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💼 Business Lessons
Lessons about corporate life, startups, management and commerce.
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58 lessons
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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 Biggest Stage on EarthRhetorical structures — tricolon, anaphora, antithesis, periodic sentences
Level 6