人人都能创业 We can all choose freedom over a job.doc

2012年03月23日 07:17 AM We can all choose freedom over a job 英国《金融时报》专栏作家 卢克?约翰逊 字号 最大 较大 默认 较小 最小 背景 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 中文 评论 打印 电邮 收藏 腾讯微博新浪微博 ? Can everyone be an entrepreneur? At first glance the idea seems preposterous. More people than ever are employed in giant multinationals – apparently preferring the safety of working for someone else to the risks of going it alone. 是不是所有人都能成为企业家？乍一看，这个想法似乎十分荒谬。如今，受雇于大型跨国公司的人比以往任何时候都多——显然，这些人更想要的是为别人打工的安稳，而不是自己单干的风险。 Yet in the “Work IQ” survey carried out by Intelligent Office, an outsourcing consultancy, 65 per cent of 1,000 respondents claimed they wanted to be an entrepreneur: not one clamoured to be a corporate executive. 然而，外包咨询公司Intelligent Office展开的“工作智商”调查显示，在1000名受访者中，有65%的人说他们曾想成为一名企业家，而没有一个人提到曾想当企业高管。 Meanwhile, in every university I know there is an explosion of interest in creating your own start-up among students. Heroes such as Steve Jobs have inspired millions to look outside traditional career patterns. 同时，在我所知的每一所高校，学生们的创业兴趣都空前高涨。在史蒂夫?乔布斯(Steve Jobs)这类英雄人物的激励下，无数人正把目光投向非传统的职业模式。 In Britain there are now 4.5m companies – almost more than there are employees of the state. Politicians and the media obsess about the unions and public services, but possibly in the years to come ?if one includes part-time business owners ?there will be more entrepreneurs than public servants. These shifts suggest more attention should be paid to the job creators, rather than focusing on the same old politicians and talking heads. 英国如今有450万家企业，几乎比该国公职人员的总数还要多。政界和媒体现在只关注工会和公共部门，但再过几年，企业家人数（如果把一面打工一面开公司的人计算在内）很可能会超过公务员人数。这种变化表明，我们应该更多地关注创造工作岗位的人，而不是继续把注意力放在那些政治人物和媒体人物身上。 In a way, we need a new word instead of “entrepreneur”. Many consider it an over-ambitious term, denoting someone running a dynamic company with lots of staff. In fact, many who prefer self-employment don抰 plan to build a big business. Instead they simply want the freedom, flexibility and independence of controlling their own destiny, deciding the