????我職場生涯的初期碰到過一位很強硬的老板。她從心底里是為我好，但她非常苛刻。有一次她把我拉到一邊說：“有時我感覺你根本完成不了項目，總是會留下一些尾巴。你開始做得不錯，但總是不能善始善終。”天啊，這就是她對我的印象，怎么會這樣！我的第一直覺是她錯了——我完成了。最好的建議有時也是最令人痛苦的建議，你必須信賴給出建議的這個人。挨了批評就得問問自己，這個意見是否中肯。就上面這個例子而言，它讓我那么難受，是因為我的老板是對的。這次談話后，我參加了專門的課程，學習我欠缺的技能，這樣我再也沒有借口不完成項目了。如今，在我心底里，我總是自問：“我越過終點線了嗎？”

Beth Comstock

SVP and CMO of General Electric

????Very early in my career, I had a tough boss. She had my best interests at heart, but she was a pretty critical person. She once pulled me aside and said, "Sometimes I feel like you just can't finish things. You start well, but you don't finish." Boy, I hated that that was her impression of me. My first instinct was, She's wrong -- I finish things. But the best advice is often the most painful advice, and you have to trust the person who's giving it to you. When you get criticism, ask yourself if it's relevant. In this instance the reason it hurt so much was that my boss was right. After our conversation, I took special classes to give me skills that I didn't quite have, so I couldn't use anything as an excuse to not finish a project. Now, in the back of my mind, I'm always asking, "Did I cross the finish line?"