Business Spotlight 3/2010

Contents 3/2010

CONTENTS

Be your own teacher

LANGUAGE:
Learning Styles
Improve your business English by discovering how you learn most effectively

Getting up to speed

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION:
China and Cars
Zailiang Tang, a leading expert on the Chinese car industry, talks about this growing market

Mail and management

BUSINESS SKILLS:
Email
How to use this essential management tool to build relationships and influence people
Also: Language survival guide to cut out and keep

Happy thoughts

CAREERS:
Positive Thinking
Can happiness coaching inspire workers?

Business Spotlight 3/2010 magazine contents

WORKING WORLD

Names and News  
The latest from the world of business

My Working Life
Ida Jooste, head of Internews, an organization in Kenya that trains journalists

LANGUAGE

Learning Styles
Improve your business English by discovering how you learn most effectively

GLOBAL BUSINESS

Commodities Market
The high price of sugar has caused a number of problems worldwide

Head-to-Head
Should you tip despite bad service?

Business Press
Comments from the world’s media
Behind the Headlines
Media Watch Language in the news

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

China and Cars
Zailiang Tang, a leading expert on the Chinese car industry, talks about this growing market

Dialogue
Two prison chaplains, one in Jamaica and the other in Scotland, discuss their work

The View from Here
India’s poor fear new plans to map slums   
Also: Country File India

BUSINESS SKILLS

Email
How to use this essential management tool to build relationships and influence people
Also: Language survival guide to cut out and keep

On the Line
Preparing for a call

Say It in Style
Saying goodbye

The Write Way
Stylish closing paragraphs

Meeting Point
Responding to ideas

CAREERS

Positive Thinking
Can happiness coaching inspire workers?

The Job Doctor
Whom can you trust?

My Way
Bob Bestors, publisher management

Family Businesses
The secrets of long-term success

What I’ve Learned
Hermann Simon of Simon-Kucher & Partners

Business Basics
Customer segmentation

Executive Eye
Adrian Furnham on directors

TECHNOLOGY

Technical Documentation
Writing clear and simple texts

Language
Focus Packaging

Innovations
New product developments

Technically Speaking
Eamonn Fitzgerald on China

LANGUAGE section

Vocabulary The office building
Grammar at Work Multiword verbs
False Friends; Tricky Translations
Language Cards Pull out and practise
Vocabulary List Key words to learn
Short Story Full moon
English on the Move Dental emergency
The Maine Event An office dialogue
English for... law enforcement
Financial English Profits
Authentic English What I’m saying
Legal English Maritime law
What’s New? Products, sites, events 

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