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人们喜欢独角兽，不仅因为它具有奇特的外表，独角兽背后的故事也同样使人着迷。独角兽分布在全世界哪些地方？它有哪些魔法技能和饮食习惯？还有哪些关于独角兽的传说？谁在驯养独角兽？翻开这本书，你能找到以上问题的答案。

本书以详实资料、传说故事、艺术藏品和精美插图，完整呈现了地球上所有民族有关独角兽的百科信息，梳理了千百年来积累的独角兽的相关知识。书中不仅介绍了大众熟知的欧洲独角马，还有西伯利亚独角犀牛英德里克、中国独角龙麒麟、海岛半独角兽米拉吉……为了拓展读者的视野，华莱士·哈米什·麦克米伦旁征博引，将现实世界与充满奇幻的文字结合，挥洒自如地娓娓道来。字里行间浸润着一代学者对独角兽这一物种的呵护、真诚与尊重。

现在，就跟随作者优美的文笔，进入光怪陆离的梦幻世界中，认识这种独一无二的生物吧。

引言

独角马

欧洲独角马

漫谈独角兽

坏脾气的独角兽.

徽章上的独角兽和狮子

独角兽在丛林中

守护家庭的独角兽

独角兽与少女

布其发尔与王子

猎捕独角兽

独角兽的角、魔法与诅咒

黎凡特独角马勒姆

波斯独角马沙德哈瓦尔

印度独角马卡尔塔宗

突厥蒙古独角马图尔巴尔

中非独角马阿巴达.

独角犀牛

西伯利亚独角犀牛英德里克

阿拉伯独角犀牛阿里·卡尔卡丹

独角龙

苏美尔独角龙牧石鲁什

中国独角龙麒麟

日本独角龙麒麟

半独角兽

智利半独角兽卡玛乌埃托

海岛半独角兽米拉吉

马鲁古半独角兽卡姆夫鲁赫

蒙古半独角兽驳

苏格兰半独角兽拜伊斯特-纳-斯戈洛加格

华莱士·哈米什·麦克米伦

神奇生物研究者秘密协会主席、历史学家、生物学家

当华莱士还是个孩子时，有一天，他在世界著名高地喀里多尼亚森林里迷路了。他目睹了一群奇怪的生物，那时，华莱士不知道它们是什么。当他告诉自己的父母这件事后，父母完全不相信华莱士的故事，认为世界上根本不存在那种生物。多年以后，华莱士在图书馆里找到一张古老的图片，他坚信那就是他幼时在森林中看到的神秘生物——独角兽。后来，华莱士又发现了更多相关的图片和文献资料。从此，华莱士决定将他的一生都奉献给独角兽研究工作。

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深入奇幻秘境  探寻远古珍兽

从白雪皑皑的西伯利亚，到宽广无际的中非大草原；

从卷帙浩繁的古老文献，到鲜活生动的当代文学；

从尘封已久的史前壁画，到引人入胜的影视作品；

从神秘莫测的魔法世界，到令人着迷的电脑游戏；

找寻独角兽的踪迹，守护生命的奇迹……

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书籍介绍

人们喜欢独角兽，不仅因为它具有奇特的外表，独角兽背后的故事也同样使人着迷。独角兽分布在全世界哪些地方？它有哪些魔法技能和饮食习惯？还有哪些关于独角兽的传说？谁在驯养独角兽？

本书以详实资料、传说故事、艺术藏品和精美插图，完整呈现了地球上所有民族有关独角兽的百科信息，梳理了千百年来积累的独角兽的相关知识。书中不仅介绍了大众熟知的欧洲独角马，还有西伯利亚独角犀牛英德里克、中国独角龙麒麟、海岛半独角兽米拉吉……为了拓展读者的视野，华莱士·哈米什·麦克米伦旁征博引，将现实世界与充满奇幻的文字结合，挥洒自如地娓娓道来。字里行间浸润着一代学者对独角兽这一物种的呵护与尊重。

