昨天凌晨，我在简书app上发表了一篇我的英语学习心得《英语应该这样学》，这是我在简书上第一篇投稿被接受的文章，出乎我意料的是，短短的24小时内阅读量突破500，有好几十条评论和点赞，今天一整天还是很兴奋的，毕竟自己的文字和心得获到了认可。
再次强调下，英语是要“用”起来，不能为学而学，要用以致学。我喜欢把TED演讲当作学习材料，是因为TED的宗旨—Ideas Worth Spreading,我的核心和目标是要掌握这篇演讲传播了什么值得传播的观点，语言的学习那是顺带的。下面，我就把我今天实践的案例和过程展示给大家，以供参考：
1、选了美国知名咨询公司BCG高级合伙人Roselinde Torres的TED演讲:What it Takes
to Be a Great Leader,《怎样成为一个伟大的领导者》；
2、打开视频整体听了一遍，内容不是很难，基本理解了主题；
3、网上搜了演讲稿内容，看一句读一句，然后在WORD上一句一句打出来；
4、标注所有不懂的生词和短语，查询弄明白；
5、用英文书写摘要总结，掌握核心观点
6、把视频、摘要总结、演讲稿、生词备注等上到自己的公众号上，随时复习。
下面附上我写的摘要，演讲稿和生词备注等
一、摘要总结：
This is a speech made by Roselinde Torres, the senior partner and managing director of BCG, a famous consulting firm in US. She is a leadership expert and has done a lot of study to figure out what makes great leaders and why leadership gap is widening since there are so many corporate training programs.
Roselinde says that most of corporate leadership development programs are ineffective, because the programs are outdated and based on past success models, which are not adaptive to the 21st century. She distilled the characteristics of successful leaders and the preparation practices to be a successful leader, after doing considerable investigations and study especially through travelling to many countries to learn about the effective practices of successful leaders. She defined leadership for 21stcentury by three questions:
First, where are you looking to anticipate the future change? The answer comes from who you are spending time with, on what topic, where you are travelling,what you are reading, then distilling what you learn and applying to your organizations in order to prepare for the future change. Great leaders will shape the future，not react to the future.
Second, how diverse is your network? Now the world is changing rapidly and you need to have different voices, ideas, perspectives to adapt to the changing world. Don’t stay in a network of people who you are comfortable with. Develop a diverse network where people have different views but trust you and cooperate with you to achieve your shared goals.
Third, are you courageous enough to abandon your past successful practices? Don’t keep doing something that you are familiar and comfortable with, because past experience may not be compatible with the new situation. Don’t go along to get along and dare to be different. Have strong emotional stamina to withstand people saying that you are naïve, reckless and even stupid.
二、演讲稿：
What makes a great leader today? Many of us carry this image of this all-knowing superhero who stands and commands and protects his followers. But that's kind of an image from another time, and what's also outdated are the leadership development programs that are based on success models for a world that was, not a world that is or that is coming.
We conducted a study of 4,000 companies, and we asked them, let's see the effectiveness of your leadership development programs. Fifty-eight percent of the companies cited significant talent gaps for critical leadership roles. That means that despite corporate training programs, off-sites, assessments, coaching, all of these things, more than half the companies had failed to grow enough great leaders. You may be asking yourself：is my company helping me to prepare to be a great 21st-century leader? The odds are, probably not.
Now, I've spent 25 years of my professional life observing what makes great leaders. I've worked inside Fortune 500 companies, I've advised over 200 CEOs, and I've cultivated more leadership pipelines than you can imagine. But a few years ago, I noticed a disturbing trend in leadership preparation. I noticed that, despite all the efforts, there were familiar stories that kept resurfacing about individuals. One story was about Chris, a high-potential, superstar leader who moves to a new unit and fails, destroying unrecoverable value. And then there were stories like Sidney, the CEO, who was so frustrated because her company is cited as a best company for leaders, but only one of the top 50 leaders is equipped to lead their crucial initiatives. And then there were stories like the senior leadership team of a once-thriving business that's surprised by a market shift, finds itself having to force the company to reduce its size in half or go out of business.
