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speak casually of there being

05:32 Jan 18, 2013
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English to Chinese translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / Corporate Cultures
English term or phrase: speak casually of there being
If the idea of multiple corporate cultures seems peculiar, perhaps it’s because most people who study management can’t stop thinking about corporations as monoliths. We should know better; we see the infighting among corporate subgroups constantly. Yet we {speak casually of there being one GM or DuPont or Shell}. We say “P&G is cautious” or “Microsoft is ruthless” as if these companies were sentient creatures, each one with its own single brain (at the center of which is the CEO). We conveniently forget the fact that no real-world corporation works that way.
clearwater
China
Local time: 17:37


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3 +1脱口而出通用汽车、或杜邦、或壳牌石油如何同心同德、上下一心
Wen-zhe (Clyde) Ye


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脱口而出通用汽车、或杜邦、或壳牌石油如何同心同德、上下一心


Explanation:
（不假思索地）脱口而出通用汽车、或杜邦、或壳牌石油是一个整体，即只有一个通用汽车、或杜邦、或壳牌石油

言外之意就是通用汽车、或杜邦、或壳牌石油没有很多个（公司文化）

理解下来，原文的论点是人们的普遍认识（把公司看作一个整体）和实际情况（公司部门之间的明争暗斗）相差甚远，太过理想化。

Wen-zhe (Clyde) Ye
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