• 作者：扬风 发布时间：2021-03-15 22:28:38

  看到每一页的画面，就值了！再细读一遍文字，完全沉浸在作者营造的梦幻世界中。

• 作者：Patricia！ 发布时间：2022-12-28 14:50:15

  这是一本文字很少的童书。开本巨大。内容少少。

• 作者：， 发布时间：2022-06-05 14:45:44

  学人一辈子的事业

• 作者：浅笑温柔 发布时间：2021-05-26 15:11:57

  代标张泉图文双解地图册

• 作者：疏狂老鬼 发布时间：2021-08-24 21:36:31

  适合给小孩子看，内容还算有趣，就是价格太坑爹了。

• 作者：时时时时时时光 发布时间：2023-02-08 13:41:13

  看到青春池才知道，木将军是真的忠义。

• 如何坦诚地管理，硅谷老鸟如是说

  作者：土拨松鼠 发布时间：2017-10-09 16:36:16

  作者Kim Scott是原Google和Apple的中层管理人员，相比讲大道理，她讲了不少亲身经历。

  读此书常触景生情，看到某些片段会回想起自己碰过的钉子。比如前言里Kim提及她犯的一个错误——因为担心伤害一个团队成员感情没有及时指出他的不足，浪费了团队很多时间和不少其他成员的积极性，而对方在被开时也十分震惊。个人也曾犯同样错误，造成严重后果。

  全书核心有两点：care personally, challenge directly。

  翻译过来应该是：关心个人，直接挑战。

  怎么做很有讲究。有人不满时会说You are shit，而乔帮主则会说Your work is shit。指出对方的错误，而不是指责其人格。这些方法因人而异，要考虑文化以及双方关系。说话注意艺术，直接挑战对方也要注意方法；同时双方关系也极其重要。良好的人际关系会让沟通更具效果。

  很多人（包括楼主）在直言方面显得大义凌然、一副为对方着想的样子，却很少照顾对方的感受。关系不到位，对方往往抗拒，甚至跳起来。

  关于如何管理下属野心这个问题，Kim有很好的方法。我们不应老想着压制下属，更好的方法是了解他们的愿景，帮助其做规划（

  这点极其有用

  ）。甚至不排除自己将来为某些有潜力的下属打工。

  另外Kim还提及一个很有意思的话题，就是日常工作中如何鼓励下属批评你。很多时候我们都听不到坦诚的意见，在如何鼓励他人给我们坦诚意见方面，Kim给了我们很好的建议。

  关于一些让很多管理者头疼的问题——如何表扬或批评下属，如何提拔、鼓励、奖励、开除员工，防止职场的疲劳、维系团队稳定，Kim都有较好的讲解。

  管理是一个与人打交道的长期、琐碎的过程，需要非常用心。如作者在书中所说，讲道理并没什么卵用，得结合实际操作才行。

  本书理论结合实操。Kim Scott用多年经验告诉我们实际的步骤，如何更好的处理。

  如果你是老鸟，可以从她那学习如何更进一步；如果是新手，可能更有帮助。

  个人摘选了一些自认为有用的句子，记录下来以便以后快速回顾（因为懒没翻译）：

  PART I: A NEW MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY

  1. BUILD RADICALLY CANDID RELATIONSHIPS:

  Bringing your whole self to work

  There are few things more damaging to human relationships than a sense of superiority.

  CARE PERSONALLY: THE FIRST DIMENSION OF RADICAL CANDOR

  Caring personally is not about memorizing birthdays and names of family members. Nor is it about sharing the sordid details of one’s personal life, or forced chitchat at social events you’d rather not attend. Caring personally is about doing things you already know how to do. It’s about acknowledging that we are all people with lives and aspirations that extend beyond those related to our shared work. It’s about finding time for real conversations; about getting to know each other at a human level; about learning what’s important to people; about sharing with one another what makes us want to get out of bed in the morning and go to work—and what has the opposite effect.

