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Planning the Start-up? Seize the Day… Executives who say they’d love to leave the battleship to skipper a nimble start-up fa
Planning the Start-up? Seize the Day… Executives who say they’d love to leave the battleship to skipper a nimble start-up fa
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2014-03-03
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Planning the Start-up? Seize the Day…
Executives who say they’d love to leave the battleship to skipper a nimble start-up fall back on a variety of perfectly legitimate rationales for why it’s not yet time: I need to acquire more (19) ,to figure out how financing really (20) , and so on. While they are waiting for everything to fall into (21) ,managers are acquiring big-company habits that can hurt them when they finally make the (22) .
Long tenures in corporate jobs keep executives from becoming the "jack-of-all-trades" that new ventures generally (23) .They get used to having HR specialists take care of HR issues, finance aces prepare reports, and IT whizzes (24) the company infrastructure. (25) people in big companies are successful "because they can manage a (26) ,"says Barry Nalls, the founder of Masergy, a Texas-based Telecom. But "in an early-stage company, there is no such thing as a manager. Everyone is a (27) ,including the CEO, " he says. Entrepreneurs are more effective at building ventures from (28) once they have attained a certain level of maturity and self-knowledge, but they can achieve that without spending most of their working lives in corporate jobs. In my research on thousands of founders of high-potential ventures that had succeeded in (29) capital from professional investors, 76% had worked for 20 years or less before founding their first ventures—they had (30) the leap by the time they were in their early forties.
And there is another point in favour (31) leaping sooner rather than later: executives who stay around the corporation until they achieve senior positions may be aging themselves out of what could be a satisfying life in start-ups.
Waiting for the perfect time to jump is usually futile, for there is no moment that’s (32) perfect。So even if you are early in your corporate career, when a winning new-business idea comes along and sparks an entrepreneurial (33) in you, carpe diem.
选项
A、credits
B、credentials
C、credibility
D、credulity
答案
C
解析
此处考查四个名词的词义辨析。A项意为“学分”或“存款数额”(作“信用”讲时为不可数名词),B项意为“证书”,C项意为“可信度,名誉”,D项意为“轻信”。文中此处句意为:我需要获得更多的可信度。故C项为正确答案。
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