Responsibility 責任
Most of us have heard the expression, 「Leaders are not born, they are made」.While we are all born with different natural talents and abilities, the qualities which make someone a leader go way beyond what is inbred. There are matters of character, and skill, for instance, which compel people to want to follow in the footsteps of another.
大多數人都聽過一句話,「領袖不是天生的,而是被塑造的」。我們每個人都有與生俱來的天賦和能力,但一個領袖的素質絕不僅於此,它還取決於一個人的特質、技能等等,這些特質吸引人們去跟隨一個人。
While there are a variety of leadership practices andexpressions, there is something which all good leaders have in common: they are responsible.They do what they say they are going to do. They know how to shoulder burdens. They prove themselves to be trustworthy.
雖然領袖需要具備各種各樣的素質和表現,但是好的領袖都有一些共同點:他們極具責任感,言行一致,知道如何擔負重擔,從而證明自己是值得信賴的。
The family is the perfect place to raise leaders. We did not set out to make leaders of our children, but we did purpose to make them responsible.We placed a high value on our children keeping their word, and finishing
their work on time, and picking up after themselves. We taught the older ones to help care for the younger ones. We taught them to set goals and work towards them. While we were by no means perfect in our efforts, the fruit of our resolve is that people have at times come up to us and commented that our children would do things that reflected this sense of responsibility, or
would take care of something or someone at times when others would not.
家庭是塑造領袖的最佳場所。雖然我們的初衷不是培養孩子成為領袖,但我們的目的卻是要培養他們的責任感。他們需要為他們口中的話語負責,當他們能保持言行一致時應得到極大的肯定。我們希望他們能按時完成任務、並且學會要為自己的行為負責任。我們教導年長的孩子要照顧年幼的孩子,教導他們設立目標並努力達成。我們所做的努力雖然不完全,但我們將會看到我們努力的成果,當人們稱讚我的孩子們做的事情時,將顯出他們是極具責任感的;
或是遇到別人都不關心的事情和人的時候,我的孩子卻非常願意關心這些事情或人。
Now, as our children have grown, the habits we have taught them from young have had another byproduct that really was not in our minds when we were raising them. We taught them to be responsible, but at the same time we had prepared them to become leaders, each in their own unique way.
現在,我們的孩子們都已將長大成人。我發現,孩子年幼時期我們培養他們的一些習慣衍生出另一個副產品,這是在養育他們的時候我沒有意識到的,在我教導他們要有責任感的同時,也預備他們以獨特的方式成為了一名領袖。
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