帮助别人去尝试他自己认为有风险的事情是最困难的。上世纪90年代初,当时,我正掌管BP公司的美国零售业务。公司的首席执行官洛德·布朗要求我去管理BP研究与工程公司,使它更具商业性。布朗认为我是合适的人选,但我认为这个想法很糟糕。我是个商人,不是科学家;在我看来,我不具备领导一群数学家和地质学家所需要的能力。我为什么要接受一份 Helping others to try what he thinks is at risk is the most difficult. In the early 1990s, I was in charge of BP's US retail business. The company's chief executive, Lord Brown, asked me to run BP Research and Engineering to make it more commercial. Brown thinks I'm the right person, but I think the idea is bad. I am a businessman, not a scientist; in my opinion, I do not have the ability to lead a group of mathematicians and geologists. Why should I accept one