为了防止精疲力竭，把英雄主义留到真正重要的时候。
To prevent burnout, save heroism for times that truly matter.
在大型项目中，要求团队以冲刺速度跑马拉松会给你带来很大的压力。
On big projects, you’ll be under a lot of pressure to ask your team to sprint a marathon.
这仅仅只是在人力所能及的范围内不可能的。
It’s just not humanly possible.
有过很少情况下我会提倡挑战你的项目的公司主管领导，但这是一个你每次都应该坚持自己立场的情况。
There are few cases when I will advocate challenging your project sponsor, but this is one case where you should stand your ground every time.
如果公司主管领导要求我过于猛烈地、太早地推动、鞭策我的团队，而当这项努力的影响没有意义时，我会提出更易于管理的选项或寻求缩小范围来予以抵制。
If a sponsor is asking me to push my team too hard, too early, and when the impact of that hard work is not meaningful, I will push back by proposing options that are more manageable or seek to cut the scope.
明确地说，我不反对要求团队在重要的时候努力工作。
To be clear, I have no objection to asking a team to work hard when it counts.
伟大的团队是在逆境中建立和锻造出来的。
Great teams are forged in times of adversity.
然而，英雄主义行为必须实际转化为重要成果。
However, acts of heroism must actually translate into important results.
如果转化为重要成果，你将在最需要他们的时候失去你的团队。
If they do not, you will lose your team when you need them most.
当你真的需要你的团队做出英雄主义行为时，那么尽一切努力确保你的团队在做这件事的时候感到快乐和充满积极性和热情。
When you truly need your team to pull an act of heroism, then make every effort to ensure your team is happy and motivated while they are doing it.
你有能力通过解释为什么他们被要求超越正常的职责要求，并在他们处于紧张状态时给予支持，从而实现这一点。
You have the ability to make this possible by explaining why they are being asked to go above and beyond the normal call of duty and supporting them while they are being stretched.
谷歌X前首席商务官莫·加达特认为，准确的期望是幸福生活和工作的关键。
Mo Gawdat, former chief business officer for Google X, credits having accurate expectations as one key to being happy in life and work.
在他的书《为幸福而解决》中，他说：“当你的现实与你的希望和期望不符时，就会发生不幸福……这意味着如果你认为这些事情等于或大于你的期望，你就会幸福，或者至少不会不幸福。
In his book Solve for Happy, he says: “Unhappiness happens when your reality does not match your hopes and expectations … which means that if you perceive the events as equal to or greater than your expectations, you’re happy—or at least not unhappy.
但有一点很棘手：不是事情让我们不开心；而是我们思考的方式让我们不开心。”
But here’s the tricky bit: it’s not the event that makes us unhappy; it’s the way we think about it that does.”
当您需要团队努力工作时，请在你的请求中确切说明您需要他们付出多少努力。
When you need your team to work hard, make it clear in your request exactly how much effort you need from them.
提前与他们直爽以待，使他们为即将来临的工作量做好心理准备，并避免未来预期的脱节。
Being direct with them up front prepares them mentally for the amount of work to come and avoids future disconnects in expectations.
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