"Some citizens have expressed discomfort at living in not a safer society but a 'surveillance society'," said Sam Palmisano, the boss of IBM, in a speech earlier this year.

“一些市民已经表示生活在一个不仅没有安全感而且‘备受监督’的社会很不爽，”IBM老版萨姆·帕尔米萨诺在今年得早期演讲中提到。

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Today the goal is to create what Sam Palmisano, the boss of IBM, calls the “globally integrated enterprise”-a single firm in which work is sourced wherever it is most efficient.

目前跨国公司的目标是建立IBM老板彭明盛所宣称的”整合全球的企业”–一个可以在全球任何地方利用最高效资源工作的公司。

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According to Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, hierarchical, command-and-control approaches simply do not work anymore.

据IBM执行总裁彭明盛表示，等级式的、指挥控制式的方法已经完全不起作用了。

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While Willie Nelson sang "Me and Bobby McGee, " Will and I enjoyed talking to former 49ers quarterback Steve Young and IBM CEO Sam Palmisano.

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