Pratica di Shadowing: Why having a vision isn’t enough to be an effective leader | Suzy Welch for Big Think+ - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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If you're a manager or a leader
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and all you do is dream big dreams and think and talk about the future in lofty, visionary terms and you don't actually get anything done,
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everyone is going to hate you.
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And meanwhile, if you're a person who's in the trenches and all you do is sort of the logistical, tactical, this is what we do tomorrow,
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grunty stuff, and you never go up to the mountaintop and say, here's our vision, everybody is going to hate you.
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When I teach managerial skills, I refuse to use the word manager or leader, and I've created this very unattractive word, lanager, which of course is a blend of those two words,
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because it's only academics who debate what leaders do versus what managers do.
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And I actually believe from living in the real world of business
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that there's really a blend of those two jobs in real life.
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And it doesn't make any difference if you're managing three people or 300,000 people, the The very best people at the top of teams
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or organizations are doing a little bit of managing and a little bit of leading.
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Hi, I'm Suzy Welch.
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I'm a professor of management practice at NYU Stern School of Business.
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You can't execute or you can't ask people to do what you're asking them to
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if you don't explain to them why you're asking them to do it.
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One of my favorite lines, and I use it over and over again when I'm teaching, is you have to tell the drummer what the words of the song are about.
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You can't just give the drummer the music and tell him to hit it.
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He's not going to be half as good
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or she's not going to be half as good as
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if they know what the song is about so they can put their whole selves into it.
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This is what managers and leaders should be doing, okay?
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Telling the drummer and all the other musicians on stage what the words of the song mean, why you're doing the work.
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And then, this is the how.
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Now we're gonna execute.
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And the job of the manager
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and the leader at the same time is to be going back and forth between the why and the how, and the why and the how,
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sometimes in one conversation and certainly always in the same day.
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Part of what makes you very good as a person running
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a team in the Lanager role is to be the simultaneous translator between your team and the people up there.
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When I see simultaneous translators at the UN
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and I see them going back
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and forth translating a conversation between say the Chinese delegation and the Bulgarian delegation and you can see how exhausting this is,
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I think yeah, that's the work of a good Lanager.
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That takes diplomacy.
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It takes courage.
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It's more than being a messenger, because when you're a messenger, you sort of drop the bomb.
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You know, you say, this is what they're saying up there, and you just sort of keep your poker face about it.
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Or you go up to the top and you say, everybody really wants to work from home two days, you know, blah, blah, blah.
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And then you just sort of stand there and you act like Switzerland.
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You're neutral.
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really good Lanager, they are not just doing that.
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They are explaining both groups to each other, and they're taking a stand.
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I mean, the worst thing in the world is a fingerprintless Lanager.
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Leave no sign of what you really believe, okay?
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Everybody comes to resent that.
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You sort of agree with the last person in the room.
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You've got to have conviction.
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It may shorten your career in some places, but at least you stood on your principle, and your reputation for integrity will follow you.
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People hate making hard calls because when you have put your name with the decision and then it bombs, your name's on it.
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And nobody wants to be exposed to failure because generally people want to keep their jobs.
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But you have to develop this, otherwise you will get a reputation for a person who cannot be a leader.
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You can't move an organization forward if you don't make decisions.
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You have to decide about pricing, market segmentation, branding.
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I mean, you just have to make one decision after another.
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The hardest decisions, of course, are people decisions.
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Who goes into what job and what they actually do.
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Don't get me started.
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That's very, very hard.
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But once you've failed a few times in business, you realize, oh, life will generally go on.
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And I'll be able to say to my team, look, we did that once.
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It didn't work.
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I own it.
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This is what I've learned.
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And the respect you get for saying, I made that mistake.
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I own it what we learned is unbelievable.
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And I think you sort of have to do that once before you realize, oh wow, that's actually so much more effective than actually not even being associated with the mistake.
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Everybody makes mistakes and once you sort of say, I made a mistake, I really learned from it.
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People are like, oh, I really respect that person.
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Sometimes I finish the semester teaching about managerial skills and about half the class is like, we're out, it's hard.
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It's very easy by comparison to be an individual contributor or to be, for instance, on a board where you're just big picture.
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Okay, those two different things are quite simple compared to what a Lanager has to do, which is both of those things at once.
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Perché praticare il parlato con questo video?

Praticare la conversazione in inglese è fondamentale per migliorare la propria fluidità e sicurezza nella lingua. Questo video con Suzy Welch offre un contesto ricco e pratico per affinare le proprie abilità. Welch parla dell'importanza del leadership e della comunicazione efficace, il che è estremamente utile per chiunque desideri ampliare il proprio vocabolario e comprendere meglio le sfumature del linguaggio manageriale. Ascoltare un esperto discutere di temi professionali, mentre si osservano le sue espressioni e intonazioni, permette di cogliere dettagli che spesso sfuggono in un normale studio teorico.

Grammatica ed Espressioni nel Contesto

  • "Devi spiegare loro perché lo stai chiedendo": Questa frase enfatizza l'importanza della chiarezza nella comunicazione. Gli studenti possono notare come l'uso dell'infinito ("spiegare") esprima un'azione necessaria.
  • "Ecco la nostra visione": La struttura "ecco" seguita da un sostantivo è tipica nel linguaggio persuasivo, utile per presentare idee o progetti in modo convincente.
  • "Ho fatto questo errore, ne sono responsabile": Questa espressione insegna l'importanza di assumersi la responsabilità, un concetto chiave nella cultura anglosassone. Comprendere l'uso del perfetto semplice ("ho fatto") e del presente continuo aiuta a trasmettere il significato preciso nel contesto.

Trappole comuni nella pronuncia

Alcune parole e suoni nel video possono risultare difficili da pronunciare. Ecco alcuni punti da tenere a mente:

  • "Lanager": Questo termine coniato da Welch potrebbe essere complicato; la pronuncia corretta esige attenzione alla giusta intonazione delle sillabe.
  • "Vision": La pronuncia di questa parola spesso introduce confusione; è importante praticare la distinzione tra la "v" e la "z".
  • "Executing": Qui, la combinazione delle sillabe può risultare difficile; è utile fare pratica di shadowing in inglese per afferrare la cattura del suono finale.

Utilizzando questo video come un formato per la pratica di conversazione in inglese, si può non solo comprendere meglio il contenuto, ma anche migliorare la pronuncia e la fluidità. Attraverso l'analisi e la ripetizione delle frasi chiave, gli studenti di tutte le età possono arricchire il loro vocabolario e adattare le loro abilità linguistiche a contesti reali. Provate ad utilizzare il shadowing con questo video e osservate quanto possiate migliorare nel vostro percorso per imparare l'inglese con YouTube.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.