Now, these recurring stories cause me to ask two questions. Why are the leadership gaps widening when there's so much more investment in leadership development? And what are the great leaders doing distinctly different to thrive and grow? One of the things that I did, I was so consumed by these questions and also frustrated by those stories, that I left my job so that I could study this full time, and I took a year to travel to different parts of the world to learn about effective and ineffective leadership practices in companies, countries and nonprofit organizations. Andso I did things like travel to South Africa, where I had an opportunity to understand how Nelson Mandela was ahead of his time in anticipating and navigating his political, social and economic context. I also met a number of nonprofit leaders who, despite very limited financial resources, were making a huge impact in the world, often bringing together seeming adversaries.And I spent countless hours in presidential libraries trying to understand how the environment had shaped the leaders, the moves that they made, and then the impact of those moves beyond their tenure. And then, when I returned to work full time, in this role, I joined with wonderful colleagues who were also interested in thesequestions.
Now, from all this, I distilled the characteristics of leaders who are thriving and what they do differently,and then I also distilled the preparation practices that enable people to grow to their potential. I want to share some of those with you now.
In a 21st-century world, which is more global,digitally enabled and transparent, with faster speeds of information flow and innovation, and where nothing big gets done without some kind of a complex matrix, relying on traditional development practices will stunt your growth as a leader. In fact, traditional assessments like narrow 360 surveys or outdated performance criteria will give you false positives, lulling you into thinking that you are more prepared than you really are. Leadership in the 21st century is defined and evidenced by three questions.
Where are you looking to anticipate the next change to your business model or your life? The answer to this question is on your calendar. Who are you spending time with? On what topics? Where are you traveling? What are you reading? And then how are you distilling this into understanding potential discontinuities, and then making a decision to do something right now so that you're prepared and ready? There's a leadership team that does a practice where they bring together each member collecting,here are trends that impact me, here are trends that impact another team member, and they share these, and then make decisions, to course-correcta strategy or to anticipate a new move. Great leaders are not head-down. They see around corners, shaping their future, not just reacting to it.
The second question is, what is the diversity measure of your personal and professional stakeholder network? You know, we hear often about good ol' boy networks and they're certainly alive and well in many institutions. But to some extent, we all have a network of people that we're comfortable with. So this question is about your capacity to develop relationships with people that are very different than you. And those differences can be biological, physical, functional, political, cultural,socioeconomic. And yet, despite all these differences, they connect with you and they trust you enough to cooperate with you in achieving a shared goal.Great leaders understand that having a more diverse network is a source of pattern identification at greater levels and also of solutions, because you have people that are thinking differently than you are.
Third question: are you courageous enough to abandon a practice that has made you successful in the past? There's an expression:Go along to get along. But if you follow this advice, chances are as a leader, you're going to keep doing what's familiar and comfortable. Great leaders dare to be different. They don't just talk about risk-taking, they actually do it. And one of the leaders shared with me the fact that the most impactful development comes when you are able to build the emotional stamina to withstand people telling you that your new idea is naïve or reckless or just plain stupid.
Now interestingly, the people who will join you are not your usual suspects in your network. They're often people that think differently and therefore are willing to join you in taking a courageous leap. And it's a leap,not a step. More than traditional leadership programs, answering these three questions will determine your effectiveness as a 21st-century leader.
So what makes a great leader in the 21st century? I've met many, and they stand out. They are women and men whoare preparing themselves not for the comfortable predictability of yesterday but also for the realities of today and all of those unknown possibilities of tomorrow.
三、生词备注 (演讲稿加粗备注）
1、adversary: ['ædvɚsɛri]opponent, 敌手、对手
2、tenure: ['tɛnjɚ] term of office 任期
3、distill: remove impurities to get the core things提取，蒸馏
4、complex matrix: 复杂模型
5、stunt: prevent, 阻碍
6: be lulled into: deceive诱导、蒙骗
7、go along to get along:to conform in order to have acceptance or security.为迎合而行动
8、stamina:enduring strength and energy毅力、耐力
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