(世界公民College電子報本週新文)你是領導者嗎？企業欣賞的是那種指點江山、揮斥方遒的領導者嗎？這篇短小精悍的文章，是職場升遷必讀，其中靈活的商業英語用字，請多讀幾遍，銘記在心。在閱讀文章前先想想這些字的英文怎麼說：

(A.)夢寐以求

(B.)嶄露頭角

(C.)磨練

You want to (1.)get to the top, yet you are (2.)at a loss. Your appraisals are consistently excellent and your track record does not show any (3.)run-ins with management. Yet you do not seem able to land a (A.)plum assignment. Why? What should you do to move from good to better?

應該要得到的升遷，卻遲遲未發生？你完全不懂發生什麼事，明明考核都是優等，和上司、同事都合作無間，但就是無法得到夢寐以求的工作。為什麼？到底要怎麼做才能從好，到更好？

If you want to lose weight, exercising and following a diet will prove more effective than exercising or following a diet alone. Similarly, (B.)budding leaders may need to develop skills that complement what they already do best(*). Tech adepts should not dig even deeper in technology; it won’t get them (4.)nearly as far as developing communication skills, simply because the latter one makes their expertise more apparent and more accessible.

假如你想減肥，運動和飲食雙管齊下，比只做一件事有效；同樣，想嶄露頭角的領導人要開發的，應該是能讓你現有專業技術更上一層樓的能力。以科技人來說，需要的不再只是鑽研更深的技術，而是要會「溝通」，就算技術能帶給你好處，但卻遠不及你有良好的溝通技巧—它能讓你的專業知識更加明顯，也更容易被接受。

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