A software, hardware and marketing manager are driving to a meeting when a tyre bursts. They get out of the car to look at the problem.
The software manager says, “I can’t do anything about this. It’s a hardware problem.”
The hardware manager says, “If we turned the car off and on again, it might fix itself.”
The marketing manager says, “Hey, do you know what? Over 70 per cent of it is working. Let’s ship it!”
16Personalities offers a free online personality test. It only takes about 12 minutes to complete and is quite eye-opening.
I’m a campaigner, and my motto is: What do you mean life is boring? Are we living on the same planet?
And what are you?
When pronouncing the word “Antarctica”, remember not to drop the first ‘c’. It’s not “Ant-AR-tica”. It’s “Ant-ARC-tica”.
You can listen to the pronunciation by going to www.dict.cc and clicking on the litte loudspeaker on the left-hand side of the word (as seen in the screenshot here).
Why don’t women speak up at meetings? Listen to researcher Victoria Brescoll explain how gender affects business meetings (link to: bbc.co.uk) in this short audio clip.
We talked about question tags some time ago. Would you like to test yourself to see if you’ve understood the concept? Do the test here (link to: grammar.cl).
If you need help with the grammar rules again, take a look at this page here.
“If you have nothing to say, say nothing.” Mark Twain
