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爱德华·博克:爱德华·博克自传·补录 451
爱德华·博克《爱德华·博克自传》· The Americanization of Edward Bok · 领导
"All right," wrote the colonel finally. "I'll try--with you!--the experiment for a year: 12 articles... I don't know that I can give your readers satisfaction, but I shall try my very best. I am very glad to be associated with you, anyway. At first I doubted the wisdom of the plan, merely because I doubted whether I could give you just that you wished. I never know what an audience wants: I know what it ought to want: and sometimes I can give it, or make it accept what I think it needs--and sometimes I cannot. But the more I thought over your proposal, the more I liked it... Whether the wine will be good enough to attract without any bush I don't know; and besides, in such cases the fault is not in the wine, but in the fact that the consumers decline to have their attention attracted unless there is a bush!"
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定位:Additional excerpt 451 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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罗斯福上校最终回信答应试一年,每月写12篇文章。他坦言自己不确定能否让读者满意,但会尽力。他起初怀疑这个计划,只因担心写不出对方想要的东西。他说自己从不知道观众想要什么,只知道他们应该要什么;有时能给出或让他们接受自己认为需要的内容,有时则不能。但他越想越喜欢这个提议。他还用比喻说:不知道酒是否好到不用招牌就能吸引人;而且在这种情况下,问题不在酒,而在消费者除非有招牌否则不肯注意。
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爱德华·博克是《妇女家庭杂志》主编,他邀请前总统西奥多·罗斯福匿名开设男性专栏。这是罗斯福的回信。
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当你面对不确定能否满足受众期待时,是选择先答应再尽力,还是等有把握再行动?
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