Even though these extra tasks are not explicitly approved, they are the grease that makes our interdependent teams and organizations function.

即使这些额外的任务没有明确提出来，它也可以使得团队的相互独立性和组织功能减弱。

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People often focus on the existence of light and often neglect the shadow function, in fact, the light and shadow is not two hostile concepts, but interdependent and complementary dual phenomenon.

人们常常注重光的存在却往往忽视影的作用，其实光与影并非相对的两个概念，而是彼此依存、互补的二元现象。

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Obviously, excellence must be defined in a broader sense in the ways companies perform three interdependent functions that allow them to be better and stay better than the competition: The social function, the entrepreneurial function and the managerial function.

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