If they awarded gold medals in the game of business, Peter Ueberroth would have several. In his 20s, he founded a travel company that he grew to become America's second largest. Next he served as organizer of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the first privately financed Games and a huge financial success. From 1984 to 1989 Ueberroth was commissioner of Major League Baseball, a job in which he restored profitability to a sport in which most teams had been losing money. Today he's a director of Coca-Cola and chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee. In the latest in his series of interviews as part of news-week's partnership with the Kaplan University M.B.A. program, newsweek Chairman Richard M. Smith spoke with Ueberroth about what young managers do right-and do wrong. Excerpts:Ueberroth: Los Angeles had voted not to put any taxpayer money in, so there would be no Games unless we did it in the private sector. So we had to break all the models of the past. One of our rules was never to say anything about projections-never tell people what it was going to be like. The good news is there's a start and a finish. It's something we were going to create and then it was going to be over-dramatically over on the day of the closing ceremonies. So you can plan differently for it than you would for a business.
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机译：如果他们在商务游戏中获得金牌，彼得·韦伯罗斯（Peter Ueberroth）将获得几枚。 20多岁时，他创立了一家旅游公司，后来成长为美国第二大旅游公司。接下来，他担任了1984年洛杉矶奥运会的组织者，这是第一届私人资助的奥运会，并取得了巨大的经济成功。从1984年到1989年，Ueberroth担任美国职棒大联盟（Major League Baseball）的专员，在该职位上，他恢复了大多数球队一直在亏损的这项运动的盈利能力。今天，他是可口可乐公司董事兼美国奥委会主席。在新闻周刊与卡普兰大学工商管理硕士项目合作的一部分中，新闻周刊董事长理查德·史密斯（Richard M. Smith）在Ueberroth采访中谈到了年轻经理人的正确与错误。摘录：韦伯罗斯：洛杉矶已投票决定不向纳税人捐款，因此除非我们在私营部门这样做，否则就不会有奥运会。因此，我们不得不打破过去的所有模式。我们的规则之一是永远不要说任何关于投影的事情-永远不要告诉人们它会是什么样。好消息是有一个开始和结束。这是我们要创建的东西，然后在结业典礼当天过分夸张。因此，您可以针对业务进行不同的计划。
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