
? 作為新晉億萬富翁,谷歌(Google)CEO桑達爾·皮查伊表示,勇于面對不適是個人和職業(yè)成長的關鍵——正是秉持這一信條,他才能從一名默默無聞的產(chǎn)品經(jīng)理,一路晉升為這家市值2.3萬億美元科技巨頭的掌門人。他告訴Z世代年輕人,雖然沿著邏輯清晰的路徑向上攀登看似正確,但傾聽內(nèi)心的聲音才能幫你找到真正的使命。
成功之路從來不易——即使對世界頂尖領袖而言也是如此。事實上,谷歌CEO桑達爾·皮查伊也曾有過強烈的自我否定感,覺得會議室里其他人比他更優(yōu)秀。但他向Z世代保證,這種不適感本就是成長必經(jīng)的過程。
皮查伊最近在萊克斯·弗里德曼的播客節(jié)目中說:“在我人生的不同階段,我曾與那些我認為比我更優(yōu)秀的人共事。你需要多次體驗這種感覺,努力讓自己置身于這樣的環(huán)境中:與你共事的人仿佛在拓展你的能力極限,這正是助你成長的動力?!?
他補充道:“讓自己置身于令人不適的境地,我覺得這樣往往會讓自己感到意外驚喜?!?/p>
對皮查伊而言,正是這一信條幫助他在2004年從一名普通產(chǎn)品經(jīng)理開始,最終在這家科技巨頭一路晉升。在短短十年間,他便引起了聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人拉里·佩奇和謝爾蓋·布林的注意,并于2015年被任命為CEO。盡管他承認成功總有運氣成分,但他鼓勵Z世代去做自己熱愛的事情,即使最初看起來不合常理。
“你在思考想做什么時,大腦會告訴你一些提示。但當你付諸行動時,我認為傾聽內(nèi)心的聲音、看看自己是否真正樂在其中,這很重要?!?/p>
職場成功的核心在于人
皮查伊補充道,找到合適的合作伙伴不僅對個人成長至關重要,對于確保工作順利完成也同樣關鍵,而后者正是將谷歌打造成萬億美元巨頭的核心要素。
“你找到那些志同道合、以使命為導向的人,他們擁有追求卓越、力爭做到最好的內(nèi)在動力,并能激勵他人,這樣你們就能攜手取得非凡成就?!?/p>
謝爾蓋·布林認為,谷歌追求卓越的精神,可能也意味著愿意在朝九晚五之外工作。據(jù)《紐約時報》看到的一份內(nèi)部備忘錄顯示,谷歌聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人謝爾蓋·布林鼓勵公司專注于人工智能的員工“至少每個工作日”都到辦公室上班——每周工作60小時被視為“最佳生產(chǎn)率狀態(tài)”。盡管皮查伊過去曾公開表示,他預計未來工作的核心在于靈活性,但人工智能領域的競爭已迫使科技巨頭們承受著必須領先的壓力。
然而,皮查伊告訴弗里德曼,在高風險的環(huán)境下,作為管理者他更傾向于保持冷靜。他相信最優(yōu)秀的員工通常最先意識到自己的失誤,而反應過度只會適得其反。
皮查伊表示:“有時,與你共事的人專注于達成目標,如果他們出錯,他們的感受比你更強烈,因此你需要區(qū)別對待。有時,確實會有些人需要你明確告訴他們,比如‘那樣做是不對的’,或類似的話,但我經(jīng)常發(fā)現(xiàn)情況并非如此?!?/p>
《財富》雜志已聯(lián)系皮查伊尋求置評。
躋身億萬富翁行列
盡管皮查伊執(zhí)掌這家全球最大上市公司之一已近十年,但他直到現(xiàn)在才加入億萬富翁行列——這與布林和佩奇形成鮮明對比。根據(jù)彭博億萬富翁指數(shù),布林和佩奇位列全球十大富豪,其凈資產(chǎn)分別約為1,630億美元和1,740億美元,而皮查伊的凈資產(chǎn)約為11億美元。
雖然復制谷歌的成功沒有完美路徑,但佩奇在2009年曾告訴大學畢業(yè)生,他們應該思考如何解決問題,最終讓自己變得更輕松從容:
他對密歇根大學(University of Michigan)的學生表示:“技術(shù),尤其是互聯(lián)網(wǎng),確實能幫你‘偷懶’。找到世界上的有利條件,這樣你就有更多機會‘偷懶’?!?/p>
與大蕭條時期畢業(yè)的人們相似,如今的年輕人也面臨著一系列嚴峻挑戰(zhàn),部分原因是人工智能正在重塑就業(yè)市場的格局。然而,佩奇并不主張放棄。
佩奇表示:“總的來說,我知道外面的世界似乎正在分崩離析,但這其實正是你人生中可以稍微釋放自我、追隨好奇心、并雄心勃勃地大展身手的好時機。不要放棄夢想。世界需要你們每一個人?!?(財富中文網(wǎng))
譯者:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
? 作為新晉億萬富翁,谷歌(Google)CEO桑達爾·皮查伊表示,勇于面對不適是個人和職業(yè)成長的關鍵——正是秉持這一信條,他才能從一名默默無聞的產(chǎn)品經(jīng)理,一路晉升為這家市值2.3萬億美元科技巨頭的掌門人。他告訴Z世代年輕人,雖然沿著邏輯清晰的路徑向上攀登看似正確,但傾聽內(nèi)心的聲音才能幫你找到真正的使命。
