Unit 5 Leadership

I. Vocabulary
A. Choose the right words from the box to complete the sentences.

decisive approachable radical encouraging

different realistic

1. What they need is a decisive person, someone who can choose the right course of action
even in a very difficult situation.
2. What I like about our new boss is his ………………. attitude. He’s so good at giving us
support and confidence.
3. As a team leader, Marta was extremely ………………. She always seemed to know what
goals we would be able to achieve, and which tasks would be beyond our abilities.
4. Many people find Jim rather ……………………. They say he rarely expresses his
opinions and never shows how he feels.
5. Martin is really friendly and easy to talk to. In fact, he’s the most ……………….. boss
we’ve ever had.
6. The new office manager has rather ………………. ideas. Not only does he want to
change the way we work, he also wants us to think in new ways.

B. Complete the opposite of the adjectives given.

1. realistic idealistic 5. radical __n__ _v_____

2. principled _ _ th _ _ ss 6. formal c_s___
3. encouraging cr _ _ _ _ _ _ 7. different _ ss _ _ _ _ v _
4. approachable _ _ st _ _ t 8. decisive c__t___s

C. Complete each sentence with the correct form of a verb from the box.

take be carry come deal

get hand put stand

1. I have too much to do already, so I can’t possibly take on any extra work.
2. Over the last two years, the government’s economic policies have ……………….. in for
a lot of criticism.
3. The new manager has promised to ………………….. with the issue of gender
discrimination.
4. Rick was a ruthless boss who caused several employees to ……………….. in their
resignation.
5. He had only been two weeks in the job when he realized he …………………. not up to
it.
6. A number of controversial reform proposals were …………………. forward at the
meeting.

II. Reading
Read this article from the Financial Time and answer the questions.

1. Find expressions in paragraph 1 and 2 that refer to the following.

a) the way that someone works
b) someone who is very well known
c) heads of companies
d) behavior that is not meant to be noticed
e) an unsuccessful group of companies
f) a very important business person working in industry
g) a sentence that describes a company’s main purpose.
h) A dynamic company

2. Decide if these statements are true or false.

If …
a) Something suits (line 6) somethings else, it helps it to succeed.
b) You work in the background (line 17), you want to be seen.
c) Something masks (line 20) something else, it hides it.
d) Something contrasts with (line 22) something else, they are the same.
e) You turn something into (lines 25, 26) something else, you transform it.

3. Look at paragraph 3. What did Jorma Ollila focus on at Nokia?

a) technical skills
b) people management
c) competitive strategy

4. Which of these management tasks is not mentioned in paragraph 3?

How a company should …

a) decide salary levels.
b) treat its people.
c) manage disagreements.
d) involve people.
e) create a sense that things had to be done quickly.
f) Pay performance-related bonuses
g) Allocate tasks

5. Complete these sentences with appropriate forms of words used in paragraphs 4 to

6 of the article. The first one is done for you as an example.
a) Nobody expected Nokia to do more than survive, at best.
b) Mr. Ollila talks of his time as part of a team with f…………………
c) He approached the work like an e………………………..
d) He talks about the Nordic approach to business with p…………………
e) What he says about business is an e…………………of what Jack Welch has said.
f) Companies should not f……………………s……………….. on shareholder value.
g) The way that companies are managed needs to be r……………………
 h) We need to think less about how to make a p……………… and more about the
a………….. of human values.
i) There should be o………………towards globalization but we should give
p……………to people against its negative effects.
Unit 5 Leadership
I. Vocabulary
D. Choose the right words from the box to complete the sentences.

decisive approachable radical encouraging

different realistic

7. What they need is a decisive person, someone who can choose the right course of action
even in a very difficult situation.
8. What I like about our new boss is his ………………. attitude. He’s so good at giving us
support and confidence.
9. As a team leader, Marta was extremely ………………. She always seemed to know what
goals we would be able to achieve, and which tasks would be beyond our abilities.
10. Many people find Jim rather ……………………. They say he rarely expresses his
opinions and never shows how he feels.
11. Martin is really friendly and easy to talk to. In fact, he’s the most ……………….. boss
we’ve ever had.
12. The new office manager has rather ………………. ideas. Not only does he want to
change the way we work, he also wants us to think in new ways.

E. Complete the opposite of the adjectives given.

9. realistic idealistic 13. radical __n__ _v_____

10. principled _ _ th _ _ ss 14. formal c_s___
11. encouraging cr _ _ _ _ _ _ 15. different _ ss _ _ _ _ v _
12. approachable _ _ st _ _ t 16. decisive c__t___s

F. Complete each sentence with the correct form of a verb from the box.

take be carry come deal

get hand put stand

7. I have too much to do already, so I can’t possibly take on any extra work.
8. Over the last two years, the government’s economic policies have ……………….. in for
a lot of criticism.
9. The new manager has promised to ………………….. with the issue of gender
discrimination.
10. Rick was a ruthless boss who caused several employees to ……………….. in their
resignation.
11. He had only been two weeks in the job when he realized he …………………. not up to
it.
12. A number of controversial reform proposals were …………………. forward at the
meeting.

II. Reading
Read this article from the Financial Time and answer the questions.

6. Find expressions in paragraph 1 and 2 that refer to the following.

i) the way that someone works
j) someone who is very well known
k) heads of companies
l) behavior that is not meant to be noticed
m) an unsuccessful group of companies
n) a very important business person working in industry
o) a sentence that describes a company’s main purpose.
p) A dynamic company

7. Decide if these statements are true or false.

If …
a) Something suits (line 6) somethings else, it helps it to succeed.
b) You work in the background (line 17), you want to be seen.
c) Something masks (line 20) something else, it hides it.
d) Something contrasts with (line 22) something else, they are the same.
e) You turn something into (lines 25, 26) something else, you transform it.

8. Look at paragraph 3. What did Jorma Ollila focus on at Nokia?

a) technical skills
b) people management
c) competitive strategy

9. Which of these management tasks is not mentioned in paragraph 3?

How a company should …

a) decide salary levels.
b) treat its people.
c) manage disagreements.
d) involve people.
e) create a sense that things had to be done quickly.
f) Pay performance-related bonuses
g) Allocate tasks

10. Complete these sentences with appropriate forms of words used in paragraphs 4 to
6 of the article. The first one is done for you as an example.
a) Nobody expected Nokia to do more than survive, at best.
b) Mr. Ollila talks of his time as part of a team with f…………………
c) He approached the work like an e………………………..
d) He talks about the Nordic approach to business with p…………………
e) What he says about business is an e…………………of what Jack Welch has said.
f) Companies should not f……………………s……………….. on shareholder value.
g) The way that companies are managed needs to be r……………………
h) We need to think less about how to make a p……………… and more about the
a………….. of human values.
i) There should be o………………towards globalization but we should give
p……………to people against its negative effects.