????在LinkedIn上，通用電氣傳奇CEO杰克·韋爾奇，為渴望進步的上班族們提出了一些忠告。簡單來說，他認為每一位想要升職的員工，都應該做兩件事：超乎預期地完成工作，并讓你的上司看得更遠。

????在通用電氣，韋爾奇從底層做起，一路擢升，最終在1981年成為該公司第八任董事長兼CEO。2000年，他被《財富》雜志評為“世紀經理人”。這位傳奇CEO的職業建議來自他在企業界摸爬滾打近55年的經驗，他把這些經驗記錄在與妻子蘇西·韋爾奇合著的一本書中。為了證明自己的觀點，韋爾奇回憶了在職業生涯中為他帶來重要升職機會的一個例子。

????“當時我還年輕，正擔任一種新型塑料的工藝工程師，負責管理一家小型的10 x 10化學實驗廠，我的上司對我說：‘老板要從紐約來視察。我們想給他看看你在新試驗廠中部署的管道。’”

????“老板從紐約來我們的工廠考察時，我向他介紹了塑料技術的最新發展，還有我的小項目。此外，我還從更宏觀地角度，向他講述了我們的塑料在整個塑料行業中所處的位置，以及這個行業未來的發展方向。”

????“我在那里工作才一年時間，而且我也不算天才人物。但我做過大量的研究，證明我們的產品有非常廣泛的應用前景。這足以讓老板清楚他的投資對象，我們的研究進展，以及我們的塑料與業內三家主要競爭對手的產品的對比情況——對方有哪些優勢，而我們又有哪些優勢？”

????一年以后，這位老板想起了韋爾奇，并給了他一次升職的機會。韋爾奇認為，成功的關鍵在于：“不論體現在數字上還是行動上，你交付的結果都要比別人預期的更好一點。此外，尋求站在更高的角度看問題。”（財富中文網）

????譯者：劉進龍/汪皓

????審校：任文科

????Legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch has taken to LinkedIn to offer a few words of wisdom to those office dwellers looking to get ahead. In short, there are two things that every worker should do to snag that promotion: over deliver, and make your boss smarter.

????Welch worked his way up at GE , eventually becoming the company’s eighth chairman and CEO in 1981. He even snagged Fortune’s “Manager of the Century” title in 2000. His career advice has been well-honed over his nearly 55 years of experience in the corporate world — and it has been chronicled in a book he co-wrote with his wife Suzy Welch.

????To prove his point, Welch recalled an example from early in his career that paid off in a big promotion.

????One time, when I was a young process engineer on a new plastic, running a small 10×10 chemical pilot plant, my boss said to me, “Oh, the boss from New York is coming up. We want to show him the pipes you put in place in the new pilot plant you’ve got.”

????When the New York boss came up to see us, I gave him the requisite update on the plastic and my little project. But I also painted him a bigger picture of how the plastic we had fit into the entire plastics industry and where the industry was headed.

????Now, I had only been there a year and I was not a genius by any means. But I had done a hell of a lot of research to show how our product fit into the larger scheme of things. It was enough to give a clear view of what he was investing in, where we were in it, and how our plastic compared to our top three competitors — what our strengths were, compared to what their strengths were.

????A year later that same boss remembered Welch, granting him a big promotion. That’s the key to success, according to Welch: “Over-deliver on the numbers and behaviors, but also gunning for the bigger perspective.”