成功企業(yè)應避免“庸才當道”

Bozo explosion is the large number of inept employees that a company ends up with when it hires an incompetent executive, who in turn hires incompetent managers, who then hire incompetent workers.

“庸才當道”是指一家公司啟用了一位無能的高管，此高管又聘用了不稱職的經理，經理而后雇用了一堆無能的員工，最終導致公司里不稱職的雇員為數眾多的狀況。

Bozo作為美式英語里的俚語，有“笨蛋;傻瓜”的意思。而explosion作名詞為“爆炸，激增”的意思。因此這個組合很形象的形容了一個企業(yè)被沒有能力的員工充斥的狀況。除了Bozo explosion，bozo bomber也可以表達類似的意思。

The Bozo Explosion was possibly coined by Steve Jobs at Apple:

“庸才當道”很可能是蘋果公司的史蒂夫·喬布斯創(chuàng)造的詞語：

"Actually, Steve believed that A players hire A players—that is people who are as good as they are. I refined this slightly—my theory is that A players hire people even better than themselves. It's clear, though, that B players hire C players so they can feel superior to them, and C players hire D players. If you start hiring B players, expect what Steve called 'the bozo explosion' to happen in your organization," said Guy Kawasaki.

蓋伊·川崎稱：“實際上，史蒂夫認為，一流人才會雇用一流人才——那些和他們一樣優(yōu)秀的人。我稍微完善一下這個理念，我的理論是：一流人才會雇用那些比他們更優(yōu)秀的人才。那么顯而易見，二流員工會雇用三流庸才，這樣他們才感覺能駕馭手下人。以此類推，三流庸才雇得是四流雇員。如果你開始雇了二流人才，你的團隊就會出現史蒂夫稱之為‘庸才當道’的現象。”

Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple.

蓋伊·川崎是Canva公司的首席宣傳官。Canva是一家經營在線平面設計工具的公司。此前，他曾任谷歌的摩托羅拉業(yè)務部顧問和蘋果公司的首席宣傳官。

For Example：

Years ago, I was trying to figure out how to get my first company off the ground. One concept that stuck with me was "preventing the bozo explosion".

幾年前，我正在想辦法如何讓我開的第一家公司“步入正軌”。一個觀念使我印象深刻：防止出現“庸才當道”的狀況。