EMBA的小眼睛

Lead up

What you were trained to do: wait for a good, generous, munificent, tasteful, smart boss or client to tell you what to do.

If that doesn't happen, blame the system, blame the boss, blame the client. If the work is lousy, it's the client's fault. If the boss doesn't see or understand your insight, that's his fault. You are here to serve, and if they don't get it, well, that's too bad for all concerned.

What you might consider: Lead up.

A great designer gets great clients because she deserves them. One of the ways that she became a great designer was by leading her clients to make good decisions, to have better taste, to understand her insight and have the guts to back it. That doesn't happen randomly. It happens when someone leads up.

圖、文：黃柏青

年初時接到供應商通知，今年會議要在英國曼徹斯特的BURY舉行，其實前幾年他們就有說要在這裡舉辦， 不過一直沒有成行，這次想說反正人生大概也沒甚麼機會可以來這個地方， 想想還是決定來一趟了。由於我之前就知道英國有很多三鐵與馬拉松賽，因此就上網查查來開會的這幾天是不是當地有什麼比賽可以參加或是去觀摩的，結果天下就有這麼巧的事，剛好會議前一天就是曼徹斯特馬拉松！而且報名費50英鎊，大概是台幣2300元還算合理，心想這輩子大概也只有這一次機會來這跑馬了，就決定報名參加了~~(其實本來想要報半馬的，但是他們只有全馬….)

4月1日愚人節，跑者可是不愚人的，因為59位全程賽選手和新加入的13位單日賽選手，他們要挑戰的就是環台賽中難度最高的蘇花公路，84.5公里的艱難路程，讓法國選手Thierry Degoulance不得不因傷退賽。

一早6點從礁溪國中起跑，沿著台2省道到中正路五段轉入台9線，往宜蘭、羅東、蘇澳，宜蘭路段交通繁忙，但是有警員協助之下，選手順利通過。不過令人感到惋惜的是，2名法籍選手Thierry Degoulance和Charles Payen早上檢錄時已經有雙腿僵硬、痠痛的症狀，為了選手安全，醫護組下午2點在蘇澳又檢查了一次，還好Charles沒有大礙，但Thierry症狀嚴重，失溫和血泡讓這位超馬老將決定退出比賽，希望他能好好養傷，下次回到台灣來參賽。