Think Airbnb.They’ve experienced explosive growth – and not by the traditional means ofbuying or building more properties. They did it by understanding what reallymattered to those booking hotel rooms. They did it by studying the emergence ofthe “sharing economy.” And, absent a vast footprint of physical assets, they did it by actingdecisively to create a whole new model for meeting this traditional need – amodel that delivers competitive advantage through scale but not in atraditional sense of physically controlled properties. Indeed, Airbnb not onlycreated a new model, it created a new market.就以房屋租赁公司爱本卜为例。他们经历了爆炸式的成长，并且不是以传统的买或建造更多地产的传统形式扩张的。他们的壮大是通过对于订酒店房间的人而言，什么是最重要的东西的深刻理解；是通过学习分享经济的出现。而且，虽然没有大量实物资产，他们果断地创造了一个完全新型的模式来满足传统需求，这种模式也是通过规模化来实现竞争优势，但并非传统意义上的控制物业。事实上，爱本卜不只创造了一个新模式，它创造了一个新市场。cii-J� ef(�" or-fareast;mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-fareast;mso-bidi-font-family:宋体;color:#3A3A3A;mso-font-kerning:0pt'>发展对于经济和商业来说是第一要务。随着世界人口达到了70亿，且很快会是80、90亿之多，一个清晰的趋势是，拥有最好表现的公司或国家将不是单纯以规模定义，而是以目标清晰、战略性的眼光、果断地行动而带来的速度和敏捷度来定义的。随着人类组织的规模发展到前所未有的规模，未来的赢家将是拥有这些的人、组织和国家：专注于其核心利益最相关的事，快速处理新信息，从中学习，然后于错综复杂的形势中周全地、审慎地展开行动。
When it comes to producing female entrepreneurs, Harvard, Stanford, MITlead the way 最盛产女企业家的大学有哪些
It’s back-to-school season, so it’s worth asking whichtop universities offer their female students the best springboard to a powerfulposition at the top of their own company?现在正是返校时节，所以很有必要探讨一下哪些一流大学为其女学生提供了最佳跳板，可以使她们在自己的公司中成为掌握最高权力的领导者。
Over the past five years, 40 women with undergraduatedegrees from Stanford University have received venture capital funding forcompanies they founded, more than any other top school, according to data fromPitchBook, which provides research to private equity and venture capital firms.Among the companies founded by Stanford alums receiving venture capital fundingin recent years is flash-sale style home decor website One Kings Lane, whichwas founded by Stanford grad Susan Feldman along with Alison Pincus, the wifeof Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus. Another Stanford grad, Clara Shih — a formerFortune “40 Under 40″ member who also serves on Starbucks’ board — co-foundedsocial media marketing management service Hearsay Social with former Microsoftengineer Steve Garrity.根据Pitchbook公司—一家专为私募和风投提供调研的公司—的数据，在过去5年里，拥有斯坦福学士学位的40位女企业家获得了风险基金投资，数量比其它任何一家一流大学都多。近年来，在斯坦福校友建立的获得了风投的企业包括有，家居装饰网站One kings lane,由斯坦福校友苏珊和艾丽森建立，艾丽森是社交网站zynga的联合创始人马克的妻子。另一位斯坦福毕业者，克拉拉，曾上榜财富“40位年龄低于40岁的财富精英”，她是星巴克的董事，同时与前微软工程师斯蒂夫共同创办了社交媒体营销管理服务公司，Hearsay Social。
When it comes to MBA programs, Harvard tops the list with56 female founders receiving funding over the past five years. Companies springing up recentlythat are led by female Harvard MBA’s include beauty and grooming productsdelivery service Birchbox, founded by Harvard MBAs Hayley Barna and KatiaBeauchamp, which recently raised $60 million in a Series B funding. Anothercompany on the list is personal styling for women website Stitch Fix, which wasfounded in 2011 by Katrina Lake, who actually has degrees from both Stanfordand Harvard.说到工商管理硕士的项目，哈佛以过去5年里共56名获得风投的女性创业者而领先其它大学。近期涌现的由哈佛女性MBA创办的企业包括，美容和修饰产品的网站Birchbox,由同为哈佛MBA毕业生的海莉和比彻姆创办，该公司近期在B轮融资中获得了6000万美元的融资。另一个清单上的企业是为女性提供个人风格的网站Stitch Fix，由卡特里娜于2011年创办，她事实上拥有斯坦福和哈佛的两个学位。
Harvard also came in third on the list of undergraduateprograms with 29 female-founder alums dating back to 2009, finishing behind theMassachusetts Institute of Technology and its 31 female founders during thatsame period. MIT finished third on PitchBook’s list of MBA programs with femalealums receiving VC funding over the past five years. MIT had 23 during thatperiod, behind Stanford’s 31.
