【每日阅读训练第四期——速度越障4系列】【4-12】经管

猫咪团团

忽然想给大家放个小假，今天的速度越障都不是很长。Hope you enjoy it~

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Slow Down! How “Slow Work” Makes Us More Productive
By Peter Bacevice | July 11, 2012 |


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It is increasingly clear that our personal and professional lives stand to benefit from change that eases these mounting pressures and strains. It is time to embrace “slow work.”
Summer is that time of year when many of us take breaks from our jobs and school to regroup and relax. Vacations are time to slow our pace, calm our minds, and take a much-needed respite from the otherwise fast pace of life and its responsibilities. Many of us lament the dramatic contrast between our vacations and the faster pace of our work lives, but are generally remiss to change because of feelings of career vulnerability or weakness that we fear it could project. However it is increasingly clear that our personal and professional lives stand to benefit from change that eases these mounting pressures and strains. It is time to embrace “slow work.”
The reasons that today’s pace of work feels “fast” are fairly familiar. For one, many organizations face constant pressure to adapt to rapidly evolving market pressures, societal changes, and political pressures, and these pressures are increasingly passed to a gradually reduced workforce. To make matters worse, we face a flurry of information hitting from multiple angles (work, home, extended family, & friends) and through an increasing array of social networking and email platforms. This information onslaught competes for our rapidly diminishing attention spans. Third, it is normal to feel – despite this constant flurry of information that we are processing – that we are failing at staying in command of all of the work we need to do.
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Many of us recognize that constantly reacting to immediate demands distracts us from focusing on long-term goals and aspirations — and yet, we often feel starved for time to do so. Today’s quick wins are undermining tomorrow’s performance.
So how do we reverse this situation, or at least begin to shift the balance? Existing research has demonstrated how some basic aspects of the work environment can improve one’s ability to be creative on the jobs; these include the freedom to make decisions about one’s work; encouragement from leaders; and striking a healthy balance between challenging or interesting work on the one hand and extraordinary workload pressures on the other hand.
UC Davis professors Kimberly Elsbach and Andrew Hargadon have suggested that we find ways to balance our workday activities with a mix of “mindful” (cognitively demanding) and “mindless” (cognitively facile) activities. Giving the mind a rest from high-stakes responsibilities and strategically doing simple (but necessary) administrative or hands-on tasks give us freedom to take control of our schedules and maintain momentum with less cognitive strain.
Similarly, our work here at DEGW helps organizations design work environments and practices that give people more flexibility and resources for varying their routines and making choices about how to effectively do their work with greater degrees of freedom.
More broadly, the philosophy of “slow work” challenges the unsustainable practice of doing everything as fast as possible and offers an alternative workplace framework for energizing people and helping people better align their personal and professional priorities. It urges us to punctuate our routines in ways that might initially appear to compromise productivity but actually enhance long-term creativity.
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What follows are a handful of practical ways that one can begin to “work slow” in order to more strongly grip short-term demands and feel some creative energy to inspire us for the long-term.
1) Make more time for yourself within your daily work routine. It is easy to let meetings consume schedules, but when was the last time you scheduled uninterrupted time for yourself? A strategy for accomplishing this is to block chunks of time on your work calendar for focusing on concentrative tasks or any other necessary tasks that seem to slip from your reach. Doing so signals to others that you are serious about accomplishing specific goals and are therefore prioritizing the tasks needed to accomplish them.
2) Vary your routine. Consider taking your laptop to a quiet area of your building or to another building on your campus. Casual seating areas are incorporated into many contemporary work settings to give people space to think. Taking the time to walk to a different corner of the building or campus provides exercise but also increases the likelihood that you will encounter a colleague that you may not have seen in a while. Such interactions strengthen professional relationships and provide fresh perspectives and insights.
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3) Look for a way to “break out” of the office. If you schedule concentrative time for yourself, consider taking your work offsite to give yourself a radically different experience that could spark some inspiration. If you work in a large city, take advantage of the myriad of public spaces such as parks and plazas that are accommodating to workers with plentiful seating and free wi-fi. DEGW’s BREAKOUT! study in New York City was an effort to reclaim public spaces throughout the city and demonstrate how they provide people with an alternative to an office work setting. The milieu of a public setting can positively change your perspective and help you put things in broader context.
4) Consider “coworking” with others for a day. A Brooklyn-based start-up company called Loosecubes facilitates connections between people looking for space in which to camp out for a day or two and organizations that have space to share. This model connects like-minded people looking for creative inspiration through a mix of different work experiences. Organizations are also finding that this model of welcoming outsiders into their communities brings fresh perspectives to their people.
Each of these different ways of working consumes more time because they require conscious efforts to vary existing routines. In other words, they slow us down. But these changes reward us with more time to absorb and process information, which strengthens our long-term professional performance. Consequently, slow work and the freedoms afforded by it provide more flexibility to align personal and professional goals and responsibilities.
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More Americans Planning to Spend Less on Travel This Year
By Josh Sanburn | @joshsanburn | July 10, 2012 |

