高德思：先前你在我们的对话中提到了导师的重要性。

Thomas D. Gorman: You mentioned earlier in our conversation the importance of mentors.

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这些培训指导师，如在乐高公司运作这个计划的Jesper Jensen，会让经理们用组合策略来建造“隐喻性的抽象作品”。

They coach managers by getting them to build “metaphorical abstractions” of such things as corporate strategy, says Lego's Jesper Jensen, who runs the scheme.

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在寻找导师方面一个常见的错误是，邀请高管一起吃午餐，结果只是漫无目的地闲聊，根本不知道自己需要什么样的帮助。

A classic mistake in seeking a mentor is to ask a senior executive to lunch and spend the time aimlessly talking, without knowing what kind of help you need.

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And I said to my advisor, "No, no. I have taken chemistry in high school, and I can assure you that chemistry has no relevance whatsoever to the life sciences."

于是我就去和我导师说：,“我在高中学过化学，我向你保证化学和生命科学,没有任何关联“

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