Margaret Heffernan: Forget the pecking order at work
مارجرت هيفرنان: لماذا هذا هو الوقت لننسى الأمر الهجومي في العمل
The former CEO of five businesses, Margaret Heffernan explores the all-too-human thought patterns -- like conflict avoidance and selective blindness -- that lead organizations and managers astray. Full bio
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at Purdue University
that concerns all of us --
because you just count the eggs.
فقط تعد البيض.
his chickens more productive,
يزيد الإنتاج
he selected just an average flock,
اختار فقط قطيعة متوسطة،
most productive chickens --
only the most productive for breeding.
إنتاجية للتناسل.
was doing just fine.
كانت بخير.
had increased dramatically.
had only achieved their success
فقط يحقق نجاحه
of the rest.
talking about this and telling this story
عن هذا الموضوع و هذه القصة
and companies,
the relevance almost instantly,
things to me like,
we have to get ahead is to compete:
المضي قدماً هو المنافسة:
get into the right job, get to the top,
الوظيفة المناسبة، و الوصول للقمة،
very inspiring.
because invention is a joy,
brilliant, creative people
by pecking orders or by superchickens
الهجومية أو بالدجاج السوبر
and some societies
by picking the superstars,
اللامعين الأذكياء
or occasionally women, in the room,
and all the power.
as in William Muir's experiment:
ويلليم ميور:
و هدر.
can be successful
أقصى الإنتاج
the productivity of the rest,
a better way to work
للعمل
and more productive than others?
a team at MIT took to research.
فريق من MIT.
gave them very hard problems to solve.
صعبة جداً لحلها.
what you'd expect,
more successful than others,
was that the high-achieving groups
مجموعات المتفوقين
one or two people
يوجد شخص أو شخصين
the ones that had the highest
الذين كانت نسبة ذكائهم
the really successful teams.
ثلاث خصائص.
of social sensitivity to each other.
الأجتماعية نحو بعضهم البعض.
the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test.
"اختبار قراءة العقل في العيون".
a test for empathy,
gave roughly equal time to each other,
متساوِ بحدية لبعضهم البعض.
typically score more highly on
يحرزون أعلى في
on the empathy quotient?
a more diverse perspective?
بمنظور متنوع أكثر؟
thing about this experiment
هذه التجربة
some groups do better than others,
يفعلون أفضل من الأخرين،
to each other.
in the real world?
الحياة الواقعية؟
between people really counts,
يتخذ أهمية بالفعل
attuned and sensitive to each other,
بعضهم البعض بدرجة كبيرة،
They don't waste energy down dead ends.
في طرق مسدودة.
most successful engineering firms,
الهندسية في العالم،
the equestrian center
really highly strung thoroughbred horses
سلاسل أصيلة حقاً
not feeling their finest.
و لم يكونوا في احسن حالاتهم.
the engineer confronted was,
in engineering school -- (Laughter) --
(ضحك)
you want to get wrong,
talking to vets, doing the research,
اطباء بيطريين و القيام بالبحث
the Jockey Club in New York.
في نيو يورك.
the culture of helpfulness
في المساعدة
to successful teams,
individual intelligence.
شخص واحد.
أعرف كل شيء،
have to know everything,
who are good at getting and giving help.
يجيدون أخذ و إعطاء المساعدة.
any question in 17 minutes.
على أي سؤال في 17 دقيقة.
high-tech company I've worked with
من الذين عملت معهم
that this is a technology issue,
is people getting to know each other.
التعرف على بعضهم البعض.
it'll just happen normally,
طبيعياً ستحدث،
my first software company,
but not much else,
كل ما في الأمر،
creative people that I'd hired
المبدعين الذين عيٌنتهم
on their own individual work,
who they were sitting next to,
that we stop working
to know each other
and now I visit companies
أزور الشركات
around the coffee machines
آلات القهوة
a special term for this.
من أجل ذلك.
more than a coffee break.
لتناول القهوة.
on campus so that people
يتسنى للناس
the whole business that way.
كاملةً بهذه الطريقة.
that when the going gets tough,
عندما تشتد الأمور،
that really matters,
يلجئون لطلب المساعدة.
only people do.
يمتلكونهم.
they develop between each other.
بين بعضهم البعض.
called social capital.
رأس المال الإجتماعي.
and interdependency that builds trust.
الذي يبني الثقة.
who were studying communities
يدرسون المجتمعات
in times of stress.
gives companies momentum,
قوة دافعة،
is what makes companies robust.
ما يجعل الشركات متينة.
compounds with time.
get better, because it takes time
لأنها تأخذ وقت
for real candor and openness.
الانفتاح الحقيقي.
suggested to one company
لأحدى الشركات
to talk to each other,
went up 10 percent.
and it's no charter for slackers,
و ليست صفقة للكسالى
tend to be kind of scratchy,
ان تكون عنيدة نوعاً ما
to think for themselves
للتفكير بأنفسهم
because candor is safe.
turn into great ideas,
الجيدة لأفكار رائعة،
as a child is born,
بالإحتمالات.
but full of possibilities.
contribution, faith and challenge
و التحدي
to talking about this,
in this way.
well, if we start working this way,
بهذه الطريقة،
of Dramatic Art in London.
في لندن.
for individual pyrotechnics.
الشخص صاحب الأداء العظيم.
between the students,
to producers of hit albums,
lots of superstars in music.
النجوم في الموسيقى.
who enjoy the long careers,
بالوظائف الطويلة،
is how they found the best
لإكتشاف الأفضل
that are renowned
I've had the privilege to work with,
للعمل معهم،
we could give each other
to be superchickens.
truly how social work is,
has routinely pitted
by social capital.
المال الإجتماعي.
to motivate people with money,
a vast amount of research that shows
التي أظهرت
motivate each other.
بعضهم البعض.
were heroic soloists who were expected,
منفردين الذين كان من المتوقع منهم
to solve complex problems.
conditions are created
يتم فيها تهيئة الظروف
courageous thinking together.
الجريء معاً.
for the phasing out of CFCs,
كلوروفلوروكربون تدريجياً،
in the hole in the ozone layer,
الثقب في طبقة الأوزون،
على بديل.
could be found.
adopted three key principles.
اعتمدوا على ثلاثة مبادئ رئيسية.
Frank Maslen, said,
واحد فقط:
Geoff Tudhope,
how disruptive power can be.
أن تكون مدمرة.
that they honored their principles.
على مبادئهم.
companies tackling this hard problem,
التي حاولت معالجة هذه المشكلة الصعبة،
على المشكلة.
environmental agreement
if we expect it to be solved
أن يتم حلها
that everybody has value
and imagination and momentum we need
التي نحتاجها
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Margaret Heffernan - Management thinkerThe former CEO of five businesses, Margaret Heffernan explores the all-too-human thought patterns -- like conflict avoidance and selective blindness -- that lead organizations and managers astray.
Why you should listen
How do organizations think? In her book Willful Blindness, Margaret Heffernan examines why businesses and the people who run them often ignore the obvious -- with consequences as dire as the global financial crisis and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Heffernan began her career in television production, building a track record at the BBC before going on to run the film and television producer trade association IPPA. In the US, Heffernan became a serial entrepreneur and CEO in the wild early days of web business. She now blogs for the Huffington Post and BNET.com. Her latest book, Beyond Measure, a TED Books original, explores the small steps companies can make that lead to big changes in their culture.
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