AI56，没有idea了

56. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

Explain what you think the above quotation means and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with it. Support your position with relevant reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

我是理解成一个成功business的关键是secret，但是好像不对。

有什么好的论点吗？希望朋友们多给我这一题的写作思路。

我抛砖引玉。以下载孙远提纲。

position: in an age of knowledge economy, knowing more than anyone esle about one's operations, products and markets is crucial for business success.

1. It goes without saying that new products and new operations will win competitive edge for companies.

2. furthermore, the introduction of a new mode of service in a traditional line of industry can also bring great profits.

3. however, business success also depends on many other factors.

大家接着讨论，众人拾柴火焰高呀~~~~~~~~

如果根据孙远这样理解，我的想法是对的；

我是disagree：

1.知道新技术，不是profit的关键，只有有效的策划技术推广才是profit的关键。例子，可口可乐，技术很简单，但它能保持盈利，是因为经营得当。

2.新技术不一定能带来利益。例子：有了新技术推广失败，损失惨重。投资没有回报

3.Admittedly,新技术在一定情况下会，带来利益，但从长远来看，没有好的管理，business还是要失败。

这是我从作文224上看到的例文

理由很奇怪，请大家讨论：

56. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

Explain what you think the above quotation means and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with it. Support your position with relevant reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

This statement is ambiguous. It could mean, literally, that business success depends on knowing more than anyone else about one’s operations, products and markets. Or it could be a subtle recommendation to acquire privileged information, by whatever means, to use for one’s own advantage. I agree with the statement in the first sense. However, I strongly disagree with many implications of the second possible meaning.

It goes without saying that competitive edge in business is a function of knowledge. It is crucial to fully understand the technology and uses of one’s products; and it is prudent to micromanage (to manage with great or excessive control or attention to details) operations, knowing as much as possible about the small details that can add up to a significant economic difference. It is also prudent, and legitimate, to take every measure to protect that knowledge as trade secrets, since they often play a pivotal role in a firm’s competitiveness.

But the advice to know something that nobody else does could easily become distorted. If taken another way, the advice could recommend that one dig up (FIND, UNEARTH) dirt in order to damage or discredit a rival. It could also be taken to recommend stealing trade secrets (商业秘密，行业秘密) or other inside information from a competitor in order to gain an unfair business advantage. All of these tactics are some also violate civil and criminal laws. Moreover, the recommendation to find and use any information, even unfairly or illegally, can backfire. People who follow such advice risk civil liability, criminal prosecution, and the loss of an important business asset—their good reputations.

In sum, I agree with the statement up to the point that it validates detailed and even proprietary knowledge as a key to competitiveness. Insofar as the statement sanctions unfair practices, however, following it would be unethical, bad for business, and damaging to the character and reputation of the perpetrator.

不怪呀. 他是从诠释the secret of business 开始的.分别对两种解释做出了评价.

观点同意不同意,不重要.

重要的是你的内容. -论证,结构等等.

那你觉得我的观点可以用吗？不会偏题吧？

我认为你把"know something that nobody else knows" 引申为"new technolgoy" 这点需要叙述一下.  否则似乎缩小了范文.

照你的分析, 假如别人把"know something that nobody else knows" 看成 "know the management or marketing skills that nobody else knows"  不是就很容易反驳你了.

有点还需指点,不要烦我钻牛角尖呀

就是企业的秘密可以理解成企业的成功吗?我之所以犹豫就是因为例文就是围绕企业秘密的定义理解来展开的.

而孙远和我都理解成企业的成功

我认为可以.