  CHALLENGE DIRECTLY: THE SECOND DIMENSION OF RADICAL CANDOR

  Challenging others and encouraging them to challenge you helps build trusting relationships because it shows 1) you care enough to point out both the things that aren’t going well and those that are and that 2) you are willing to admit when you’re wrong and that you are committed to fixing mistakes that you or others have made. But because challenging often involves disagreeing or saying no, this approach embraces conflict rather than avoiding it.

  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell once remarked that being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

  2. GET, GIVE, AND ENCOURAGE GUIDANCE:

  Creating a culture of open communication

  Just remember that being a boss is a job, not a value judgment.

  Be as specific and thorough with praise as with criticism. Go deep into the details.

  Start by getting feedback, in other words, not by dishing it out. Then when you do start giving it, start with praise, not criticism. When you move on to criticism, make sure you understand where the perilous border between Radical Candor and Obnoxious Aggression is.

  Start by asking for criticism, not by giving it Don’t dish it out before you show you can take it

  Bosses get Radically Candid guidance from their teams not merely by being open to criticism but by actively soliciting it. If a person is bold enough to criticize you, do not critique their criticism. If you see somebody criticizing a peer inappropriately, say something. But if somebody criticizes you inappropriately, your job is to listen with the intent to understand and then to reward the candor.

  How do you criticize without discouraging the person? First, ......, focus on your relationship. Also, ... ask for criticism before giving it, and offer more praise than criticism. Be humble, helpful, offer guidance in person and immediately, praise in public, criticize in private, and don’t personalize.

  3. UNDERSTAND WHAT MOTIVATES EACH PERSON ON YOUR TEAM:

  Helping people take a step in the direction of their dreams

  When assessing a person’s past performance, it’s useful to consider both their results and more intangible things like “teamwork.”

  your job is not to provide purpose but instead to get to know each of your direct reports well enough to understand how each one derives meaning from their work.

  Be a partner, not an absentee manager or a micromanager

  One of the most common mistakes bosses make is to ignore the people who are doing the best work because “they don’t need me” or “I don’t want to micromanage.” Ignoring somebody is a terrible way to build a relationship.

  Managers often devote more time to those who are struggling than to those who are succeeding. But that’s not fair to those who are succeeding—nor is it good for the team as a whole.

  And seeing what truly exceptional performance looks like will help those who are failing to see more clearly what’s expected of them.

  In addition to top ratings, a great way to recognize people in a rock star phase is to designate them as “gurus,” or “go-to” experts. Often this means putting them in charge of teaching newer team members, if they show the aptitude for it.

  Is it time to fire her? There’s no absolute answer to that question, but here are three questions to consider: have you given her Radically Candid guidance, do you understand the impact of Peggy’s performance on her colleagues, and have you sought advice from others?

  --If the answer is yes and you have not seen improvement, or have seen only flickers of improvement, it’s time.

  Make sure that you are seeing each person on your team with fresh eyes every day. People evolve, and so your relationships must evolve with them. Care personally; don’t put people in boxes and leave them there.

  4. DRIVE RESULTS COLLABORATIVELY:

  Telling people what to do doesn’t work

  “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

  The process, which I call the “Get Stuff Done” (GSD) wheel, is relatively straightforward.

  GSD wheel:

  listen -> clarify -> debate -> decide -> persuade -> execute -> learn, and backforth

  Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, once said at an Apple University class that a manager’s most important role is to “give the quiet ones a voice.” I love this. Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the opposite approach, urging people to “Be loud!”

  You have to find a way to listen that fits your personal style, and then create a culture in which everyone listens to each other, so that all the burden of listening doesn’t fall on you.

  Some people feel a quiet listener is not listening at all but instead setting a trap: waiting for others to say the wrong thing so they can pounce. If you’re a quiet listener, then, you need to take steps to reassure those made uncomfortable by your style.

