????最好的職業建議具有普適性。它不僅適用于一家《財富》500強公司(Fortune 500)的CEO，還適用于一位渴望考上好大學的孩子。

????上周，當我在艾倫敦中央天主教高中(CCHS)發表演講時，我嘗試著達到這一標準。1978年，我就是從這所學校走出賓夕法尼亞州，開啟了一段激動人心，讓我非常滿意的生活和職業旅程。我對聚集在羅克尼廳參加新一屆學生會和班級干部就職儀式的學生說，在《財富》雜志(Fortune)工作的30年，我一直在“上成功課”。換言之，我的工作就是學習并解釋，究竟是什么讓世界上最成功的一些人適應各種各樣的挑戰，最終成為人生贏家——從奧普拉?溫弗瑞到雅虎公司(Yahoo)CEO瑪麗莎?梅耶，再到魯珀特?默多克和梅琳達?蓋茨，我采訪并撰寫過許多杰出人物。我把我打算傳遞的訊息濃縮為十條建議，其中包括一些顯而易見的道理。但愿這些建議具有普適性，能夠給不同讀者以啟迪。

????1.不要規劃你的職業生涯。根據我過去30年來在《財富》雜志的采訪經歷，在高中甚至大學階段，那些最終獲得巨大成功的人基本上都不知道他們究竟想做什么。他們以靈活且開放的心態面對種種可能性。

????The best career advice is universal. It applies to a CEO of a Fortune 500 company and to a kid aspiring to make it through college.

????I tried to keep this in mind last week when I spoke at Allentown Central Catholic High School, which in 1978 sent me on my way from Pennsylvania to what has turned out to be a thrilling and very satisfying life and career. I told the CCHS students, who packed Rockne Hall for inductions of their new Student Council and class officers, that I've spent the past 30 years at Fortune "going to school on success." That is, my job profiling some of the world's most successful people--fromOprah Winfrey to Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer to Rupert Murdoch (NWS) to Melinda Gates--is to learn and explain what makes these extraordinary people win and adapt to all sorts of challenges. I pared my message to 10 pieces of advice, which include a few obvious truths and, I hope, some enlightening points that are universal.

????1. Don't plan your career.Most of the really successful people I've met and interviewed these past 30 years at Fortune had no clue what they wanted to do when they were in high school or even in college. They stayed flexible and open to possibilities.

????2.忘記職業階梯；勇敢地爬上攀登架。在這樣一個不可預測，瞬息萬變的世界中，又有誰知道明天的理想職業是什么？把你的職業生涯視為一個攀登架。讓你的周邊視覺(peripheral vision)變得更加敏銳，尋找周圍的機會，并轉身去追逐這些機會。Facebook首席運營官謝麗爾?桑德伯格在她的暢銷書《向前一步》(Lean In)第三章中，誠摯地贊揚我提出了“攀登架”這一概念。

????3.同事比薪酬更重要。最好跟那些比你更聰明的英才一起工作，這樣你就能夠始終保持進取之志，日日有所獲。

????4.把每份工作視為你將在后半生從事的事業。如果你整天思考下一步該怎么走，你就無法全身心地投入到你眼前的工作中去。除非你保持專注，你根本競爭不過那些“全身心投入”的人。

????5.做你應該做的工作，但要想一想：還有什么沒有完成？總是思考你怎樣才能為更大的整體做貢獻，不要害怕跌倒。我在1995年撰寫過一篇名為《你失敗了，那又怎樣！》的封面報道。走出失敗的經歷，現在已經成為老板在招聘員工時非?？粗氐囊幻稑s譽徽章。

????6.保持好奇心。你碰到的每一個人都有值得你學習的地方。一些研究表明，當人們停止學習時，他們的職業生涯就會脫軌。是的，不斷學習比你畢業于哪所大學，積攢了多少學位更重要。

????7.善待每一個人。當你變老時，你就會跟越來越多的人擁有更少的分離度(degrees of separation)。誰知道哪一位今天對你不重要的人明天可能會變得極其重要？不要過河拆橋。現在就為你建造能夠永存下去的橋梁。

????8.聆聽。多聽少說。我上高中時很害羞。直到現在，我的性格依然比較內向，但我是一位很好的交談者，因為我對人非常感興趣，喜歡詢問（有時提的問題太多），然后仔細聆聽。仔細聆聽其他人就是你能夠饋贈給他們的最好禮物。

????9.為人表率，追隨者必多。如果追隨者無法變得跟你一樣強大，領導力就沒有長期的價值。用寬宏的胸懷吸引人們與你合作，因為他們知道你會讓他們變得更好。

????10.永葆真誠之心。如果人們跟你掩藏在一個散兵坑里，他們是否相信你能夠保護并幫助他們？通過自始至終言行一致的表現，確保他們完全信任你。

????最后，我想跟大家分享一下沃倫?巴菲特的非凡智慧。去年接受我采訪時，巴菲特闡述了一番他自己的成功觀。這位伯克希爾哈撒韋公司(The Berkshire Hathaway)的掌門人實際上下了兩個成功定義：1. 成功就是擁有你想要的東西，想要你擁有的東西。2. 成功就是讓你愛的人愛你。是的，全球數一數二的超級富豪并沒有把成功等同于金錢，這難道不足以打消你心中的疑慮嗎？（財富中文網）

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????2. Forget the career ladder; climb the jungle gym.In a world that's unpredictable and changing faster than ever, who knows what tomorrow's ideal jobs will be? Think of your career as a jungle gym. Sharpen your peripheral vision and look for opportunities over here or over there, and swing to them. Facebook (FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg kindly credits me in Chapter 3 of her best-seller, Lean In, for introducing the concept of the jungle gym.

????3. Pick people over pay.Work with good people who are smarter than you are, so you can stay stimulated and learn everyday.

????4. Do every job as if you were going to be doing it for the rest of your life.If you spend your time thinking about what you want to do next, you're not fully focused on your current assignment. And unless you focus, you won't compete successfully with people who are "all in."

????5. Do the job that you're supposed to do, but think: What's not getting done?Always consider how you can contribute to the bigger whole -- and don't be afraid to stumble. I wrote a 1995 cover story called "So you fail, so what!" Today, recovering from failure is a badge of honor that bosses want to see in people they hire.

????6. Be curious.Everyone you meet is worth learning from. People derail in their careers, studies show, when they stop learning. Yes, continual learning matters more than where you go to school or how many degrees you rack up.

????7. Be nice to everyone.As you get older, you'll have fewer degrees of separation with more and more people. Who knows how someone who doesn't matter to you today might matter critically tomorrow? Don't burn any bridges. Build your bridges now to last forever.

????8. Listen.Listen more than you talk. I was shy in high school. I'm still a closet introvert, but I'm a good conversationalist because I'm extraordinarily interested in people, I ask questions (sometimes too many) and I listen carefully. Listening to someone carefully is giving them a gift.

????9. To lead, line up your followers.Leadership has no long-term value without followers on track to become as strong as you are. Show a generosity of spirit that makes people want to work with you, because they know you'll make them better.

????10. Be honest and true.If people are in a foxhole with you, do they trust you to protect and help them? Make sure they do completely, by doing what you say you're going to do, always.

????I closed my talk with wisdom from Warren Buffett, who told me during an interview last year how he defines success. The Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) chief actually has two definitions: 1. Success is having what you want and wanting what you have. 2. Success is having the people whom you love love you. Isn't it reassuring that one of the wealthiest men in the universe doesn't equate success with money?