Principles IV Flashcards

1
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Konkurencja na rynku

A

Market challenger

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2
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Nasladowca na rynku

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Market follower

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3
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Nisza rynkowa

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Market nicher

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4
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Sb who is behind

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Laggard (computer laggard)

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5
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To be a protection against

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To be a safety net

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6
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Figurative, to be a protection against

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To be an insurance policy against

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7
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To earn more than sb

To outperform, to do better

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To out-earn (outearn sb)

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8
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To produce opposite result

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To backfire

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9
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To gain momentum, power

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To gain traction

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10
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To vote against it

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To veto a proposal

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11
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A small, unoccupied section

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Niche

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12
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To maximize profit

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To maximize shareholder value

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13
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Charging customers not only for the product they purchase but in the form of additional costs for any extras and services eg. common practice of banks

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Agressive pricing

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14
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The one that focuses on what investors want and find attractive

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Investor - driven capitalism/ market

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15
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The one who focuses on how bosses lead and manage

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Managerial- driven capitalism/ market

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16
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The one that focuses on consumer needs, wants and preferences

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Consumer - driven capitalism/ market

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17
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To look for ideas

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To brainstorm with sb for sth

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18
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Efficient and profitable companies

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Lean and mean companies

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19
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Zaadoptowac six sigme

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To adopt/ embrace Six Sigma

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20
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A patented system of quality improvement by eliminating defects and errors

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Six Sigma

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21
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To welcome and use readilly

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Embrace

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22
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To use or be used, to act

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Put sth into action

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23
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To create space for sth

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Allow room for

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24
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To reduce to

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To drive sth down to

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25
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Wewnetrzne spojrzenie/ zewnetrzne spojrzenie

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Inward looking/ outward looking

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26
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Dangerously fast pace

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Change at breakneck/ neck-breaking pace

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27
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Skupic swoja energie na

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Focus one’s energy on sth

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28
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Focus only on oneself

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Focus on one’s navel

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29
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To lose one’s advantage

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To lose one’s edge

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30
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Advantage

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Edge

31
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Oceniac pracownikow

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To rank employees

32
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To do to much of it

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To overdo a practice/ sth

33
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Vitality curve; a system of ranking employees and firing the worst of them

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Rank and yank

34
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Being egoistic and self-absorbed

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Self-interested

35
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Be replaceable

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Be expendable

36
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Odpowiedziec na pozycje rynkowa

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Respond to the marketplace

37
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Energetic, lively

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Nimble (company, business, economy)

38
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Employees who have few or no rights

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Disenfranchised employees

39
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The profit that can be generated from everything a company uses

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Return on assets

40
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To remove

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To jettison sth

41
Q

The market of growth and profit

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Bull market

42
Q

Meet targets

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Hit targets

43
Q

Reduce costs

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Squeeze costs

44
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Of the day/ currently popular

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Du jour (flavour, tool)

45
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Courage and resistance

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Fortitude

46
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Make a great improvement

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Make a technologicak leap

47
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To fall uncontrollably, without being able to stop

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Be in free fall

48
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To admit commiting crime

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To admit wrongdoing

49
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To increase, to push into action

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To jump-start revenue

50
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To risk

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To take risks

51
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To be brave

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To stand tall

52
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Przewodnik na rynku

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Market leader

53
Q

Business schools

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B-schools

54
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The market price e.g. in the value of stock

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Market value

55
Q

To earn unchangable amounts

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To deliver consistent earnings

56
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The biggest institutions

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Big dogs

57
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Results

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Performance

58
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Pioneering, innovative

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Cutting-edge

59
Q

Koszty stale

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Fixed costs

60
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Koszty zmienne

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Variable costs

61
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Make the costs cheap

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Keep the costs down

62
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Producing when needed

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Just-in-time assembly

63
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Unnecessary and carefree courage

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Bravado

64
Q

Accusations of abusing the workforce

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Sweatshop allegations

65
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Into fashion/ bapecame trendy again

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Creep back into vogue

66
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Robic biznesy

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To do business

67
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Robic pieniadze

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To make money

68
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Support an idea or a value

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To contribute to a cause

69
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Honest

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To be transparent

70
Q

Pays to management

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Executive compensation

71
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Laws on environment protection

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Environmental regulation

72
Q

To make sth look better

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To sugarcoat

73
Q

To obey moral values/ be ethical

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To have the moral fibre