Management Success Tip:

Nine out of 10 managers will say the lion’s share goes to the turkeys – and that’s not good! The better approach is to spend most of your time encouraging the eagles to keep soaring and developing the robins to become eagles. If you have a turkey on your team, then quickly decide whether it’s worth your time to salvage that person. Remember, your time is your most valuable resource. Don’t squander it. Manage it well.

Ex.1. Do you agree with these statements?

1. A fool and his money are soon parted;

2. If money goes before, all ways lie open;

3. Money is a good servant but a bad master;

4. Money doesn’t grow on trees

Ex.2. For each sentence decide whether the people being described are rich or poor.

1. we'll have to tighten our belts.

2. he's raking it in at the moment.

3. they're very hard up.

4. he's finding it hard to make ends meet.

5.she's absolutely loaded

6. they're a lot better off than most.

7.she's rolling in money.

8. he's fallen on hard times.

9. they've got money to burn.

10.she seems very down at heel.

11. we're totally broke.

12. they don't have two pennies to rub together.

Ex.3. Match two halves.

1. Steve Jobs, the architect of Apple’s phenomenal success and one of the biggest influences on the business of modern

2. As the world ponders Jobs’ legacy, it is perhaps worth asking if an

3. Jobs, adopted into an Armenian family in California, had no

4. Quite the opposite: his background was one of the hippy counterculture, and he described his time in

5. There remains a chance for Russia to produce.

6. The Skolkovo innovation project could yet

provide the spark needed to kick-start new high-tech projects, but the danger is

7. As the examples of Google’s Sergey Brin and other émigrés have shown, the new

8. The question is, however: Will they pursue their

9. So to make the analogy with Russia, it would have been as if he had been

10. It also requires a sea change in the way the authorities encourage innovation and

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a. generation of Russians will almost certainly be at the forefront of global innovation in the years ahead.

b. that under bureaucratic state control anyone in the Steve Jobs mold would quickly be stifled, corrupted or simply emigrate to another country with a climate more conducive to invention and new thinking.

c. diversity – without crippling bureaucracy.

d. dreams here in Russia, or abroad?

e. pursued as Mikhail Khodorkovsky or Yevgeny Chichvarkin. And we all know what happened there.

f. innovator and businessman like him could succeed in Russia.

j. computing, died of pancreatic cancer Wednesday. He was 56.

k. an ashram in India, including LSD experiences, as “one of the two or three most important things” he did in his life.

i. innovators of Jobs’ stature, it is true

l . insider connections and no education at a top university.

Ex. 4. Do the quiz individually. Then compare answers with a partner.

1.How much cash do you have with you at the moment? Do you

1. know exactly?

2. know approximately?

3. not know at all?

2.Do you normally check

1. your change?

2. your bank statements and credit card bills?

3. restaurant bills?

4. your receipts when shopping?

5. prices in several shops before you buy something?

3. Do you

a) give money to beggars?

b) give money to charities?

c) give away used items, such as clothing?

Discuss your answers to the quiz. What do they say about your attitude to money? What do they say about your culture?

Text. 2 How do these phrases relate to project management? Use them to complete the project managers' weblog.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------celebrate the major milestones face setbacks miss a deadline get a quick progress report have a strong sponsor reach a consensus regenerate budgets and timescales take on a project

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Project managers have many roles and we need a support. My advice

is not to ... that doesn't ... who is commited to seeing the project succeed. From the start, I always make sure he or she knows that you may need to ... as planning progresses.

Meeting take a long time at the start of a project. You can't set the goals and make decisions without involving all team members and trying to ... . It's also vital to have regular, short meetings throughhout the projest to ... every so often.

We all know that getting through a project is hard work, and the team can easily get discorouged when they ... . That's why I think it's important to ... and to keep morale up. For me, whether you meet or ... , it's a team issue, and every member needs to feel accountable for his or her work.

Unit 8.

Text 1. Be ready for a comprehension check-up.