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The full text is quoted as follows: A private conversation Last week I went to the theater. I had a very good seat. The play was very interesting. I did not enjoy it. A young man and a young woman were sitting behind me. They were talking loudly. I got very angry. I could not hear the actors. I turned round. I looked at the man and the woman angrily. They did not pay any attention. In the end, I could not bear it. I turned round again. ‘I can’t hear a word!’ I said angrily. ‘ It’s none of your business’ the young man said rudely. ‘ this is a private conversation!’
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Siem Reap, Cambodia July 13, 2012 SECRETARY CLINTON: (In progress.) It’s a pleasure to welcome you to the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council Forum: Commitment to Connectivity. And we are so honored to have three distinguished leaders here with us tonight. You will be hearing from each of them about the importance of advancing the ASEAN connectivity agenda and steps we can all take in government and in business, in ASEAN and in our individual countries to advance integration and economic engagement. I’m very grateful to Prime Minister Hun Sen for hosting us and being with us. Cambodia has just completed the ASEAN ministerial, and we are grateful that you would find the time to come here and be with us, Prime Minister. I also want to thank President Thein Sein, who has moved his country such a long distance in such a short period of time. And we are very much looking forward to hearing your comments. And Prime Minister Yingluck, it is always a pleasure to be with you and to work with you. Thailand is our oldest ally in the region, one of our oldest allies in the world, and we are honored that you are here. I want to thank the ministers and ambassadors from across ASEAN who have joined us here in this historic city. And I especially want to thank Myron Brilliant from the Chamber of Commerce and Alex Feldman from the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council. And finally, a very warm welcome to all the representatives from the private sector. Here tonight are dozens of leaders of ASEAN companies from all over the ASEAN region, in addition to dozens of leaders from American companies. By our count, this is the largest U.S.-ASEAN business event ever assembled. And I assume that will be a challenge so that the next events will be even bigger as we see the results of our efforts. As Myron said, you know that we are certainly elevating our engagement across the board with Asia, and we’re paying particular attention to ASEAN and Southeast Asia. We’re pursuing a economic statecraft and jobs diplomacy agenda to promote sustainable growth and prosperity across the region and, of course, we know that by doing so it will help the countries of ASEAN, but it will also help the United States. Our economic ties are already strong. ASEAN and the United States are large trading partners. Last year, U.S. exports to ASEAN exceeded $76 billion, and that was up 42 percent since 2009. We have more than twice as much investment in ASEAN as we do in China. So there is a great deal of potential for continuing to grow our economic activity. We want to do more to deepen our economic partnership. For example, with our ASEAN Single Window and other ADVANCE programs, we are working with ASEAN to develop a fully integrated market by harmonizing customs and improving regulatory standards. And later this fall, our trade ministers will gather here in Siem Reap to discuss ways to advance our Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, the operating system of our economic partnership. I’m also very convinced that by promoting economic activity in the region, it is not only about encouraging businesses to invest and trade, it is also about building relationships. And the best way to do that is to be sure that we promote a rules-based system, because the difference between a region on the path to sustainable growth and one whose gains will be more short term are the norms and the standards for intellectual property protection, for predictability in setting rules, and enforcing laws to try to ensure a level playing field for everyone. And we want ASEAN and the Asia Pacific to be open for business to everyone willing to work hard and make those investments. And we want especially to encourage entrepreneurs, because after all, that’s where the new ideas come from; that’s where the new businesses start; that’s where small and medium-sized enterprises really get their impetus for growth. I gave a speech in Hong Kong last July describing what we hoped will be a thriving economic system across the Asia Pacific. It came down to four key attributes: openness, freedom, transparency, and fairness. And we believe that those all go together. So let us work and try to determine the best way to increase that connectivity, increase those relationships, make those investments, and really build sustainable economies, jobs here, jobs back home in the United States, and the kind of future that we want in the 21 st century for the people of the ASEAN nations. Let me just set the stage for all three speakers. We will hear first from the Prime Minister of Cambodia. Cambodia has achieved tremendous economic progress during the tenure of Prime Hun Sen, and the United States is proud of our economic partnership. The United States is the number one importer of Cambodian-made garments – and this is a shameless plug, but I will say it anyway – thanks to trade deals we did back in the 1990s. (Laughter.) And those trade deals included labor and workplace standards, so the now 350,000 Cambodians, 90 percent of whom are young women, working in the textile industry in Cambodia have seen tremendous advances. Now, Cambodia will see the first to say they have more to do and they are working on that, but we want to continue to support their economic progress. We also want to point to one other example of an innovative partnership with American business – General Electric is finalizing a rice-husk biomass integrated power project, the first in the region. What a great idea for ASEAN countries, particularly in the Lower Mekong, to use rice husks to generate energy. So this has got great potential. We’ll next hear from the Prime Minister of Thailand, whose leadership has helped her country recover from the effects of the devastating floods last year and achieve economic growth at the start of this year. We are working to link Thai and American businesses through several public-private partnerships: Google is helping to connect more than 100,000 small and medium-sized businesses throughout