  It’s hard enough to get yourself to listen to your team members and let them know you are listening; getting them to listen to one another is even harder. The keys are 1) have a simple system for employees to use to generate ideas and voice complaints, 2) make sure that at least some of the issues raised are quickly addressed, and 3) regularly offer explanations as to why the other issues aren’t being addressed.

  At Google, people constantly came to me with good ideas—more than I could handle, in fact—and it became overwhelming. So I organized an “ideas team” to consider them. For context, I circulated an article from Harvard Business Review (HBR) that explained how a culture that captures thousands of “small” innovations can create benefits for customers that are impossible for competitors to imitate. One big idea is pretty easy to copy, but thousands of tweaks are impossible to see from the outside, let alone imitate.

  Nothing is a bigger time-sucker or blocker to getting it right than ego. On a broad level, this means intervening when you start to sense that people are thinking, “I’m going to win this argument,” or “my idea versus your idea,” or “my recommendation versus your recommendation,” or “my team feels…” Redirect them to focus on the facts; don’t allow people to attribute ownership to ideas, and don’t get hijacked by how others who aren’t in the room might (or might not) feel.

  Another way to help people search for the best answer instead of seeking ego validation is to make them switch roles. If a person has been arguing for A, ask them to start arguing for B. If a debate is likely to go on for some time, warn people in advance that you’re going to ask them to switch roles. When people know that they will be asked to argue another person’s point, they will naturally listen more attentively.

  One of the reasons that people find debate stressful or annoying is that often half the room expects a decision at the end of the meeting and the other half wants to keep arguing in a follow-up meeting. One way to avoid this tension is to separate debate meetings and decision meetings. Another way to ease the anxiety of the people who want to know when the decision will get made is to have a “decide by” date next to each item being debated.

  I recommend setting up a weekly “big debate” meeting.

  That is why kick-ass bosses often do not decide themselves, but rather create a clear decision-making process that empowers people closest to the facts to make as many decisions as possible. Not only does that result in better decisions, it results in better morale.

  The decider should get facts, not recommendations

  When collecting information for a decision, we are often tempted to ask people for their recommendations—“What do you think we should do?”—but as one executive I worked with at Apple explained to me, people tend to put their egos into recommendations in a way that can lead to politics, and thus worse decisions.

  Even explaining the decision is not enough, because that addresses only the logic; you have to address your listener’s emotions as well. And you must establish that the decider, whether that’s you or somebody else on your team, has credibility if you expect others to execute on the decision.

  But even more democratic, open bosses often get so lost in explaining the rationale for a decision that they forget how people must feel about it, or vice versa.

  Aristotle was troubled that so much rhetoric and persuasion came down to manipulating people’s emotions. He thought that there had to be a better way to get an idea across to a large number of people who don’t have the time or knowledge to understand it completely. He resolved this by explaining that to be legitimately persuasive a speaker must address the audience’s emotions but also establish the credibility and share the logic of the argument.

  When Steve Jobs had an idea, he wouldn’t just describe the idea; he’d share how he got to it. He showed his work.

  But you need to learn to toggle between leading and executing personally. Don’t abandon the first for the second; integrate the two. If you get too far away from the work your team is doing, you won’t understand their ideas well enough to help them clarify, to participate in debates, to know which decisions to push them to make, to teach them to be more persuasive. The GSD wheel will grind to a halt if you don’t understand intimately the “stuff” your team is trying to get done.

  It can take almost superhuman discipline to step back, acknowledge when our results could be a lot better or are simply no good, and learn from the experience.

  PART II: TOOLS & TECHNIQUES

  5. RELATIONSHIPS:

  An approach to establishing trust with your direct reports

  In life, I learned that too much emphasis on shareholder value actually destroys value, as well as morale. Instead, I learned to focus first on staying centered myself, so that I could build real relationships with each of the people who worked for me. Only when I was centered and my relationships were strong could I fulfill my responsibilities as a manager to guide my team to achieve the best results.

  Hard times are made much harder when you’re not at your best. And they can make it particularly hard to “care personally” about the people you work with, not to mention those you live with.

