Every time I give an assignment to my college students, I ask if they have questions.

每一次当我给我负责的那班大学生布置作业的时候，我都问他们是否有疑惑。

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The best way to get the help you need for an assignment is to give it.

给予他人帮助是让你自己在执行任务时得到所需帮助的最佳途径。

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Now if you give yourself such an assignment, the first thing you do is escape somewhere, because it is impossible to do.

现在你如果给自己一个这样的任务，你第一件要做的事便是逃到某处去，因为这件事无法去做。

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Take a high-performing marketing person and give them an assignment that couples them with operations, for example.

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Give them an open-ended assignment, like Figgie International, and it is bound to end in tears.

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Years later, in the mid-1980s, with the U.S. once again strong and confident, Malcolm Forbes, my late father, wrote an editorial in these pages suggesting that President Reagan give Richard Nixon a diplomatic assignment dealing with arms control and Russia.

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