CP: Is there a corporate culture that's the same for the Timberwolves as in your other businesses? CP：那在灰狼队里，有没有跟你其他企业一样的企业文化呢？ Taylor: The corporate culture in the basketball part, I would say, is different. Because first of all, I deal with a lot of contracts, even with my coaches and the management people. In our [other] businesses, I really don't have contracts. We hire people, we sort of assume they're going to stay with us and work with us. If they get a better job, we understand why they would leave. In the basketball part, there's a couple of things. There's number one, the players and the agents. And on some issues you can't talk to your employees, you gotta talk to their agents. And it's interesting how different players use that. Some players feel very comfortable in talking to Glen Taylor directly. Some players do not feel comfortable. So they talk to their agent who doesn't talk to me, who would talk to the coach or talk to McHale or somebody else even first. 就企业文化来说嘛，我会说篮球的部分是不太一样的。 首先，我处理非常多的合约，甚至是教练或是管理人员的。 （按：Taylor大叔，我也正想和你谈谈Casey和McFail这两个家伙的合约问题....） 在我的其他企业里，我才没那麽多合约要搞。 我们会雇人，并且某种程度假定他们会持续的待在工作岗位上为我们工作， 而若是他们找到了更好的工作机会，我们也可以理解他们为什麽离职。 但在篮球上，没那麽单纯。你必须同时面对球员和经纪人， 而有些事情你却根本没办法直接跟你的雇员（球员）谈，却必须透过经纪人。 而各个球员在这件事情上的处理又是大异其趣，有的球员很乐於直接跟我谈， 但也有的不喜欢，所以他们跟经纪人谈，而经纪人甚至又可能会先去找教练或是McFail。 And so, by the time I get the information on a situation, it's probably at least third-hand. And for me that's always difficult. Am I making the right decision based on the right information? Because I'm not even sure I got the right information. The other thing in basketball that's definitely different is that you commit to salaries and you're gonna pay the salary over five years or three years no matter what the performance is. All the other businesses that I have been in, you give a salary to do a basic job and if the person is in the position to make more profits, you bonus them. But it's only based upon what they do. 因为这样，当我得知某个情况的资讯时，可能已经经过三手了， 这造成我的困扰，我是根据正确的资讯做出正确的决策吗？我根本无法确定资讯正确性。 另外一个问题，在於薪水。不管球员的表现如何，你都必须付三到五年的薪水， 在其他的企业里，你只需要为了基本的职务工作付薪水， 如果某个职员带来的利润超乎预期，那就多给他一些甜头。 但不管如何，给多少好处都完全看他做了多少。 --

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