首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Planning the Start-up? Seize the Day… Executives who say they’d love to leave the battleship to skipper a nimble start-up fa
Planning the Start-up? Seize the Day… Executives who say they’d love to leave the battleship to skipper a nimble start-up fa
admin
2014-03-03
49
问题
Planning the Start-up? Seize the Day…
Executives who say they’d love to leave the battleship to skipper a nimble start-up fall back on a variety of perfectly legitimate rationales for why it’s not yet time: I need to acquire more (19) ,to figure out how financing really (20) , and so on. While they are waiting for everything to fall into (21) ,managers are acquiring big-company habits that can hurt them when they finally make the (22) .
Long tenures in corporate jobs keep executives from becoming the "jack-of-all-trades" that new ventures generally (23) .They get used to having HR specialists take care of HR issues, finance aces prepare reports, and IT whizzes (24) the company infrastructure. (25) people in big companies are successful "because they can manage a (26) ,"says Barry Nalls, the founder of Masergy, a Texas-based Telecom. But "in an early-stage company, there is no such thing as a manager. Everyone is a (27) ,including the CEO, " he says. Entrepreneurs are more effective at building ventures from (28) once they have attained a certain level of maturity and self-knowledge, but they can achieve that without spending most of their working lives in corporate jobs. In my research on thousands of founders of high-potential ventures that had succeeded in (29) capital from professional investors, 76% had worked for 20 years or less before founding their first ventures—they had (30) the leap by the time they were in their early forties.
And there is another point in favour (31) leaping sooner rather than later: executives who stay around the corporation until they achieve senior positions may be aging themselves out of what could be a satisfying life in start-ups.
Waiting for the perfect time to jump is usually futile, for there is no moment that’s (32) perfect。So even if you are early in your corporate career, when a winning new-business idea comes along and sparks an entrepreneurial (33) in you, carpe diem.
选项
A、beginning
B、start
C、zero
D、scratch
答案
D
解析
此处考查固定搭配。此处句意为:如果创业者们足够成熟和了解自己,他们就能更好地从零开始创建一个企业。start from scratch是一个固定搭配,意为“从头开始,从零开始”。故D项是正确的。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/vuoO777K
本试题收录于:
BEC中级阅读题库BEC商务英语分类
0
BEC中级阅读
BEC商务英语
相关试题推荐
WhatdoPOPprojectsaimtodo?Somecompaniesareinvestinginplanningandresearchto
•Youareresponsibleforplanningthemagazineadvertisingofyourcompany’snewproduct,whichispolishforcars.Youhaveju
Acompanyisplanningtointroduceageneraltrainingprogramfornewstaff.Themanagerasksyoutowriteareport,includingt
Youareresponsibleforplanningthemagazineadvertisingofyourcompany’snewproduct,whichispolishforcars.Youhavejust
Youareresponsibleforplanningthemagazineadvertisingofyourcompany’snewproduct,whichisapolishforcars.Youhaveju
—Readthearticlebelowaboutpriceplanning.—Choosethebestsentencefromthelisttofilleachofthegaps.—Foreachgap8-
—Readthearticlebelowaboutpriceplanning.—Choosethebestsentencefromthelisttofilleachofthegaps.—Foreachgap8-
随机试题
发明专利申请提出后,专利局进行初步审查认为符合专利法要求的即予以公布,公布申请的法定时间是()
A.挥发油,油中主要为桉油精B.皂苷、黄酮、有机酸C.环烯醚萜苷类成分D.挥发油、香豆素、黄酮类E.木脂素、挥发油、有机酸豆蔻药材的主要化学成分是
城镇道路稳定类材料基层雨期施工不宜()。
下列说法不正确的是()。
已知利润对单价的敏感系数为2,为了确保下年度企业不亏损,允许单价下降的最大幅度为()。
左思所写()轰动一时,留下了“洛阳纸贵”的历史佳话。
简述英国资产阶级革命的影响。
任何一项公共政策的形成。都要经过从分歧到最大公因数的________;任何一件舆论争议的解决,也是依赖________的换位思考,而不是党同伐异的不断争吵。彼此多些尊重宽容,少些一言不合,方能让弥漫社会的________、火气转变成弥合差异的和气、弥足珍贵
【六镇起义】陕西师范大学2014年中国史真题;西北师范大学2015年历史学综合真题;北京大学2016年历史学基础(中国史)真题
在关系数据库中,描述全局数据逻辑结构的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)