Of course, those three schools aren’t just churning out femaleentrepreneurs. Stanford, Harvard and MIT also placed in the top five (for bothundergraduates and MBAs) in a separate PitchBook list ranking schools by thenumber of company founders of all genders that they produced. That the schoolsfared well on both lists — again, Stanford topped the undergraduate list, whileHarvard’s MBA program topped its list — shows that these top schools are simplyconsistently producing successfully entrepreneurial graduates of all genders.当然，这三个大学并不仅仅制造女企业家。PitchBook另一个榜单是评估大学培养的企业家的（不论性别）数量，斯坦福、哈佛和麻省理工均跻身于前五名。斯坦福大学位列本科生榜单榜首，而哈佛是MBA榜单的首位，这证明了这些名校持续在培养成功企业家，不论性别。
Life after death? Largest-ever studyprovides evidence that 'out of body' and 'near-death' experiences may be real轮回有其事？有史来最大的研究证明灵魂和濒死体验可能是事实
There is scientific evidence tosuggest that life can continue after death, according to the largest evermedical study carried out on the subject.根据有史来最大的医学研究，有科学证据证明人死后，依然有生命活动在继续。
A team based in theUK has spent the last four years seeking out cardiac arrest patients to analyse their experiences,and found that almost 40 per cent of survivors described having some form of“awareness” at a time when they were declared clinically dead.英国研究团队花费了四年时间致力于心脏骤停患者的经验研究，发现几乎40%的幸存者称，在他们被宣布医学上“死亡”时，他们依然拥有某种形式的“意识”。
Experts currentlybelieve that the brain shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stoppingbeating – and that it is not possible to be aware of anything at all once thathas happened.目前专家认为，大脑会在心脏停止跳动的20-30秒内停止工作，而这意味着死者根本不可能意识到任何东西。
Dr Sam Parnia, an assistant professor at the StateUniversity of New York and a former research fellow at the University of Southampton who led theresearch, said that he previously that patients who described near-deathexperiences were only relating hallucinatory events.山姆博士，纽约州立大学的助理教授，领导此次研究的南安普顿大学的前研究人员，称他以前认为声称有濒死体验的病人只是产生了幻觉而已。
One man, however, gave a “very credible” account of whatwas going on while doctors and nurses tried to bring him back to life – andsays that he felt he was observing his resuscitation from the corner of theroom.
