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💼 Business Lessons
Lessons about corporate life, startups, management and commerce.
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115 lessons
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Board Meeting in LondonUseful expressions for meetings, networking, and professional conversation
Level 3💼Boardroom Ready: Expressions for LondonUseful expressions for professional meetings and social business contexts
Level 3💼Closing the Deal in LondonPresent perfect and future forms for professional planning
Level 3💼The Season That Moves Marketsdiscourse markers & connectors
Level 4💼The Slide Nobody UnderstoodBE-5
Business💼Why Most Work Messages FailBE-1
Business💼Seven Words That Sink an EmailBE-2
Business💼Direct Speech, Hidden RulesBE-6
Business💼Why Experts Can't Explain ThemselvesParticiple clauses for concise professional description
Business💼When a Genius Couldn't ExplainRelative clauses with prepositions and non-defining relative clauses
Business💼The Curse of Knowing Too MuchHedging and diplomatic language in professional communication
Business💼Why Experts Explain BadlyParticiple clauses and reduced relative clauses in professional explanation
Business💼Why Spotify's Wrapped Quietly Beat Every Ad CampaignPresent perfect and past simple contrasted in business narrative (seed only)
Business💼Words That Reset a CompanyBE-3
Business💼Right Words, Right RoomBE-5 and BE-6 synthesis
Business💼The Negotiator's Secret WeaponBE-4
Business💼Six Sentences That Get a ReplyBE-2
Business💼Why Your Email Sounds JuniorBE-1
Business💼"Never Say No": Ury's Case for YesHedging and reframing under pressure
Business💼Why the Dutch Say No and the Japanese Don'tFull consolidation
Business💼Three Words That Cost NothingHedging and diplomatic language structures explicitly taught
Business💼The Language of YesHedging and softening language
Business💼The Office Nobody Wants to Leavecleft sentences
Business💼Seven Seconds to Judge YouNuance layer
Business💼The Question That Sells Itselfreported speech in business narrative
Business💼You're Not Selling a ProductCollocations and fixed expressions in the language of sales and persuasion
Business💼Europcar: Fleet, Yield, and the Road AheadLanguage of cause and effect
Business💼Behind the Checkout: Retail Work in IrelandCollocations and fixed expressions in professional workplace contexts
Business💼Retail's New RulesDiscourse markers and connectors for structuring analysis
Business💼Fresh Thinking: How Modern Supermarkets CompeteFormal spoken grammar: framing, hedging, and discourse markers in professional presentations an
Business💼The Season That Moves Marketslanguage of cause and effect
Business💼Ireland's Beauty BoomDiscourse markers and connectors
Business💼Bending Into Billions: The Yoga IndustryCollocations — professional register language of market analysis
Business💼Reading the Room: The PESTLE FrameworkCause and effect language
Business💼Why You Bought ThatFixed expressions in professional communication
Business💼The Funnel That Never SleepsDiscourse markers and connectors for structuring business analysis
Business💼The Ritz Rule: What Luxury Taught BusinessCollocations and fixed expressions in customer service language
Business💼The Customer Is Not Always Rightcollocations in the language of customer experience
Business💼Quality First: The Language of Pharma QAPresent simple for procedures and routines
Business💼Clean, Safe, Correctpresent simple for routines and procedures
Business💼Zero Defects: Inside Pharma QAlanguage of obligation and recommendation (must, should, have to, it is essential that)
Business💼When the Canal Stopped the Worldcontrast language
Business💼The Kids Were Right: Pokémon at 30Discourse markers and connectors for business narrative
Business💼The Art of the Deal: Import-Export NegotiationConditionals in negotiation and hedged requests
Business💼The New Map of Global TradeDiscourse markers and connectors in analytical writing
Business💼AI Was Supposed to Destroy JobsDiscourse markers and hedging language
Business💼When a Man Bet Everything on AGIlanguage of speculation and hedging
Business💼The Billion-Dollar Mistakes That Paid Offdiscourse markers & connectors
Business💼Movie Paradise: Malta's Film Industry BoomCause and effect language
Business💼The Art of the Small BetModals of speculation and hedged future language
Business💼The Café Built from NothingDiscourse markers and connectors for business narrative
Business💼The Book That Changed EverythingNarrative tenses and discourse markers for storytelling
Business💼When the System Goes Downthe language of incident management and professional updates
