描述一个你认为是好领导者的人

如何说满两分钟

是四个节拍，不是四个答案。卡片上的提示只是脚手架——一段自然流过这些提示的讲述，比四个互不相连的回答得分更高。

1. 01他是谁，领导的是什么——一个团队、一家公司、一个社区团体，还是一个国家。
2. 02他做过的一个具体决定，最好是一个不受欢迎或艰难的决定。
3. 03他如何对待下属，要展示出来而不是断言。
4. 04你对领导力的定义，从例子中得出，而不是开头就摆出来。

这张卡适合用的词汇

词汇丰富度占你分数的四分之一，而7分的标准明确允许偶尔用错词——一味求稳、只用简单词汇，正是很多人卡在6分的原因。

这张卡的陷阱

一个8分回答，以及它为什么有效

读它是为了看清其中的技巧，而不是背下这些话。考官每个工作日都会听到背诵的答案，这会体现在你的流利度分数上——背诵者的停顿方式和真正在思考的人完全不同。下面的细节都是虚构的，你的回答应该讲你自己的故事。

I'd like to talk about someone I worked under rather than someone famous — a project manager called Farah at a company I joined about four years ago. The team was in a bad state when she arrived. The previous manager had been the sort who took credit upwards and blame downwards, and morale was on the floor. What she did in the first month was almost entirely listening. She had a conversation with every single person, including the contractors, and she didn't announce a plan until she'd finished. I remember being sceptical about that at the time — it looked like indecision. It wasn't. When the plan came it was specific, and crucially it named things that were going to be dropped, which nobody had been willing to do. I think the quality that made her good was a willingness to be unpopular in a precise way. Weak managers are unpopular by accident. She chose exactly which fights to have and then held the position, and the team trusted her because of it, not in spite of it.

拿到这个分数的关键

• “Took credit upwards and blame downwards”凝练而地道——六个词就做到了较低分段回答要用三句话才能做到的事。
• 它包含了对自己判断的修正：看起来像优柔寡断，其实不是。在回答中途展示想法的转变，听起来就是真正没有排练过的。
• 最后的区分——有明确原因地不受欢迎，与无意中不受欢迎——正是能让回答明显超出6分的那种抽象对比。

第三部分接下来会问什么

第三部分和你的长篇独白有松散的联系，但问题会变得抽象——问的是一般人，而不是你自己。这张卡之后通常会谈到：

• whether leaders are born or made
• how leadership styles differ across cultures
• what people expect from leaders today

如何应对第三部分讨论

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