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Travelers around the world say they’ll spend more money on vacations this year than last. But it’s a different story in the U.S.
Vacations naturally took a hit during the Great Recession, giving rise to the staycation around 2008-09. But this year, 35% of travelers globally say they’re going to spend more money this year on travel, with 37% spending roughly the same, according to a new survey by the Wyndham Hotel Group. The U.S., however, is an outlier.
For Americans, 36% plan to spend less and only 27% say they’ll boost their budgets. (Thirty-seven percent will spend about the same.) Thanks to the recession and in part to the ongoing crisis in Europe, British travel plans will be about the same as those across the pond.
But for the emerging economies of China and Brazil, their budgets are getting bigger. Fifty-eight percent of Chinese travelers say they’ll spend more along with 41% of Brazilian travelers. Considering the rapid growth of both China and Brazil, as opposed to the stalled economies in the U.S. and the U.K., the numbers shouldn’t be surprising. In fact, other surveys report similar findings.
In a separate report by John Hancock Financial Services, fewer investors in the U.S. say they plan to take a summer trip this year. But there’s a bright side: It appears that many investors are only going to delay travel plans, not cancel them altogether. Thirty-eight percent of those who aren’t traveling this summer say they’re planning on taking a trip at another time.
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Americans spend about $1,600 on summer trips each year (roughly the median cost in the U.S.), and summer travel is coming at a time when the economic recovery appears to be stalling once again. Still, among those in the U.S. who plan to spend more on vacations this year, 52% say that they’ll use that money to take a longer trip, which might not end up being the best idea.
We take fewer vacation days than just about every other developed country. So when we decide to take a trip, we often like to go big or stay home. And research definitely shows that spending money on experiences like vacations can boost happiness much more than simply buying a bunch of stuff. But it’s often best to trade time for intensity when going on a trip. Research has shown that sometimes the richer the experience, even if it’s not as long as we’d like, is often more fulfilling.
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Powering down
More months of uncertainty about the euro area will weigh on the global economy
Jul 7th 2012 | from the print edition

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EUROPEAN leaders delivered rather more progress in tackling their interminable debt crisis than had been expected when they met in Brussels on June 28th and 29th. They decided, among other things, to allow the new permanent bail-out fund to recapitalise banks in ailing economies directly rather than via their governments. They also enabled rescue funds to buy the government bonds of struggling countries without imposing such strict conditions as before.
The euro promptly rose; stockmarkets regained some vim; the oil price spiked (see article). Government-bond yields fell in Spain and Italy; they also tumbled in Ireland on expectations that it will gain some retrospective relief from the heavy costs of its banking clear-up. In response, the Irish government decided to raise money by issuing short-term bills on July 5th, its first such auction since 2010.
But the June summit also delivered rather less than the market rally suggested. In theory, the agreement promises to break the self-reinforcing link between weak governments and weak banks. In practice, that will not happen until the European Central Bank (ECB) is put in charge of euro-area banking supervision, which may take a lot longer than the planned six months. Before then a deal stitched together in the bleary hours could well snag on legal difficulties about redefining the permanent fund’s remit without changing the treaty that set it up, or on political objections in smaller northern economies—Finland, for example, doesn’t like the idea of using the rescue funds to buy government bonds in secondary markets. Meanwhile, Greece has lost none of its capacity to cause trouble, as a new, weak government tries to extract concessions from creditor nations.
All of which means yet more uncertainty and yet more harm to the global economy. Within the euro area itself, the unemployment rate reached 11.1% in May, a record high on data going back to 1995 for the 17 countries now in the monetary union. The composite purchasing-managers’ index (PMI), which covers services as well as manufacturing, inched up in June but at 46.4 remained well below the 50 level that separates expansion from contraction. Even the redoubtable German economy now seems to be buckling. Its PMI composite index points to a small decline in national output in the second quarter, according to Markit, which assembles the indices. There is particular weakness in German manufacturing, which was contracting in June at its fastest rate in three years.