Business💼Presenting to the Sharpest Person in the RoomDiscourse markers and connectors for structured professional speech
Business💼From Brief to Done: SMART & KISSDiscourse markers and connectors for structuring professional communication
Business💼When 'Yes' Is the Wrong AnswerIndirect refusal and hedging language in professional communication
Business💼When the Interviewer Doesn't Back DownDiscourse markers and contrast language
Business💼The Art of the Milestone UpdateDiscourse markers and connectors for structured reporting
Business💼Netflix at a Crossroadsconditionals in analytical and strategic language
Business💼The Feathers That Built an Empirediscourse markers and connectors for business narrative
Business💼The Ice Cream Shop That Bets on RainConditionals in business and negotiation contexts
Business💼HARIBO: Sweet Lessons from a Century of Candydiscourse markers and connectors for cause and effect
Business💼The Bear Necessities of Global Businessdiscourse markers and connectors for business analysis
Business💼The Strategic Travellerdiscourse markers & connectors
Business💼The Peacock's DilemmaThe language of contrast and concession (yet, while, whereas, nevertheless, despite)
Business💼What France Can Teach You About WorkDiscourse markers and contrast language
Business💼The Art of the Perfect AuditionFixed expressions and discourse markers in professional spoken English
Business💼What the Orchestra KnowsPassive voice (full range: all tenses, get-passive, agent omission)
Business💼Read the Room: Internal Comms That Workthe language of hedging, softening, and directness in professional communication
Business💼The Art of the Difficult DecisionConditionals in decision-making language
Business💼The Art of the Difficult ConversationHedging language and indirect refusal structures
Business💼The Sommelier's DilemmaProfessional register: fixed expressions and formal written grammar
Business💼Pride, Platform and Place: Dublin 2026Professional register — written grammar signals (passive, nominalisation, complex prepositions)
Business💼Europe Burns: Business in the HeatReporting verbs and structures in professional communication
Business💼Three Passports, Three Companies, One ManVerb 'to be' — full positive
Business💼Five Customs That Catch Business Travellers Off GuardPresent Simple
Business💼The Psychology Behind Doom SpendingHedging language and tentative structures in professional communication
Business💼The Stage Has Always Been the SameInversion
Business💼Rhetoric's Long GameInversion
Business💼When a Man Rewrote the KeynoteInversion
Business💼The Sentence That Sells the IdeaInversion
Business💼The Two-Minute WindowInversion
Business💼Supply Chains in 2035: Three Expert PredictionsReported Speech
Business💼The World's Most Expensive DetoursReported Speech
Business💼Six Days That Stopped the WorldReported Speech
Business💼Terms on the TableReported Speech
Business💼The Phone in Your Pocket Crossed 15 CountriesReported Speech
Business💼The Art of the PitchEmbedded questions
Business💼One Pitch, Every Room: Reading the CulturePassive Voice
Business💼Why Investors Ask the Questions They AskCleft Sentences
Business💼The Words That Win or Lose the RoomModal Verbs
Business💼What Investors Decide Before You SpeakNominalisation
Business💼The Language of ControlPassive Voice
Business💼Watson's Broken PromisePassive Voice
Business💼The Price of IntelligencePassive Voice
Business💼The Algorithm DecidesPassive Voice
Business💼The Garage Was Never the PointConditionals
Business💼Most Startups Die. That's the Point.Conditionals
Business💼The Game That Built SlackConditionals
Business💼Who Owns Your Company Now?Conditionals
Business💼When a Leap: Actually Starts CompaniesConditionals
Business💼Lost in Translation: Modal Hedging Across CulturesModal Verbs
Business💼The Nudge at WorkModal Verbs
Business💼The Invisible Hand in Every BoardroomModal Verbs
Business💼How Elites Frame the WorldEmbedded Questions
Business💼When Ecosystems Crash: The Science of Global InstabilityEmbedded Questions
Business💼The Art of Being SmallEmbedded Questions
Business💼Words That Move MarketsEmbedded Questions
Business💼The World in 2024: A Business LensEmbedded Questions
Business💼The Quiet Art of the Long Sellcleft sentences
Level 5💼The Colour That Sold a Billion CansCollocations and the language of persuasion
Level 6💼The Data Behind Every Loyal CustomerCollocations and the language of data-driven business
Level 6💼When the Algorithm Says NoDiscourse markers and contrast language
Level 6💼When a Nine-Year-Old Sold Out in Fifteen MinutesRhetorical structures and discourse management
Level 6💼The Biggest Stage on EarthRhetorical structures — tricolon, anaphora, antithesis, periodic sentences
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