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Reading. Read the article and choose the correct answer a - c to complete the sentences.
1. Management gurus often compare business to ...
a. boat racing.
b. football and rugby.
c. golf.
2. Members of a boat club need to ...
a. compare and co-operate.
b. talk about teamwork.
c. have lessons in business.
3. A person who is good at boat racing ...
a. is always good for the team.
b. is good at all sports.
c. sometimes isn't good for the team.
4. People that work with the team ...
a. aren't good team members.
b. help to win the race.
c. are gerat boat racers.
5. The writer thinks it is important that the team ...
a. likes each other.
b. likes racing.
c. likes business.
Reading.
Team Sport and Business
Management gurus often compare business to sport. They sometimes use examples from football or rugby when they talk about teamwork. But it isn't often that they say that rowing has lessons for business. But there are some similarities between rowing and business teams. The members of the boat club need to compete for a place in the team. They also need to co-operate as team members at the same time. This is also true in a company. Colleagues try to be the best, but at the same time they need to work together.
A person who is only good at rowing is not always good for the team. Some members of a boat club are very good at the sport. So they think it isn't important to be nice to their colleagues or to work with the team. Other members of the club are not so good at the sport, but they work with the team - and they are the team members that help to win the race.
This is a good lesson for managers: a team with members that like each other works together. And it is the team that works well together that gets really good results.
Writing. Write a brief summary from each parragraph of the reading above.
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