  The essence of leadership is not getting overwhelmed by circumstances.

  It’s even more important to focus on making time for whatever keeps you centered when you are stressed and busy than when things are relatively calm.

  You can guide your team to get results if you’ve built a trusting relationship with each person reporting to you, and there can only be real trust when people feel free at work. The first rule of building the kind of relationship with the people that will make them feel free at work is to relinquish unilateral authority.

  Building trust in any relationship takes time because trust is built on a consistent pattern of acting in good faith. It’s a big mistake to assume too much trust too quickly (e.g., by prying into deeply personal questions when you barely know a person). On the other hand, you do need to start somewhere.

  Probably the most important thing you can do to build trust is to spend a little time alone with each of your direct reports on a regular basis.

  You don’t have to share the same deeply personal values to build good relationships at work; and it’s a terrible idea to try to convince your colleagues that your values are “right” and theirs are “wrong.” But you do need to respect other people’s values when they do share them with you.

  A radically candid relationship starts with the basic respect and common decency that every human being owes each other, regardless of worldview. Once again, the work is the bond everybody on a team does share, and the most productive way to strengthen that bond is by learning how to work together in ways that benefit everyone involved.

  If you have a truly terrible emotional upset in your life, stay home for a day. You don’t want to spread it around any more than you’d want to spread a bad virus around the office, and emotions are just as contagious as germs.

  Emotional reactions can offer important clues to help you better understand what’s really going on with the people you manage.

  So don’t respond to outbursts or sullen silences by pretending they are not happening. Don’t try to mitigate them by saying things like, “It’s not personal,” or “Let’s be professional.” Instead say, “I can see you’re mad/frustrated/elated/____”

  When somebody is frustrated or angry or upset enough about a situation at work that they react emotionally, this is your cue to keep asking questions until you understand what the real issue is. Don’t over-direct the conversation; just keep listening and it will become clear.

  BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH your direct reports takes time and real energy. Sometimes, especially when things are not going well, this will be the most depleting part of your job. Remembering that it is central to your job will help. And if you can power through these times, you may find as I have that these relationships give your work meaning far beyond the results that you achieve together.

  6. GUIDANCE:

  Ideas for getting/giving/ encouraging praise & criticism

  That’s why when you become the boss it’s important to work so hard to earn your team’s trust. You may be worried about earning their respect, and that’s natural. Unfortunately, though, being overly focused on respect can backfire because it’ll make you feel extra defensive when criticized. If, on the other hand, you can listen to the criticism and react well to it, both trust and respect will follow.

  When you encourage people to criticize you publicly, you get the chance to show your team that you really, genuinely want the criticism.

  When you’re the boss, it’s awkward to ask your direct reports to tell you frankly what they think of your performance—even more awkward for them than it is for you. To help, I adopted a go-to question that Fred Kofman, author of Conscious Business and my coach at Google, suggested. “Is there anything I could do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me?”

  Most people will initially respond to your question with something along the lines of “Oh, everything is fine, thank you for asking,” and hope that’s the end of the conversation.

  One technique is to count to six before saying anything else, forcing them to endure the silence. The goal is not to be a bully but to insist on a candid discussion—to make it harder for the person to say nothing than to tell you what they’re thinking.

  ...... developed a technique called “situation behavior impact” to help leaders be more precise and therefore less arrogant when giving feedback. This simple technique reminds you to describe three things when giving feedback: 1) the situation you saw, 2) the behavior (i.e., what the person did, either good or bad), and 3) the impact you observed. This helps you avoid making judgments about the person’s intelligence, common sense, innate goodness, or other personal attributes.

  If you wait too long to give guidance, everything about it gets harder.

  Be sure to let people know immediately how their work is being received. If you ask somebody to do work to help you prepare for a meeting or a presentation where that person won’t be present, be sure to let them know the reaction to their work.

  I found that praising people at a public all-hands meeting was a great way to share significant accomplishments. However, I often found that following up in person at a 1:1 carried more emotional weight, and following up with an email to the whole team carried more lasting weight.

