Companies

Questions

1. What are your favourite companies? 
2. What do you like about your company?
3. Which company would you love to work for and why?
4. Which companies do you think provide the best customer service and best products?
5. Do you think companies really care about the environment?
6. Do you think multinational companies have become too big and have too much power?
7. Which company makes the best adverts and commercials?
8. Do you think most companies look after their staff?
9. How will companies be different in the future?

Videos

Most companies operate on a set of policies: mandated vacation days, travel guidelines, standard work hours, annual goals. But what happens when a company looks less to control and more to trust? Patty McCord, the iconic

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former chief talent officer at Netflix, shares the key insights that led her to toss the handbook out the window.

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Category:  Business & Marketing
Keywords: Business | Colleagues | Companies | Work
Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected

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truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work. Learn how to run this exercise yourself, and hear Wujec’s surprising insights from watching thousands of people draw toast.

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Keywords: Companies | Team work
Amazon pays nothing in federal taxes. Here’s how they do it! The world was shocked when it heard that Amazon, one of the largest companies in the world, paid $0 in taxes. So how did they do it? And perhaps more importantly,

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how come only Amazon paid $0, while other giants like Apple and Google paid (at least some) taxes?

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Category:  Business & Marketing
Keywords: Companies | Laws | Taxes

Vocabulary:
cove
secluded
float
shore
anchor
lighthouse
greenhouse
handsaw
hammer
power tool
nail
board (noun)
ton
land sick
biomass
canoe
paddle
real estate
prosper
fulfilled

Expressions:
subsistence living
hon

Vocabulary:
word
word
word
word
word
word
word
word
word

Expressions:
expression
expression
expression
expression

Vocabulary:
prestigious
involuntary
swindler
fraudulence
unwarranted
concern
unfounded
impostor
syndrome
faculty
pervasive
prevalent
disproportionately
underrepresented
downplay
abnormality
self-esteem
spiral
accolade
threshold
susceptible
voice (verb)
peer
dismiss
excel
ease
mentor
competence
banish
frank

Expressions:
nagging doubt
shake a feeling
put something to rest
surefire way

Vocabulary:
filmmaker
principle
handcuff
clown
distill
underdog
aspect
familiar
unfamiliar
chopsticks
keyboard
organic
grounded
clarity
stuntman
steady
gag
perfectionist
rhythm
distinct
continuity
elbow
bunch
flail around
unlike
invincible
impressive
humanize
asset
payoff
relentlessness
finale

Expressions:
kick ass
going above and beyond
get smacked in the face
sell a joke

Vocabulary:
explosion
smoke (noun)
engine
unique
pilot
route
unemotional
terror
instant
reach out (to someone)
postpone
urgency
purpose
regret
humanity
ego
reflect
eliminate
frame (verb)
artistic
talent
bawl
miracle

Expressions:
bucket list
brace for impact
mend fences
make sense
connecting dots