新视野大学英语4 NIT10课文翻译及答案.doc

What is the most valuable contribution employees make to their companies, knowledge or judgment? I say judgment. Knowledge, no matter how broad, is useless until it is applied. P1And application takes judgment, which involves something of a sixth sense—a high performance of the mind. This raises interesting questions about the best training for todays business people. As Daniel Goleman suggests in his new book, emEmotional Intelligence/em, the latest scientific findings seem to P2indicate that intelligent but inflexible people dont have the right stuff in an age when the adaptive bility is the key to survival. In a recent cover story, emTime/em magazine sorted through the current thinking on intelligence and reported, New brain research suggests that emotions, not IQ, may be the true measure of human intelligence. The basic significance of the emotional intelligence that emTime/em called EQ was suggested by management expert Karen Boylston: Customers are telling businesses, I dont care if every member of your staff graduated from Harvard. I will take my business and go where I am understood and treated with respect. P3If the evolutionary pressures of the marketplace are making EQ, not IQ, the hot ticket for business success, it seems likely that individuals will want to know how to cultivate it. I have a modest proposal: Embrace a highly personal practice aimed at improving these four adaptive skills. emRaising consciousness/em. P4I think of this as thinking differently on purpose. P5Its about noticing what you are feeling and thinking and escaping the conditioned confines of your past. P6Raise your consciousness by catching yourself in the act of thinking as often as possible. Routinely take note of your emotions and ask if youre facing facts or avoiding them. emUsing imagery/em. This is what you see Olympic ski racers doing before entering the starting gate. With their eyes closed and bodies swaying, they run the course in their minds first, w