That industrial fragility has now spread around the world. In America the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index fell in June to below 50, for the first time in almost three years (see chart). New orders plummeted, which suggests that the weakness will persist. One of the main reasons was a sharp decline in new export orders, with manufacturers blaming slacker demand in Europe and China. In its annual health-check of the American economy, the IMF this week said that recovery remained “tepid” and fretted about the fallout from an intensifying euro crisis.

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In Asia, too, an industrial slowdown is under way. Japan’s PMI slipped below 50 in June for the first time since November. After falling in recent months, China’s official PMI is now only just above that threshold—although for China that probably means industrial production growing at an annualised pace of around 10% rather than its usual rate of 15%. Any slowdown still hurts economies, like Brazil, that have thrived by selling commodities to China. Brazil’s manufacturing sector contracted for the third successive month in June.
If markets remained relatively buoyant early this week, that was doubtless because they were waiting for central banks to step into the breach yet again. On July 5th, after The Economist had gone to press, both the ECB and the Bank of England were expected to ease monetary policy. Britain’s central bank had already signposted another dose of quantitative easing. For its part the ECB seemed likely to lower its main policy rate below 1% for the first time, probably to 0.75%. Passing that milestone would show how much more needs to be done to end the crisis.
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teddybearj4

刚刚上来就看到团团发啦！！！赶紧拿下sofa！——————————
速度：
1'18     1'44     59"     1'33      1'28


越障：
4’30
（今天偷个小懒，不写越障啦~）


祝大家周末愉快~~~~！！

ladyMcc

时间过得真快！

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slow work benefit our lives.people suffer a lot from gigh pace,from three repects.
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people constantly work on short-term project are easy to distract from long-term activity.To reverse or banlance the situstion,we need a balance between congnitive work and less congnitive work. This way appears uncharming,but actually enhance our ability to cope with long-term work.
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two ways to slow dowmne is to spare uninterruptted time for yourself;another is to walk around somewhere to stay away from thinking  that may bother you when you are at your wor place.
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another two waysne is find some place to relax yourself,for example if you are working in big city,you can take advantages of parks or palazas where have plenty seats.Another is to combine the conception of someone who are looking for space to camp one or two days with organization that has space to share,this make efforts to establish new ideas that is good for further work.
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US spend less on travle this year,but China and Brazil reported to spend more.because of the recession,many Americans and Europeans plan to delay their travle.
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6'13''这种文章每次读完下来感觉就是没感觉，完全是散的。。没连接起来。。。结果就是只知道讲的欧元区  balabalabala

