TED英文演说-对领导能力的作弊测试英文演讲稿.docx

第 第 PAGE 1 页 The rigged test of leadership 对领导能力的作弊测试 00:10 I spend most of my time talking and thinking and writing about womens experiences in UK and US workplaces, particularly, Black womens experiences. And so for me, understanding the glass cliff -- the situation that underrepresented leaders find themselves in when they take on leadership positions, only to find that their chances of success have been limited before they even begin -- really was an eye-opener. 00:39 Now, Im aware that for a lot of people, this might be the first time youre hearing about the glass cliff. And so I think the easiest way into the conversation is by starting with the glass ceiling, that invisible but seemingly impossible-to-break-through barrier that sits above the heads of women in business and stops them from reaching the absolute pinnacles of their professional capabilities. We talk a lot about the glass ceiling being there and what its like to live and to work underneath it. But we dont really talk about what happens to those people who do manage to break through. I feel like we maybe have this shared imagination that if someone were able to break through the glass ceiling, it would be onwards and upwards from there, the skys the limit. But in reality, thats not what often happens, because all too often, when somebody does break through the glass ceiling, they find themselves in a new, dangerous position. They find themselves teetering on the edge of the glass cliff. 01:41 So Im going to talk about underrepresented people a lot in this, and that can mean so many different things to different people in different moments and different contexts. But Im talking about those people who are most underrepresented at the most senior levels of business. So that is women, and thats racially marginalized people -- essentially, anybody whos not both white and male. 02:05 And so the story often goes that when underrepresented people take over a business, that business seems to start t