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职场新人要什么？

同样，坐在台下听我讲话的那些管培生，也在受到当初困扰过我们的那些事的困扰。人们觉得，Y世代(Generation Y)操心的应该都是我们当年无暇顾及的一些事情，比如希望自己的工作有意义，渴望寻找工作和生活的平衡点，为个人的持续发展而苦恼。

But none of these trainees asked me anything of the kind. Instead, what they wanted to know was entirely familiar: how to get ahead? Is it luck, skill, or politics? This question has not changed and neither has the answer: you need to have a certain amount of skill to be even considered; beyond that it is luck and politics in equal measure.

但那些培训生们没有一个人提及这些问题。相反，他们问的都是些老掉牙的问题：如果出头？是靠运气、凭本事、还是要拉关系？这个问题不是个新问题，答案也还是那句老话：你需要有一些本事，这是最基本的，除此之外，你也需要凭运气和拉关系，两者的重要性不相上下。

They also wanted to know how to play politics: is it ever wise to disagree with your boss? The answer to this is popularly supposed to have changed beyond recognition. We used to be hidebound, so they say, but now hierarchies have been swept away and every junior is encouraged to speak out. But the truth is otherwise. The answer depends on the nature of the boss – just as it always has done. Some are open to discussion, some aren’t.