"In fact, they come from surprisingly varied backgrounds. Of the six million CEOs of companies in America, only seven percent went to an elite school—and eight percent didn't graduate college at all. Some are immigrants; many worked their way up through the ranks from entry-level positions."
"事实上,他们的背景非常多样,这令人惊讶.在美国600万名公司首席执行官中,仅有7%曾在名校就读,还有8%压根就不是大学毕业生.一些是移民,还有一些是从基层岗位升上去的."
To reach their conclusions, the researchers made a database of assessments, including comprehensive performance appraisals and extensive biographical information, which documented everything from behavioural patterns and demographic information to career history and previous job performance.
为得出结论,研究人员制作了评估数据库,包括综合绩效考察和大量的个人简历信息,其中记录了行为类型、人口统计信息、职业经历和以前的工作表现等等.
From these findings, they were able to work out who amongst us are most likely to become a CEO.
从这些发现中,他们能找出我们当中的哪些人更可能成为首席执行官.
They found that the four most important traits for CEOs are:
他们发现,首席执行官四种最重要的特点是：
Reaching out to stakeholders
与股东沟通
Being highly adaptable to change
对变化有高度适应性
Being reliable and predictable rather than showing exceptional, and perhaps not repeatable, performance
可靠,行为可预见,而不是展现出异常的,或许不可重复的表现
Making fast decisions with conviction, if not necessarily perfect ones.
有信念快速决断,不一定是完美决策
About half of the candidates had at least one of these characteristics.
大约半数被调查者至少有上述一种特点.
英文来源：独立报
