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P.T. 巴纳姆:奋斗与胜利·补录 225
P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导
At Cambridge, some of the under-graduates pretended to take offence because our check-taker would not permit them to smoke in the exhibition hall, and one of them managed to involve him in a quarrel which ended with a challenge from the student to the check-taker, who was sure he must fight a duel at sunrise the next morning, and as he expected to be shot, he suffered the greatest mental agony. About midnight, however, after he had been sufficiently scared, I brought him the gratifying intelligence that I had succeeded in settling the dispute. His gratitude at the relief thus afforded, knew no bounds.
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巴纳姆的检票员因阻止剑桥学生吸烟而遭挑战决斗,吓得半死,半夜巴纳姆告诉他已摆平,他感激涕零。核心是:别被虚张声势吓住,很多威胁只是纸老虎。遇到类似情况,先冷静判断对方是否真会行动,再主动斡旋化解,而不是硬碰硬或独自恐慌。巴纳姆没有让检票员去决斗,而是出面调停,既保住了员工,也避免了闹剧。这提醒我们,面对恐吓,先稳住情绪,再找有分量的人协调,往往比直接对抗更有效。
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巴纳姆是美国19世纪著名马戏团经纪人,在自传中回忆英国巡展时,检票员与剑桥学生冲突的轶事。
今日一问
你最近是否因别人的威胁而焦虑?能否先核实对方是否真会行动,再找中间人化解?
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