BUT apparently the “middle manager” is no longer stuck in the middle or at least won’t be for much longer! It’s time to free them up according to the Harvard Business Review. What’s your organisation’s take on this? Do they even have “middle managers” or just “middling” ones perhaps! 😉 https://hbr.org/2021/05/its-time-to-free-the-middle-manager?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=dailyalert_notactsubs&deliveryName=DM133682
What could the police officer have been thinking of wearing a MAGA (make America great again) cap?! My conclusion or deduction is as above but the video below gives us the opportunity for some discussion during our lessons and also to practise an area of grammar which often causes confusion for students; “modals of deduction”. …
I’m on tenterhooks here as the Brexit negotiations are on a knife-edge. (to be on tenterhooks means in a state of anxiety or nervousness due to uncertainty about the future). What a complete and utter cock up Brexit and the negotiations seem to have been – in particular from the UK’s side… I really wonder …
Are you surprised about this list? Which books are missing in your opinion? https://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-10-most-read-books-in-the-world-infographic-2012-12?r=US&IR=T#:~:text=He%20found%20that%20the%20Bible,with%20400%20million%20copies%20sold.
Kimberly Jones hit the nail on the head (= identified exactly what is causing a problem or situation) when she came up with her ‘Monopoly analogy’ to describe the inferior position black people find themselves in – particularly in America. You can watch part of her powerful and eloquent speech below, edited with an interview …