Carol Bartz's move to the corner office at Yahoo! marks another break in the glass ceiling for executive women.
巴茲加盟雅虎，標(biāo)志這個女強人職業(yè)生涯的又一次突破。

The 60-year-old former chief executive of Autodesk is among the very few women who have had the chance to lead a second, large public company.
這個60歲的Autodesk前任執(zhí)行董事成為有機會領(lǐng)導(dǎo)第二大網(wǎng)絡(luò)公司的少數(shù)女性管理者之一。

But there are still just 23 woman at the helm of the nation's 1,000 largest companies. Besides Bartz, only Paula Roseput Reynolds has been at the helm of two public companies--AGL and Safeco.
大型公司的CEO職位多數(shù)情況下由男性管理者所把持，在美國前1000名大型公司的掌舵者中，只有23位女性。除了巴茲之外，只有Paula Roseput Reynolds曾領(lǐng)導(dǎo)過兩家公開招股公司——AGL和Safeco。

Bartz's deep roots in Silicon Valley and her reputation as a pragmatic, blunt-speaking strategist who has weathered some tough spots in her career and personal life may help her devise a plan to turn around Yahoo!.
巴茲在硅谷具有資深經(jīng)歷，素以注重實效、敢于直言而聞名，在職業(yè)生涯和個人生活中的艱難經(jīng)歷，有助于幫助她制定扭轉(zhuǎn)雅虎目前糟糕局面的計劃。

She was CEO at Autodesk for 14 years, much longer than most chief executives, whose median tenure is just five years.
她曾經(jīng)連續(xù)14年擔(dān)任Autodesk CEO，比多數(shù)CEO的任期都要長很多，CEO的平均任期只有5年的時間。

When Bartz first took on the job at Autodesk, the atmosphere was chaotic, even by Silicon Valley standards. Bartz joked that her task was "playing Wendy to the Lost Boys of Autodesk." The company had just one product, profits were sagging and employees, who often brought their dogs and cats to the office, weren't used to answering to a higher authority.
當(dāng)巴茲最初加盟Autodesk時，公司的氛圍非?；靵y。巴茲曾戲言她的任務(wù)是“與Autodesk迷失的孩子玩游戲（playing Wendy to the Lost Boys of Autodesk）”。當(dāng)時該公司只有一個產(chǎn)品，而且利潤下滑，公司員工甚至經(jīng)常把自己的寵物帶到辦公室，不服從管理。

Bartz quickly imposed a more traditional management structure, with schedules for product launches and regular performance reviews. While doing this, she also coped with breast cancer, which she was diagnosed with just days after joining Autodesk from Sun Microsystems. Afraid to tell anyone that she had a "female disease," she took off just a month from work after having a radical mastectomy, instead of the prescribed six to eight weeks.
巴茲迅速為該公司實施了一個更加傳統(tǒng)的管理架構(gòu)，制定了產(chǎn)品發(fā)布計劃，并定期對員工進行績效考核。與此同時，她還需要與病魔作斗爭，從Sun公司加盟Autodesk后不久，她就被診斷患有乳腺癌。她沒有把自己的病情告訴別人，做完乳房完全切除手術(shù)后，按規(guī)定應(yīng)修養(yǎng)6到8個星期，但是她一個月就再次開始工作。

She faced another hurdle during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s when Autodesk, which makes software for engineering, architecture and other businesses, slid into obscurity. Many of her employees were suddenly being wooed to dot-com start-ups with the promise that they'd become millionaires.
在20世紀(jì)末網(wǎng)絡(luò)危機爆發(fā)后，巴茲再次面臨巨大挑戰(zhàn)，當(dāng)時Autodesk主要為工程、建筑和其它業(yè)務(wù)開發(fā)軟件。她的許多員工被眾多網(wǎng)絡(luò)新興公司以高薪誘惑來跳槽。