Dr Parnia said: “We know the brain can’t function whenthe heart has stopped beating.“But in this case, conscious awareness appears tohave continued for up to three minutes.“The man described everything that hadhappened in the room, but importantly, he heard two bleeps from a machine thatmakes a noise at three minute intervals. So we could time how long theexperienced lasted for.但是一位男性患者给出了极为可信的描述，他描述了当医生和护士在抢救他时发生的事，并且他说他觉得自己正在屋子的角落耐看着自己的复苏。山姆博士称，我们知道在心脏停止跳动后，大脑无法运行，但在这个案例中，意识一直存在了3分钟。那位男患者描述了当时屋里发生的每件事情，更重要的是，他听到一台机器发出的两次鸣音，这台机器每隔3分钟会发出一次鸣音。所以我们可以计算出他的意识存在了多长时间。
Dr Parnia’s study involved 2,060 patients from 15hospitals in the UK, US and Austria, and has been published in the journal Resuscitation.山姆博士的研究涉及了2060位患者，包括英国、美国、澳大利亚的15家医院，并且在医学杂志《复苏》上刊登。
Of those who survived, 46 per cent experienced a broad range of mentalrecollections, nine per cent had experiences compatible with traditional definitions of anear-death experience and two per cent exhibited full awareness with explicit recall of“seeing” and “hearing” events – or out-of-body experiences.在这些幸存者中，有46%的人经验了广泛的精神记忆，9%的人经验了符合传统定义的濒死体验，2%的人展现了充分的觉知，可以明确的回忆起“所看”和“所听”的事件，这也被称为“灵魂出窍”体验。
Dr Jerry Nolan, editor-in-chief of the journal whichpublished the research, said: “The researchers are to be congratulated on thecompletion of a fascinating study that will open the door to more extensiveresearch into what happens when we die.”杂志的主编杰瑞博士负责刊登了这篇报道，称，研究人员完成了这项吸引人的研究真是值得祝贺，而且这也为研究当人死去后会发生什么这个更宽的议题打开了大门。
“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don'thave self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions,if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter howsmart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel Goleman 丹尼尔说：“如果你没有控制情绪的能力，如果你不具备自我意识，如果你不能管理你的负面情绪，如果你没有同理心、并构建有效关系，那么无论你有多聪明，你都无法走很远。
“IQ is a major factor in deciding which profession youcan get into. But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges asa much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how wehandle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once weare in a given job.”智商是决定你从事什么专业的决定因素。但一旦你从事了某行业，决定你成功与否的是情商，因为一份工作中，人际关系会决定我们能做得多好，而情商决定人际关系。
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A recent survey of 75 members of the Stanford GraduateSchool of Business Advisory Council rated self-awareness as the most important capability forleaders to develop. Executives need to know where their natural inclinations lie in order to boostthem or compensate for them. Self-awareness is about identifying their ownpersonal idiosyncrasies— the characteristics that executives take to be the norm-- but actually represent the exception.一项针对斯坦福大学的商学院顾问委员会的委员进行调查，有75名委员均将情商列为领导人最为重要的一项能力。高管们需要了解自己的脾性，从而扬长避短。自我意识是包括认知到其自身的特性，这被高管们视为理所当然的特质，实际上是特例。
Self-awareness is indeed very important for leaders, andis one of the five dimensions of “Emotional Intelligence” identified by Dr.Daniel Goleman, a leading expert on the subject of “EQ.” In the old days,perhaps a person in a position of responsibility could survive solely on the basis oftheir “IQ” and professional expertise. But in the complex world we now live in,where people have increasingly higher standards for those they follow, leadersare expected to continuously develop their EQ if they are to earn the respectof others.自我意识对于领导更为重要，且是丹尼尔博士定义的情商的五个维度之一。丹尼尔博士是研究情商课题的领先专家。在过去，一个处于领导位置的负责人可能只需要其智商和专业技能就可以了，但在我们现在生存的复杂世界中，人们已经对其领导人有了不断增加的更高标准，如果想被人尊重，领导人就需要持续地提高他们的情商。
We claim that Self Awareness is the ‘master key’ toEmotional Intelligence and that the other four of Goleman’s EQ elements allultimately link backto Self-Awareness.
So in this article we are going to talk about threethings regarding Self-Awareness:我们认为，丹尼尔博士的五大情商标准中，自我意识是情商的至为关键，其它四项最终都取决于自我意识。
• What is it really?
• How can you develop it?
• Why it is the absolutely essential “Master Key” foraspiring leaders
According to Mind Tools (http://www.mindtools.com/) “Ifyou're self-aware, you always know how you feel, and you know how your emotionsand your actions can affect the people around you. Being self-aware when you'rein a leadership position also means having a clear picture of your strengthsand weaknesses, and it means behaving with humility.”
