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- Let's come back to our tech CEO's question.
- 再来说说科技公司老板的问题
- Where better to turn for advice than nature,
- 哪里有向比大自然求教更好的呢?
- that's been in the business of life and death for longer than any company?
- 大自然已经在生死轮回的游戏中比任何公司存活得都要久了
- As a lapsed biologist, I decided to immediately call a real biologist,
- 作为一个不务正业的生物学家,我马上联系了一个更专业的生物学者
- my friend Simon Levin, Professor of Biology and Mathematics at Princeton University.
- 我朋友赛门·莱文,普林斯顿大学的生物学和数学教授
- Together, we looked at a variety of biological systems,
- 我们共同研究了许多生态系统
- ranging from natural tropical rainforests through to managed forests and fisheries.
- 从自然热带雨林到人造森林和鱼塘
- And we asked ourselves the question: What makes these systems resilient and enduring?
- 我们问了自己一个问题:是什么使这些系统具有抗压能力和持续性
- And what we found was that the same six principles that we saw underpinning the miracle of the human immune system
- 我们发现恰恰是支撑着人体免疫系统的六条规律,
- actually cropped up again and again, from redundancy through to embeddedness.
- 从庞大性到镶嵌性一次又一次地表现出来。
- In fact, we saw these principles not only in biologically enduring systems,
- 事实上,我们不只是在生物持久的系统中发现这些规律
- we also found them being very characteristic of long-lived social systems,
- 我们还发现它们在寿命长久的社会系统中也表现得十分突出
- like the Roman Empire and the Catholic Church, believe it or not.
- 就像在罗马帝国和天主教堂中的表现,信不信由你。
- We also went on to look at business,
- 我们还研究了商界
- and found that these very same properties also characterized businesses that were resilient and long-lived,
- 也发现它们在坚韧且长久的企业中表现的非常明显
- and we noted their absence from ones which were short-lived.
- 并且发现了短命的企业中这种品质的缺失
- Let's first take a look at what happens when the corporate immune system collapses.
- 先来看看当企业的免疫机制失效时会发生什么
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