bluestone2012

谢谢楼主！ 学习了哈，现在睡觉！ slow work 呵呵

暮已央

占楼咯~我最喜欢放假啦！谢谢团团~~
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是时候拥抱“慢工作”啦！夏天总是人们放松的时间~度假，缓解工作学习压力
现在逐渐增加的压力负担，人们需要改变，并从中受益，
快节奏的生活出现有三个原因123
2:00（走神了）
现代人常觉得时间不够，因为快速决定会让人从长期项目上分心，今天的成功可能会减弱明天的表现。
要改变有三点：来自上级的鼓励、可以自由的决定、能在挑战兴趣的工作与工作压力负担间找到平衡，
研究发现更自由的工作环境与资源也能促使人们自由的灵活性提高，改变更容易。
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两个办法可以帮助你“slow work”
一是给你每日的工作计划留更多的时间
二是改变你的路线，可以不坐在以往的位置，可以到不同的地方走动
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三是偶尔有个休息，工作时刻偶尔可以出去走走
四是和别人一起合伙办公
这些方法都能让你慢下来，
慢节奏工作和因此得到的自由使得个人和专业目标责任上增加了灵活性
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今年数据显示旅游的人应该会增多，但美国是“局外人”（我真爱这个词~想起GG里的Dan了~）
相比于全球的旅行者，美国人增加他们的预算，中国巴西旅行人增多，想想他们的经济增长，这不令人惊讶
不过大多数美国人仅仅是推迟旅行计划，并没有取消~（就知道美国人无法放弃享乐生活···）
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美国人每年花在夏季旅行上很多钱，今年仍然旅行的人准备有一个长一点的trip
美国人觉得自己的假期已经比其他发达国家少了，所以要么呆在家里要么就来场大的
旅行能增加人的快乐感，越丰富的旅行越能够让人满意
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欧洲形势不好，很不好，峰会上提出现在可能还要持续很长时间
政府现在认为要通过银行而非政府拯救经济，并鼓励买国债，然后是很多欧洲国家的例子
市场重整可能比预期要晚几个月，理论上和实际上的理由
现在的形势真心不好，强势的德国也跌了点
美国也怎么怎么样、亚洲也是，日本跌了，中国低了，巴西也···
所以现在由于欧债危机，全球经济复苏不温不火。
欧洲的危机怎么办呢，可定有更多需要做的来结束它。

corneliaflower

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jane1102

7月13日：
一：速度
计时一：
用时：60’’差三行
内容回忆：
第一段总的介绍了一个概念是：embrace ”slow work”,是一个很好的途径舒缓压力加放轻松。
第二段讲了summer vocation is a good chance to ease our stressed mental and relax ourselves. Summer vocation is a good way to embrace “slow work”
第三段gives us another reason to explain why people need to embrace “slow work”
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用时：60’’ 差六行
计时三：
用时：60’’ 差两行
内容回忆：
第一段：总述说要介绍两种不同“slow work”的方法
第二段：方法一在工作的时候多留一点时间给自己
第三段：方法二在“vary your routine”,将电脑带到安静的地方学习，可能还会碰到一个不常碰到的教授，可能会给人家留下好的印象
计时四：
用时：60’’ 差两行
内容回忆：
第一段：介绍了第三种方法是让大家在offwork的时候，就要好好放松。如果在城市的人，就要好好利用各种plaza啊公园啊什么的
第二段：第四种方法是要大家learn to co-work with your colleagues. It is a good way for you to gain more space for yourself.
第三段：Learn to “slow work” is a good way for us to absorb more information and we can feel more responsibility and free at the same time.
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用时：60’’ 差4行
内容回忆：
第一段介绍了总体情况，在全球的旅游者大部分都说在今年增加了他们在旅游上的花费的时候，the US travelers 在经历了经济衰退后，却在面临在旅游上的花费减少了
第二段介绍了一些数据，并且说明the US的数据outlier. 同时给出了America and British 的数据，来类比同样都是经历经济衰退的国家的旅游者今年旅游花费的数据
第三段对比了China 和 Brazil的数据，列举了这些经济发展的国家的旅游者大部分都在增加他们在旅游上面的花费。
第四段：好像是给出了原因，说这些经济衰退的国家的人们，不是完全没有旅游的计划，而是他们有旅游的计划，但是他们都将他们的计划推迟了而已。
自由阅读：
用时：60’’
内容回忆：
好像讲了美国人在旅游上花费了多少多少钱，是占英国花费的中等。讲了美国人在旅游上花费的时间比中国人在旅游上花费的时间长。中国人在旅游上的周期不是很长，所以中国人呢不是选择大型的旅游，就是都呆在家里。有一个小的总结说发现发展中的国家的人们旅行的时间没有发达国家的人们旅行的时间长。说了研究表明在旅游上得到的满足比我们买一大堆东西得到的满足大得多。而且这种travel experience 越丰富，人们即使是很短的旅行也会得到最大的满足。
二：越障
用时：7’54’’
内容回忆：
一段：首先说目前欧洲领导人采取了比之前某月到某月开会时制定的更加多的经济政策来振兴欧洲的经济。这些说明了欧洲的经济的状况没有他们想象的那么好
二段：介绍了欧洲经济恢复的不确定性。举例给出了欧洲最近的一些经济数据，排名什么的，主要就是在论证欧洲经济恢复需要数月，已经经济恢复的不确定性。还给出了各个国家的不是很好的数据。好像有一个经济学家预测德国的制造业是出了问题的，尽管，在当时德国制造业保持着很高的增长率。
三段：介绍了美国同样也在经历跟欧洲同样的情况，出口下降，失业率上升，政府债券增多等等。
四段：介绍了中国，正常的经济增加值是保持在15%左右，但是今年只是保持在10%的增长率左右，虽然看似还是在增加，其实与以前相比是在下降了的，中国的经济增加放缓主要是因为中国的出口商品什么的受到了限制。给出了特例巴西，在今年几乎其他国家都是放缓增加率的时候，巴西确实在保持高的增加值，主要是因为巴西有商品出口到中国，因此巴西的经济增长率的排名，排到了第三名。
五段：给出了一些解决的建议。给出了需要“中央银行”来监管市场。需要政府执行放松的货币政策。需要切断week bank 和week （XXX）之间的联系。