That’s a good start but to really understand SelfAwareness, you must go deeper than this. In our definition, Self-Awareness and“Other Awareness” are simply two sides of the same coin. The two are naturalparts of the same process, just as Yin is part of Yang. “So what?” you ask!Well, think about this:这是个不错的开端，但想真正了解自我意识，你必须更深入地了解它。在我们的定义中，自我意识和“他人意识”是一枚硬币的两面。二者是同一过程的两个天然组成部分，正如阴阳共生一样。“那又怎样？”你会问了，好，再想想：
• If there were no ‘others’ it wouldn’t make any sense totalk about a ‘self’ at all…would it? As humans, we naturally experience our‘self’ in relationship to others, whether they be colleagues, family members,or utter strangers.如果没有别人存在，那么谈论自己就压根没有任何意义了，对吧？作为人类，我们在与同事、家人或陌生人等交往中，自然地形成了“自我”意识。
• Those ‘others’ also experience their ‘self” only inrelation to ‘others.’“别人”也是在与其他人的交往过程中形成了“自我”意识。
• Therefore, Self Awareness and Other Awareness shouldnot be separated: when we talk about one, we must talk about the other.因此，自我意识和他人意识是不能分开而论的，当我们谈到此，我们必须论及彼。
• For you emerging leaders: there is nothing more important thanunderstanding your self, in order that you can understand others.对于领导人而言，最重要的是先要了解自己，这样你就能了解他人。
And, since humans are at root, self-centered, most people are more thanwilling to looking in the mirror once in a while, right? But that kind ofself-admiration and narcissism are NOT what we are writing about here. We aretalking about you, willing to see the WHOLE picture of yourself, embrace it asit is, and start working with it. Ok, if you are ready, we can now answer thequestion “What is self awareness really?”JThe good news in all this?As you deepen your insightsinto yourself, others stop seeming so mysterious and hard to understand. Youwill gain insight, empathy and confidence simply by working on your ownSelf-Awareness. What a deal! 人类本质上都是自我中心的，大多人更愿意时时照照镜子，对吗？但那种自我欣赏和自恋并非我们今天要谈的。我们谈的是你，你愿意看顾到你自身的合貌，拥抱你本来的样子，并且开始与之合作。好的，如果你准备好了，我们现在可以回答这个问题：“什么是自我意识？”所谓的好消息就是这个？当你深入地洞察自身时，别人也就不再看起来神秘难解。通过提高自我意识，你将获得洞察力、同理心和自信心。多划算啊！
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Think Airbnb.They’ve experienced explosive growth – and not by the traditional means ofbuying or building more properties. They did it by understanding what reallymattered to those booking hotel rooms. They did it by studying the emergence ofthe “sharing economy.” And, absent a vast footprint of physical assets, they did it by actingdecisively to create a whole new model for meeting this traditional need – amodel that delivers competitive advantage through scale but not in atraditional sense of physically controlled properties. Indeed, Airbnb not onlycreated a new model, it created a new market.就以房屋租赁公司爱本卜为例。他们经历了爆炸式的成长，并且不是以传统的买或建造更多地产的传统形式扩张的。他们的壮大是通过对于订酒店房间的人而言，什么是最重要的东西的深刻理解；是通过学习分享经济的出现。而且，虽然没有大量实物资产，他们果断地创造了一个完全新型的模式来满足传统需求，这种模式也是通过规模化来实现竞争优势，但并非传统意义上的控制物业。事实上，爱本卜不只创造了一个新模式，它创造了一个新市场。cii-J� ef(�" or-fareast;mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-fareast;mso-bidi-font-family:宋体;color:#3A3A3A;mso-font-kerning:0pt'>发展对于经济和商业来说是第一要务。随着世界人口达到了70亿，且很快会是80、90亿之多，一个清晰的趋势是，拥有最好表现的公司或国家将不是单纯以规模定义，而是以目标清晰、战略性的眼光、果断地行动而带来的速度和敏捷度来定义的。随着人类组织的规模发展到前所未有的规模，未来的赢家将是拥有这些的人、组织和国家：专注于其核心利益最相关的事，快速处理新信息，从中学习，然后于错综复杂的形势中周全地、审慎地展开行动。
