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《首席执行官背后的故事》一书讲述了世界上最成功的商界人士的故事 。这本书揭开了二十个不同首席执行官个人行程的序幕，也为公众提供了一些建议和美好展望, 它是第一本讲述“在成为首席执行官之前”的个人生活故事的合集。在整本书中，我选择了一个章节翻译, 即父亲的脚步。本章介绍了三名遵循父母足迹的商人: 理查德. 埃德尔曼, 安德鲁·李柯曼和克里斯·博科瑞。

选节的前一章节，第8章讲述了三位汲取家族优势的成功人士的故事。而我所选译的第9章，为我们介绍了三位同样拥有卓越的家族背景，但在面临继承家族产业时却做出不同抉择的三位商界伟人。

无论是直接还是间接的遵循家族的传统，都是有利于塑造自身形象的，但是同样也有许多很显眼的不利点，你的热情可能不同于你的父母，而且在你父母的职业领域，你的前景并不一定很美好。

作者所写的这本书是建立与商业巨头们之间的对话上，所以文中会有很多前所未闻的伟人故事。第九章节中，我们将见证三位商业伟人在不同的家族背景下面临家族产业继承问题是如何抉择的，并学习他们的经验教训：

1、多一种选择，多一条出路。 

2、懂得沟通的重要性。

3、记得人生有起必有落。

INTRODUCTION

BEFORE I WAS CEO, is a book, which tells the stories of the most accomplished business men and women in the world. It offers just that, a lifting of the curtains on the personal itineraries of twenty diverse CEOs. It also offers advice and looks for commonalities, but it is the first and foremost a collection of personal stories of individuals who talk about what life was like “before I was CEO”. In this process, one chapter was chosen to be translated, namely Father's Footsteps. This chapter offered an introduction of three business men who could walk in their parents’ footsteps: Richard Edelman, Sir Andrew Likierman, and Chris Burggraeve.  

The former chapter 8 tells the stories of three people who drew strength from their family situations. And in chapter 9, we meet three people who also have outstanding family backgrounds. They walk in their parents’ footsteps, but they make different decisions when confronting with their families’ heritage.

Whether directly or not you follow your family’s tradition, there’re benefits to shape a good image, which your parents had built. But there’re obviously drawbacks, you might simply not have the same impassion as your parents, and it may be that there is not much future in the profession your parents had.  

The author summarized his personal experience of interview with the business giants, and accomplished this book. Talking with these businessmen, the author gained many unknown stories. We will look at what the three successful men with different backgrounds chose to deal with their family heritage in chapter nine, and share some personal lessons we can learn from them：

  1. Early on, make choices that give you flexibility.

2. Understand the importance of communication.

3. Be aware that things don't always go up.