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In business, there's a speed difference: It's the difference between how important a firm's leaders say

speed is to their competitive(竞争的) strategy(策略) and how fast the company actually moves.The

difference is important regardless of industry and company size. Companies fearful of losing their

competitive advantage spend much time and money looking for ways to pick up the speed.

In our study of 343 businesses, the companies that chose to go, go, go to try to gain_an_edge ended up

with lower sales and operating incomes than those that paused at key moments to make sure they were on

the right track.What's more, the firms that“slowed down to speed up”improved their top and bottom lines,

averaging 40% higher sales and 52% higher operating incomes over a three-year period.

How did they disobey the laws of business physics, taking more time than competitors yet performing

better? They thought differently about what“slower”and“faster”mean.Firms sometimes fail to understand

the difference between operational speed (moving quickly) and strategic speed (reducing the time it takes to

deliver value).Simply increasing the speed of production, for example, may be one way to try to reduce the

speed difference.But that often leads to reduced value over time, in the form of lower-quality products and

services.

I n our study, higher-performing companies with strategic speed always made changes when

necessary. They became more open to ideas and discussion.They e 内容过长，仅展示头部和尾部部分文字预览，全文请查看图片预览。 四段画线单词前的?句“In 1903, a doctor in Detroit bought the first car from the

company.”以及画线单词所在的?句可知， C项符合题意。

4.A 推理判断题。根据第四段的 That sale was the beginning of Henry Ford's dream. Ford said：“ I

will build a motor car for the great mass of people... making good money will be unable to own one.”可知，A

项符合题意。

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