Thailand; MasterCard is working with the Bank of Thailand to promote electronic mobile banking training; and Coca-Cola is creating an upcoming women’s entrepreneurship fund. So we’re very pleased that Prime Minister Yingluck could join us. And finally, we will hear from President Thein Sein. This week has been a milestone in the relationship between our two countries. Just two days ago, President Obama announced that the United States is easing restrictions to allow more U.S. companies to do business there. And a few months ago in Washington, I urged American businesses to invest and to do it responsibly. Under Secretary Bob Hormats, who is here today, will be taking the largest U.S. business delegation – over 70 businesses – tomorrow to meet with officials, to meet with businesses, to meet with civil society. And we’re excited by what lies ahead, and we’re very supportive of President Thein Sein’s economic and political reforms. And finally, I want to thank everyone from the private sector and the organizations involved and ASEAN and my team at the State Department, led by Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell, for understanding that connectivity is a word that has to have meaning. And much of that meaning comes from greater relationships between our governments, between our private sectors, between our civil societies, and most importantly, between and among our people. So it’s very exciting to see everything that is happening here. And now it is my pleasure to introduce our host this evening, Prime Minister Hun Sen. (Applause.) 原文见 http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/07/195013.htm
John Whiting has risen to the rank of tax partner at PwC and takes part in regular TV broadcasts on financial matters, but he is also a self-confessed introvert who finds social situations deeply uncomfortable. “I still can’t work a roomful of strangers, nor am I a natural glad-hander or someone who would have found it easy to lead a big client account,” he says. “But although it is still quite a struggle at times, I refuse to let my innate shyness get the better of me or allow it to limit my career.” While being ill at ease in company does not preclude you from success – Sir Richard Branson of Virgin and Duncan Bannatyne of the BBC series Dragons’ Den are two examples of self-confessed introverts – social awkwardness is, for many people, an increasingly unwelcome trait. Parties: the bane of the bashful“Being uncomfortable around people and preferring my own company has cost me a directorship and at least £40,000 a year,” says one IT manager with a large retail company. He says he has seen many similarly competent, though notably more extrovert, contemporaries rise through the ranks with ease. “I’ve found that technical skill and an ability to think logically have got me a fairly long way up the ladder but in my experience you are unlikely to reach the top unless you can conquer your shyness and enjoy engaging with people – which I fundamentally do not,” he says. Psychologists say that introverts, or “social phobics”, are more likely to be drained than fired up by social occasions. At its extreme, shyness can turn even everyday work situations such as client lunches and company parties into ordeals, while on a more everyday level it can close the door on all but the most junior or back-room functions. Yet it can be overcome, says Rob Yeung, a business psychologist at Talentspace, a leadership consultancy. He argues that, while acceptable in a support function, introverted behaviour is increasingly difficult to sustain in more senior functions, where networking and personal relationship building come as part of the job specification. “For the majority of us, the ability to engage with others and keep conversations going when they flag will always be a vital skill, whether it involves talking to clients or enthusing a whole department,” says Mr Yeung. The good news for introverts, he says, is that evidence suggests training can help. Words of advice for shrinking violets Rob Yeung, a psychologist at consultancy Talentspace, offers some advice for businesspeople suffering from shyness: ● Set graduated goals to build your confidence. Begin with presentations to your team, then perhaps the department. ● Correct your posture. Imagine a piece of string attached to the top of your head, pulling you up and making you walk tall. People will treat you more positively. ● Speak louder, slower and deeper to get your point across. ● Try to arrange to speak within the first half-hour of any presentation. ● Practise smiling. You may be feeling stressed inside. But smiling will trick your brain into thinking that you are feeling happy and relaxed. “By refusing to allow your in-built reserve to ruin your life and by practising more sociable habits on a daily basis, I would argue that talking to colleagues and feeling relaxed about it can become as natural as brushing your teeth.” For Mr Whiting, being an introvert inevitably means extra preparation. “If I’m in my professional role, I find I can talk, present and even broadcast with very few qualms because I make sure in advance of any event that I know my stuff really well. What I can’t do is off-the-cuff talk, either with strangers or with people I know,” he says. But he stresses that being reserved has its compensations, particularly in his ability to manage people. “Introverts like me are no good at breaking into conversations, introducing ourselves to clients or spending all evening chatting,” he says. “But when it comes to going away and coming up with solutions to a business problem, or hearing people out when they have issues, we will often excel.” Gerard Burke heads Cranfield School of Management’s Business Growth and Development Programme for owner-managers, yet describes himself as “absolutely useless in social situations”. For him, coping with shyness involves acting a part. “When I’m at work, I have a figurehead role to live up to and I usually find I can play that particular character very well. But when I go out to dinner with friends I invariably find myself sitting in silence because I feel self-conscious and don’t want to draw attention to myself,” he says. “Even at the age of 48, if I’m removed from my comfort zone I simply don’t know what to say to people, or how to say it.” While authentic leadership is a popular notion, play-acting at being an extrovert, even when you are trembling inside, is inevitable and even desirable, says Mr Yeung. “If you are not prepared to fit in with your company’s expected behaviour, I would argue that it is best for both of you if you ship out. Feeling out of step with everyone else in the organisation can be a very alienating business.”
