比尔盖茨的致富秘诀：培养next执行官

　　Lesson 5: Train Your New CEO 培养下一个首席执行官

　　For many it can be painful to run a company of more than 50 people. You spend more time than you'd like sitting in boring meetings, skimming over long legal documents in which you know there are errors but aren't sure how serious, etc. The temptation is to hand over the reins to the first "professional manager" who comes along. And that's what the standard venture capitalist formula dictates. But Bill Gates didn't do that. He hired Steve Ballmer in 1980 and gave him the CEO job 20 years later.

　　对于许多人来说，管理一个50人以上的公司是件叫人头疼的事情。你要花费更多的时间去应付恼人的会议，去阅读明知有错，却不知错误有多严重的冗长的法律文件。所以，只要一有合适的“职业经理人”，人们就想把手中的缰绳交出去。这就是一般的风险资本家所遵循的模式。但是