e-, ex- out, out of, from emit (verb) to send out e + mit
expel
(verb): to force out ex + pel en-,
em- put into
enamor
(verb): to cause to love, to "put" someone "into" love en + am + + or
empower
(verb): to give power, to put into power em + pow + er epi-, upon, beside, over
epilogue
(noun): the concluding section of a play or literary work epi + logue
extra-
beyond extraordinary
(adjective): going beyond normal extra
+ ordin + ary
Two workers
meet one day in the canteen. One says to the other, "Have you heard the
news?
The Managing
Director of the company died at the weekend."
The other
replies, "Yes, I know. But I want to know who died with him?"
"What do
you mean, who died with him?" asks the first.
"Well,
in the paper it said that with him died one of the company's best workers, and
I want to know who it was."
Business Vocabulary: Management
Qualities
Overhaul: completely change, revise, take
apart to repair and reassemble. synonym::
revamp
Leadership: the ability to guide or shepherd a a
group or groups of people towards a common goal or vision.
Slash: to cut. However in the business world
it has come to mean reduce extremely, or curtail severely. synonym:: cutback
to Do
List: Just what it
says: a written schedule of things to accomplish, usually in the near future.
Some like to use post-its and remove them as the task is completed.
Highlight: to emphasize or accentuate, a similar
synonym: underline
Turnover: the speed that a product comes in
and goes out in a firm or number of laborers engaged by an establishment to
replace those who have left.
Opt out: to make a decision to not to
participate in a course of action synonym: discontinue
Foresight: careful consideration of what's to
come, knowing where the future lies.
synonym: far-sightedness
Timing: co-ordinate an operation at just the
right moment.
Wise: profound, to know what is true,
having common sense synonym:
shrewd
"get
our feet wet":
tentatively try something, not go all out but begin in a very small way.
the opposite
is: throw caution to the wind
Fill in
the blanks with what you consider is the best answer :
1. How can we __________ our recently gained
production know-how with our clientele without alerting our competetors?
A. Overhaul B. Leadership C. Slash D. to Do List E. Highlight
2. Company
shipping and procurement needs to be __________ . In some areas stock is
non-existant, things are dispatched to the wrong address or worse they've
arrived and no one knows for weeks!
A. Overhauled B. Leadershiped C. Slashed D. to Do
Listed E. Highlighted
3. Xavier fumed helplessly, stranded in his
broken down Porche and mentally put charging his cell phone on his
____________.
A. Overhaul B. Leadership C. Slash D. to Do List: E. Highlight
4. Julien,
you've ___________ production costs by a whopping 25% and I still have all my
assembly workers, how did you do it?
A. Overhauled B. Leadershiped C. Slashed D. to Do
List:ed E. Highlighted
5. It took every scrap of Isabelle's (Our new
C.E.O.)____________ to get the board to vote unanimously for the merger.
A. Overhaul B. Leadership C. Slash D. to Do List: E.
Highlight
6. For our investment club project,wouldn't it
be ___________ to get our feet wet by using a fantasy or simulation stock
market website or should we throw caution to the wind and play the N.Y.S.E. for
real?
A. Turnover B. Opt out C. Foresight D.
Timing E. Wise
7. What's
this problem with _____________, can't Rennie keep an employee for more than
two weeks?
A. Turnover B. Opt out C. Foresight D.
Timing E. Wise
8.
______________ is so important to the introduction of a new product: too soon
and we're not prepared and we might not be able to meet demand, too late and we
run the risk of a competitor launching a similar service or copycat device.
A. Turnover B. Opt out C. Foresight D.
Timing E. Wise
9. Without a
great deal of ___________ Sylvain would have never changed the focus of an
already successful advertising campaign and thus would NOT have captured a 20%
increase in market share.
A. Turnover B. Opt out C. Foresight D.
Timing E. Wise
10. Olivier
thinks that we should _________ of the acquisition of Mondon Ltd. What's your
read on this?
A. Turnover B. Opt out C. Foresight D.
Timing E. Wise
What do you think are the ten most important
management skills or personality traits?
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