Today's advice comes from Richard Sandor, CEO of Chicago Climate Exchange:
今天的MBA小課堂的嘉賓是芝加哥氣候交易所的首席執(zhí)行官Richard Sandor：

"We have a peculiar philosophy within the company. There is no such thing as failure, we only view things as clinical experiments."
“在公司里，我們有著獨(dú)到的理念，那就是，在這個(gè)世上沒有所謂的失敗，有的只是一次次臨床試驗(yàn)而已?！?/div>

To demonstrate his point, Sandor used the drug Salvarsan — also called compound 606 — as an example.
為了更好地表達(dá)自己的觀點(diǎn)，Sandor拿治療梅毒的特效藥撒爾佛散，又名606化合物，來給我們舉例說明。

Compound 606 predates penicillin and was used to treat syphilis in the early 1900s. According to Sandor, the drug got its nickname after its creator failed 606 times before getting it right.
在20世紀(jì)初，606化合物被認(rèn)為是治療梅毒的特效藥，后來被盤尼西林（青霉素）所取代。Sandor表示，606化合物的昵稱就來自于該藥的問世經(jīng)歷，在試驗(yàn)了606次之后，終于研制成功。

Perseverance is an important factor when reaching towards a goal and Sandor believes that failure cannot be viewed as the end of a project.
堅(jiān)持不懈的毅力是達(dá)成目標(biāo)的重要因素。Sandor認(rèn)為，一次失敗并不能被當(dāng)做是某個(gè)項(xiàng)目的完結(jié)。

"Leadership and inventive activity require the perspective of clinical trials as opposed to success or failure."
“領(lǐng)導(dǎo)才能和創(chuàng)造發(fā)明一樣，不能光用成功或失敗來定義，兩者都需要不斷地進(jìn)行試驗(yàn)才行。”

小編注：芝加哥氣候交易所成立于2003年的芝加哥氣候交易所是全球第一個(gè)具有法律約束力、基于國際規(guī)則的溫室氣體排放登記、減排和交易平臺。各會員自愿參與，它試圖借用市場機(jī)制來解決溫室效應(yīng)這一日益嚴(yán)重的社會難題。

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