When it comes to producing female entrepreneurs, Harvard, Stanford, MITlead the way 最盛产女企业家的大学有哪些
It’s back-to-school season, so it’s worth asking whichtop universities offer their female students the best springboard to a powerfulposition at the top of their own company?现在正是返校时节，所以很有必要探讨一下哪些一流大学为其女学生提供了最佳跳板，可以使她们在自己的公司中成为掌握最高权力的领导者。
Over the past five years, 40 women with undergraduatedegrees from Stanford University have received venture capital funding forcompanies they founded, more than any other top school, according to data fromPitchBook, which provides research to private equity and venture capital firms.Among the companies founded by Stanford alums receiving venture capital fundingin recent years is flash-sale style home decor website One Kings Lane, whichwas founded by Stanford grad Susan Feldman along with Alison Pincus, the wifeof Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus. Another Stanford grad, Clara Shih — a formerFortune “40 Under 40″ member who also serves on Starbucks’ board — co-foundedsocial media marketing management service Hearsay Social with former Microsoftengineer Steve Garrity.根据Pitchbook公司—一家专为私募和风投提供调研的公司—的数据，在过去5年里，拥有斯坦福学士学位的40位女企业家获得了风险基金投资，数量比其它任何一家一流大学都多。近年来，在斯坦福校友建立的获得了风投的企业包括有，家居装饰网站One kings lane,由斯坦福校友苏珊和艾丽森建立，艾丽森是社交网站zynga的联合创始人马克的妻子。另一位斯坦福毕业者，克拉拉，曾上榜财富“40位年龄低于40岁的财富精英”，她是星巴克的董事，同时与前微软工程师斯蒂夫共同创办了社交媒体营销管理服务公司，Hearsay Social。
When it comes to MBA programs, Harvard tops the list with56 female founders receiving funding over the past five years. Companies springing up recentlythat are led by female Harvard MBA’s include beauty and grooming productsdelivery service Birchbox, founded by Harvard MBAs Hayley Barna and KatiaBeauchamp, which recently raised $60 million in a Series B funding. Anothercompany on the list is personal styling for women website Stitch Fix, which wasfounded in 2011 by Katrina Lake, who actually has degrees from both Stanfordand Harvard.说到工商管理硕士的项目，哈佛以过去5年里共56名获得风投的女性创业者而领先其它大学。近期涌现的由哈佛女性MBA创办的企业包括，美容和修饰产品的网站Birchbox,由同为哈佛MBA毕业生的海莉和比彻姆创办，该公司近期在B轮融资中获得了6000万美元的融资。另一个清单上的企业是为女性提供个人风格的网站Stitch Fix，由卡特里娜于2011年创办，她事实上拥有斯坦福和哈佛的两个学位。
Harvard also came in third on the list of undergraduateprograms with 29 female-founder alums dating back to 2009, finishing behind theMassachusetts Institute of Technology and its 31 female founders during thatsame period. MIT finished third on PitchBook’s list of MBA programs with femalealums receiving VC funding over the past five years. MIT had 23 during thatperiod, behind Stanford’s 31.
