上一家公司工作，我覺得公司給了我很多不同的挑戰(zhàn)，尤其是在開發(fā)新產(chǎn)品方面。但最后，我覺得他們對我要求太高了——我似乎從來沒有時間呆在家里，我覺得我必須尋找另一個職位。很明顯，這項工作將容易完成得多。