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Internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture Wynton Marsalis came to the i-lab today as our first guest in the panel series, "Artists as Entrepreneurs." Marsalis answered questions about the overlap of artists and entrepreneurs in personality, behavior, history and perception. The panel, comprised of Harvard Business School faculty members and moderated by Senior Associate Dean for Planning and University Affairs, and Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance Mihir Desai, touched on three concepts: How entrepreneurs, always in search of new ideas, can learn from artists; How artists ARE entrepreneurs if you apply the definition that they pursue opportunities without considering resources under their control at the moment of an idea's conception, but instead make that idea happen despite circumstances; and How both art and entrepreneurship are collaborative; how organizations and institutions take a role in the careers of both types. While undoubtedly some artists are born with their gifts (hello, Mozart!), Marsalis highlighted another kind of artist: the entrepreneurial artist. He gave a little musical context to guests, telling the story of Duke Ellington; surely one of music's greats, but really a man who employed entrepreneurial vision to his art and succeeded as a result. Ellington was able to synthesize ideas to create completely novel ones, and used his personality and people skills to create an environment for his idea to thrive. His determination to his goals ultimately succeeded in helping father jazz. Would a man like Ellington succeed today? The scale and pace of change in our time is unprecedented. "Turbulence is the new normal," said James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration Nancy Koehn. The people who will make changes in our times will be those who can adapt between disciplines, between left and right, and distill ideas, not information. Artists fall into this camp, she posited, and so do entrepreneurs, but what makes this true? Marsalis's answer: the ability to thrive in chaos. Artists, including musicians, have traditionally fit a stereotype of volatile or emotional people who then distill that into something higher or bigger than themselves. "Jazz is chaos. It's about being able to adapt and ride the wave of chaos to the calm center," he said, describing the melee in his own house while he composes. In a world of emails and information overload, this quality will become more and more important to create find higher meaning. Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing Rohit Deshpande focused on the current challenges that musicians have in common with entrepreneurs: that of branding and consumers. Marsalis agreed that they are both heavy issues for artists, but that they have to approach them just as entrepreneurs do: with specific missions and visions, goals and practical plans of how to achieve them while maintaining integrity to their fundamentals. The correlation between art and business has historically been seen as transactional. Associate Professor of Business Administration and Marvin Bower Fellow Mukti Kaire asked Marsalis about the traditional divide between art and business. While in the past, artists were seen as lofty thinkers and businessmen focused on bottom lines, now we can see parallels: perseverance to bring a vision to fruition, working under intangible measurements, and the joy of creating something new. Marsalis pointed out that while the perception has always divided artists and entrepreneurs, artists have always been entrepreneurial. "A score is a business plan." A sheet of music contains so much information, and artists require education to read that plan and execute it to the highest standards possible. "There is specificity in both art and music," he explained. Comparing spreadsheet metrics to a 75-piece orchestra's symphony sheet music may be new, but the need for accuracy they share has always existed. It may have been the most poetic description of a spreadsheet we've ever heard. 原文见 http://i-lab.harvard.edu/2012/02/08/are-entrepreneurs-business-artists-wynton-marsalis-says-yes
research 有两种，一种是research out of curiosity, 一种是application (or business)-driven research. 经济不好的今天， application-driven research 更容易拿到funding. 更容易得到支持。那么我们可不可以就做一个兴趣研究呢？ 了解，探知，寻找，发现，但是可能是无意义的。 在写grant proposal的时候，有明确的significance 或者 impact的session，无需困惑； 如果没有条条框框，可不可以在impact那一栏就写着，out of curiosity.
女儿现在在美国UC-Berkeley上大学二年级，主修Business Administration和Operations Research。 今年四月她们在加州成功主办了第一届主题为“Made for China”的创业大赛。这个创业大赛的特色是：要求参赛队伍将自己的创业点子与中国市场和现状结合。女儿是现任Made for China创业大赛策划方的主席。 这个创业大赛得到 EFactor--World's largest entrepreneurial community 和包括联想集团等众多企业界的赞助与支持。为了把“Made for China”创业大赛持久地一届一届办下去，并通过这一活动，将创业精神传播给更多祖国的年轻人，他们决定把第二届的规模扩大到硅谷湾区之外的哈佛、MIT、宾大等多个美国著名大学，以及中国的北大、清华、复旦、上海交大等，并把总决赛放在扬州。 在她暑假中我和她谈过，为什么不把中科院的上万名学生也包括在其中，经过多方努力，中科院研究生院也在其中。的确，从我女儿在美国学习的这段时间，我发现中美大学本科教育的差距的确很大。国内学生普遍缺少创业精神，这也是女儿为什么想把第二届创业大赛延伸到中国，并把决赛放在扬州的原因。希望所有中国的大学生及研究生（不分大学、并欢迎团队参加）踊跃报名参加，而且 一等奖50万元，二等奖20万元 等奖金对于学生来说，应该还是很有吸引力的。 有关大赛的详情，包括大赛宗旨、背景、合作方、奖金以及具体流程和时间，请访问大赛网站 （ http://madeforchina.efactor.com/ ）。
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