第一天感受：
之前的速度篇，是真心的速度起不来啊，感觉眼球都动不起来一样。终于知道自己为什么考场上老是感觉时间很紧，而且还不能一口气读下来。
之后的越障篇，在保证我大致能读懂的情况下，算下来我的阅读速度是100WPM，真实弱爆了，而且又很多细节的东西都没有办法好好读懂。
我终于知道自己阅读的差距了，之后要好好磨练啊~~~~

cleotina

大家都排好长队啦  跟上跟上  

哈哈哈 谢谢团团 今天的越障相当滴明白  不过也用了很长时间嘛~~

7-13
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relax, calm down your nervers. adjust your pace to make a effective work.
Since your daily work will give you lots pressure.

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find the balance to keep in good condition
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two ways too give your a time to think:
1, make a schedule with a specific time that no one can interupt you
2, find a place where nobody knows you. and you could think quietly
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another two ways to deal with the problems.
1, go to a place with no work
2, consider the "coworker" . go a company organiza the experience that
people from different place go out and share a room. so they can ispire
each other and entice more new ideas for his own area.
Anyway,  you need time to relex and refresh yourself.

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while people from other countries plan to spend more money on traveling,
American people tend to restrain their budget.  however, they are not going
to cancel their travel plan, they just delay it. Since travel can make
people happier, as well as they will make a whether big or no plan trip.

6'03
the Euro finance crisis still going. the most serious country Itay and Span still can not find a way to change its head to better.
some Country try to pubilsh some national fund to boost the money system. however, people do not tend to buy the fund from the secondry market. So the methos does work.
other countries , such as German and Chian also do not have a ideal exonomic situation. the Consumption index slightly decline.
the industry production also decline in American and Brizal. SInce the globle cumsuption ability is weak. So the economic still tepid for a long while.
SO, poeple look forward a ease financial policy ennacted to inprove the globle recession.

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女王的肥皂

第一段：European leaders do some positive activities to tackle their interminable debt crisis: recapitalize the bank in ailing economies directly; enable rescure found to buy the government bond of struggling countris with imposing such strict conditions.
第三段说的是 June summit deliver less than the market rally suggested, but deliver more progress than had been expected.
第四段 global economy is bad
第五段 Japan and China PMI is bad too, and the growth of any economies that are thrived by exporting goods to China has declined too.
第六段 markets are waiting for banks' bailout
最后一句在说什么？是不是说除了quantitative easing就没有什么招了？