自2009年以来创办企业的女性本科毕业生中，哈佛以29位数量位列榜单第三，排在拥有31位女性创业者的麻省理工之后。在Pitchbook的过去5年里女性MBA创业者获得风投的榜单上，哈佛同样位列第三，以23位的数量排在斯坦福的31名之后。
Of course, those three schools aren’t just churning out femaleentrepreneurs. Stanford, Harvard and MIT also placed in the top five (for bothundergraduates and MBAs) in a separate PitchBook list ranking schools by thenumber of company founders of all genders that they produced. That the schoolsfared well on both lists — again, Stanford topped the undergraduate list, whileHarvard’s MBA program topped its list — shows that these top schools are simplyconsistently producing successfully entrepreneurial graduates of all genders.当然，这三个大学并不仅仅制造女企业家。PitchBook另一个榜单是评估大学培养的企业家的（不论性别）数量，斯坦福、哈佛和麻省理工均跻身于前五名。斯坦福大学位列本科生榜单榜首，而哈佛是MBA榜单的首位，这证明了这些名校持续在培养成功企业家，不论性别。
Life after death? Largest-ever studyprovides evidence that 'out of body' and 'near-death' experiences may be real轮回有其事？有史来最大的研究证明灵魂和濒死体验可能是事实
There is scientific evidence tosuggest that life can continue after death, according to the largest evermedical study carried out on the subject.根据有史来最大的医学研究，有科学证据证明人死后，依然有生命活动在继续。
A team based in theUK has spent the last four years seeking out cardiac arrest patients to analyse their experiences,and found that almost 40 per cent of survivors described having some form of“awareness” at a time when they were declared clinically dead.英国研究团队花费了四年时间致力于心脏骤停患者的经验研究，发现几乎40%的幸存者称，在他们被宣布医学上“死亡”时，他们依然拥有某种形式的“意识”。
Experts currentlybelieve that the brain shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stoppingbeating – and that it is not possible to be aware of anything at all once thathas happened.目前专家认为，大脑会在心脏停止跳动的20-30秒内停止工作，而这意味着死者根本不可能意识到任何东西。
But scientists inthe new study said they heard compelling evidence that patients experiencedreal events for up to three minutes after this had happened – and could recallthem accurately once they had been resuscitated.但新研究中的科学家称，他们获得了强有力的证据证明患者在宣布死亡后的两到三分钟时间里经历的事件，且在他们苏醒后可以准确地回忆所发生的事情。
Dr Sam Parnia, an assistant professor at the StateUniversity of New York and a former research fellow at the University of Southampton who led theresearch, said that he previously that patients who described near-deathexperiences were only relating hallucinatory events.山姆博士，纽约州立大学的助理教授，领导此次研究的南安普顿大学的前研究人员，称他以前认为声称有濒死体验的病人只是产生了幻觉而已。
One man, however, gave a “very credible” account of whatwas going on while doctors and nurses tried to bring him back to life – andsays that he felt he was observing his resuscitation from the corner of theroom.
Dr Parnia said: “We know the brain can’t function whenthe heart has stopped beating.“But in this case, conscious awareness appears tohave continued for up to three minutes.“The man described everything that hadhappened in the room, but importantly, he heard two bleeps from a machine thatmakes a noise at three minute intervals. So we could time how long theexperienced lasted for.但是一位男性患者给出了极为可信的描述，他描述了当医生和护士在抢救他时发生的事，并且他说他觉得自己正在屋子的角落耐看着自己的复苏。山姆博士称，我们知道在心脏停止跳动后，大脑无法运行，但在这个案例中，意识一直存在了3分钟。那位男患者描述了当时屋里发生的每件事情，更重要的是，他听到一台机器发出的两次鸣音，这台机器每隔3分钟会发出一次鸣音。所以我们可以计算出他的意识存在了多长时间。
Dr Parnia’s study involved 2,060 patients from 15hospitals in the UK, US and Austria, and has been published in the journal Resuscitation.山姆博士的研究涉及了2060位患者，包括英国、美国、澳大利亚的15家医院，并且在医学杂志《复苏》上刊登。
Of those who survived, 46 per cent experienced a broad range of mentalrecollections, nine per cent had experiences compatible with traditional definitions of anear-death experience and two per cent exhibited full awareness with explicit recall of“seeing” and “hearing” events – or out-of-body experiences.在这些幸存者中，有46%的人经验了广泛的精神记忆，9%的人经验了符合传统定义的濒死体验，2%的人展现了充分的觉知，可以明确的回忆起“所看”和“所听”的事件，这也被称为“灵魂出窍”体验。
