如何让达沃斯发挥实效

    这传达给我们的讯息是一清二楚的。我们不需要200场冗长的会议，只需要几场对实质性问题以行动为导向的坦诚辩论。让我们把注意力集中在五个问题、五件事情、五项要采取的措施上，让我们对这些事情进行更为长久的思考。正如美国著名的医生乔纳斯•索尔克曾说，如果你在对话上投入足够的时间和精力，那么“直觉会告诉你深思的头脑，接下来该把目光投向何处。”

    最后，我们需要连贯性。世界经济论坛的议程每年都在变化，而我们所面临的诸多全球性基本问题大多还是老问题。让我们年复一年地保持这些主题不变，直到我们在其中任何一个问题上取得重大进展为止。像达沃斯这样的论坛的重要性不应该来自其议程标题的新奇或者发言人，而应该是来自对实质性问题提出的一系列解决办法。

    因此，让我们保持议程不变，让我们保持节奏缓慢，让我们保持达沃斯论坛的乏味感。正如专栏作家乔尔•斯坦因去年在《哈佛商业评论》中撰文所述：“乏味是伟大领导力的新秘密，”而且这绝对“比尖叫更为有效。”

    维尼特•纳亚尔是印度信息技术服务与咨询公司HCL Technologies 副董事长，著有《员工第一、客户第二：将常规管理倒置》（Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down）一书。（财富中文网）

    译者：iDo98

    The message was loud and clear. We don't need 200 lengthy sessions, just a few straight-talking, action-oriented debates on relevant issues. Let's focus on five issues, five things to change, five actions to take, and let's ponder over them longer. As the famous American physician Jonas Salk said, if you give enough time and effort to conversations, "intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."

    Lastly, we need consistency. The agenda at WEF changes every year while the basic global problems we face are still largely the same. Let's keep the topics steady year-after year until we make serious progress on any one of these issues. The relevance of a forum like WEF should not come from the newness of its agenda titles or speakers; it's about the solutions.

    So let's keep it stable, let's keep it slow, and let's keep it boring. As columnist Joel Stein wrote inHarvard Business Review last year, "boringness is the new secret to great leadership," and it's definitely "a lot more effective than screaming."

    Vineet Nayar is vice chairman of HCL Technologies and the author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down.