Ex.3. Match two halves.

Ex.2. For each sentence decide whether the people being described are rich or poor.

Ex.1. Do you agree with these statements?

How Do You Spend Your Time?

Time Management With Eagles, Robins, Turkeys

Unit 7

Text 1. Discuss the text below

If you have a bad apple on your team, is it better to try and salvage the person or just get rid of that person?

Clearly, if the person can do the job and just isn’t goofing off, you want to put some energy into coaching that individual to improve his or her performance. Others think it’s their job, as supervisor, to try to “save” everyone – hoping that they will become better performers. But is that wise?

Not according to a successful CEO of a health care company. “The top commodity a manager has is his or her time. And if you waste too much of it on a lost cause, you’re turning yourself into overhead – costing the company money rather than a profit center – contributing to the profitability of the organization.”

He suggests dividing your employees into three categories and then look at where you spend the majority of your time and resources. Is it with the:

• Eagles: Top performers who fly and soar?
• Robins: Those who come to work and get the job done, but who don’t rise to the top?
• Turkeys: They need to get better – or else?

Management Success Tip:

Nine out of 10 managers will say the lion’s share goes to the turkeys – and that’s not good! The better approach is to spend most of your time encouraging the eagles to keep soaring and developing the robins to become eagles. If you have a turkey on your team, then quickly decide whether it’s worth your time to salvage that person. Remember, your time is your most valuable resource. Don’t squander it. Manage it well.

1. A fool and his money are soon parted;

2. If money goes before, all ways lie open;

3. Money is a good servant but a bad master;

4. Money doesn’t grow on trees

1. we'll have to tighten our belts.

2. he's raking it in at the moment.

3. they're very hard up.

4. he's finding it hard to make ends meet.

5.she's absolutely loaded

6. they're a lot better off than most.

7.she's rolling in money.

8. he's fallen on hard times.

9. they've got money to burn.

10.she seems very down at heel.

11. we're totally broke.

12. they don't have two pennies to rub together.

1. Steve Jobs, the architect of Apple’s phenomenal success and one of the biggest influences on the business of modern

2. As the world ponders Jobs’ legacy, it is perhaps worth asking if an

3. Jobs, adopted into an Armenian family in California, had no

4. Quite the opposite: his background was one of the hippy counterculture, and he described his time in

5. There remains a chance for Russia to produce.

6. The Skolkovo innovation project could yet

provide the spark needed to kick-start new high-tech projects, but the danger is

7. As the examples of Google’s Sergey Brin and other émigrés have shown, the new

8. The question is, however: Will they pursue their

9. So to make the analogy with Russia, it would have been as if he had been

10. It also requires a sea change in the way the authorities encourage innovation and

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a. generation of Russians will almost certainly be at the forefront of global innovation in the years ahead.

b. that under bureaucratic state control anyone in the Steve Jobs mold would quickly be stifled, corrupted or simply emigrate to another country with a climate more conducive to invention and new thinking.

c. diversity – without crippling bureaucracy.

d. dreams here in Russia, or abroad?

e. pursued as Mikhail Khodorkovsky or Yevgeny Chichvarkin. And we all know what happened there.

f. innovator and businessman like him could succeed in Russia.

j. computing, died of pancreatic cancer Wednesday. He was 56.

k. an ashram in India, including LSD experiences, as “one of the two or three most important things” he did in his life.

i. innovators of Jobs’ stature, it is true

l. insider connections and no education at a top university.

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