组织智囊团

Forming a Mastermind Alliance

让我们先来看一下“火车列车员”的智囊团模式：列车长之所以能够使火车开往目的地的惟一原因，就是其他列车 员认同并且尊重列车长的职权。如果，列车长未能适时地告诉司机火车出发的时间，乘客们会下车寻求其他可到目的的 方法，如果司机不遵守交通规则，很可能会发生致命的车祸……

For a model of mastermind alliance at work,consider a train crew.The conductor(you) can take the train to its destination only because all the other members of the train crew recognize and respect his(your) authority.What would happen if the conductor failed to signal the engineer that it was time to start? Passengers would abandon the train and find some other way to get where they wanted to go.If the engineer didn't bother to heed¹ the signals along the track,the resulting crash could cost lives.

为了使你的智囊团发挥正常功能，你必须给团员清晰而且正确的指示，而团员也必须愿意充分与你合作，以下四个简单的步骤，可确保智囊团的正常运作。

For your mastermind alliance to function properly,you must give clear,unmistakable signals to your crew.They,in turn,need to be willing to cooperate fully² with you.There are four simple steps to making sure this is the case.