成功之路從來不易——即使對世界頂尖領袖而言也是如此。事實上,谷歌CEO桑達爾·皮查伊也曾有過強烈的自我否定感,覺得會議室里其他人比他更優(yōu)秀。但他向Z世代保證,這種不適感本就是成長必經(jīng)的過程。
皮查伊最近在萊克斯·弗里德曼的播客節(jié)目中說:“在我人生的不同階段,我曾與那些我認為比我更優(yōu)秀的人共事。你需要多次體驗這種感覺,努力讓自己置身于這樣的環(huán)境中:與你共事的人仿佛在拓展你的能力極限,這正是助你成長的動力?!?
他補充道:“讓自己置身于令人不適的境地,我覺得這樣往往會讓自己感到意外驚喜。”
對皮查伊而言,正是這一信條幫助他在2004年從一名普通產(chǎn)品經(jīng)理開始,最終在這家科技巨頭一路晉升。在短短十年間,他便引起了聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人拉里·佩奇和謝爾蓋·布林的注意,并于2015年被任命為CEO。盡管他承認成功總有運氣成分,但他鼓勵Z世代去做自己熱愛的事情,即使最初看起來不合常理。
“你在思考想做什么時,大腦會告訴你一些提示。但當你付諸行動時,我認為傾聽內(nèi)心的聲音、看看自己是否真正樂在其中,這很重要。”
職場成功的核心在于人
皮查伊補充道,找到合適的合作伙伴不僅對個人成長至關重要,對于確保工作順利完成也同樣關鍵,而后者正是將谷歌打造成萬億美元巨頭的核心要素。
“你找到那些志同道合、以使命為導向的人,他們擁有追求卓越、力爭做到最好的內(nèi)在動力,并能激勵他人,這樣你們就能攜手取得非凡成就。”
謝爾蓋·布林認為,谷歌追求卓越的精神,可能也意味著愿意在朝九晚五之外工作。據(jù)《紐約時報》看到的一份內(nèi)部備忘錄顯示,谷歌聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人謝爾蓋·布林鼓勵公司專注于人工智能的員工“至少每個工作日”都到辦公室上班——每周工作60小時被視為“最佳生產(chǎn)率狀態(tài)”。盡管皮查伊過去曾公開表示,他預計未來工作的核心在于靈活性,但人工智能領域的競爭已迫使科技巨頭們承受著必須領先的壓力。
然而,皮查伊告訴弗里德曼,在高風險的環(huán)境下,作為管理者他更傾向于保持冷靜。他相信最優(yōu)秀的員工通常最先意識到自己的失誤,而反應過度只會適得其反。
皮查伊表示:“有時,與你共事的人專注于達成目標,如果他們出錯,他們的感受比你更強烈,因此你需要區(qū)別對待。有時,確實會有些人需要你明確告訴他們,比如‘那樣做是不對的’,或類似的話,但我經(jīng)常發(fā)現(xiàn)情況并非如此?!?/p>
《財富》雜志已聯(lián)系皮查伊尋求置評。
躋身億萬富翁行列
盡管皮查伊執(zhí)掌這家全球最大上市公司之一已近十年,但他直到現(xiàn)在才加入億萬富翁行列——這與布林和佩奇形成鮮明對比。根據(jù)彭博億萬富翁指數(shù),布林和佩奇位列全球十大富豪,其凈資產(chǎn)分別約為1,630億美元和1,740億美元,而皮查伊的凈資產(chǎn)約為11億美元。
雖然復制谷歌的成功沒有完美路徑,但佩奇在2009年曾告訴大學畢業(yè)生,他們應該思考如何解決問題,最終讓自己變得更輕松從容:
他對密歇根大學(University of Michigan)的學生表示:“技術(shù),尤其是互聯(lián)網(wǎng),確實能幫你‘偷懶’。找到世界上的有利條件,這樣你就有更多機會‘偷懶’?!?/p>
與大蕭條時期畢業(yè)的人們相似,如今的年輕人也面臨著一系列嚴峻挑戰(zhàn),部分原因是人工智能正在重塑就業(yè)市場的格局。然而,佩奇并不主張放棄。
佩奇表示:“總的來說,我知道外面的世界似乎正在分崩離析,但這其實正是你人生中可以稍微釋放自我、追隨好奇心、并雄心勃勃地大展身手的好時機。不要放棄夢想。世界需要你們每一個人?!?(財富中文網(wǎng))
譯者:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
? As a newly minted billionaire, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that embracing discomfort is key to personal and professional growth—a mantra that helped him advance from a little-known product manager to CEO of the $2.3 trillion tech giant. While climbing the logical paths up that ladder may seem right, he tells Gen Z that listening to your heart will help you find your true calling.
