Last week, I participated in a panel discussion about entrepreneurship with executives from Royal Mail, Eon and Procter & Gamble. Each explained how their company keenly promotes such behaviour, how they encourage their management to think entrepreneurially, and how they embrace risk. Except that I didn't believe a word of it. Their pitches reminded me of the elderly vicar trying to get on down with the kids on the dance floor - somehow embarrassing and deeply ineffective.
5月底,我參加了一個小組討論,與來自英國皇家郵政(Royal Mail)、德國能源公司Eon以及寶潔(Procter & Gamble)的高管就創業精神進行了一番探討。每個人都講到自己的公司如何積極倡導這種精神,如何鼓勵管理層像創業家一樣思考,如何不避風險等等。只是我對此一個字都不信。他們的論調讓我聯想到,年邁的牧師在舞池中試圖俯身與孩子們一起跳舞——有些令人尷尬而又極其無效。