  When offering guidance to your boss, use the same tips above: be helpful, humble, do it immediately and in person, praise in public (if it doesn’t look like kissing up), criticize in private, and don’t personalize.

  The ability to be Radically Candid with your boss is crucial to your success. One of the most difficult things about being a middle manager ... is that you often wind up responsible for executing decisions that you disagree with. This can feel like a Catch-22. If you tell your team you do agree with the decisions, you feel like a liar—or at the very least, inauthentic. If you tell your team that you don’t agree with the decisions, you look weak, insubordinate, or both.

  Radical Candor is the way out of this dilemma.

  Asking each of my direct reports to give me a performance review before I gave them one was helpful. The main advantage here was that it made the review feel more like a two-way conversation and less like an arrogant one-way judgment.

  Spend half the time looking back (diagnosis), half the time looking forward (plan).

  ONE OF THE most important ways to create an environment in which Radical Candor trumps political BS is to never let one person on your team talk to you about another behind their back.

  ROXANE WALES, WHO worked first at NASA and then in Learning and Development at Google, once told me that one of the most important things any manager of managers could do to foster a culture of guidance was to have so-called “skip level meetings.”

  Never have a skip level meeting without prior consent of your direct report. Instead, ask the managers who report to you to explain the whole thing to their teams beforehand. It’s vital that everyone understands that the meeting with you is in support of, not an attack on, their boss.

  Project the notes you take during the meeting, and let people know that you will share them with the manager.

  THE KEY TO success when implementing any of these suggestions is to return to core principles, rather than following step-by-step instructions....

  Whenever you feel yourself getting lost in the weeds, simply return to these two questions: “Am I showing my team that I care personally?” and “Am I challenging each person directly?” If the answer to both questions is yes, you’re doing just fine.

  7. TEAM:

  Techniques for avoiding boredom and burnout

  He taught every manager on his team to have a succession of three forty-five-minute conversations with each direct report over the course of three to six weeks.

  Russ’s approach was so successful that an internal survey of employee satisfaction showed the people on his team displaying a marked increase in optimism about their futures at Google and their positive feelings about their managers. Nobody from HR had ever seen such an improvement.

  Conversation one: life story

  The second conversation: dreams

  Russ suggests encouraging people to come up with three to five different dreams for the future. This allows employees to include the dream they think you want to hear as well as those that are far closer to their hearts.

  The final part of Russ’s second conversation involves making sure that the person’s dreams are aligned with the values they have expressed.

  Conversation three: eighteen-month plan

  Helping people clarify values and dreams and then aligning them as closely as possible with their current work will invariably make your team stronger.

  Too often, the people who have the most senior roles are given the highest ratings when in fact they are surfing on the productivity of the people working for them. Don’t let that happen!

  In practice, most management teams respond in the reverse manner—a greater percentage of senior rather than junior people get put in the superstar box. If this happens, ask some hard questions and make sure there’s an identifiable, justifiable reason for it.

  An example of a good prescreen is a skills assessment: ask potential candidates to do a project or solve a problem related to the job they’re applying for. This will weed out a number of candidates who look good on paper but can’t actually do the work. It will also give candidates who’d be great at the job but look bad on paper the opportunity to interview.

  Four people is about the right size for an interview committee. Ideally, the interviewing committee is diverse....It’s also helpful if at least one of the interviewers is on another team. This prevents “desperation hiring.” When there’s a “hole” on a team, people become so eager to fill the position that they ignore warning signals. Somebody who isn’t feeling the pain of the hole on the team as acutely is more likely to point out these danger signs.

  Casual interviews reveal more about team fit than formal ones.

  Another good practice is to have people intentionally create more casual moments—take candidates to lunch, walk them to the car. Ask the receptionist and schedulers if they had any reaction to the candidate. In unguarded moments, candidates will do or say revealing things.

