24 Nov Corporate responsibility? Don’t make me laugh
Is your company's CSR programme actually changing anything, or is it just expensive branding with a sustainability logo slapped on top?...
Management
23 Nov The Lean Startup by Eric Ries – Animated Book Review
Does your company wait until a product feels "ready" before launching it?...
16 Nov Presentation Skills – How to avoid death By PowerPoint
Do you actually know how many ideas a single slide should contain, or have you just been guessing?...
16 Nov What Everyone Gets Wrong About Procrastination
Is procrastination actually a time management problem, or have you been solving the wrong problem this whole time?...
12 Nov to see Germany’s future, look at its cars – guided video
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Complete Lesson Plan, Guided, Management, Politics, Technology, The Economist
Germany's carmakers face the same challenges as its new leaders: a need to innovate, tackle climate change and reassess its trade relationship with China. How this world-renowned motor industry navigates the road ahead could tell a lot about Germany’s future....
11 Nov The sunk cost fallacy
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Business, Management, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology
Have you ever kept funding a project not because you believed in it, but because walking away felt like admitting defeat?...
18 Oct Inside LEGO House, Denmark’s tribute to the famous brick
What does it take for a toy made of plastic bricks to become the world's most valuable toy brand?...
18 Oct How do governments make money?
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in A2 - Pre-intermediate, B1 - Intermediate, Business, CNBC International, Economics, Management, Politics
If your company made a loss last year, did it pay zero taxes? Or is the picture more complicated than that?...
18 Oct How is China “Making” Athletes for the Olympics?
Does throwing 400,000 children into state-run sports schools actually produce better athletes, or just more of them?...
26 Feb Tips to improve your critical thinking
Do you actually know the difference between thinking hard about something and thinking critically about it?...