And let us not forget that the world’s very first computer programmer was a woman in her 20s named Ada Byron Lovelace. She lived more than 150 years ago. She greatly expanded on the work of her mentor, the renowned mathematician Charles Babbage, whose work on the analytical engine preceded the modern computer. Today, the computer language Ada is named for her.
Your job, your great opportunity, is to harness the forces of change swirling all around you, in whatever field you decide to enter, and to take full advantage of the possibilities at your fingertips. Leadership can take place in acts large and small, it can come not just from CEOs and Prime Ministers, but can come as well from ordinary citizens who believe in the potential of others. I hope that whatever you do, you will remember your own power and dedicate yourself to the cause Tsinghua has prepared you so well for: to dedicate yourself to unlock the potential in others; to believe in the potential of yourself; to make this era the most exciting in all of human history–and to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that everything is possible.
Thank you.
以下为现场问答：
Q: HP has business all over the world and you use about 15 about languages. One of the most challenging things you face today must be cross of different cultures. I am We are now holding an educational exchange with Standford University. Would you please give me me some general advise on how to handle this problem?
A: So that subject is a thesis in its own own right. But, first let me begin with what we do inside our own company. Because, as you correctly point out -- we have many different cultures, and many different nations that are part of the HP world, and those present cultural differences. We also have different business divisions, and believe it or not, even different business devisions inside the same company still think there are differences between them. We also, when we brought together Compaq and HP, we had different histories, different cultures. I think the challenge, whether it is in your exchange program, or whether it is in our company, is to find what must be in common and leverage what is different.
And let me illustrate what I mean, in our company we know that certain things must be common and shared among all of our people: our objectives, our goals, our strategy, our vision of ourselves -- these must be common across every nation, across every business division, and must be shared and understood by every employee. Likewise how we think about our business must be understood and shared by all of our employees. We use --inside HP-- something we call leadership framework. What we mean by leadership framework is we think about 4 dimensions of our business. We call it framework because we draw it as a square. Strategy - which is purpose and goals. Structure and process -- which is how we organize. Results and rewards and and metrics-- which is how we measure our progress, how track our results and how me motivate our employees. And finally what I call the software of the system: values and behavior. When we say "values" these also by be common. We must all believe, that for example; passion for consumers, this is one of our most important values, is commonly understood and shared. Or, highest standards of integrity, or contribution to community. These are three example of values we must share.
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