The path to success is never easy—even for the world’s top leaders. In fact, for Google CEO Sundar Pichai there were times he felt that stinging feeling that other people in the room were better than him. But he assures Gen Z that feelings of discomfort are all part of the process.
“At various points in my life, I’ve worked with people who I felt were better than me,” Pichai recently told Lex Fridman’s podcast. “You want that feeling a few times, trying to get yourself in a position where you’re working with people who you feel are kind of like stretching your abilities, is what helps you grow.
“Putting yourself in uncomfortable situations, and I think often you’ll surprise yourself,” he added.
For Pichai, this mantra has helped him climb the ranks at the tech giant after starting out as just a product manager in 2004. Within a decade, he had caught the eye of cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin before being named CEO in 2015. And while he admits there is always an element of luck to success, he encourages Gen Z to do what they love—even if it seems irrational at first.
“You’re thinking about what you want to do, your brain is telling you something. But when you do things, I think it’s important to listen to your heart, and see whether you actually enjoy doing it.”
Success in the workplace centers around the people
Finding the right people to work with is not only important for personal growth, Pichai added, but also for making sure work gets done, something that’s been crucial in turning Google into a multitrillion-dollar giant.
“You find mission-oriented people who are in the shared journey, who have this inner drive to excellence, to do the best, and motivate people, and you can achieve a lot that way.”
The drive for excellence at Google may also mean the willingness to work far beyond the nine-to-five, according to Sergey Brin. In an internal memo seen by the New York Times, the cofounder encouraged the company’s AI-focused workers to be in the office “at least every weekday”—with 60-hour workweeks being the “sweet spot of productivity.” And while Pichai has publicly said in the past that he anticipated the future of work to be focused around flexibility, the AI arms race has put pressure on tech giants to be ahead of the game.
Still, amid the high-stakes environment, Pichai told Fridman he prefers staying calm as a manager, believing that the best employees are usually the first to know when they’ve messed up—and overreacting can just make matters worse.
“At times, you’re working with people who are so committed to achieving, if they’ve done something wrong, they feel it more than you do, so you treat them differently,” Pichai said. “Occasionally, there are people who you need to clearly let them know, like, ‘That wasn’t okay,’ or whatever it is, but I’ve often found that not to be the case.”
Fortune reached out to Pichai for comment.
Striving toward the billionaires club
Though Pichai has been the leader of one of the biggest public companies in the world for just shy of a decade, he’s only just now joining the billionaires club—a far cry from Brin and Page, who are among the top 10 wealthiest people in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The net worth of Brin and Page is about $163 billion and $174 billion, respectively, compared with Pichai’s $1.1 billion.
While there is no perfect path to emulating the success of Google, Page told college graduates in 2009 that they should think about solving problems that can ultimately allow them to be lazier:
“Technology, and especially the internet, can really help you be lazy,” he said to University of Michigan students. “Find the leverage in the world, so you can be more lazy.”
Much like those who graduated into the Great Recession, today’s young people are facing their own set of daunting challenges, thanks in part to AI reshaping the job market. However, Page isn’t a believer in giving up.
“Overall, I know it seems like the world is crumbling out there, but it is actually a great time in your life to get a little crazy, follow your curiosity, and be ambitious about it,” Page said. “Don’t give up on your dreams. The world needs you all.”