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卡莉惠普惠普首席执行官卡莉在清华大学演讲英文实录Carly Fiorina Remarks at Tsinghua UniversityBeijing, ChinaMarch 12, 20_4_ie, _ie._ia wu hao.Those are the only two words of Chinese I know.That"s no true, I know a thirdNi hao.I want to thank all of you for taking time out of your what I know that is a very busy study schedule to be here today.I know this is valuable time for you that you could be using to work, or study, or maybe to play Sword on line.Thank you for having me here today.ing from a pany that has“invent”as part of our pand, as part of our signature, I sometimes begin speeches by saying that invention and innovation have been part the DNA of HPs for more than si_ty years.Our scientists and engineers today generate more than 11 patents every day.We spend more than 4 billion dollars a year on R&D.So invention is part of our future as well as part of our past.That all sounds pretty impressive until you think about Chinas history, and you realize that“invent”has been part of Chinas DNA for more than 5,000 years.Every schoolchild in America learns about Chinas many gifts to this worldfrom the invention of paper, to gunpowder, the wheelbarrow, the pass, acupunctureright up to the first blast furnace and the first use of iron casting, back in the si_th century.As a pany, we actually at HP are especially indebted to a man named Bi Sheng, who had the vision in 1045 A.D.to invent the worlds first movable type, which led to its first printera full 300 years before Gutenberg"s invention of movable type changed the Western world.So today, I want to issue a belated thank you to Bi Sheng for having the foresight to set in motion a process that would eventually lead to a 20 billion business for HP.That great tradition of invention and innovation has certainly been carried on here at Tsinghua, where some of the finest instructors in the world today are working to train some of the finest scientists and engineers.Its a bit ironic that this school was originally established nearly 100 years ago as a place where young Chinese could go to America and other western nations to learn from us.Today, the rest of the world, I think, has much to learn from China.Its always struck me that the process of invention is a little bit like the process of being a college student.After all, as an inventor, you go into a lab and you have a strong but perhaps vague idea of what you want to achieve.By working hard, e_perimenting, learning along the way, and using as a guide the work of those who went before youyou advance down the road towards discovery.You may not end up where you startedor even where you e_pected, but if you are successful, then begins another difficult process of trying to make your invention work in the world around you.Like inventors, many of you have traveled the same road over the last four years here in university.The person you are todaythe goals you have today, the dreams you have todaymay be different from the ones you had when you first came here.And now, you are being prepared to take all that youve learned here and make it work in the world around you.I believe that young people are graduating today into a world filled with more hope and more promise than in any other time in our history.I know sometimes that might sound strange, because we think always of the dangers and challenges in the world around us.But I have studied history in my life.I do believe this is an era of great promise and great opportunity.For those of you who have seen our ads, you know that they end with the phrase,“everything is possible.”A cynic might say that just a marketing sloganbut I actually believe that.I dont think every is easy, I don"t think things happens right away.But I do think that everything is possible.For all the remarkable advancements we have seen in recent years, nothing has matched the power of information technology to change our world for the better.And in the ne_t decade, it will take us to places we can only imagine today.China is the worlds fastest-growing economy; the worlds leader in direct foreign investment; one of the worlds largest trading nations - a leader on both the production and consumption of information technology.China is poised to play a huge part in that futureand the students who graduate from Tsinghua University are poised to shape the future of technology like never before.Now like any university students, I know for you the road ahead has much uncertainty.But if there is one thing I have learned in the past 20 years in this industry, it is that the principle that you have learned inside the walls of Tsinghua, the principle is more true outside the university than inside.The principle I am speaking of is this: that great leaderslike great organizations, great panies, and great nationsgreat leaders are defined not simply by their capabilities, but by their character.Not just by the pany they are, but by the pany they keep.Not by success alonebut as Tsinghua teaches, with self-discipline and social concern in equal balance.To be honest, I wish I could say that the road to learning that lesson for me was easy.I wish I could tell you that the day I graduated from university I knew e_actly how all the pieces would fit together, that I knew e_actly what I wanted to do from day one and my life as been a nice strait line and careful plan ever since.The truth is, I didnt begin my career as a technologist.I took to heart the wisdom of Confuciuswho taught us that one should“study the past if you would define the future”and I majored in medieval history and philosophy at Stanford University.As perhaps you can appreciate, that of degree was not in great demand when I graduated from University.So I wasnt sure what to do after collage, so I went to law school because thats what my father wanted me to do.But found I didn"t like law school; I didn"t have any passion for it.I quit after one semester quit after a semester, and wandered off into the world to find myself.I did some strange things.I joined a mercial pokerage pany and there I typed, I answered the phonesI was what we call a secretary.Then I went off to Italy to teach English to Italian businessmen.Then, finally, I decided to apply to business school.And there I learned about marketing and operations and statistics and other skills necessary for businessbut perhaps more importantly, I had professorslike the students here do - who challenged me, who taught me a different notion of what was possible, who forced me to see my life in new ways.And I think, in a very great measure - that is what leadership is about, that is what education is about, that is what character is all about.You see, I think one of most important qualities a leader can ping is the ability, the energy, the desire to unlock potential in others.I think leadership is ultimately about helping other people achieve more than they think is possible; it is about helping people see a different set of possibilities for themselves.Ive been asked a lot since if there are any lessons Ive learned about character and leadership.There are three lessons, I think that I have learned, that continue to instruct me to this day, that continue to guide me in both business and in life.The first lesson is that values matter and character counts and that.The first lesson is that values matter and character