  Make interviews productive by jotting down your thoughts right away. Write down your interview feedback; doing that is as clarifying for you as it is for the rest of the committee, and it will result in better hiring decisions.

  The best advice I ever got for hiring somebody is this: if you’re not dying to hire somebody, don’t make an offer.

  Firing people is hard, and it ought to be hard. But if you do three things, you can make it far, far easier on the person you are firing—as well as on yourself and your team.

  Don’t wait too long

  Don’t make the decision unilaterally

  Give a damn

  Follow up

  Announcing promotions breeds unhealthy competition for the wrong things: documentation of status rather than development of skill.

  Focus on the work the person is doing, not the status they’ve achieved in the company for doing it.

  THERE ARE FEW pleasures greater than being part of a team where everyone loves their job and loves working together. You can build a team like that if you have career conversations with each of the people on your team, create growth-management plans for each person who works for you once a year, hire the right people, fire the appropriate people, promote the right people, and reward the people who are doing great work but who shouldn’t be promoted, and offer yourself as a partner to your direct reports.

  8. RESULTS:

  Things you can do to get stuff done together—faster

  Whether you want a structured agenda or you prefer a more free-flowing meeting, the agenda itself should be directed by your direct report, not you. Your job is to hold people accountable when they come unprepared—or to decide that it’s fine to have an agenda-less 1:1 from time to time.

  If you hear only good news, it’s a sign people don’t feel comfortable coming to you with their problems, or they think you won’t or can’t help. In these cases, you need to ask explicitly for the bad news. Don’t let the issue drop till you hear some.

  An effective staff meeting has three goals: it reviews how things have gone the previous week, allows people to share important updates, and forces the team to clarify the most important decisions and debates for the coming week.

  I have found that the most effective solution is simply to fight fire with fire. For the same reason, I blocked off think-time in calendar; I also found it necessary to block off time in my calendar to be alone and execute. I encouraged others to do the same. This helped them say “no” to more unnecessary meetings.

  Awareness of these small problems can be useful in several ways.

  First they’ll help you find the devil in the details.

  Second, being aware of small problems and maybe even rolling up your sleeves and fixing them yourself is the best way to kill the “it’s not my job” or, worse, the “that’s beneath me” mentality on your team. If nothing is beneath your attention, then others will pay attention to details as well.

  Third, when you show that you care about the small things that contribute to customer happiness or the quality of life on your team, suddenly everybody cares more about them, and some of the big things start working better, too.

  “CULTURE EATS STRATEGY for lunch.” A team’s culture has an enormous impact on its results, and a leader’s personality has a huge impact on a team’s culture. Who you are as a human being impacts your team’s culture enormously.

  When you become the boss, you are under the microscope. People do listen to you in an intense way you never experienced before you became a manager. They attribute meaning—sometimes accurately, sometimes not—to what you say, to the clothes you wear, to the car you drive. In some ways, becoming a boss is like getting arrested. Everything you say or do can and will be used against you.

  When you’re the boss and shit happens, it’s your responsibility to learn from it and make a change. If you don’t, you create a culture that doesn’t learn from its mistakes.

  The most amazing thing about a culture is that once it’s strong, it’s self-replicating.

  GETTING STARTED

  Now it’s time to start putting the suggestions in this book into practice.

  SHARE YOUR STORIES

  EXPLAIN RADICAL CANDOR to your team so they understand what you’re up to. You can also ask them to read the book, or show them videos that are on the Radical Candor website. But it’s best if you explain it in your own words.

  PROVE YOU CAN TAKE IT BEFORE YOU START DISHING IT OUT

  START ASKING YOUR team to criticize you. ... And remember, don’t let people off the hook when they don’t say much—because they won’t, at first. Embrace the discomfort to move past it. Pay close attention if you aren’t getting any criticism.

  Soliciting guidance, especially criticism, is not something you do once and check off your list—this will now be something you do daily.

  Now you’re ready to start having career conversations. Begin “career conversations” with your team. Start with people whom you’ve been working with for the longest.

