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Dear Ms Brown

I am writing to apply for the position of Tour Guide with your company. I saw your advertisement in the Buenos Aires Daily Planet and I would like to be considered for the job.

I believe I am suitable for this post as I already have experience working with young people. I worked at a summer camp in the United States last summer and greatly enjoyed supervising a group of six children. I was responsible for their behaviour and welfare, and my duties also included taking care of basic first aid. I found the job very rewarding and I would like to work with this age group again. I feel that my experience would be an asset as a tour group leader.

In addition, I am hard-working and responsible. I passed my high school diploma with a distinction, and have recently passed the Cambridge First Certificate, so you can see that I have the language skills needed for this job. I speak Spanish fluently and have a good working knowledge of French. I have a clean driving licence and have always been interested in British culture and history.

I would like to work for your company as it would give me an opportunity to develop my English skills further, and I am sure that it will be very enjoyable taking young people around the country.

I am enclosing a copy of my CV with this letter. I would be available for an interview here in Argentina at any time convenient to you. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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In large organizations, leaders should spend no more than four hours a day in their offices. The rest of the time, they should be out with their people, talking to lower-level employees and getting their feedback on problem areas. They should be making short speeches and handing out awards. They should be travelling widely throughout their organizations. The best leaders are those whose minds are never closed and who are eager to deal with new issues. Leaders should not change their minds too frequently after a major decision has been made, but if they never reconsider, they are beginning to show a degree of inflexibility that creates problems for the organization. Leaders may run efficient organizations, but they do not really serve the long-term interests of the institution unless they plan, set goals and provide strategic perception. The leader must be willing to teach skills, to share experiences, and to work very closely with people to help them be creative.

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There are primarily three types of management in economies. An economy may be almost totally planned, as it is in the Soviet Union. An economy may be almost totally unplanned, as it is in the United States. Or there may be a combination of planning and freedom of operation, as is the case in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.In a planned economy the government decides what goods are to be produced and how they are to be marketed. Government sets all the priorities, and the producers follow the directives handed to them.

In a partially planned economy, such as Japan's, the government frequently takes the lead in encouraging manufactures and industry and helps with subsidies from taxation. Government can also promote investment and regulate trade policies so that they favor domestic manufactures.

The United States is the foremost example of an unplanned economy. This does not mean, however, that there is no government involvement in economic functions. There is a great deal. As the economy of the United States grew, and as government and its scope of responsibility increased, it was inevitable that government policy at every level would affect economic functions.

Nevertheless, the economy of the United States can be considered unplanned because the government does not mandate what will be produced or how it will be marketed. These decisions are left largely to the private sector. Even the enormous amount of government regulation that has emerged since the Great Depression has not turned the United States into a planned economy.

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