我写过一篇文章,谈到宁可饿死也不愿当众演讲。此后,我收到两类读者来信:一类人跟我的观点差不多;另一类人刚好受到冗长演讲的折磨,感到极度沮丧。在后面这类邮件中,一位来信者说,他在目睹企业高管们不顾听众坐立不安、明显厌倦、有时还鼾声如雷,而依然不停地废话连篇之后,从中悟到一个道 I wrote an article about starving rather than speaking in public. Since then, I have received two types of letters from readers: one type of person shares almost the same opinion as me; and the other type is extremely frustrated by the lengthy speech that has just been tortured. In the latter of these e-mails, a source said that while he was witnessing that corporate executives were restless, apparently bored, sometimes snoring and still nonstop,