【如何走好职业之路】 天王之路[娱乐圈]

　　四年风雨路，又到毕业时。虽不舍旧日的大学时光，但依然要打点行装、准备出发。明天的你将要踏上一条全新的职业之路，那里充满艰辛和未知，但同样蕴含希望和惊喜。如果这条路让你感到迷茫，不妨听听谢丽尔·桑德伯格于2012年5月23日在哈佛商学院所作的毕业演讲，相信你从中收获的不仅是方法，还有力量。
　　It’s an honor to be here today to address HBS’s distinguished faculty, proud parents, patient guests, and most importantly, the class of 2012. Today marks a distinct and impressive achievement for this class. So please everyone join me in giving our warmest congratulations to the class of 2012.
　　It wasn’t really that long ago when I was sitting where you are, but the world has changed an awful lot. It used to be that in order to reach more people than you could talk to in a day, you had to be rich and famous and powerful. You had to be a celebrity, a politician, a CEO. But that’s not true today. Now ordinary people have voice, not just those of us lucky enough to go to HBS, but anyone with access to Facebook, to Twitter, to a mobile phone. This is disrupting traditional power structures and leveling traditional hierarchy2). Voice and power are shifting from institutions to individuals, from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. And all of this is happening so much faster than I could have imagined when I was sitting where you are today.
　　As the world becomes more connected and less hierarchical, traditional career paths are shifting as well. In 2001, after working in the government, I moved out to Silicon Valley to try to find a job. After a while I had a few offers and I had to make a decision. One of the jobs was to become Google’s first Business Unit general manager, which sounds good now, but at the time no one thought consumer internet companies could ever make money. I was not sure there was actually a job there at all; Google had no business units, so what was there to generally manage? And the job was several levels lower than jobs I was being offered at other companies.
　　So I sat down with Eric Schmidt3), who had just become the CEO, and I told him that this job meets none of my criteria. He looked at me and said, “Don’t be an idiot.” Excellent career advice. And then he said, “Get on a rocket ship. When companies are growing quickly and having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves. And when companies aren’t growing quickly or their missions don’t matter as much, that’s when stagnation and politics4) come in5). If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.”
　　About six and one-half years later, when I was leaving Google, I took that advice to heart6). I was offered CEO jobs at a bunch of companies, but I went to Facebook as COO. At the time people said, why are you going to work for a 23-year-old?