TED演讲:婴儿潮时期的人和千禧一代如何在工作中相互学习(3)

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It's hard to microwave your emotional intelligence.

把你的情商像微波加热那样快速提升是很难的。

There's ample evidence that gender¹- and ethnically² diverse companies are more effective.

有充分的证据表明，性别和种族多样化的公司效率要更高。

But what about age? This is a very important question,

那么年龄呢？这是一个非常重要的问题，

because for the first time ever, we have five generations in the workplace at the same time, unintentionally.

因为我们在不经意间，破天荒的同时有五代人在一个场所工作。

Maybe it's time we got a little more intentional³ about how we work collectively.

也许是时候让我们更有目的性的对待我们的合作方式了。

There have been a number of European studies that have shown that age-diverse teams are more effective and successful.

欧洲有很多研究表明，年龄多样化的团队要更高效更成功。

So why is that only eight percent of the companies that have a diversity and inclusion program

那么为什么只有8%拥有多元化和包容性项目的公司

have actually expanded that strategy to include age as just as important of a demographic as gender or race?

扩展了这个策略，把年龄跟性别或种族等重要人口属性一样包括进去了呢？

Maybe they didn't get the memo⁴: the world is getting older!

也许他们没能得到这份备忘录：世界正在老龄化！

One of the paradoxes⁵ of our time is that baby boomers are more vibrant⁶ and healthy longer into life,

我们这个时代的一个悖论是，婴儿潮时期出生的人更有活力，更健康，

we're actually working later into life, and yet we're feeling less and less relevant.

我们实际上会工作到更晚年的时候，却感觉越来越不重要。

Some of us feel like a carton of milk -- an old carton of milk

我们有些人感觉自己就像一盒牛奶--一盒旧牛奶，

with an expiration⁷ date stamped on our wrinkled foreheads.

皱纹遍布的额头上印着过期日期。

For many of us in midlife, this isn't just a feeling,

对于很多人到中年的人来说，这不仅仅是一种感受，

it is a harsh reality, when we suddenly lose our job and the phone stops ringing.

这是一个残酷的现实，当我们突然失去工作，电话不再响了。

For many of us, justifiably⁸, we worry that people see our experience as a liability, not an asset.

对我们当中的许多人来说，我们担心人们把我们的经历看作是一种负债，而不是一种资产。

You've heard of the old phrase -- or maybe the relatively⁹ new phrase -- "Sixty is the new forty, physically¹⁰." Right?

你可能听说过这个古老的短语--或者可能是一个相对新的短语--“60岁的人有新时代40岁人的体魄。”对吗？

When it comes to power in the workplace today, 30 is the new 50.

当谈到今天的工作场所的权力时，30岁则是新的50岁。

All right, well, this is all pretty exciting, right?

好了，这很令人兴奋，对吧？