The importance of liking people is the subject of an ar...
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The importance of liking people is the subject of an article in the Harvard Business Review, which has carried out an experiment to find out who we’d rather work with. Hardly surprisingly, the people we want most as our workmates are both: brilliant at their jobs and delightful human beings. And the people we want least are both unpleasant and useless. More interestingly, the
authors found that, given the choice between working with lovable fools and
competent jerks
(*情古怪的人), we irresistibly choose the former. Anyway, who likes those stupid men who
annoy or hurt other people? We might insist that competence matters more, but our behavior
shows we stay close to the people we like and sharing information with them.
What companies should therefore do is to get people to like each other more. The trick here is apparently to make sure staffs come across each other as often as possible during the
also should be sent on bonding courses and so on to encourage friendliness and break down
displeasure. However, more outdoor-activity weekends and shared coffee machines inspire no
confidence at all.
The reality is that people either like each other or they don’t. You can’t force it. Possibly
you can make offices friendlier by tolerating a lot of chat, but there is a productivity cost to that. In my experience, the question of lovable fool against competent jerk may not be the right one. The two are interrelated: we tend not to like our workmates when they are completely hopeless. I was once quite friendly with a woman whom I later worked with. I found her to be so
bad at her job that I lost respect for her and ended up not really liking her at all. Then is there
anything that companies should be doing about it?
By far the most effective strategy would be to hire people who are all pretty much the same, given that similarity is one of the main determinant of whether we like each other. I think this is a preety good idea, but no one dares recommend this anymore . There is only one acceptable
view on this subject: teams of similar people are bad because they stop creativity. This may be
true, though I have never seen any conclusive proof of it.
Not only do we like similar people, we like people who like us. So if companies want to
promote more liking, they should encourage a culture where we are all niceto each other. The
trouble is that this needs to be done with some skill.
12. According to the research, which kind of colleagues would most people tend to choose?
A. Nice but unintelligent B. Creative but unattractive.
C. Competent but unfriendly. D. Humorous but unambitious.
13. The author talks about her experience to show that .
A. people respect outstanding leaders
B. people tend to like optimistic workmates
C. a workmate’s working ability is important
D. talkative workmates make offices friendlier
14. Some people think that similar people working together may .
A. offend each other B. create fewer new ideas
C. talk more and work less D. be likely to stick together
15. To encourage workmates to like each other, companies could .
A. arrange the training course for workers to study together
B. organize team-building activities outside the office
C. encourage a diversity of opinions in workplace
D. employ staff who have a lot in common
【回答】
ACBD
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