????從梅耶爾與（右）童年好友阿比蓋爾?加維?威爾森的合影中，我們可以大致了解梅耶爾的出身。我與阿比和其他數(shù)十人進行過交流。從梅耶爾在威斯康辛州沃沙市的家鄉(xiāng)，到斯坦福大學（Stanford University）、谷歌（Google），一直到雅虎（Yahoo），這些人見證了她的成長。去年7月，梅耶爾臨危受命，加入身陷困境的雅虎，承擔起振興雅虎的艱巨使命。

????新一期《財富》雜志刊登了我對梅耶爾的描述——《瑪麗莎?梅耶爾在雅虎：做好準備，大干一場》（Marissa Mayer: Ready to rumble at Yahoo）。通過這篇文章，你能了解到她的職場生存法則：“勇于去做尚未準備好的事情。并在自己身邊聚集最聰明的人，”她如是說。

????另外一個角度，我則沒有在文章中提及，這種觀點來自原谷歌員工湯姆?斯塔基。梅耶爾曾為谷歌的明日之星們創(chuàng)立了一個名為助理產品經(jīng)理（APM）的人才培訓項目，斯塔基便是該項目培養(yǎng)出的人才之一。他對我說道：“她已經(jīng)超越了管理人的層面，而是從個人層面進行人才投資。這讓她所在團隊的每個人都更加努力地工作。”

????斯塔基目前在Facebook公司擔任產品總監(jiān)，他回憶梅耶爾曾經(jīng)說過：“大多數(shù)人認為，職業(yè)發(fā)展軌跡是一條傾斜線。而實際上，它卻是一個階梯函數(shù)。”她繼續(xù)說道：“當你準備走出下一步，或者準備承擔更多責任時，你應該按照下一個更高階段的要求開始工作。”

????梅耶爾認為，只要你能這樣做，“自然就能得到晉升。”

????梅耶爾似乎也是這條建議的踐行者。如今，她是雅虎五年內的第五任CEO，既要安撫焦躁不安的投資者，還得照顧剛剛出生的寶寶，她確實得按照下一個更高階段的要求來開展工作。

????翻譯：劉進龍/汪皓

????This picture of Mayer--who is on the right, with her best friend from childhood, Abigail Garvey Wilson--offers a glimpse of where she came from. I talked with Abby, as well as dozens of other people Mayer grew up with--from her hometown of Wausau, Wisconsin, to Stanford University to Google (GOOG) to Yahoo (YHOO), where she was recruited last July to turn around the troubled company.

????Marissa Mayer: Ready to rumble at Yahoo is my profile of Mayer that appears in the new issue of Fortune. The profile tells you about her career credos: "Do things that you're not quite ready to do. And surround yourself with the smartest people," she says.

????Another perspective, which I didn't have room to include in the story, comes from Tom Stocky, a former Google employee who graduated from the highly regarded APM--associate product manager--program that Mayer created for rising stars there. "She goes beyond managing people to investing in people on a personal level," Stocky told me. "That causes everyone on her team to work harder."

????Stocky, who is now a director of product management at Facebook (FB), recalls Mayer once telling him: "Most people think of a career trajectory as a sloping line. Really, it's a step function." She went on to tell him: "When you're ready to take the next step or take on more responsibility, you should start doing your job at the next level."

????If you do that, Mayer said, "The promotion will come naturally."

????Hmm, Mayer took her own advice. Now at Yahoo, where she is the fifth CEO in five years--caring for restless investors as well as a new baby boy--she'll definitely be working at the next level.