  Like getting criticism from your team, “career conversations” are not something you do once and check off the list. Remember, people change, and you need to change with them!

  In parallel: perfect your 1:1 conversations.

  Next. After you have explained Radical Candor, asked for guidance, had career conversations, and improved your 1:1 conversations, you’ll notice that you are earning your team’s trust and building a better culture. Now you’re ready to start improving the way you give impromptu praise and criticism. Remember, impromptu guidance happens best in one- to two-minute conversations.

  Take a deep breath. Assess.

  Don’t try to do more new things until you feel 1) you’ve made good progress on the fundamental building block of management: getting and giving guidance, 2) you’ve gotten to know your direct reports better, and 3) you’re happy with your 1:1s.

  If the answer to these three questions is “yes,” you’re ready to perfect staff meetings, decisions, and debates for your team.

  Return to guidance. Make sure you are encouraging guidance between people on your team. Establish a “no backstabbing” or require a “clean escalation” norm on your team.

  Fight meeting proliferation. Make sure you’re not getting overscheduled. Think very consciously about what you are doing that you can stop doing. Put some think time in your calendar.

  Plan for the future of your team. Start doing a growth-management plan for each person on your team.

  Return to guidance. Ask your team to start gauging each other’s guidance. There are more of them than there are of you, so anything you can do to get them to give one another more Radically Candid praise and criticism will reinforce a Radically Candid culture and provide you with more leverage than any amount of guidance you can give or get personally.

  Walk around. ... Put aside some time each week to walk around and have informal spontaneous chats with people. If you have a feeling that things are still not going well, and that there’s a lot of skepticism on the team, go back to step one.

  Begin to take a more Radically Candid approach to the processes that your company may have in place. Be Radically Candid when hiring, firing, promoting (see chapter seven), as well as giving formal performance reviews (see chapter six).

  Don’t get too bogged down in the details before plunging in, though, because it is the rewards of the process that will keep you energized and moving forward. Remember: once you build Radically Candid relationships with the people who report to you, you will eliminate a terrible source of misery in the world: the bad boss.

• 艺术家名人故事

  作者：向着花的太阳 发布时间：2011-01-07 13:03:05

  书的介绍是这样写的：《像艺术家一样思考:藏在名画里的创意思维》：从创意的角度看艺术，成功从此有踪迹。沿着大师的成功足迹，开启属于自己的创意人生。除了学习大师的艺术表现手法之外，我们更应该为他们的执着与创新精神感动。

  读完整本书累计用了6个小时，查阅了一下大标题相同的书有不少

  《像艺术家一样思考》 贝蒂・艾德华

  《像艺术家一样思考》 艾德华

  《像艺术家一样思考Ⅲ:贝蒂的色彩》贝蒂·艾德华

    ……

  看完这本书其实最有印象的只是里面的画和这幅画总所周知的故事而已！！

  个人认为书中的创意思维无一不是破旧立新，然而所谓的创意在一开始的时候如同一个没有父母保护的婴儿，需要以常人不能容忍的毅力一个人成长，这过程中甚至会出现动摇、疑惑、失去目标最后或者成功或者消失。虽然大师的成果很辉煌，但其中付出的艰辛与努力不是三言两语就能带过的，保不齐有人看完了觉得如此简单，去尝试，结果栽了，一怒骂娘了！（咳！！有点跑了，拉回来）“从创意的角度看艺术“我认同，能够让人们看到大师身上闪烁的智慧，至于“ 成功从此有踪迹”不敢苟同，满大街都是成功商业人士案例，买回家读读成为第二个商业大亨的人又有几个？“开启属于自己的创意人生”我想有目标的人会用自己的行动去证明，而不会去问我如何打开我的思维?难道说：想打开思维吗？来看我的书吧！沿着大师成功的路打开你的创意人生！！！ —_— ！

  节选片段作为励志的名人故事挺好的！！

  好吧，以上只是我个人的一点微法（微小的看法），表喷wo!