1 Facoltà di Economia Corso di Laurea in Economia e Gestione Aziendale Corso di Laurea in Economia e Finanza Lingua Inglese Luisanna Fodde Olga Denti a.a. 2006/2007

LEADERSHIP WHAT MAKES A GREAT LEADER? Leaders and Managers: IS IT THE SAME? Great World leaders from different areas: POLITICS, EDUCATION, SPORT, ARMED FORCES, BUSINESS…. Terrorising the talent… Inspiring Fear/Terror

LEADERSHIP To inspire and motivate (staff, players, pupils, students, subordinates) To develop talent To delegate responsibilities To use one’s authority to control operations (p )

LEADERSHIP PEOPLE AT WORK: Manager, coach (v.+n.), CEO (chief executive), director, head, supervisor, chairman, president, boss, management, faculty….. subordinates, staff, workers, employee clerk, secretary, janitor…

Reading Comprehension When to terrorise talent (p. 17) Reading comprehension questions: 1.MOTIVATION TECHNIQUES -Ispiring fear providing an emotional kick (drive, push, pressure): PARA V -Personal fear of looking stupid: PARA VI -Personal fear of failure: PARA VII 2. True or False 1.FALSE (para I) “not mentioned”; 2.TRUE (para I) “ … after a defeat..” 3.FALSE (para II) “ in sports… tacticts are out in the open..” 4.FALSE (para III) “When a man gets indispensable…” 5.TRUE (para IV) “In an economic upswing, fear goes..” 6.TRUE (para V) “..the essential economic kick needed to..” 7.TRUE (para VIII) “That kind of fear is common among..”

Reading Comprehension When to terrorise talent (p. 17) PARA I: -“to allow” means…. -The antonym of “defeat” is ….. PARA II: The expressions “…are out in the open for all to see” means.... PARA III: - the word “successful”, is it a noun or an adjective? Write other similar words (look at the next paragraph: (Morphological structures: suffixes)

Reading Comprehension When to terrorise talent (p. 17) PARA IV -If “workers are scarce”.. they are……? -The verb “to handle” comes from the noun HAND, therefore it means….. PARA V - Finite and non-finite verbs: “Fear can provide the emotional kick needed to meet a challange” PARA VI -What is the “board of a large firm”? PARA VII - Find 2 verbs meaning the opposites: “win and lose”…