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我在一家啤酒公司当顾问，帮助总裁和高级副总裁制订并执行新的策略。 这非常具有挑战性。这时我的母亲已处于癌症晚期。 下班后我开车40英里回到家,每晚我都和她在一起。这样很疲倦并且压力很大,但这是我想做的。我的承诺就是，哪怕晚上再辛苦白天也要继续做好咨询工作。我不想因为我的情况打扰总裁，然而我认为公司应该有人需要知道这种情况,于是我就告诉人力资源部副总裁，并告诉他不要让任何人知道。 几天后总裁叫我去他的办公室。我以为他想和我谈工作上的某个问题。我进去时，他让我坐下。隔着他的大办公桌，他面对着我，看着我的眼睛说:“我听说你母亲病得很严重。” 我感到很意外，突然大哭起来。他只是看着我，让我的哭声渐渐平息下来, 然后轻轻地对我说了句让我永远无法忘却的话：“不管你需要什么。”仅此而已。 他愿意让我哭泣并愿意提供给我一切的理解和支持,这正是同情的品质，我一直将这种品质保留到今天。 Whatever You Need I was working as a consultant in a beer company，helping the president and senior vice-presidents formulate and implement their new strategic vision. It was an enormous challenge. At the same time, my mother was in the final stages of cancer. I worked during the day and drove 40 miles home to be with her every night. It was tiring and stressful, but it was what I wanted to do. My commitment was to continue to do excellent consulting during the day，even though ray evenings were very hard. I didn’t want to bother the president with my situation，yet I felt someone at the company needed to know what was going on. So I told the vice-president of Human Resources, asking him not to share the information with anyone. A few days later, the president called me into his office. I figured he wanted to talk to me about one of the many issues we were working on. When I entered, he asked me to sit down. He faced me from across his large desk, looked me in the eye and said, “ I hear your mother is very ill. ” I was totally caught by surprise and burst into tears. He just looked at me，let my crying subside，and then gently said a sentence I will never forget，“Whatever you need.” That was it. His understanding and his willingness to both let me be in my pain and to offer me everything were qualities of compassion that I carry with me to this day. |