She convinced her best talent to stay put but also realized the Internet was radically altering business--and Autodesk had to adapt and learn to use the network to design, manufacture and market products differently.
巴茲說服了幾個最好的人才留下來，但是她同時也意識到，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)正在徹底改變企業(yè)，Autodesk必須進行調(diào)整，學(xué)會利用網(wǎng)絡(luò)來設(shè)計、生產(chǎn)和銷售產(chǎn)品。

Under her watch, Autodesk began customizing products for specific industries and also began selling software by subscription so customers could use it for a certain period of time and then get free updates. In addition, even when Autodesk's profits were sagging in the last downturn, she made a major investment in three-dimensional software, from which the company subsequently profited greatly.
在她的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下，Autodesk開始為特定行業(yè)定制化產(chǎn)品，同時使用訂閱年費的方式來銷售軟件，這樣客戶可以在某一特定時間段內(nèi)使用它，并免費獲得升級。另外，盡管Autodesk在上一次經(jīng)濟危機時的利潤有所萎縮，她依然在此期間對三維軟件進行了重大投資，后來該公司因此而獲得了巨大的回報。

As a business leader, Bartz also is known as someone who doesn't hold grudges and is willing to change her mind. At one point, she fired Carl Bass, the company's technical wizard at the time, over strategic disagreements. She quickly realized this was a mistake, hired him back a few months later and eventually named him her successor.
作為一個企業(yè)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，巴茲并不固執(zhí)己見，她非常愿意改變自己的想法。有一次，由于在戰(zhàn)略意見上存在分歧，她一度解雇了公司的技術(shù)天才Carl Bass。但是她迅速意識到這是一個錯誤，幾個月后又重新將其請回來，甚至指定他為自己的接班人。

Bartz admitted she wasn't ready to retire when she handed over the CEO spot to Bass in May 2006. "I cried my eyes out," she said in an interview then. But she also knew Bass was getting offers elsewhere and she concluded that stepping aside was the right thing to do instead of spending years grooming another successor. "It's very good to leave a job when you still love it," she said at the time.
2006年5月，巴茲將CEO職位交給了Bass，不過她表示當(dāng)時自己不打算退休，但是她知道Bass已經(jīng)得到其它公司的邀請，她認(rèn)為自己讓位給Bass是一件正確的決策，否則可能需要花費數(shù)年時間來培養(yǎng)另一個接班人。她表示，“在你還熱愛一項工作的時候，選擇放棄有時候也是一件好事?！?/p>

Bartz, a director at Cisco and Intel, has often attributed her advance at big technology companies to her early interest in math.
巴茲還是思科和英特爾公司的董事，她經(jīng)常把自己在大型科技公司的發(fā)展歸功于自己早期對數(shù)學(xué)的興趣。

After her mother died when she was eight, she was raised by her grandmother in Wisconsin. At the small rural school she attended, she wasn't discouraged from excelling in math and science. And as a scholarship student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she worked as a waitress to earn extra money, she was among a handful of female computer science majors.
巴茲的母親去世時，她只有八歲，她的外婆將其撫養(yǎng)成人。在她上學(xué)的小鄉(xiāng)村學(xué)校中，她在數(shù)學(xué)和科學(xué)方面的成績非常優(yōu)秀。在威斯康星州大學(xué)上學(xué)期間，她通過作女服務(wù)生來賺取外快，而現(xiàn)在她已經(jīng)成為IT界為數(shù)不多的女性CEO之一。

Bartz is married and has a daughter in her early twenties, but she's long warned women managers coming up behind her that trying to achieve equal balance between their careers and personal lives often just leads to guilt. She has told them that sometimes work takes precedence, and other times home life will be the top priority. She once remarked that "you basically have to catch things before they hit the floor."
巴茲在結(jié)婚后有了一個女兒，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)二十多歲。作為一個女性管理者，為了獲得與別人同樣的成就，巴茲付出了艱辛的努力，甚至有時候需要犧牲一定個人生活，為此她常常對家人心懷內(nèi)疚。她曾經(jīng)告訴他們，有時候工作是第一位，有時候家庭生活則應(yīng)排在首位，需要把握好兩者之間的平衡。