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Business Spotlight plus 5/2011

VOCABULARY
Describing trends: conomic ups and downs

BUSINESS SKILLS
The language of the matrix organization

Winner of the competition in Business Spotlight Plus 4/2011

Karina Kuproth

Not just rubbish

A story about rubbish can help you to learn business vocabulary. Read the short news item and then try the exercise on the language used.

Those familiar with change management will know that the key to changing organizations and individuals is to create a "sense of urgency". I’ve just experienced two very different approaches to getting me to change my behaviour.

Änderungsverwaltung

Dringlichkeitsgefühl, Handlungsdruck

Herangehensweisen

Sickening: fresh food lands in the rubbish bin. Photo: schnappschuss/pixelio.de

For free

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", or so the saying goes. There are people, however, who are getting free lunches, dinners, breakfasts, and snacks. They are freegans and they believe in freeganism.

man bekommt im Leben nichts geschenkt

Leute, die vom Müll der Konsumgesellschaft leben

Virgin material

BRITAIN: “Our fashion is rubbish,” boasts Worn Again, which creates products from recycled materials. The latest in its range come from Virgin Atlantic plane seats.

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