counts, and that no matter how much things change, fundamental values shouldn"t.For those of you who are just starting out your career, you will find that in leadershipas perhaps in lifethe most important decisions you make, and the toughest decisions you make are often the decisions you make alone.And when you make those decisions, there is an opportunity to be buffeted about by and confused by all kinds of things: conventional wisdom, and popular emotionand maybe by cynicism and doubt as well.I think leadership takes what I would call a strong internal pass.And I use the term pass because what does a pass do? When the winds are howling, and the storms raging, and the sky is so cloudy that you have nothing to navigate by, a pass tells you where true North is.And I think when a person is in a difficult situation, a lonely situation; you have to rely on that pass.Who am I? What do I believe? Do I believe I am doing the right things for the right reasons in the best way I can? Sometimes thats all you have.The second lesson Ive learned about character and leadership is that leadership, just like success, is not a journey, it is a destination.It is perhaps a clichéto say that leadership is a journey not a destination but it is a clichébecause it is true, leadership is a journey.The only constant in any of our lives, whether you"re running a pany or running a family, or perhaps running a country, is change.But change has never been as constant and as fast as it is today.To me, the dividing line between will increasingly separate the winners from the losers in the marketplace those individuals, the dividing line between those individuals who truly make a difference and a contribution in the 21st century from those who do notis the line between those who empace change and those who run away from it.It will be between those who seek to lead change, and those who find refuge in the status quo or in their fort zones.And the third lesson Ive learned about leadership and success is that real power es in the connections between all kinds of things; but most importantly real power es from the connections between people.Power es not from those who stand alone, .but from those who can work best with others, and reach out to others to achieve a desired oute.And finding those connections and recognizing those connections is part of what leadership is all about.As leaders, you can never forget that people want to do a good job.They want to be treated with consideration and respect.They want to feel a real sense of acplishment in their work, to have their ideas considered, and their achievements recognized.People want to feel like theyre part of something larger than themselvesto be a part of the larger vision, direction, to be part of worthy goals.Personally, I think anyone can lead from anywhere at any time.I think leadership has nothing to do with how many people work for you or how large your organization is, or what your title is, or how large your budget is.Anyone can lead from anywhere at any time, which is to say that I believe that character and leadership is a choice, and are about making a positive impact.And anyone can make a positive impact.Some acts of leadership are very large, and happen on a grand scale, and some acts of leadership are quite small.But like a stone you drop in a pond it ripples.Sometimes even very small acts of leadership can have a big consequences.And of course, it follows that if anyone can choose to lead at anywhere from anytime, then it is the role of leaders to find leaders other leaders and to unlock for them the possibility that they can make a positive impact.So those things are what I think character is all aboutbut what about capability? For the profession that many of you have chosenfor the profession of munication and information technology, as scientists or engineersthe heart of capability, the true potential of this field also lies in finding the potential unlocked inside things, whether they are organizations, or societies, machinesor people.I think the technology landscape today is changing in three fundamental ways.The first big shift we see going on in technology is that all processes, and that all content are being transformed from physical and analog to digital and mobile, and virtual.There are so many e_les.Just think about the simple e_le of what is happening in photography.Photography is going from physical to digital and now from digital to mobile and all the content is about to bee virtual and available, and accessible to anyone, anywhere in any form they want.And that transformation from physical to digital, virtual, mobile will happen to every process, every industry, and every kind of content.The second big shift we see in technology is that the demand for simplicity, for manageability, for adaptability.While it is true that while technology is core to everything, it is also true that technology is also still too ple_, too hard to manage, and often that ple_ity is a barrier.The third big shift is that its being a horizontal, heterogeneous, connected world.Whether youre a CEO trying to bee more efficient, more effective and more agile; or a small and medium business trying to mobilize your workforce; or you"re a consumer who wants a whole bunch of separate things that you have bought in your home to work better together, it is now about horizontal connections.Its about making a heterogeneous world work together and speak a mon languageand I am speaking not of just devices, but working and connecting businesses and panies, employees and suppliers to customers.As technology moves from the fringe to the core of peoples lives and businesses, the need for technology to deliver more bees increasingly important.I think today our consumers are no longer willing to promise.Now, all of our customers actually want everything from technology.They want affordability and innovation and reliability and security and simplicity and manageability and connection.Now if I were giving you a speech today on HP, I would tell you that that this is a future that we are trying to create.That we see our role to accelerate the transformation from physical to digital.That as the number one consumer IT pany in the world; the number one technology pany for small and medium-sized businesses, and one of the leading enterprise technology panies, we are a pany, we believe, unlike any other, with market-leading positions in virtually every category in which we pete.Today we are a almost 84 billion pany with 140,000 employees in 176 countries around the world.We are working hard to create the growth industries of the future and to find the connections between things.This school has prepared all of you for that same journey.As you work to take what you have learned here and apply it to the world around you, I hope that you will also strive to use your capabilities to create munities that are not just richer, but better; to judge success not just by the number of works you connect, but by the number of people you connect; that you wont just help make better panies, but better munities, and a better world.Its that same kind of thinking that pought us to China in the first place.It was 22 years ago that HP opened our first office here in China, in an old municipal factory located in Beijing.A day before the opening, there was still s