Dr Jerry Nolan, editor-in-chief of the journal whichpublished the research, said: “The researchers are to be congratulated on thecompletion of a fascinating study that will open the door to more extensiveresearch into what happens when we die.”杂志的主编杰瑞博士负责刊登了这篇报道，称，研究人员完成了这项吸引人的研究真是值得祝贺，而且这也为研究当人死去后会发生什么这个更宽的议题打开了大门。
Self Awareness_Key to Emotional Intelligence
自我意识—情商的关键
“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don'thave self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions,if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter howsmart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel Goleman 丹尼尔说：“如果你没有控制情绪的能力，如果你不具备自我意识，如果你不能管理你的负面情绪，如果你没有同理心、并构建有效关系，那么无论你有多聪明，你都无法走很远。
“IQ is a major factor in deciding which profession youcan get into. But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges asa much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how wehandle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once weare in a given job.”智商是决定你从事什么专业的决定因素。但一旦你从事了某行业，决定你成功与否的是情商，因为一份工作中，人际关系会决定我们能做得多好，而情商决定人际关系。
Daniel Goleman
A recent survey of 75 members of the Stanford GraduateSchool of Business Advisory Council rated self-awareness as the most important capability forleaders to develop. Executives need to know where their natural inclinations lie in order to boostthem or compensate for them. Self-awareness is about identifying their ownpersonal idiosyncrasies— the characteristics that executives take to be the norm-- but actually represent the exception.一项针对斯坦福大学的商学院顾问委员会的委员进行调查，有75名委员均将情商列为领导人最为重要的一项能力。高管们需要了解自己的脾性，从而扬长避短。自我意识是包括认知到其自身的特性，这被高管们视为理所当然的特质，实际上是特例。
Self-awareness is indeed very important for leaders, andis one of the five dimensions of “Emotional Intelligence” identified by Dr.Daniel Goleman, a leading expert on the subject of “EQ.” In the old days,perhaps a person in a position of responsibility could survive solely on the basis oftheir “IQ” and professional expertise. But in the complex world we now live in,where people have increasingly higher standards for those they follow, leadersare expected to continuously develop their EQ if they are to earn the respectof others.自我意识对于领导更为重要，且是丹尼尔博士定义的情商的五个维度之一。丹尼尔博士是研究情商课题的领先专家。在过去，一个处于领导位置的负责人可能只需要其智商和专业技能就可以了，但在我们现在生存的复杂世界中，人们已经对其领导人有了不断增加的更高标准，如果想被人尊重，领导人就需要持续地提高他们的情商。
Never heard of “Emotional Intelligence or “EQ?” Then Isuggest that this article is going to be important for you!你从没听说过“情商”这个概念？那我建议这篇文章将会对你很重要。
Goleman’s 5 Dimensions of Emotional Intelligence include:
1. Self-awareness: literally ‘knowing yourself’
2. Self-regulation: managing yourself and your moods
3. Motivation: knowing what motivates you and what doesnot
4. Empathy: the ability to experience others as legitimate and valuable andidentify with their struggles
5. Social skills: the ability to build rapport with others,whenever needed
丹尼尔博士对情商定义的五大维度包括：
1、自我意识：也即“了解自己”
2、自我调节：管理自己和自己的情绪
3、自我激励：知道什么可以激励自己，而什么不可以
4、同理心：能够对别人的心态感同身受，并认同别人的努力
5、社交技巧：在任何需要的情况下，能与别人建立默契的能力
We claim that Self Awareness is the ‘master key’ toEmotional Intelligence and that the other four of Goleman’s EQ elements allultimately link backto Self-Awareness.
So in this article we are going to talk about threethings regarding Self-Awareness:我们认为，丹尼尔博士的五大情商标准中，自我意识是情商的至为关键，其它四项最终都取决于自我意识。
• What is it really?
• How can you develop it?
• Why it is the absolutely essential “Master Key” foraspiring leaders
那么自我意识到底是什么？
我们如何提高它
为什么它是成为有抱负的领导者的绝对必需的“万能钥匙”？
Self-Awareness:what is it really?
According to Mind Tools (http://www.mindtools.com/) “Ifyou're self-aware, you always know how you feel, and you know how your emotionsand your actions can affect the people around you. Being self-aware when you'rein a leadership position also means having a clear picture of your strengthsand weaknesses, and it means behaving with humility.”
1、自我意识到底是什么？
根据心智工具网站的定义，“如果你有自我意识，你永远都知道自己感觉怎样，而且你知道自己的情绪和行动将对周围人产生怎样的影响。作为领导者，有自我觉知意味着你对自己的优点和弱点有清晰的了解，谦虚地待人处事
That’s a good start but to really understand SelfAwareness, you must go deeper than this. In our definition, Self-Awareness and“Other Awareness” are simply two sides of the same coin. The two are naturalparts of the same process, just as Yin is part of Yang. “So what?” you ask!Well, think about this:这是个不错的开端，但想真正了解自我意识，你必须更深入地了解它。在我们的定义中，自我意识和“他人意识”是一枚硬币的两面。二者是同一过程的两个天然组成部分，正如阴阳共生一样。“那又怎样？”你会问了，好，再想想：
• If there were no ‘others’ it wouldn’t make any sense totalk about a ‘self’ at all…would it? As humans, we naturally experience our‘self’ in relationship to others, whether they be colleagues, family members,or utter strangers.如果没有别人存在，那么谈论自己就压根没有任何意义了，对吧？作为人类，我们在与同事、家人或陌生人等交往中，自然地形成了“自我”意识。
• Those ‘others’ also experience their ‘self” only inrelation to ‘others.’“别人”也是在与其他人的交往过程中形成了“自我”意识。
• Therefore, Self Awareness and Other Awareness shouldnot be separated: when we talk about one, we must talk about the other.因此，自我意识和他人意识是不能分开而论的，当我们谈到此，我们必须论及彼。
• For you emerging leaders: there is nothing more important thanunderstanding your self, in order that you can understand others.对于领导人而言，最重要的是先要了解自己，这样你就能了解他人。
And, since humans are at root, self-centered, most people are more thanwilling to looking in the mirror once in a while, right? But that kind ofself-admiration and narcissism are NOT what we are writing about here. We aretalking about you, willing to see the WHOLE picture of yourself, embrace it asit is, and start working with it. Ok, if you are ready, we can now answer thequestion “What is self awareness really?”JThe good news in all this?As you deepen your insightsinto yourself, others stop seeming so mysterious and hard to understand. Youwill gain insight, empathy and confidence simply by working on your ownSelf-Awareness. What a deal! 人类本质上都是自我中心的，大多人更愿意时时照照镜子，对吗？但那种自我欣赏和自恋并非我们今天要谈的。我们谈的是你，你愿意看顾到你自身的合貌，拥抱你本来的样子，并且开始与之合作。好的，如果你准备好了，我们现在可以回答这个问题：“什么是自我意识？”所谓的好消息就是这个？当你深入地洞察自身时，别人也就不再看起来神秘难解。通过提高自我意识，你将获得洞察力、同理心和自信心。多划算啊！
Self-Awareness includes:
• Knowing what you like, dislike and why: what motivatesyou and what demotivates you, being aware of your own values
• Being crystal clear about your talents and strengthsAND your weaknesses
• Being conscious of the content of your own mind (not ascommon as you might think!)…the ability to observe your own thoughts
• Knowing your own beliefs and knowing which ones empoweryou and which ones should be discarded…including beliefs about yourself ANDothers
• Knowing your direction in life: where you are headedand why
• Knowing and appreciating your own unique value as ahuman being
自我意识包括：
了解什么是你喜欢和不喜欢的，以及为什么：什么可以激励你，而什么不能激励你，认识自己的价值观
对自己的才能和优缺点了然于胸
对自己思想的内容保持觉察，有观察自己思想的能力
明白你自己的信念，并且知道哪些可以带给你力量，哪些应该丢弃，信念也包括对你自身和对别人的
知道你人生的方向：你的目标是什么，为什么？
知道并欣赏你作为一个人的独特价值。